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| Colby Covington |
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| Belal Muhammad |
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| Marius Zaromskis |
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| Ben Quadrinaros |
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Not that she'd be in line for a rematch, but Carla is out till next year due to: pregnant
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I wonder if this means Hulk Hogan will finally get inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame
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Apr 3, 2023 01:10
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The Leech can't catch a break any more https://twitter.com/LiJingliangufc/status/1642675531173830656
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Apr 4, 2023 01:26
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Not a tox bet or anything, but Izzy is getting bonked again, hopefully ending the global nightmare that is anime
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 b league preview PFL 2023: #2 - Friday, April 7 Main Card - 10 PM ET, ESPN 2 Featherweight - Larissa Pacheco vs Julia “The Jewel” Budd Larissa Pacheco finally did it. She beat Kayla Harrison and captured the Women’s Lightweight title in 2022. Now, Harrison is off looking for “super fights” and PFL has decided to end the Kaylaweight charade, so here’s some Featherweight action! Pacheco remains a strong striker with solid takedown defense and offensive grappling. She only ever lost in PFL to Harrison, so it’s not hard to imagine that she runs through this division with ease. If you want the stats, here we go. Pacheco is 19-4 with 9 TKO and 8 submission wins. She is 8-2 in PFL, and is currently on a 6-fight win streak. Budd is 16-5 with 6 TKO and a lone submission win in her soon to be 13 year fight career. She is 1-2 in PFL, having dropped her last two bouts. As stated above, Pacheco has only struggled with Harrison in PFL. I have nothing against Budd, in fact I kinda like her. But I don’t see her giving Larissa a ton of resistance. Heavyweight - Bruno Cappelozza vs Matheus “Buffa” Scheffel Cappelozza is 15-6 with all but one fight ending by TKO. He is 5-1 overall in PFL, going 1-1 last year, but missing the playoffs due to injury. Scheffel is 17-9 with 12 TKO wins. He is 2-2 in PFL, losing the first and final bout of 2022’s season to Ante Delija. Scheffel won their last meeting by decision. Can he repeat that performance? Considering he’s not fighting Ante Delija again, I’m going to guess “sure, probably”. Heavyweight - Denis “The Russian Bogatyr” Goltsov vs Yorgan “The Mad Titan” De Castro Goltsov is 29-7 with 13 TKO and 10 sub wins. He is 7-2 overall in PFL, going 2-0 in 2022, but missing his playoff appearance due to visa issues. De Castro is 9-3 with 1 sub and 6 TKO wins. He went 1-3 in UFC, then won three in a row including two in Eagle FC. He most notably was also in the cage when Junior Dos Santos’s arm flopped apart. He is also one of Jon Jones’s mercenaries that prepared him for beating Ciryl Gane by Being Big. Goltsov is pretty solid and YDC has lost to the likes of Greg Hardy and “Jarjis Danho”, which is clearly just a collection of letters in a scattered array of nonsense. Heavyweight - Renan “Problema” Ferreira vs Rizvan Kuniev Ferreira is 9-3 with 7 TKO and one sub win. He’s 3-1 in PFL (With a pair of No Contests for good measure). He lost in the playoffs to Delija. Kuniev is 12-2 with 5 TKO and 3 submission wins. He’s currently riding a 10-fight win streak including a TKO on the Contender Series in 2021 and a submission win at Eagle FC last March. Ferreira is massive, standing 6’8” with 85 inches of reach, boasting an advantage against Kuniev of 9 inches. However, he is highly susceptible to the highly illegal art known as Grappling. If the fight stays a stand-em-up punchfest, Ferreira should win. If it hits the mat, it’s probably going to be a bad time for Renan. Prelim Card - 6:30 PM ET, ESPN+ Featherweight - Olena “Cannon” Kolesnyk vs Aspen Ladd Kolesnyk is 7-5, with 3 TKO and 2 sub wins. She went 0-2 in Invicta and is 2-3 in PFL, most recently losing to Larissa Pacheco in the 2022 playoffs. Ladd is 10-3 with one submission win and 6 TKOs. She had a 5-0 Invicta record, went 4-3 in UFC, though her career there was more known for weight misses and fights getting canceled. She’s 1-0 in PFL, beating Julia Budd in a feature bout on the Championship event. I don’t have a ton