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OT: WWE/MMA/Boxing Thread

Dan Ige - Korean Zombie tonight. That should be a banger.

Rest of the card, ummm... well... Chito Vera's fighting. I guess. And the return of what looks like the runner-up to biggest meathead in the sport behind Marvin Vettori, Wellington Turman, is back? I guess?
 
UFC have stripped Francis without officially stripping him and made the upcoming Lewis/Gane fight for the interim title. There will just be two champions at the same time for reasons.....the main reason being that however legendary Nunes is, no one buys fights when she's the headliner so Dana wanted a heavyweight title fight headlining.

Francis fought in March.

March.

And agreed to fight in September but the UFC insisted on August.

Francis is repped by CAA though and they're not playing Dana's game.

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seems to explain why ufc wanted that fight to be a month earlier (not saying they are right - but some context)
 
Deckie007 said:
He doesn't seem to be able to be able to beat high end competition anymore. i'd like him to kinda just fuck off and do something else at this point.
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His greatness was based on 2 things at the heart of it

1) Elite distance management
2) his pull and counter technique

Both were novel as fuck when he took over but MMA evolves quickly from a tactical standpoint. His distance management has been mitigated by leg kicking (and this happened so long ago that leg kicking is even about to start to go out of vogue tactically imo) and the pull and counter is drilled in every camp now when back in 2015 nobody knew wtf to do with it.

With that said, he still has dynamite in that hand so can put anyone in the division out if he catches them, Dustin included. But he used to be able to sit down on one technique and just wait until he baited his opponent into trying to close that false distance he creates and he's going to have a hard time getting good fighters to bite anymore. They'll work side to side and kick that lead leg he leaves out there now. Throw in a suspect gas tank and he's just not that guy anymore.
 
What McGregor should receive the most credit for is tape study and adapting his skills to the best he could to defeat his opponents. That punch he landed to KO Jose Aldo came directly from tape study; There was two instances in the Mark Hominick fight that Aldo got caught with the exact same punch and ate it like it was nothing. To McGregor's credit, he's got all time power in his hands for someone in the 145-155 weight class. John Lineker-esque power.

But it should also be said that McGregor's resumé has got some notable holes and a fair bit of luck in there.

McGregor thought Chad Mendes as a replacement to Jose Aldo and Mendes took the fight on a week & a half notice. In the round & a half that Mendes still had energy, he was dominating McGregor. McGregor was supposed to fight Rafael Dos Anjos for the 155 pound belt before RDA pulled out from the fight due to a broken foot. I'm still a believer to this day that RDA would have fucked up McGregor almost as badly as Khabib did. Unlike Eddie Alvarez, and I love Eddie to death, RDA wouldn't have choked under the pressure of fighting McGregor and made it a kickboxing fight without using any grappling.

I think McGregor has two fights left in his career; He's got one against Poirier, of which I'm of the belief he'll lose. And the final fight will be the trilogy against Nate Diaz.
 
By the way, they announced one fight that I've been waiting a fucking decade for them to do.

Nick Diaz - Robbie Lawlor 2. That's going down in September. They should have done that fight when they were both in their fighting primes when the UFC bought Strikeforce, but fuck it, better late than never.
 
GGpX said:
By the way, they announced one fight that I've been waiting a fucking decade for them to do.

Nick Diaz - Robbie Lawlor 2. That's going down in September. They should have done that fight when they were both in their fighting primes when the UFC bought Strikeforce, but fuck it, better late than never.
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ooh, Nick is back. And facing Robbie? Damn.
 
A few hours away. My picks:

Poirier > McGregor
Wonderboy > Burns
Tuivasa > Hardy
Kunitskaya > Aldana
O'Douchebag > Whoever the last minute replacement is
Condit > Griffin
Pereira > Price
Hall > Topuria
du Plessis > Gilles
 
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