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ricero

Two cracking fights hopefully to look forward to.

Would not be surprised to see Kelvin get the ko in round one or two may throw a few bob on it.

dulux99

Whelo79 wrote: »

I just watched episode 3 of Embedded and convenient enough Kelvin was getting a haircut. There's something there alright!

I hope yer man set fire to those clippers afterwards

Mellor

Have to be more confident in Whitaker now

Gamb!t

Bit of acne that's all.

dulux99

Gamb!t wrote: »

Bit of acne that's all.

Is it? Genuine question. Would acne affect the back of someone's neck?

I must say lads, for an actual live weigh in (as opposed to the ceremonial ones), the crowd last night has to be the dullest I think I ever heard. They were like an opera crowd.

callaway92

dulux99 wrote: »

Is it? Genuine question. Would acne affect the back of someone's neck?

I must say lads, for an actual live weigh in (as opposed to the ceremonial ones), the crowd last night has to be the dullest I think I ever heard. They were like an opera crowd.

Sure it was on early in the morning there wasn't it?

Can you blame them?

dulux99

callaway92 wrote: »

Sure it was on early in the morning there wasn't it?

Can you blame them?

11am. Hardly the crack of dawn. Most weigh ins are on at 2pm local time.

callaway92

dulux99 wrote: »

11am. Hardly the crack of dawn. Most weigh ins are on at 2pm local time.

Most ceremonial weigh ins are on in evening/late afternoon.

Look at early prem league kickoffs. No atmosphere

weemcd

callaway92 wrote: »

Sure it was on early in the morning there wasn't it?

No.

callaway92 wrote: »

Can you blame them?

Yes.

callaway92

weemcd wrote: »

No.


Yes.

Cool, good man - think you need to look again.

Fighters were on stage at 11:30 am

dulux99

callaway92 wrote: »

Cool, good man - think you need to look again.

Fighters were on stage at 11:30 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGCOKjFJdo

Skip to about 28 minutes. Same country, same time of the day, but without a hometown fighter in the main event. It's like night and day compared to last night.

callaway92

dulux99 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGCOKjFJdo

Skip to about 28 minutes. Same country, same time of the day, but without a hometown fighter in the main event. It's like night and day compared to last night.

? And?

EagererBeaver

Is this really a thing? Getting into a debate over how good or bad the atmosphere at a weigh-in was?

dulux99

callaway92 wrote: »

? And?

Your explanation for poor weigh in atmosphere was the time of morning.

So here's a video of a weigh in for an event also held in Oz, where the weigh in was held at the same time of the morning, and the atmosphere was exponentially better.

Not sure what's confusing about that.

Anyways, stupid thing to be arguing about. I thought the weigh in seemed flat, you didn't see an issue with it, let's agree to disagree.

MrStuffins

Whitaker out of the Main Event tonight. Diagnosedwith a hernia

https://mmajunkie.com/2019/02/ufc-234-robert-whittaker-out-injured-hernia

AlmightyCushion

MrStuffins wrote: »

Whitaker out of the Main Event tonight. Diagnosedwith a hernia

https://mmajunkie.com/2019/02/ufc-234-robert-whittaker-out-injured-hernia

For fúcks sake.

derfderf

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

For fúcks sake.

The fight card is now worse than the fight night in Brazil last week.

billybonkers

PPV is going to be so poor for this now. Awful for Kelvin having travelled so far.

VW 1

Is there an alternate, or is the fight just scrapped?

Wrongway1985

VW 1 wrote: »

Is there an alternate, or is the fight just scrapped?

Nope no middleweights on the card apart from the now main event. Badly strung together card mad to think they've dropped the amount of numbered events(PPV) this year in what I believe was the view to lessen the likelihood of these situations occurring yet here we are.

Autecher

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

VW 1 wrote: »

Is there an alternate, or is the fight just scrapped?

Nope no middleweights on the card apart from the now main event. Badly strung together card mad to think they've dropped the amount of numbered events(PPV) this year in what I believe was the view to lessen the likelihood of these situations occurring yet here we are.

Did they drop the amount of numbered events? They have 1 ppv a month scheduled for this year like they always do though obviously last month's ppv was cancelled.

Autecher

Looks like Johnny Walker will be fighting Misha Cirkunov at UFC 235 after OSP got injured. That will be a big test for him.

Nate Diaz will be in Kron Gracie's corner this weekend so for anyone who misses seeing Nate in the UFC that will have to do. It's a real good looking card this weekend too.


Main Card

Cain Velasquez vs. Francis Ngannou
James Vick vs. Paul Felder
Cortney Casey vs. Cynthia Calvillo
Alex Caceres vs. Kron Gracie
Vicente Luque vs. Bryan Barberena
Andre Fili vs. Myles Jury
Preliminary Card
Aljamain Sterling vs. Jimmie Rivera
Benito Lopez vs. Manny Bermudez
Andrea Lee vs. Ashlee Evans-Smith
Scott Holtzman vs. Nik Lentz
Early Prelims

Renan Barao vs. Luke Sanders
Jessica Penne vs. Jodie Esquibel
Aleksandra Albu vs. Emily Whitmire

yourdeadwright

Anyone else think Israel is extreme over rated ?

I see him getting smashed by guys like Whitaker , Kelvin , Romero .

dashoonage

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Anyone else think Israel is extreme over rated ?

I see him getting smashed by guys like Whitaker , Kelvin , Romero .

Yes. But....moar spinnin ****z please.

D'Agger

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Anyone else think Israel is extreme over rated ?

I see him getting smashed by guys like Whitaker , Kelvin , Romero .