of confidence in either fighter here, though I guess I should admit that Ladd has probably faced better competition. She hasn’t done well against them, but she’s at least faced them. Lightweight (Amateur) - Biaggio Ali Walsh vs Isaiah Figueroa We’re only doing this because Walsh is Muhammad Ali’s grandson. You should be able to work out what PFL wants to happen here. Featherweight - Martina Jindrova vs Amber “Touch ‘Em Up” Leibrock Jindrova is 6-3 with 2 TKO and one sub win. She is 3-1 in PFL, losing to Kayla Harrison in the playoffs. Leibrock is 6-4 with 4 TKOs and one sub win. She went 1-3 in Bellator, and has a 3-1 Invicta record. She’s currently on a three-fight win streak. I look at these two fighters and their records and accomplishments and I simply have nothing to say about either of them. They are people that exist and they will fight one another and one will lose and one will win and then we can all move on. Heavyweight - Marcelo Nunes vs Maurice “The Crochet Boss” Greene Nunes is 9-1 with 2 TKO and 7 sub wins. He’s on a four fight win streak, including 2-0 in PFL. He won on the 2022 edition of the Challenger Series and then in the playoffs as a postlim. Greene is 10-7 with 2 TKO and 6 submission wins. He went 4-4 in UFC, losing to the Grapple Grandpa, Aleksei Oleinik, and Greg Hardy, while defeating such luminaries as Giant Baby Junior Albini and Chris Weidman’s Friend Gian Villante. He is 0-1 in PFL, losing to Goltsov in last year’s regular season. Greene was another of Jon Jones’s mercenaries brought in to defeat Gane. Greene’s skill was also Being Big. Heavyweight - Michal “Longer” Andryszak vs Patrick “The Brick” Brady Andryszak is 25-10 with 16 TKO and 8 sub wins. He went 4-5 in KSW, and up until two fights ago, he was still facing 1-0 dudes. In a sad bit of trivia, he was also Tim Hague’s final MMA opponent. Brady is a 5-0 39-year old heavyweight. He has two wins by submission and one by TKO. He began his pro career in 2021, so despite the late start, he’s been active. Inexperienced old guy versus can crushing younger guy. These are the heavyweights Ray Sefo found under the barrel. He might have even had to dig down a few feet. Featherweight - Amanda Leve vs Karolina Sobek Leve is 2-0, both wins coming in PFL. She notched a submission in her pro debut in 2021, and punched her ticket to the 2023 season proper with a decision victory on the Challenger Series. Sobek is 4-0 with 3 submission wins. ALL HAIL SOBEK, MIGHTY CROCODILE HEADED GOD OF THE NILE. PRAISE BE TO MIGHTY SOBEK Featherweight - Marina Mokhnatkina vs Yoko Higashi Mokhnatkina is 8-3 with 5 submission wins. She went 1-1 in Bellator, and is 2-1 in PFL. She’s on a two fight win streak, but her latest bout came in RCC. Higashi is 8-2 with 3 TKO wins. She’s 5-2 in Pancrase and 3-0 in DEEP, including a pair of wins over an old favorite of mine, King Reina. In the past, I would have declared Higashi a sworn enemy for beating Reina, but at this point in my life, I must tip my cap and show respect. LobsterMobster fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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oh hell yeah https://twitter.com/robwhittakermma/status/1643521640830210049?t=52Kvd_7wSs5-F3OUAMm22A&s=19
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Apr 5, 2023 16:03
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Carl is good. Praise be to Carl and his good words
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Apr 5, 2023 21:12
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Believe it or not, but this is Bellator attempting to get people to care about Danny Sabatello's next fight https://twitter.com/BellatorMMA/status/1644037256519516162?t=9TOZ3FXPLj9_lsl_g48D7g&s=19 granted, there isn't much to work with, but yikes
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Brut posted:I think the answer still ends up being Raquel Pennington, or maybe Blanchfield on short notice, heh. Otherwise I have no idea (could easily be missing someone) Blanchfield is a flyweight. Also, out of curiosity, I"m looking at the top 5 of 135's most recent 5 fights: #1 Pena: L vs Nunes W vs Nunes W vs McMann (No longer in UFC) L vs de Randamie (Now retired) W vs Montano (No longer in UFC #2 Pennington: W vs Vieira W vs Ladd (No longer in UFC) W vs Chiasson W vs Kianzad W vs Reneau (Retired) #3 Holm: W vs Santos L vs Vieira W vs Aldana W vs Pennington L vs Nunes #4 Vieira L vs Pennington W vs Holm W vs Tate L vs Santos W vs Eubanks (No longer in UFC) #5 Aldana W vs Chiasson W vs Santos L vs Holm W vs Vieira W vs Melo (No longer in UFC)
