UFC 224 SUN. MAY. 13, 2018 NUNES VS PENNINGTON

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not a lot of interest so here goes


nunes probably wins tough and all pennington is.


I hope cooper beats dern a lot more than I did before the weigh ins.

lineker kelleher for me could be fotn

oleynik albini certainly won't be fotn and neither will belfort machida
albini looked awful v aa last time out, machida wins this if it goes longer than 3 minutes


gastelum tends to come up short against the elite and I think he will do so against souza...souza by sub for me
if gast does win then he'll probably be another fight away from a shot so its huge to say the least...back down the ladder otherwise


hopefully it'll be good card, looking at it and just not knowing whether it'll be good or bad myself.

mailburner

if ya don't have bt sports I might just be able to sort ya out (pm

I'll hit the sack at 3 though

mailburner

that was beautiful by dos santos

theteal

cracking finish (possible pun intention)

mailburner

impressive by ramos, 8 wins and 6 by sub now
hein never been subbed before either

theteal

Did Hein’s jaw get dislocated there? Looked very strange


As freaked out as I was by that, the transition to the back should have had Michael Bolton music attached it was that sensual

mailburner

albini can't be as bad as his last fight surely?
he barely moved at all

oleynik 55 wins and 43 by sub, mad stuff
probably past it but if he doesn't stand in front of albini he must have
a great chance here

Oleiknik takes him down and submits him first round.

mailburner

mailburner wrote: »

albini can't be as bad as his last fight surely?
he barely moved at all

oleynik 55 wins and 43 by sub, mad stuff
probably past it but if he doesn't stand in front of albini he must have
a great chance here

44 by sub :pac:

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Deleted User wrote: »

Oleiknik takes him down and submits him first round.

good call


had him backed by sub

darced

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am thinking he's possibly the only one to win by ezekiel choke before

cant remember any other

mailburner

holy fcuk he has 12 wins now by ezekiel choke

darced

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mailburner

roberson for me, maybe a ko

mailburner

8 fights 4 subs 3 kos 1 dec

all downhill from here

martyos121

I hope Vitor gets clocked good, often and early here. Unfortunately, he’s fighting Machida who is as cautious as Woodley these days.

martyos121

HAHA YES! Channeling his inner Anderson Silva there, highlight reel KO!

mailburner

delighted that vitor is finally calling it a day

martyos121

Nice overhand from Dern, didn’t think she’d have any success in the standup. When it went to the ground, it was never going to last another 30 seconds.

Lukker-

Dern via T H I C C

mailburner

gastelum has some chin

mailburner

Didn't expect that
What a fight!

Lukker-

That was the right decision imo

martyos121

Big win for Kelvin, delighted for him. Really could’ve gone either way though and I fully expected Jacare to get the nod with it being in Brazil. If he could only make 170 consistently he’d be a real contender. He’s doing very well at middleweight though all the same, but it isn’t the ideal weight for him.

Lukker-

Gastelum vs Bobby Knuckles would be a good fight

Mellor

4 fights up in a accumulator, 5th and final pick was Jacare. Ugh. Thanks Kelvin

mailburner

wrong div for kelvin no doubt about it, hard to see him ever troubling romero or whittaker
I thought he'd beat weidman when they fought, it was never his right div after that

Lukker-

Mellor wrote: »

4 fights up in a accumulator, 5th and final pick was Jacare. Ugh. Thanks Kelvin

You never knw with Kelvin. His takedown defence and defence on the ground have definitely come on though. He doesn’t look as out of place with the bigger guys.

Lukker-

mailburner wrote: »

wrong div for kelvin no doubt about it, hard to see him ever troubling romero or whittaker
I thought he'd beat weidman when they fought, it was never his right div after that

Whittaker also fought at WW though. Jacare is one of the stronger guys too in MW. He might struggle with Romero’s wrestling though. The shots certainly don’t trouble him.

martyos121

Looks like a complete mismatch in there and it definitely isn’t a case of Rocky pacing herself for five rounds. Nunes has just completely outclassed her in the first round.

finglashoop

This is pony


Corner should of took her out when she said she was done

martyos121

That shouldn’t have even gone to a fifth round. When your fighter says she’s done, that’s it.