I think there's more hype behind him than deserved to be honest. I really like him as a fighter and he's very, very fast - probably lacks in power which means when he does come up against some of the top guys he will struggle but I reckon he'd give Gastellum a good fight. Romero or Bobby would fúck him up however, there's a distinct gap between those two boys and the rest of the division imo

yourdeadwright

D'Agger wrote: »

I think there's more hype behind him than deserved to be honest. I really like him as a fighter and he's very, very fast - probably lacks in power which means when he does come up against some of the top guys he will struggle but I reckon he'd give Gastellum a good fight. Romero or Bobby would fúck him up however, there's a distinct gap between those two boys and the rest of the division imo

He doesn't have the power to keep Gastellum off him no chance,
One thing beating a counter fighter who's way past it like Silva different game keeping these young beast's off you ,

His last kick boxing fight he was brutally ko'd with a left hook b, I can see the same happing when these stronger fighter's keep him backed up and don't stand off ,

Paully D

The Cain vs Ngannou fight this weekend is on Sunday night/Monday morning our time.

FFS.

MrStuffins

Paully D wrote: »

The Cain vs Ngannou fight this weekend is on Sunday night/Monday morning our time.

FFS.

They needed to give Cain an extra day to get injured.

Paully D

On another note, that card in Prague the week after might well be the worst I have ever seen.

Woeful.

AlmightyCushion

Paully D wrote: »

The Cain vs Ngannou fight this weekend is on Sunday night/Monday morning our time.

FFS.

Yeah, it's a pain in the arse. Have to try and avoid all MMA news in work on Monday.

dulux99

Paully D wrote: »

The Cain vs Ngannou fight this weekend is on Sunday night/Monday morning our time.

FFS.

Discovered this only last night. Sickened.

Subcomandante Marcos

Just record it and watch it the next day, no big deal.

xckjoo

Paully D wrote: »

The Cain vs Ngannou fight this weekend is on Sunday night/Monday morning our time.

FFS.

Balls. I'm looking forward to seeing what Cain we get. It'll probably be obvious from the result

Subcomandante Marcos

xckjoo wrote: »

Balls. I'm looking forward to seeing what Cain we get. It'll probably be obvious from the result

The venue is 1319 feet elevation, so not quite Sea Level Cain™.

Zero-Cool

I can't believe Cain is fighting this weekend. And I won't believe it til it happens.

Kevin fires back at "Conor the leper" impregnating ladies all over Ireland" :pac: and explains he had staph on his face but UFC and commission happy for him to fight

https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/2/12/18221579/morning-report-kelvin-gastelum-fires-back-at-leper-conor-mcgregor

DrPhilG

Autecher wrote: »

Early Prelims
Renan Barao vs. Luke Sanders

I remember when Barao was a beast. Now he's facing the boot.

Autecher

DrPhilG wrote: »

Autecher wrote: »

Early Prelims
Renan Barao vs. Luke Sanders

I remember when Barao was a beast. Now he's facing the boot.

So it's Booty and the Beast?

MrStuffins

DrPhilG wrote: »

I remember when Barao was a beast. Now he's facing the boot.

This guy says hello!

dulux99

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Just record it and watch it the next day, no big deal.

It's the difference of watching it at my leisure on a Sunday vs either getting up and trying to cram it in before work or trying to avoid the result all day at work and watching when I get home

First world problems and all that but it is far more inconvenient.

Autecher

TJ Dillashaw is now a ranked flyweight. Sure why not?

tommyboy26

Autecher wrote: »

TJ Dillashaw is now a ranked flyweight. Sure why not?

one loss and he is in the top 15. i dont know if that shows the state of the flyweight division or the stupidity of the rankings

Wrongway1985

Autecher wrote: »

TJ Dillashaw is now a ranked flyweight. Sure why not?

That's actually an accurate ranking tbf :pac:

Seriously guys in title fights seem to cling to their ranking no matter what,likes of Mcgregor won one fight at LW,Dominic Cruz hasn't fought over 2 years,Luke Rockhold,Big Gus all seem to be invulnerable when there rank is open to debate.

ASOT

Wilson Reis was on a three fight skid beat someone outside the top 15 now hes 5th :pac:

ricero

Brendan Schaub with more nonsense this week saying Adasenya is better than Silva when Silva was in his prime. He's all over the Adasenya hype train it seems.

dashoonage

ricero wrote: »

Brendan Schaub with more nonsense this week saying Adasenya is better than Silva when Silva was in his prime. He's all over the Adasenya hype train it seems.

Yoel eats hype trains for breakfast.

dulux99

ricero wrote: »

Brendan Schaub with more nonsense this week saying Adasenya is better than Silva when Silva was in his prime. He's all over the Adasenya hype train it seems.

FFS.

I like Adesanya but all 3 rounds with Silva were somewhat competitive. Silva is 43 for jaysus sake.

Paully D

https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1095687859300900864?s=21

That’ll be good craic to be fair :pac:

ASOT

Paully D wrote: »

https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1095687859300900864?s=21

That’ll be good craic to be fair :pac:

Thats a class deal for him fair play. GOAT

SureYWouldntYa

ricero wrote: »

Brendan Schaub with more nonsense this week saying Adasenya is better than Silva when Silva was in his prime. He's all over the Adasenya hype train it seems.

He really is trying to be Rogan Junior, minus any sense of charm obviously

MrStuffins

Great deal. Really like the fight too. Jason Knight is a beast and a wildman.

The fact that he can still sign for an MMA promotion too is great. Fair play Artem!