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Apr 7, 2023 23:05
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I think the biggest setback to establishing 135 as a division is the continued existence of Holly Holm
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Apr 7, 2023 23:13
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if you are a sicko, you can join the gdt for pfl and later ufc here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4029316
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pfl is real weird with this one PFL 2023: #3 - Friday, April 14 Welterweight - Sadibou “The Swedish Denzel Washington” Sy vs Jarrah Hussein “Jordanian Lion” Al-Silawi Sy is 13-6 with 6 TKO wins. He’s 7-4 overall in PLF, and went 4-0 in 2022 to claim the tournament title. Al-Silawi is 18-4, 7 of those by TKO, 5 by submission. He’s 2-1 in PFL, winning in the 2022 Challenger Series to make the regular season, beating Gleison Tibau by split decision, then getting knocked out by Magomed Umalatov last July. Sy looks like he’s putting it together, but he also got lucky in that he faced the #7 seed in the finals because everyone else was injured and Rory MacDonald turned out to be horribly washed. Sy still has 8 inches of reach on Al-Silawi which is pretty significant. Welterweight - Magomed Magomedkerimov vs “Brutal” Ben Egli Magomed Magomed Magomed. Magomed? Magomed! And a hearty chuckle was had by all. In other news, Magmoedkerimov is 30-6 with 11 TKO and 9 sub wins. He’s 12-1 in PFL, winning the 2018 season. He’s had illness and visa issues that have kept him from competing consistently, but he’s on a two fight win streak. Egli is 14-4, with 2 TKO and 12 submission wins. He’s also on a two fight win streak. Egli hasn’t faced a lot of top level competition, and as always, you gotta go with the man with the most Magomeds. Lightweight - Natan “Russo” Schulte vs Stevie “Braveheart” Ray Schulte is 23-5 with 4 TKOs and 11 submission wins. He’s 12-2 in PFL, and is currently on a two fight win streak. Ray is 25-11 with 6 TKO and 9 subs. He’s 2-2 in PFL, most recently losing in the championships. Ray has only beaten Anthony Pettis in his PFL career, and last time I checked, Natan Schulte is not Anthony Pettis. Looks like a bad night for Stevie. Lightweight - Raush “Cavalo de Guerra” Manfio vs Alex Martinez Manfio is 16-4 with 8 TKO wins. He is 5-1 in PFL, winning the 2021 tournament. He lost to eventual 2022 champ Olivier Aubin-Mercier in June, keeping him out of the playoffs last year. Martinez is 10-3, with 2 wins by TKO and 4 by submission. He’s 3-3 in PFL, going 2-1 last year, losing to OAM in the playoffs. Well, luckily for both guys they aren’t facing OAM here. Manfio’s probably the better fighter, but even good fighters have off nights. Or they just inexplicably decide to make the dumbest possible choices and throw a winnable fight away. Lightweight - Shane “AAA” Mitchell vs Nayib “Cachorro” Lopez Mitchell is 13-4 with 8 TKO and 4 submission wins. It took until his 8th pro fight for him to fight someone with a record better than .500, and that guy was 2-1 at the time. He’s currently on a 3-fight win streak, most recently defeating the 8-11 Dave Butt in 2021. Lopez is a perfect 15-0 with 6 TKO and 1 sub win. Most of his opponents have winning records, but I’m not going to bother to investigate to see how many of those guys are can crushers. This ain’t the Butt you’re used to, Shane. Lightweight - Bruno “Robusto” Miranda vs Ahmed “The Butcher” Amir Miranda is 14-3 with 9 TKO and 2 sub wins. He’s on a 5-fight win streak, including going 1-0 in PFL, winning on the 2022 Challenger Series, but he never made his 2022 regular season debut. Amir is 12-3 with 2 TKO and 7 submission wins. He’s on a three fight win streak, though only one of those guys had a winning record at the time of the bout. Amir got some pretty favorable match ups on the Middle Eastern regional scene. I think PFL’s midcarders are going to be too big a step up in competition for him. Welterweight - Zach “The Juice” Juusola vs “The Human Highlight Reel” Brandon Jenkins Juusola is 13-9, with 4 TKO and 5 submission wins. He took a decision victory in the 2023 PFL Challenger Series to get here, but he might be overlooking his opponent, because Tapology says he’s booked in May at something called MCFC 2, and any time you can be the co-main to a Travis “Room with a” Wiuff headliner, you gotta jump on that opportunity. Jenkins is 16-9, with 11 TKOs and 3 submission