General MMA Chat/News mk3 - **No Spoilers Use Event Threads**

The White Feather

Paul Felder is stepping in on 5 days notice to fight RDA!!

It is still a 5 round fight.

Come on the Irish Dragon!!!

mailburner

Strickland added to saturdays card to face brendan allen

That's a very quick turnaround after a 3 rounder only a week ago

US2

The White Feather wrote: »

Paul Felder is stepping in on 5 days notice to fight RDA!!

It is still a 5 round fight.

Come on the Irish Dragon!!!

Still at 155lbs too. It'll be interesting to see how Felder copes with the cut

mailburner

wondering will Felder have much weight to cut?
He's been training for a triathlon so maybe not!

dashoonage

mailburner wrote: »

wondering will Felder have much weight to cut?
He's been training for a triathlon so maybe not!

he said in an interview last night somewhere between 14-23lbs

fitzparker

Why would he give that much of a difference? surely you step on it and know what's left to go

Whelo79

fitzparker wrote: »

Why would he give that much of a difference? surely you step on it and know what's left to go

Because he doesn't want RDA to know if the cut is going to be hard or easy. It's rare a fighter tells their exact weight in the lead up to a fight.

The Nal

Valentina aside, this card looks like a binfire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_255

Homelander

Really? I think it's decent. All five main card fights are decent and some of the prelims are fairly ok as well.

Axwell

Lads bit of common sense and cop on - use spoiler tags if you are going to talk about results of fights just done at the weekend and potential matchups for the winner...its literally in the title of the thread and you are all here long enough.

ASOT

Holloway v Kattar announce for January 16th.

What a cracking fight.

Mehaffey1

ASOT wrote: »

Holloway v Kattar announce for January 16th.

What a cracking fight.

Surprising to see that announced, just goes to show how quick the MMA World moves on and how good Kattar has been recently.

Watching UFC Countdown for 255, feel scared for Jennifer Maia going up against Shevchenko, very few in that elite league of Valentina.

The Floyd p

Really looking forward to watching Deiveson Figueiredo this weekend. The 125'ers don't get much shine from most fans, but his performances against Benavidez were truly amazing. Carries serious KO power for the weight class.

tommyboy26

ASOT wrote: »

Holloway v Kattar announce for January 16th.

What a cracking fight.

is that the mcgregor v poirier card?

ufc has released jussier formiga after a 3 fight losing streak a bit strange considering 4 fights ago he beat the current champ in a unanimous decision?

Alf Veedersane

tommyboy26 wrote: »

is that the mcgregor v poirier card?

ufc has released jussier formiga after a 3 fight losing streak a bit strange considering 4 fights ago he beat the current champ in a unanimous decision?

Week before McGregor-Poirier

Whelo79

Chandler is looking to get on the McGregor v Poirier card to fight Tony Ferguson. That would be a cracking co main.

Chairman Meow

I did a thing about Andy Silvas career rise and fall if anyone's interested

US2

Anyone know much about this crowd, keeps popping up as a promoted tweet on my Twitter news feed. Actually looks kind of good

https://twitter.com/KarateCombat/status/1328805113805365248?s=19

Chairman Meow

US2 wrote: »

Anyone know much about this crowd, keeps popping up as a promoted tweet on my Twitter news feed. Actually looks kind of good

https://twitter.com/KarateCombat/status/1328805113805365248?s=19

Karate combat is ****ing GREAT. And by great, i mean terrible. But still great. I have no idea why it exists but i'm glad it does. I mean just look at their last event, they had a virtual crowd full of shaolin monks and lara croft cosplayers and a virtual backdrop of weird space looking stuff said the event was being held in outer space. This is the kind of ****ing lunacy i can get behind. The actual sport really doesnt make much sense as its basically kickboxing but with gi pants on and in a pit so it feels like youre watching live action mortal kombat or something. Bas Rutten commentates on it and the last few events they had alleged comdian Bryan Callen and some Pro Footballer who clearly knows nothing about combat sports commentating. It was a glorious mess. Bas at one point says a guy used an O Soto Gari (japanese name for a throw) on his opponent, and the footballer goes "HE HIT HIM WIT DA OOPSIE DOOPSIE!". Seriously Karate Combat is terrible, and brilliant, and i love it.

Zero-Cool

After watching Cobra Kai, this is exactly what i was looking for!

Mellor

It looks like kyokushin karate guys tried to create MMA events, with MMA rules, and without the inconvenience of other martial arts.
And somehow managed to get Jor Rogan to design the arena.

Beersmith

Chairman Meow wrote: »

I did a thing about Andy Silvas career rise and fall if anyone's interested

That was very good but I do distinctly remember weidman being given a good chance of a win by a lot of people. There was a lot of hype with him being undefeated and the manner in which he knocked so many people out and had great wrestling which silvas opponents generally didn't have except sonnen who we saw hold him for near full 5 rounds. Along with being trained by matt serra so had a submission game too. Especially after the maia performance some thought he actually was waning.

Now I have to say I totally didn't buy any of that and was telling people silva would smoke weidman and then look what happened!

Chairman Meow

Beersmith wrote: »

That was very good but I do distinctly remember weidman being given a good chance of a win by a lot of people. There was a lot of hype with him being undefeated and the manner in which he knocked so many people out and had great wrestling which silvas opponents generally didn't have except sonnen who we saw hold him for near full 5 rounds. Along with being trained by matt serra so had a submission game too. Especially after the maia performance some thought he actually was waning.

Now I have to say I totally didn't buy any of that and was telling people silva would smoke weidman and then look what happened!

Cheers man thanks for the feedback! Obviously its all my opinion and i tend to go on my memory of the fights and the build up, i just remembered at the time reading sherdog and most people assuming Anderson would merk Weidman... how wrong we were!

xtal191

Whelo79 wrote: »

Chandler is looking to get on the McGregor v Poirier card to fight Tony Ferguson. That would be a cracking co main.

https://twitter.com/TonyFergusonXT/status/1328950888023592960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1328950888023592960%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthemaclife.com%2Ffeatured-posts%2Ftony-ferguson-says-michael-chandler-opponent%2F

ASOT

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/TonyFergusonXT/status/1328950888023592960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1328950888023592960%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthemaclife.com%2Ffeatured-posts%2Ftony-ferguson-says-michael-chandler-opponent%2F

Tony's tweets make my eyes bleed.

As much as I enjoy him fighting I'd love him to retire, he's not in the best place mentally over the last few years the last thing he needs is more fights imo.

Whelo79

ASOT wrote: »

Tony's tweets make my eyes bleed.

As much as I enjoy him fighting I'd love him to retire, he's not in the best place mentally over the last few years the last thing he needs is more fights imo.

At least the first letter of every word wasn't capitalised this time.

The Nal

So Jones vs Stipe then

Mehaffey1

The Nal wrote: »

So Jones vs Stipe then

Will be an epic 5 rounder, can't see any other outcome aside from a Jones' decision win.

Still Ill

Really? I fancy Stipe to win. Jones hasn't impressed at all recently and Stipe is one of the best heavyweights ever. Very exciting match up either way!

Beersmith

Yeah i really don't see how jones would be fav just because he added muscle, I mean of course he would going up a weight class. Stipe will still be bigger and is proven whereas jones has looked beatable over recent years