MMA

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Bantamweight is a great division, might be my favourite in the UFC actually, it has the perfect mix of athleticism, skill and killer instinct. Shame the UFC are so keen on shoehorning ancient undeserving fighters into the title fights when they have loads of young, elite fighters though.

I expect Yan to beat Aldo so Yan vs Aljo will be fun when it eventually happens.

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Funny how many fighters are going on about more pay atm. I think they are trying to capitalise on Cejudo actually leaving (partially) due to them not giving him as much as he wanted, so the others are up the chain are giving it a go too.

Then the other dope seeing people are all talking about the fights has to chime in and do the old im retiring shite so all the casuals will spam about that to give him what he wants more than belts...

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I have no doubt those lads are asking for crazy money but at the same time Dana is well know for paying fighters peanuts. Fighters are treated much better in Bellator. A lad I know that fights for Bellator told me they even pay for his training camps. I don't know if that is the same for everyone or just certain people.


I enjoyed last night it was a decent fight night should never have been a PPV. Spencer had no business being in the cage with Nunes but I guess it just shows how much the talent is lacking in these divisions. She took a great beating but it was a completely one sided fight that I feel Nunes was hesitant to end early as she seems to like her and felt very sorry for her after the win.

Great to see Cody back and as was said on here already Bantanweight division is looking great these days I hope Cruz comes back again as well.

Very bad looking fight night line up for next week as well. I read an article about 2 weeks ago that said cards are gonna be awful going forward because so many of the big names that live outside the US can't get in to fight and even if they do are afraid they won't be able to get into their own countries afterwards.

[Circlepit]

Cody Garbrandt landed a serious hammer. He is so fast. I hope he keeps is up but doesn't rely on that power going forward.
O' Malley also landed a wallop from hell.
It seems more and more of them will start kicking back against the pay scale.

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

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Henry was on the podcast today said he wants to fight Volkanovski that would be a great fight.

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Henry was on the podcast today said he wants to fight Volkanovski that would be a great fight.

Bollox, I hate that shit cause it just adds more delays and fuck ups to the divisions. I wish they stopped all that crap and if two fighters want to fight from different divisions they meet at a catch weight in the middle with no belts if it really has to happen.

Seems Stipe & DC are set to do the trilogy, again not something I'm interested in for the simple fact that DC has been set to retire for more than a year now and if he gets it he's gone and the belts out on the table again. The fight for it then would most likely be francis and stipe.. and if stipe lost that fight by a KO that delays that fight etc

Again silly shit for me personally

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What's to fuck up at featherweight? Nothing going on in that division other than the rematch from December that is happening now in July. At least that Henry fight would add some excitement.


https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/6/9/21285273/three-title-fights-fight-island-location-announced-for-ufc-251-next-month

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 Ortega v Zombie has been hanging there for a long time also.  Ortega hasn't fought since his first loss to Max  18 months ago 

Apparently Usman is fighting birns who's suddenly ranked no 1 contender, that apparently is more so due to Masvidal looking for more money etc as is the case with a lot a number of them atm. TBH if burns beats the crap out of Usman i'd be happy with that.

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I know I was at that Ortega, Holloway fight was December 2018 but Ortega has been scheduled to fight two times since then and both times has pulled out. I like Ortega but not a Korean Zombie fan, another lifer that will never hold a belt.

Yes the 251 lineup is in the link I posted 5 fights announced so far. I don't think burns is ready for a title fight should have been Colby and as for Masvidal I think he just shit his pants knew Usman would destroy him so he used the money thing to get out of the fight. His popularity would drop significantly if Usman made a show of him and that would be an end to his big money fight with Conor.

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So what do ye make of that? I won't post spoilers as it was on during the early hours.

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Just watched the main card but the main and co-main were fairly underwhelming.

Usman is a beast but if he has a wrestling advantage he's going to make it as boring as possible.

Co-main wasn't up to much even though they're very evenly matched, didn't get the controversy either, I gave the last 3 rounds to Volk.

Thought Aldo looked good vs Yan but he hasn't got the gas tank to go 5 rounds anymore, Yan looked great too so will be interesting to see him against Aljamain Sterling. The stoppage was horrible though, Aldo was clearly done and just getting hammered.

Rose vs Andrade was great, I think Andrade would take a 5 rounder though.

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Max was robbed.

Masvidal did better than I expected but he never had a chance.

Had to laugh when he said he should be a higher ranking than Colby just because he made it to the decision. He was dominated from rounds 2-5. Colby did a much better job against Usman. I have no doubt Colby would put Masvidal away easily.

Another fight night now on Wednesday.

Can't wait for Till vs the reaper that fight was originally suppose to happen in Dublin in August.

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Those Twitter posts that keep popping up in the bottom left hand corner are so dumb and annoying. I wonder if the fighters are being asked to make them.

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Max was robbed.

Masvidal did better than I expected but he never had a chance.

Had to laugh when he said he should be a higher ranking than Colby just because he made it to the decision. He was dominated from rounds 2-5. Colby did a much better job against Usman. I have no doubt Colby would put Masvidal away easily.

Another fight night now on Wednesday.

Can't wait for Till vs the reaper that fight was originally suppose to happen in Dublin in August.

Colby is a savage in fairness. I remember being so impressed seeing him for the first time. He'd def beat Masvidal.