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| Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs Jailton Almeida |
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| Raquel Pennington vs Irene Aldana 2 |
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| Gegard Mousasi vs Fabian Edwards |
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| Anything that isn't any of those fights |
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it's time for a  b league preview Invicta FC 53 - Wednesday, May 3, 2023 Main Card - 8:30 PM ET, Youtube, AXS TV Atomweight Title - “Lionheart” Jillian DeCoursey vs Rayanne dos Santos DeCoursey is 6-3, with 2 wins by TKO and a sole sub victory. She is 5-2 in Invicta, and is currently on a two fight win streak including her title clinching submission win last year. Dos Santos is 13-6 with 2 TKO and 8 submissions. She is also on a two fight win streak, including her Invicta debut back in January. Dos Santos has gotten a bit of an easy schedule, though. Out of her last 7 wins, none had a record above 0.500, 5 had never won a fight, and three of those were making their pro debuts. This is going to be a big step up in competition for Rayanne. I was very surprised that DeCoursey beat Delboni last year, but Jillian is pretty solid. Bantamweight - “Big Bad” Olga Rubin vs “Grizzly” Claire Guthrie Rubin is 8-3, with 3 TKO wins. She is 1-1 in Invicta, notching her first win earlier this year. As I’ve noted previously, she had some easy matchups on her come up, with her first four wins coming against fighters who had yet to taste victory themselves on a professional level. Guthrie brings a record of 5-1 to the cage, with one submission win. She is 4-1 in Invicta, and not counting exhibition bouts, she’s on a 4-fight win streak. I think this will be a solid test for both fighters, with the winner inching closer to a title shot. Strawweight - Jessica Delboni vs Danielle “Dynamite” Taylor Delboni is 12-4, with two TKO victories. She is 4-3 in Invicta, most recently losing the Atomweight belt to Jillian DeCoursey. This is her first trip back to 115 lbs since 2020. Taylor is 11-8 with 3 TKO and one sub wins. She is 1-3 in Invicta, having dropped her last three fights. Taylor will have a rare reach advantage despite giving up an inch of height to Delboni. Will it be enough to give Danielle an edge? In my personal opinion, I hope not. Atomweight - Monique Adriane vs Nicole Geraldo Adriane is 5-2 with one win by TKO. She is 1-1 in Invicta, taking a decision over Pauline Granados last year. Geraldo is a perfect 5-0, with one win by TKO. Neither fighter has faced much in the way of top competition, though Adriane did lose a decision to Loma Lookboonmee back in 2019. Guess we will see if regional Brazilian or Mexican can crushing is better. Flyweight - Liana “Li” Pirosin vs “Piece” Elise Pone Pirosin is 8-5 with 3 wins by TKO. She is 1-3 in Invicta, most recently getting submitted by Kristina Williams last July. Pone is 2-1 with one TKO stoppage. All of her bouts have been inside the Invicta cage. Pone is about 8 years older than Pirosin, but she has quite a bit of height and reach advantage. She’s also most notable for staring at her last opponent between rounds like a complete psychopath, refusing to sit on the stool or even drink water. Atomweight - Elisandra “Lili” Ferreira vs Flor “Compean” Hernandez Ferreira is 5-2, with one win by TKO on her record. She is 1-0 in Invicta, taking a split decision win back in January. Hernandez is 4-0 with one TKO and one submission win. Both fighters haven’t really been challenged yet, though I suppose Ferreira has a touch more experience. Should be good to see if either of them develop as prospects. Flyweight - Ky “Kobra” Bennett vs Kendal “The Crocodile” Holowell Bennett is 2-2, with one win by submission. She’s 1-2 in Bellator, and 1-0 in LFA, with that decision win in 2021 being her most recent fight. Holowell is also 2-2, with one win by TKO and one by sub. She made her pro debut in Invicta back in 2020, losing by first round armbar to Juliana Miller. Someone’s two is gonna be a three, and I guess also the other person will have a two turn into a three as well.