wins. He went 1-0 in PFL back in 2021, then parlayed that into a 0-2 UFC run, where he got TKO’d in both bouts. Someone’s 9 is running out of time? I have nothing to say about this bout between two men who will most assuredly circle, jab, awkwardly clinch and repeat for the full fifteen minutes. Lightweight - Olivier “The Canadian Gangster” Aubin-Mercier vs “Hurricane” Shane Burgos I don’t even want to talk about either guys records or accomplishments, this makes no sense. OAM and Burgos on the prelims, behind “Da Joose” vs “Human Highlight Guy” or that Mitchell vs Lopez thing? Honk off, PFL. Honk off to eternity. Ok so this isn’t the prelim main event it’s the televised Main Card main event, but still, you’re putting Sy, last year’s champ on as the final Post Lim and that’s also dumb. Now that I’ve vented my spleen a bit, here we go. OAM is 17-5 with 2 TKO and 8 submission wins. He is 6-0 in PFL, capturing the 2022 title by second round knockout. Burgos is 15-3 with 5 TKO, 5 submission, and by process of elimination, 5 decision wins. He had a very respectable 8-3 UFC record, ending on a two fight win streak. Despite only ever competing at Featherweight, Burgos is taller with a longer reach. Should be a good fight! Lightweight - “Cassius” Clay Collard vs Yamato Nishikawa Collard is 21-10 with 10 TKO and 3 submission wins. He’s 3-2 in PFL, losing his most recent bout by split decision last June. Nishikawa is 21-3 with 14 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s currently on a 14 fight win streak, though 8 of those guys were at .500 or below at the time of the bout. I think Nishikawa is gonna learn real quick that My Main Man Cassius Clay Collard ain’t no Shooto Japan jobber Heavyweight - Denis “The Russian Bogatyr” Goltsov vs Patrick “The Brick” Brady Goltsov is 29-7 with 13 TKO and 10 sub wins. He is 7-2 overall in PFL, going 2-0 in 2022, but missing his playoff appearance due to visa issues. Brady is 5-0 with one TKO and two submission wins. He’s faced a grand total of one fighter with a winning record. Goltsov is gonna smush this guy into a jelly. Welterweight - Carlos “The Lion” Leal vs David “Sagat” Zawada Leal is 17-4 with 6 TKO and 2 sub wins. He is 3-1 in PFL, losing to Sy in the 2022 Playoffs. Zawada is 18-7 with 12 TKO and 4 submission wins. He went 1-4 in UFC, that lone win being a sub over Abubakar Nurmagomedov, but he ended on a two fight skid. This should be a solid fight between two solid fighters. Welterweight - Magomed “Prince” Umalatov vs Dilano “The Postman” Taylor Umalatov is 12-0 with one submission and 10 TKO wins. He’s 3-0 in PFL, going 2-0 in 2021, 1-0 in 2022 with a pair of withdrawals. Taylor is 10-3 with 3 TKO and 2 sub wins. He’s 3-2 in PFL, most recently falling short to Sadibou Sy in the Tournament Championship bout. If Umalatov can get his paperwork in order, he’s got a great chance to win the title. Let’s see if he can manage it this time around. LobsterMobster fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Oh poo poo, just found out Sam Alvey is fighting a 5-12 z-league trashweight like 30 minutes from where I live next month I wonder if I should go For Science
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if you would like to talk about PFL, go here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4029826
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Getting an early start of the 3 event roll out so that this can be fully wrong due to pull outs and weight misses Anyway, b league preview time Bellator 294 - Friday, April 21 Main Card - 10 PM ET, Showtime Flyweight Title - Liz “Girl-Rilla” Carmouch vs DeAnna “Vitamin D” Bennett Carmouche is 18-7 with 8 TKO and 4 submission wins. She’s a perfect 5-0 in Bellator with only one of those bouts going the distance. After winning the 125 lb title under allegedly dubious stoppage circumstances, Carmouche silenced the doubters with an emphatic second round submission win. Bennett is 13-7 with 2 sub and 2 TKO wins. She’s 3-1 in Bellator, losing her promotional debut to Carmouche, but rattling off 3 wins in a row since then, all by decision. Bennett has done ok since the Liz Loss, but Carmouche has looked very impressive. I’m thinking either a club n sub or a standing TKO win for Girl-Rilla. Heavyweight - Tim Johnson vs Said Sowma Johnson’s overall record is 15-9, and he’s got 8 TKO and 3 wins by submission. He’s currently 3-5 in Bellator, losing his last three in a row, the last two by first round TKO. I guess UFC was smart to cut bait on Large Timothy, as he looks