UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos v Ferguson

Paully D

At least we are spared one of Alvey'a pre-rehearsed post-fight performances.

MichaelScarn

Thought Nicholson took round 1, must watch it again. He faded badly,

Alvey looks like a limited fighter. His 'smilin' gimmick annoys me.

tinpib

Brilliant flurry there!

callaway92

dos Anjos via Submission

B I N G O

tinpib

Entertaining fight.

Gamebred

https://twitter.com/carlsbadbugkil1/status/795059278180716544

Paully D

Sick submission win from Soto there. Came in on extremely short notice too.

Gamebred

He took a fight of Dillashaw for the title one time on a days notice and only got finished late in the 5th so that wasnt the first time he took one,hes got good jiu jitsu competes on the pro scene,pity the guy he beat there whose mother just passed of cancer a month ago needs must but I cant imagine competing after that so close.

tinpib

Gamebred wrote: »

whose mother just passed of cancer a month ago.

His mother was diagnosed a month ago.

Gamebred

Awesome fight this great back and forward stuff.

0byme75341jo28

Ferguson via KO/TKO

Can't see how Perez won that...

kwestfan08

Looking forward to seeing Grasso. She has looked a demon in Invicta so can't wait to see her in the octagon.

martyos121

Very impressive performance from Grasso, she could do well in that division.

John_D80

dos Anjos via Decision

martyos121 wrote: »

Very impressive performance from Grasso, she could do well in that division.

She was good but not great to be fair I think. Clark could be getting her P45 if she suffers another loss.

joxers25

Poor matchup, cancelled each other out

jcd5971

Good fight I don't get the boos for it.

I have it for daruish 2-1

martyos121

Fight was hard to predict, the shoutout to Jesus wasn't though.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

martyos121 wrote: »

Fight was hard to predict, the shoutout to Jesus wasn't though.

Jesus loves boring decision wins.

martyos121

Beautiful finish by Bravo, Bas Rutten would be proud of that one.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

martyos121 wrote: »

Beautiful finish by Bravo, Bas Rutten would be proud of that one.

I know it's not too similar but years ago i was playing right wing (soccer), skinned the left back and the center-half cleaned me out. I went flying into the air and landed full force on my liver area. I was in absolute ribbons for weeks, needed injections and bruising cream and all sorts.

Those liver-punches don't look much on telly but i can only imagine how hurtful they are. He caught him with 2 beauties.

Mellor

Ferguson via KO/TKO

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Coming up with a hastily agreed weight limit on the day of the fight in order to allow it go ahead isn't something I can imagine is too regular.

Putting an upper limit on what they can be after missing weight badly is pretty common actually.
Highest profile fight is probably when, when Anthony Johnson had to rehydrate before weigh-in when fighting Vitor. Due to that he came in at 197lbs for a MW fight (185). Vitor's camp insisted that the weight no more than 205 on fight night.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

Mellor wrote: »

Putting an upper limit on what they can be after missing weight badly is pretty common actually.
Highest profile fight is probably when, when Anthony Johnson had to rehydrate before weigh-in when fighting Vitor. Due to that he came in at 197lbs for a MW fight (185). Vitor's camp insisted that the weight no more than 205 on fight night.

It's a bit counter-intuitive and strange though isn't it? I mean - theoretically Conor and Eddie can weigh in at 155lbs on friday morning and, again theoretically, Conor could weigh 183lbs on fight night.

Point i'm making is applying capped weight limits is a bit random. They should either cap the rehydration weight or they shouldn't.

Anyway, weight doesn't make too much difference when you sink in a choke :pac: Good stuff from Lamas.

kwestfan08

Fair play to Lamas. Opponent weighs in 9lbs overweight, takes the fight, gets 30% of Oliveras purse and a win bonus. Much respect.

martyos121

Glad Oliveira lost, fourth time he missed weight in the UFC now and by nine pounds is an absolute insult to Lamas, it's like he didn't even try. They better make him move up to lightweight now.

Amazingfun

I thought Oliveira was gonna swing it, happy for Lamas though, he really deserved this one.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

martyos121 wrote: »

Glad Oliveira lost, fourth time he missed weight in the UFC now and by nine pounds is an absolute insult to Lamas, it's like he didn't even try. They better make him move up to lightweight now.

To be fair to Oliveira, and i'm not giving him a free pass, but he did accept the fight on 20 days notice.

That's not a lot of time to do any sort of camp.

It's also a wake-up call to try stay in shape all year round and not do a Ricky Hatton between fights lol.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

Marcin Held has a super-confident/cocky look on his face. Get the impression he thinks he's going to steamroller Diego.

martyos121

wonderfullife wrote: »

To be fair to Oliveira, and i'm not giving him a free pass, but he did accept the fight on 20 days notice.