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Bryce Mitchell is out of the Evolev fight and has been replaced by Diego Lopes
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GDT for the week/end is here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4031190
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b league preview i decided to eschew the more rote, dry recitation of stats and records (partly because i was getting bored doing it) and just went with a purely vibes approach ONE Fight Night 10 - Friday, May 5 Main Card - 8 PM ET, Amazon Prime Bantamweight Title - Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson vs Adriano “Mikinho” Moraes DJ is real cool and good, but I’ve seen one or two rumors flopping around that he might call it a career after this fight. Previously, he’d said he had a few more years/fights left in him, but maybe as this bout approached he reevaluated things. Or maybe it’s just fake internet whispers that don’t amount to anything. Moraes is fairly large for the division, and he’s very good as well. He might want to use his size on the ground against DJ since I think Johnson was starting to get some good reads on him before the finish came. This should be a great fight, which of course means it will end inside 90 seconds due to a simultaneous double head clash and groin strikes. Bantamweight Title (Muay Thai) - Rodtang “The Ironman” Jitmuangnon vs Edgar Juarez Tabares RODTANG. He hasn’t consistently made it inside the cage recently, but when he does fight, he’s still dangerous and scary. I know nothing about this guy Tabares. RODTANG! Bantamweight Title (Grappling) - Mikey “Darth Rigatoni” Muscumeci vs Osamah Almarwai Muscumeci is a little grapple nerd but he’s real good at grapples. He’s faced a few guys who aren’t pure grapplers, but MMA guys who also grapple, so the lack of legal striking might have hampered them a bit. I don’t know diddly squirt about this guy. Mikey’s probably going to win again. Strawweight - Stamp Fairtex vs Alyse “Lil Savage” Anderson Stamp is a multi-sport star, competing in Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA. She’s obviously a very solid striker, but she’s also fairly competent on the ground. It’s not like she just gets taken down instantly and is submitted with ease. Anderson had a brief stint in Invicta a few years back, but I don’t recall anything truly memorable about her run there. She’s been in ONE for a bit, losing to the mighty Android 17. As with most things in life, I must put all my faith in Stamp Fairtex and the Stamp Dance. Middleweight - Roberto “Robocop” Soldic vs Zebaztian “The Bandit” Kadestam Soldic had a ton of signing hype when he went to ONE. He’s a former KSW champ and knocks out most of his opponents. Then he got in the ONE Circle and the fight ended in 3 minutes due to a penis attack. The aristocrats! Kadestam also punches most of his foes to oblivion. However, it should be noted he does have a TKO loss to Ben Askren, which is most shameful. Gotta send a Robocop to catch a Bandit, baby! Welterweight - “Super” Sage Northcutt vs Ahmed “Wolverine” Mujtaba Sage is a sweet boy himbo human golden retriever who has never had a negative thought enter his empty, empty head (Made even more empty when Cosmo Alexandre shattered his skull a few years back). Mujtaba is a grappleman from Pakistan. Good news for Sage: this guy is unlikely to break any more of his face bones. Bad news for Sage: he has struggled against grapplemen. Uh oh, Spaghetti-Os! Light Heavyweight - Aung “The Burmese Python” La N Sang vs Rong “King Kong Warrior” Fan La N Sang hits things hard until they break. One of the first things that always pops into my head when I think about Aung La N Sang (Right after I have to remember it’s not Auld Lang Syne), is a fight he had with Ken Hasegawa, and his body kicks made an enormous bruise on Ken’s side, and then later, Ken posted a picture from the hospital of the big jug of blood that had to be drained from his punctured lung. Super fuckin gnarly! Fan is mostly a grappler, and has lost mostly to grapplers, which is always kind of interesting. There isn’t as much of a risk of that in this fight, which is good, but Fan’s faced a lot of severely undermatched opponents. Eight of his last 16 opponents have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 0-0 to 1-3. La N Sang is probably going to hit Fan very, very hard. Light Heavyweight (Grappling) - Reinier “The Dutch Knight” de Ridder vs Tye Ruotulo De Ridder got his face punched by a large Russian man and lost one title so now he doesn’t want to get face punched again. Ruotulo normally competes somewhere in the 175 - 180 lb range, so I’m sure it’s fine that he’s going up about 25 pounds. Flyweight (Muay Thai) - Jackie Buntan vs Diandra Martin Both fighters have lost to Actual Child Smilla Sundell. Where is Smilla Sundell? Why has she not fought since last year? Is it because she’s in school? I bet it’s because she’s in school. Anyway, Muay Thai is cool, this fight should be neat. Prelim Card - 7 PM ET, Amazon Prime Bantamweight - Kairat “The Kazakh” Akhmetov vs Reece “Lightning” McLaren This is a rematch from 2019 that I’m sure I never saw. Akhmetov took a decision then, and based on what each man has done in the intervening years (Akhmetov 3-0, all by decision. McLaren 4-2, 2 TKO, 2 submissions), I could easily see the argument for another Akhmetov win. He beat guys that McLaren lost to, he’s been active but not running himself ragged, and he’s still a solid fighter. McLaren is more dynamic, based on finishes, but the names on his record aren’t as eye popping. Welterweight - Lowen Tynanes vs Rae Yoon Ok Ok Rae Yoon would probably still be champ if his first defense was against anyone other than Christian Lee. He had Lee hurt early but somehow the TKO didn’t get called and Rae Yoon got a little tuckered out and then finished in the second. Now he’s curtain jerking. Weird!