exceedingly washed at this point. Sowma has amassed a 8-4 record, boasting 5 TKO and a lone submission victory. He is 2-3 in Bellator, beating up former middleweight Ronny Markes, and winning by broken finger injury TKO. To give the slightest credit to Sowma, two of his losses were by split decision, so it’s not unfathomable that he could be 4-1, depending on the insane whims of capricious judges. Anyway, this fight should be a real slopfest that either ends inside 90 seconds or it will go the full 15 and feel like 3 hours. Featherweight - Arlene “Angerfist” Blencowe vs Sara McMann Blencowe brings a 15-9 record with 1 sub and 8 TKO wins. She has gone 8-5 in Bellator, most recently losing to Cris Cyborg last April. McMann is 13-6 with 2 TKO and 4 sub wins. She finished her UFC run at 7-6, ending with a win over Karol Rosa in March 2022. Though, more accurately, her UFC run ended with her on the couch, hoping Aspen Ladd would be able to make weight safely for them to fight. We’ve got a puncher versus wrestler matchup, and it’s usually smart money to take the grappler. Bantamweight - Danny “The Italian Gangster” Sabatello vs Marcos Breno Sabatello is 13-2 with 3 TKO and 4 submission wins. He’s 3-1 in Bellator, most recently losing to Raufeon Stots in the Semi-Finals of the Bantamweight Grand Prix. Breno is 15-2 with 8 TKO and 5 submission wins. He’s 1-0 in Bellator, and is on a 3 fight win streak overall. Breno’s the kind of coddled can crusher who was still fighting 1-2 guys when he was 11-1. Sabatello is probably going to win because There Are Levels To This poo poo. However, it will likely not be fun or entertaining in the slightest. Instead of watching this fight, go, run free. Escape this prison of drudgery and poo poo-talking Italian-Americans who are desperately trying to be The Next Conor but they lack the flash and excitement in the cage to be anything more than a wet fart from a warm butt. Welterweight - Levan Chokheli vs Michael “The Don” Lombardo Chokheli is 11-2 with 9 TKO wins. He’s 2-2 in Bellator, winning both bouts by decision. Before Bellator, it took him 7 fights to face someone with a single MMA win, and 9 to face someone with a winning record. Lombardo’s record is 13-3 with 5 TKO and 3 sub wins. He’s 2-1 in Bellator overall, but his first bout was in 2017 and after that he scuttled off to the regional scene, so in this new run, he’s 1-1, winning his last bout by first round TKO. Both guys were decisioned by Kyle Crutchmer in his role as the Bellator Welcoming Committee. Lombardo beat a few slightly decent guys on the regionals, but I think Chokheli’s Bellator wins are better. Tough one to call. Prelim Card - 8 PM ET, Youtube Lightweight - Killys Mota vs Kenneth “The Boss” Cross Mota brings a 14-3 mark to this bout, with 6 TKO and 4 sub wins. He is 3-2 in Bellator, winning his last two bouts by decision. Cross is 13-3 with 5 TKO and 6 sub wins. He’s currently riding a 7 fight win streak, but one guy was 2-5 and one was 1-4. Mota has faced tougher competition, so I gotta give him a slight edge. Heavyweight - Tyrell Fortune vs Sergey Bilostenniy Fortune is 12-3 with one sub and 8 TKO wins, and every single bout has taken place in Bellator. He lost his most recent fight by second round TKO in November, and hasn’t strung together multiple wins since 2021. Bilostenniy is 10-2 with 7 wins by TKO. He’s on a five fight win streak, but he’s making his first venture outside of Russia. Fortune is a solid wrestler, but he’s fell in love with standing and also banging a bit because as must always be stated: fighters are real dumb and will gleefully run from their strengths to instead implement a real Moron’s Gameplan. Featherweight - Cris “Sunshine” Lencioni vs Blake Smith Lencioni is 10-3 with 5 wins by sub. He went 4-2 in Bellator from 2017 to 2020, and returned last year to notch another win. He’s currently riding a three fight win streak. Smith is 7-3 with 2 TKO and 3 sub wins. His four fight win streak was snapped last November. Lencioni’s faced some better fighters on a bigger stage. Middleweight - Anthony “Sugafoot” Adams vs Sharaf “Wolfhound” Davlatmurodov Adams has a 9-3 record with a lone, sad, single TKO win. He’s 1-0 in LFA, 0-2 on the Contender Series, and 1-1 in Bellator, losing his last bout. Davlatmurodov is 18-4, bringing 8 TKO and 5 submission wins to the table. 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Gramps posted:Gramps patented double post for clarity DJ still rules, he's fighting for ONE Championship when they make their US debut next month.