That's not a lot of time to do any sort of camp.

It's also a wake-up call to try stay in shape all year round and not do a Ricky Hatton between fights lol.

If he didn't think he could make the weight, he shouldn't have taken the fight. I have no time for those who miss weight by that much, it's the height of disrespect.

Mellor

Ferguson via KO/TKO

wonderfullife wrote: »

It's a bit counter-intuitive and strange though isn't it? I mean - theoretically Conor and Eddie can weigh in at 155lbs on friday morning and, again theoretically, Conor could weigh 183lbs on fight night.

Point i'm making is applying capped weight limits is a bit random. They should either cap the rehydration weight or they shouldn't.

I don't see whats random about it tbh. There's a natural limit as to what you can rehydrate, it's similar to what you can naturally cut I'd guess. So every fighter is in the same spot more or less, once they make weight.

But if a fighter misses weight by a lot. He's now shifted the goal pots.


If two lightweights both made weight, they did their job. And they can rehydrate to their normal weight. Which is maybe 175-180 for the majority of LW's.

But if one cames in at 165lbs. His opponent has no idea how he got there. Did he just have a crap cut where he lost very little, or did he actually cut a huge amount and he could rehydrate to 190lbs+.
Putting a limit of say 175lbs on it stops the latter happening, and makes little difference if he had a bad cut and in actually no bigger

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

martyos121 wrote: »

If he didn't think he could make the weight, he shouldn't have taken the fight. I have no time for those who miss weight by that much, it's the height of disrespect.

Agree. Wasn't making a full excuse for him. Anyway he lost so it's all good. They need to make fighters forfeit more of their purse.

Jesus that was some entertaining round 1 there!!

Amazingfun

wonderfullife wrote: »

Marcin Held has a super-confident/cocky look on his face. Get the impression he thinks he's going to steamroller Diego.

I'm just hoping Diego doesn't die in the second --he's such fun though

***how could I doubt the Nightmare?

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

Fighting at altitude must be an absolute nightmare.

Held was knackered by the start of the second round. No idea why he kept going for leg locks, heel hooks and toe holds when he was clearly dominant in the striking exchanges.

martyos121

Feck sake BT why did ye cut away from the taco video! :mad:

martyos121

I still think it's a shame we'll never see McGregor vs Sanchez, a couple of years ago that would've been a great fight.

0byme75341jo28

Ferguson via KO/TKO

I was under the impression toe holds were illegal.. do they not count as small joint manipulation?

Amazingfun

wonderfullife wrote: »

Fighting at altitude must be an absolute nightmare.

Held was knackered by the start of the second round. No idea why he kept going for leg locks, heel hooks and toe holds when he was clearly dominant in the striking exchanges.

Exactly!

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

Eddie Bravo looks like he's about to puke with the nerves. Ferguson on the other hand seems chilled.

Amazingfun

C'mon Ferguson!! So excited for this one...............hope it goes the distance.

Subcomandante Marcos

Mckinley Ugly Self-reliance wrote: »

I was under the impression toe holds were illegal.. do they not count as small joint manipulation?

No. You hold the toes. That doesn't mean you're attacking the toes.

Gamebred

Really hope we get some good grappling exchanges here old school gracie style v unorthodox snap city ****.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

Gamebred wrote: »

Really hope we get some good grappling exchanges here old school gracie style v unorthodox snap city ****.

Some funky rubber guard play upcoming.

Although if RDA is to be believed he has a counter for every tricky guard Ferguson tries.

martyos121

I just can't warm to El Cucuy for some reason, hope RDA takes this, probably on points.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

Whoever wins would be strongly advised to cut a really good promo to try get the winner of next week.

Gamebred

wonderfullife wrote: »

Some funky rubber guard play upcoming.

Although if RDA is to be believed he has a counter for every tricky guard Ferguson tries.

Yeah It'd be great to see whose game is more effective my ex coach started as a whitebelt with RDA all the way back as kids and he had some great stories about him staying White belt for like 2 or 3 years and beating everyone in Brazil he even broke my coachs arm in training one time by accident,


Eddie's got some chin,RDA attacks the body here I think.

martyos121

RDA's head movement in that round looked so slick, few brilliant slips in there and counters to follow up.

Gamebred

10-9 RDA vicious leg kicks.

wonderfullife

dos Anjos via Decision

RDA backed away from the ground battle.

If Ferguson keeps getting hit with that left hand he's gonna be doing the chicken dance in round 2.

Amazingfun

I love the way Ferguson moves, I find him a joy to watch. He's giving me heart failure with the cocky stuff though, hope he's just trying to get under Dos Anjos skin....

Gamebred

I dont trust RDA's chin when hes cracked.

martyos121

1 round each. Fun fight to watch, not so much to be in though I'd imagine!