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LobsterMobster posted:
Return, ye, to the GDT for ONE, if ye dare, ye! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4031190
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Fentry posted:Someone on reddit noticed this about Belal in the embedded video which seems like it might be a bit of a problem is that an ai generated image
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there are really just 2 types of fighters, gangly violence monsters or meaty cubes anything else is simply a fighter too chickenshit to commit
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Holy poo poo PFL has drug tests? https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1655928206233305089?t=pdOwO3N_Q5qyr-kYz0Ee7w&s=19
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b league preview see if you can spot where i went insane Bellator 296 - Friday, May 12 Main Card - 4 PM ET, Showtime Middleweight - Gegard “The Dreamcatcher” Mousasi vs Fabian “The Assassin” Edwards Greggy Moose is a kickbox man who has only ever been stifled by the foul witchcraft known as wrasslin. Edwards is a British and thus, does not know what is a wrasslin. He is also Leon Edwards’s brother, and there must be a Good Brother and Bad Brother when both are fighters. Leon is UFC champ, so you can work out what Fabian is. Mousasi probably wins this unless he is too washed or sleepy (That’s his secret, Cap, he’s always sleepy) Lightweight Grand Prix (Quarter-Finals) - Mansour “Tarzan” Barnaoui vs Brent Primus Barnaoui is one of those guys who has only lost to people you’ve heard of, and has only beat people you haven’t. I guess you might have heard of Adam Piccolotti if you are a high level Bellator pervert like me, but that’s about it. He fell to a baby Kevin Lee, a semi-established Islam Makhachev and Mateusz Gamrot. That’s a solid resume of defeat! Primus has been in Bellator since 2013 and he’s got basically one notable win, the time he gave Michael Chandler drop foot (And that fight is really more notable for a commission member pulling the stool out from under Chandler as he tried to sit down, making him fall in a great moment of MMA Slapstick). Barnaoui has one fight period in Bellator, and Primus is coming off a stoppage loss. These are two Grand Prix entrants? Really? These two? Middleweight - Douglas “The Phenom” Lima vs Costello “The Spaniard” van Steenis Lima has fallen hard, man. He’s dropped four in a row, though I must point out that the MVP rematch was a horrendous split decision that Lima should have won. That being said, I will always hold a dear spot in my heart for Lima’s first fight with Page and the exceptionally funny way Douglas knocked out MVP. We’ve got a Dutch guy who is a Spaniard and all I can think about is “Does Kevin Owens call his member the Steenis?”. I really hope Lima can turn things around, but I fear that Costello might be too big and just too good. Lightweight - Thibault “GT” Gouti vs Kane “The Danger” Mousah Signs my brain is bad #437: I see Gouti’s name and I go “oh, he’s not bad, right?” and then I look at his record and see he went 1-5 in UFC and is now 1-1 in Bellator, and I have to remember that just because I remember or recognize a name doesn’t mean the fighter attached to it is any good. Mousah lost to Davey Gallon (found further down the card) who my brain wants to tell me is kinda good. He did beat Georgi Karakhanyan, another name I think is good, but in reality he’s just kinda ok. I don’t know about either of these guys. I don’t think they’re going to claw their way up the rankings very much. They might represent the upper limits of their skill sets, which is always an interesting scenario when both guy is the best possible opponent the other can beat. Prelim Card - 11:30 AM ET, Youtube Flyweight - Denise “Miss Dynamite” Kielholtz vs Paula “Bittencourt” Cristina Kielholtz has lost 3 in a row, having not tasted victory since 