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it's time for another B League Preview! Bellator 295 - Saturday, April 22 Main Card - 10 PM ET, Showtime Bantamweight Grand Prix Final - Raufeon “Supa” Stots vs Patchy “No Love” Mix Stots is 19-1 with 4 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s a perfect 7-0 in Bellator as part of his overall 11 fight winning streak dating back to 2017. Mix is 17-1 with 1 TKO and 12 submission wins. He’s 6-1 in Bellator overall, with 4 straight wins. Stots had some problems with Sabatello’s wrestling, and Mix is a far more offensively-focused grappler. If Mix can get his hands on Stots, expect Patchy to look for submissions early and often. However, as we often see with people who min-max to be excellent grapplers, the rest of their game lags far behind. If Raufeon can keep the fight standing, there’s a good chance he butchers Mix on the feet. Flyweight - Ilima-Lei “The Iliminator” Macfarlane vs Kana Watanabe Macfarlane is 12-2 with 2 TKO and 6 sub wins. She’s 11-2 in Bellator, winning her latest bout in August. Watanabe is 11-1 with 3 TKO and 4 sub wins. She’s 3-1 in Bellator, winning her most recent bout by triangle last May. Got a pair of grappley gals, should be good! Featherweight - Aaron Pico vs James “The Alley Cat” Gonzalez Pico is 10-4 with 7 TKO and 2 sub wins, with all of his pro bouts taking place inside the world famous Bellator Circlegon. Prior to his shoulder falling apart last October, Pico was riding a 6-fight win streak. Gonzalez is 10-5 with 3 TKO and 2 sub wins. He’s 1-0 in Bellator, but did a brief jaunt to the PFL Challenger Series. Despite winning by first round TKO there, he isn’t in the regular PFL 2023 season. Kinda weird. My personal vendetta against Pico has mostly subsided. He’s lost enough that I can finally view him as a fighter, and not the Special Bellator Boy who gets the easy matchups (that he doesn’t always win and I get to laugh and laugh). He’s probably going to win this one, he’s got a lot of high level experience. Flyweight - Ray “The Tazmexican Devil” Borg vs Kyoji Horiguchi Borg is 16-5 with 1 TKO and 6 submission wins. He’s on a 3-fight win streak since he left the UFC in 2020. Horiguchi is 31-5 with 15 TKO and 4 sub wins. He’s 2-2 in Bellator, having dropped his two most recent bouts in the Circlegon, but he bounced back with another pair of wins in Rizin. We got two guys who were 24 and 25 when they got trounced by DJ. Borg’s career has gone pretty bad since then. He hasn’t lost a ton, he’s just been unable to step inside the cage. Horiguchi has looked good since that DJ loss, except those two Bellator defeats, which feel like huge letdowns. I feel like Horiguchi is a lot better, but it’s hard to say what Borg looks like since he’s fought so infrequently. Sure, he’s been a bit more active of late, but it also hasn’t been against the highest levels of opponents. Prelim Card - 8 PM ET, Youtube Featherweight - Mads Burnell vs Justin “J-Train” Gonzales Burnell is 16-5 with 1 TKO and 9 sub wins. He’s 3-2 in Bellator, losing his last two, both by decision. Gonzales is 14-1, with 4 TKO and 1 sub win. He’s 3-1 in Bellator, currently on a 2 fight win streak. Other than Aaron Pico, Gonzales has fought the same level of Bellator competition as Burnell. I should caveat that I am a Mads Burnell Doubter, and I’m ready to be proven disastrously wrong, as per usual. Lightweight - Yancy Medeiros vs Charlie “917” Leary Medeiros is 15-8, with 7 wins by TKO and 4 by submission. He won his Bellator debut last year by decision. Primarily a brawler, his last stoppage win was in 2017. To be fair to Yancy, he didn’t have any kind of win between that one and the Bellator fight. Leary’s record is 17-13 with 9 TKO and 3 sub wins. He’s 3-4 in Bellator, having lost his last two. Looks like we’ve got a Captain Cook situation brewing! To put it plainly, I hope a Native Hawaiian beats the hell out of a British. Featherweight - Kai “Fighting Hawaiian” Kamaka III vs Adli “Sunshine” Edwards Kamaka is 10-5 with just one TKO and just one sub win. He’s 4-1 in Bellator, notching his first career stoppage win in his latest fight. Edwards is 9-2 with 2 TKO and 3 sub wins. He is 0-1 in Bellator, getting punched out by Aaron Pico last April, snapping a 7-fight win streak. The Pico fight was a big step up in competition for Edwards. Kamaka should be slightly more his speed, but I think Kai is probably a bit better. Flyweight - Sumika “Lady Samurai” Inaba vs Veta Arteaga Inaba is a perfect 5-0, all fights in Bellator, with 3 TKO and one submission win. Arteaga is 7-4 with 1 TKO and 2 sub wins. She’s 6-4 in Bellator, currently on a two fight win streak. This will be Inaba’s biggest test to see if she can move up the 125 lb rankings. She’s early in her MMA career, but she’s 32, having gotten a pretty late start in face punching. This will also be just the second time Inaba has faced someone with a winning record, so we’ll see how prepared the Lady Samurai is. Featherweight - Keoni Diggs vs Weber “The Silverback” Almeida Diggs is 10-2 with 1 TKO and 6 wins by sub. He’s 3-2 in Bellator, ending a two fight losing streak with a decision win last October. Almeida is 7-1 with 6 of