The MMA thread

[ben5575]

Did anybody watch the prelims?

Christ knows what Rozenstruik had in his gloves against Arlovski.

Shahbazyan really is a joy to watch as is Wonderboy on the main card.

g4ry13 said:

That Kevin Lee KO was pretty devastating.

How the f**k did one judge score the Till bout 30-27 to Gastelum?! Were they watching a different fight to award every round to Gastelum? Then another judge scores it totally opposite. I don't think Till did anything special but he was better.

I think Diaz got a bit lucky and avoided an extra 2 rounds of damage. That cut reminded me a bit of Tyson Fury and quite surprised the doctor stopped it but didn't really see anything Diaz was going to do differently to win

I also agree with all of that.

[g4ry13]

In fairness, he hasn't got much going on upstairs so not surprising he's hard to KO.

[biggbn]

g4ry13 said:

In fairness, he hasn't got much going on upstairs so not surprising he's hard to KO.

Seems like a decent guy, yeah he is abrasive but does lots of work with kids and seems pretty chilled and grounded. Can fight a bit too!

[anonymous-user]

Assuming its ok to post openly now

Shame about Johnny Walker think he has real promise

Thought the Wonderboy fight was excellent and I say that as not a real fan of his

KG did what he does which is spoil and annoy, I thought it wasn't a great fight and I suspect he'll be out on his ear soonish anyway

Shame about the main, ND does go hard for 5 full rounds so would have been interesting to see, was a nasty cut though

[DocJock]

Maybe it will persuade Walker to do less dancing around with hands low... He'll be back.

I thought it was probably the best full card they've done, Every fight was a cracker.

Looking forward to Zabit this weekend!

[g4ry13]

This Nate Diaz getting stronger in the latter rounds is rubbish. In all his fights he's had two go into the 5th round and he lost them both.

He was losing that match badly and it was only going one way.

[DocJock]

I agree. I think he would have been stopped in the 4th if they'd continued.

[anonymous-user]

g4ry13 said:

This Nate Diaz getting stronger in the latter rounds is rubbish. In all his fights he's had two go into the 5th round and he lost them both.

He was losing that match badly and it was only going one way.

For me it wasn't about getting stronger just he has good cardio, we've seen other fighters tire in 4th and 5th

As it happens I agree and think Jorge would have been fine, he'd been beating the body as well so that would've had an affect

[biggbn]

I think masvidal would have won to, just think both fighters deserved a 4th and 5th and the denouement they both deserve. I guess sometimes the doctor needs to take a decision on behalf of the fighter, it's just rare a fight is stopped on cuts in MMA

[lemmingjames]

Apparently McNugget isnt that babies daddy afterall.

Will be interesting to see who he fights next but see he's started a war of words with the Dagestany's again

[DocJock]

IMO he needs to beat a top 5 fighter to justify leapfrogging them for another shot at Khabib.

[lemmingjames]

DocJock said:

IMO he needs to beat a top 5 fighter to justify leapfrogging them for another shot at Khabib.

I agree, but hes Dana/UFC's hype train so id imagine itll be a shot at number 2 or a trilogy fight with Diaz

[biggbn]

Let him fight masvidal.

[Zarco]

biggbn said:

Let him fight masvidal.

That would be a great fight. Masvidal looks unstoppable currently.

[epom]

The Rousey knockout was on the tweet machine yesterday. Oh man what a kick that was !!

[biggbn]

Zarco said:

biggbn said:

Let him fight masvidal.

That would be a great fight. Masvidal looks unstoppable currently.

Not saying masvidal beats him but styles make fights and it's a great stylistic match. Masvidal is on a great run.

[g4ry13]

Cerrone confirmed for McGregor in January.

Hopefully Cowboy wins and then McGregor will disappear.

[Zarco]

g4ry13 said:

Cerrone confirmed for McGregor in January.

Hopefully Cowboy wins and then McGregor will disappear.

I'm glad he's back and hope he stays. Don't mind who wins but it would be a great scalp for Cerrone.

[DocJock]

I think Connor's striking will be the difference.

[VEA]

I can't find it now but there was a post on Reddit about the sizing, weight, speed, etc.

At WW is Conor going to give up some of his speed for power? There's certainly some interesting odds available on it at the moment.
My bet is that he wants the win over cowboy to then go up against Masvidal for the money fight. Then go back and have a run a Khabib.