Anyway, great performance from Nunes. Hard to see another good contender at 135, she really has to move up and fight Cyborg soon or any buzz she’s generated since battering Ronda will evaporate.

eagle eye

This is disgraceful, blood pissing out of her at the end. Her coaches should never be allowed in the octagon again.
She clearly said she was done and they didn't pull her out.
They could have thrown a towel in early in the last round when it was clear she had nothing left, if telling you before the round wasn't enough.

Lukker-

Hope that nose isn’t too messed up

Lukker-

Amanda’s English getting a bit less annoying.

martyos121

The translator deserves a POTN bonus for that. :pac:

Subcomandante Marcos

Lukker- wrote: »

Amanda’s English getting a bit less annoying.

She sounds like Uncle Henatch.

ricero

Gastelum is a warrior

brendanwalsh

Pennington was pathetic in the cage.

Mackenzie needs to lose the fake Brazilian accent.

Lukker-

brendanwalsh wrote: »

Pennington was pathetic in the cage.

That's extremely harsh. She was outclassed and outmatched but she didn't shy away from anything. She probably shouldn't have been in there, but Amanda has cleaned out 135. The only fight to make is Cyborg now.

brendanwalsh wrote: »

Mackenzie needs to lose the fake Brazilian accent.

I find the internet's autists obsession with her accent so strange

cletus

Lukker- wrote: »

That's extremely harsh. She was outclassed and outmatched but she didn't shy away from anything. She probably shouldn't have been in there, but Amanda has cleaned out 135. The only fight to make is Cyborg now.



I find the internet's autists obsession with her accent so strange

Have you read any of his other posts in this forum? I wouldn't bother arguing

tommyboy26

for everyone saying her corner was wrong to send her back in for the 5th round. I can see your point but that is her coaches job. Imagine if it had went the other way and she clipped nunes and she won. would everyone still be bad mouthing the coach?

If it was a fight between 2 men and the same thing happened would there still be such an outcry about it?

Overall Amanda looked great against her but she is on another level its hard to see anyone in her division beating. cyborg seems like the only fight that makes sense

one of the highlights for me was the spinning heal kick dos santos landed on strickland:eek::eek:

Subcomandante Marcos

tommyboy26 wrote: »

for everyone saying her corner was wrong to send her back in for the 5th round. I can see your point but that is her coaches job. Imagine if it had went the other way and she clipped nunes and she won. would everyone still be bad mouthing the coach?

And if she really wanted out all she had to do was say it to the ref of tap the mat at any stage. Her coaches believed that in 5 minutes she could have won somehow and told her to believe in herself, if she didn't then it's on her to concede.

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Karate is back!

No can defend!

The Nal

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

And if she really wanted out all she had to do was say it to the ref of tap the mat at any stage. Her coaches believed that in 5 minutes she could have won somehow and told her to believe in herself, if she didn't then it's on her to concede.

Yeah we don't know if thats something she does a lot and the corner know that. All fighters react differently in the corner. Ali asked to quit in the Liston 1 fight and in Manilla but was told no.

She was taking a hiding though and gave up at the end.

Still though, Nunes is unbeatable, apart from Cyborg.

Outlaw Pete

Her corner are still getting critiqued for not stopping the fight.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aCdYCb8o4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJMmeM33x0

https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/995535220777672705
https://twitter.com/MikeMav22/status/995530376427720705
https://twitter.com/BrianTcity/status/995526923135533056



She responded herself yesterday on the MMA Hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf1N-ffUabA

eagle eye

I don't understand how anybody would not be outraged by what happened. The girl I a warrior and she tells them she is done. It's quite clear she was suffering, had no chance of winning and had a good chance of getting badly beaten up in the fifth round.
As it turned out she was badly bloodied at the end of the fight.

Those people in her corner should never be allowed to manage a fighter in the octagon again imo.

Lukker-

I do think the fact that she's a woman, has coloured people's judgement's a bit more. I think many would be more forgiving of the coaches if it was a man they were asking to finish the fight. Not a criticism either, just an observation. I'm also of the belief that they shouldn't have let her back out there, or at the very least had the towel thrown in much sooner in round 5.

The Nal

Seems Nunes was fairly badly injured aswell.

Lukker-

Seemingly it wasn't broken nose either that was stopping Pennington, but that she could barely stand