his wins coming by TKO. Weber is 5-1 in Bellator, winning his last two after tasting defeat for the first time as a professional back in 2021. Two mid-30s featherweights fighting on the early part of the Bellator Human Sacrifice Hour prelims. Let’s just hope we get some promised mayhem, violence, and bloodshed, fellas. Lightweight - Bobby King vs Aalon Cruz King is 12-5 with 3 wins by TKO and 5 by submission. He has gone 3-2 in Bellator so far, losing to the two good fighters he’s faced, Alexander Shabily and Gadzhi Rabadanov. To King’s credit, he went the distance in both of them. Cruz brings an overall record of 10-4 to the cage, with 4 TKO and 2 submission wins. He won on the Contender Series in 2019, then got obliterated in two UFC fights in a combined 3 minutes. Since then, Cruz has won a pair of fights on the regional scene and now we are here. I don’t think Cruz is being brought in as an equal match to King. Pretty sure Bobby is going to push him over and deliver a moderate whomping. Heavyweight - Davion “All Day” Franklin vs Kasim Aras Franklin is 5-1 with 3 TKO wins. He’s fought his entire pro career thus far in Bellator, losing his last bout by RNC to Marcelo Golm. Aras is 7-1 with 3 TKO and 2 submission wins, and to show he’s a cool badass, he’s also got a loss by DQ due to CHEST BITE. An absolute savage! He’s on a 3-fight win streak, so he mentally bounced back from chomping into human flesh, and hopefully his hunger has been satiated. For now. I am a simple keyboard warrior, but I would not agree to a fight against someone that has a history, no matter how minor, of being a cannibal. Respect to you, Davion Franklin, but be careful. Flyweight - Ilara “Arya Stark” Joanne vs Bruna Ellen Joanne is 11-6, with 4 TKO and 3 sub wins. She is currently 3-2 in Bellator, having stopped a two fight skid with a pair of decision wins last year. Ellen is 6-4 with a single TKO stoppage to her name. She is 4-4 in Bellator, losing her latest bout by decision. It’s going to be interesting to see how long Joanne keeps the Arya Stark nickname as Game of Thrones slowly fades from cultural relevancy. I guess the other fun game to play is to see if she retires from fighting before Martin finishes the next book. Anyway, this is going to be a fight between people. You can watch it or you can not watch it, the choice is yours. Welterweight - Alexey Shurkevich vs Masayuki Kikuiri Shurkevich is 13-5 with 1 submission and 9 TKO victories. He is 1-0 in Bellator, winning his Circlegon debut back in 2021. Since then, he went to Shlemenko FC and, fittingly, lost by spinning backfist knockout. Kikuiri is a type of Nepalese short sword, favored by the Gurkhas. Whoops, that’s not right. Masayuki Kikuiri is 8-2 with 5 wins by TKO. He’s fought exclusively in Pancrase, where about half his wins have come against guys with losing records. This looks like another set up fight, in that Kikuiri is being set up to get beat down.
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final b league preview of the week ONE Fight Night 9 - Friday, April 21 Main Card - 8 PM ET, Amazon Prime Featherweight Title (Muay Thai) - Nong-O Gaiyanghadao vs Jonathan “The General” Haggerty Nong-O has a 265-54 kickboxing record. He’s the current ONE 145 lb Muay Thai champ, with seven successful defenses of the title, and he’s on a 10 fight win streak, all in ONE. Haggerty is 20-4 in kickboxing and is the former ONE 135 lb Muay Thai champion. Since losing the title and a rematch to Rodtang, Haggerty has won four bouts in a row. Haggerty is younger by about 10 years, and he’s got about 5 inches of reach on Nong-O, but c’mon, it’s Nong-O. He’s going to punch this man in the face 1000 times exactly. Welterweight - Halil Amir vs Maurice Abevi Amir is 8-0 with one sub and 7 TKO wins. He won his ONE debut last September, beating up Tim Nasty by second round TKO. Abevi is 6-0 with 3 TKO and 3 sub wins. He’s making his first venture outside of Europe, having fought mostly in Germany. Amir has proven himself against a known quantity in Nastyukhin, which is more than can be said about Abevi. Flyweight - Bokang “Little Giant” Masunyane vs Hiroba Minowa Masunyane is 8-1 with one TKO and one submission win. He’s 2-1 in ONE, losing his latest bout to Jarred Brooks by first round RNC last year. Minowa is 13-3 with 3 TKO and 8 sub wins. He’s also 2-1 in ONE, and he also lost to Jarred Brooks in his most recent fight. Someone’s about to begin a two fight losing streak and each fighter is vehemently pointing at their opponent, going “no, u”. Featherweight (Muay Thai) - Saempetch Fairtex vs Felipe “Demolition Man” Lobo Saempetch is 125-18 in kickboxing. He is 7-3 in ONE, currently riding a two fight win streak. Lobo is 2-1 inside the ONE Circle, losing to Nong-O in a bid for the title. No shame in losing to Nong-O, man. Most people do. Muay Thai is always fun to watch, and it is even more funner when it is fought with small gloves. Strawweight - Denice “The Menace” Zamboanga vs Julie Mezabarba Zamboanga is 9-2, with 2 TKO and 3 submission wins. She’s gone 4-2 in ONE, or more accurately, 4-Seo Hee Ham. Since back to back losses to Hamderlei, Zamboanga has bounced back with a split decision win over Heqin Lin. Mezabarba is 9-4, with 3 TKO victories. She is 1-2 in ONE, dropping her last two. I’m also a little surprised she won her first fight in ONE, considering her Brazilian regional career was spent fighting sub-0.500 fighters, so a win over Mei Yamaguchi is kind of an impressive feat. Not saying I’m a language expert, but I’m pretty sure Julie’s last name translates to “Half a Barbara”, and I think it would take a full Barbara to beat Zamboanga. Middleweight - Isi “Doxz” Fitikefu vs Valmir “Junior” da Silva Doxz is 7-1 with one win by submission and 4 by TKO. In his ONE debut, Doxz lost by decision to my main man, the Snow Leopard, Ruslan Emilbek. Doxz is a terrible nickname so I’m going to type it as often as possible as a kind of immersion therapy to make it seem less horrible. Doxz! Valmir is a desolate planet in the Marvel Universe where the Soul Stone can be found. Wait, I hosed up. Valmir da Silva is 9-2 with one sub and 8 TKO wins. He is 1-1 in ONE, losing his debut by first round TKO, but he returned to his winning ways with a second round submission back in July of 2022. I hope Doxz loses and is cut from ONE and I never have to think about Doxz again. Flyweight - Bo Meng vs Dayane “Monster” Cardoso Meng is 20-6, having notched 8 wins by TKO and 6 by submission. She is 4-2 in ONE, having ended a two fight skid with an impressive sub-30 second TKO in December. Meng might be most notable for beating Weili Zhang in both women’s pro debuts. She then lost her next bout to Yanan Wu, who is 1-5 in the UFC, showing just how much a land of contrasts is Bo Meng. Cardoso is 9-1 with 5 TKO and 2 sub wins. She’s currently on a six fight win streak, including her ONE debut last year. Both fighters seem to have assembled a solid list of wins, and both finish more of their fights than not. This should be a good match up to either shake out or shake up the 125 lb division, though it’s impossible to tell since ONE doesn’t include rankings for them. Bantamweight (Muay Thai) - Denis “The Bosnian Menace” Puric vs Jacob Smith Puric is 1-1 in ONE kickboxing. Smith has had one fight in ONE, losing to Rodtang last year. He’s also apparently a British Muay Thai champion, which is an accomplishment I somehow rate lower than being a British wrestling champ. Hopefully these two guys put on a good show, but it’s just not as fun without a Thai pummeling them for fifteen minutes. Featherweight (Muay Thai) - Han Zi Hao vs Asa “The American Ninja” Ten Pow Hao is 61-25 in kickboxing, going 7-5 in ONE. He lost in his last bout against Ferrari Fairtex in September. Ten Pow made his ONE debut last October, losing to Mehdi Zatout at the end of the first round. Han Zi Hao has a pretty solid kickboxing record, and Asa Ten Pow went 6-1 in Glory, which is pretty solid. This should be a good kickpunch contest. Featherweight - Jhanlo Mark “The Machine” Sangiao vs Matias Farinelli Sangiao is 5-0, with one TKO and 4 submission wins, with every single bout ending inside the first round. He is 2-0 in ONE. Farinelli is also 5-0, with all of his fights ending by submission. He has, however, seen the second round twice. He also hasn’t ever fought someone with a winning record, so in addition to fighting outside of Argentina for the first time, that’s going to be something new for Farinelli. Nothing like ONE bringing in some guy with a paper record to make the local hero look good. I realize this fight is in Singapore and Sangiao is from the Philippines, but he’s a hell of a lot more local than Farinelli.
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DeAnna Bennett weighs 127.0 on her second attempt to make the flyweight limit for her title fight tomorrow Seems less than ideal!
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1. since all the legacy verified accounts have been de-checked, i wasnt sure how real that was when i first saw it 2. knowing 0 further information, i choose to blame ray borg
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Gramps posted:Jesus I forgot how fast this thread moves when there's stuff going on. I gotta remember to check in with you guys every day or I'm gonna just fall way behind again. For UFC, Carl uses the  rating system to denote what should be good fights. For this one, it's Wells vs Semelsberger, Tavares vs Silva, and Blaydes vs PavlovichIf you're going to watch Bellator, I'd say Macfarlane vs Watanabe and Stots vs Mix are the top choices
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Coleman has turned his life around. Got a new hip, got sober, and now he's going to piss it all away for an expired Cracker Barrel gift card.
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CarlCX posted:Today in random things I learned while doing writeup research: The Australian guy who knocked out Alexander Volkanovski back when he was fighting as a 5'6" welterweight was approached by Bellator for a contract and the UFC to be on the Australia vs UK season of TUF, but he was banned from traveling to America because he got into a drunken bar fight and his friend stole a guy's wallet and they all got charged with robbery. Lee Murray for a new generation
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