2020. Best as I can tell, the one time Cristina has fought below 135 lbs, she lost. Uh oh! Kielholtz has hit a rough patch of late, but she has been facing some top level competition like former champ Juliana Velasquez and Kana Watanabe. No shame in either of those. Welterweight - Oliver Enkamp vs Luca Poclit Both guys most recently won by fake, made up submissions. Enkamp got a Buggy Choke, while Luca invented the Lucanator Choke on the fly. Hopefully they pretzel each other and we get a rare double sub due to absolute nonsense. Lightweight - Saul “The Hangman” Rogers vs Davy Gallon Two guys coming off losses. Neither with a truly impressive win in Bellator. Will the winner go home content? Are they fulfilled by fighting on the prelims the handful of times Bellator travels to Europe? Is this the life they imagined the first day they stepped foot inside a gym? What songs shall be sung of Rogers and Gallon once they are gone? Featherweight - Yves “You Know” Landu vs Piotr “Niedziela” Niedzielski We’ve got two guys with a combined 35 wins and the most notable name is Pedro Carvalho? And that was a split decision? Woof, buddy, woof. Catchweight (141 lbs) - Sarvajon “Sarvar” Khamidov vs Kevin “The Machine Gun” Petshi It took about 9 fights for Khamidov to start facing somewhat skilled competition Petshi lost to Paddy Pimblett about 8 years back and that is simply unacceptable. Khamidov via molecular annihilation. Lightweight - Tim “The Experiment” Wilde vs Chris “CG” Gonzalez Wilde’s most notable fight was the time he got gogoplata’d by Brent Primus. He has beaten up several other Britishes in Bellator. Gonzalez has only lost to My Main Man Goiti Yamauchi and Usman Nurmagomedov, which sure as hell ain’t nothing to sneeze at. Gonzalez should be able to win this one. Featherweight - Fabacary Diatta vs Aridane Romero Rodriguez There’s nothing more disheartening than seeing a guy with a slew of decisions on the regional scene. The really good fighters should be running through the low level guys, and when they don’t, it makes you wonder if they really are good. Featherweight - Asael “The Sultan” Adjoudj vs Georges Sasu Sasu hasn’t fought since the end of 2021, and as a reminder, that puts him at nearly a year and a half out of action. Adjoudj has been much more active and has probably fought slightly better competition. Welterweight - Bourama Camara vs Romain Debienne Sorry, instead of thinking of anything interesting to write, I’ve just been repeating “Bourama Camara” over and over. Light Heavyweight - Jose “Gugu” Augusto vs Simon “Hemle” Biyong Augusto’s is a tale as old as time: Beat up a bunch of scrubs on the Brazilian regional scene, falter when faced with international talent. He was most recently turned away by temporary tattoo aficionado, Alex “EZ” Polizzi. Biyong has a win over a Shemetov Brother in Rizin, which is notable only to me, the world’s biggest Shemetov Brothers fan. This is the most interesting or notable thing about Simon Biyong. This fight will determine if Biyong is legitimate international talent, or if he’s just a regional guy. Or maybe Augusto improved a lot and is no longer constrained as a regional guy himself. Welterweight - Steven “The Meal Deal” Hill vs Nicolo “The Monkey King” Solli Four of the first five opponents Hill faced had never won a fight, and three were making their pro debuts against him. His two Bellator victories are a combined 15-15. Solli beat Bourama Camara and there I go again, repeating “Bourama Camara” over and over and over. Thank you, Bellator Human Sacrifice Hour, for creating a surefire way for instilling madness in a person. Bourama Camara BOURAMA CAMARA B O U R A M A C A M A R A It’s a shame that Stewart has yet to face Louis “Put the Gunz Down” Taylor. Winner determines firearm legality in the United States. Babene doesn’t have the best record, but you have to remember that as Blade, he spends a lot of time fighting France’s erotic vampires. Classic Gunz vs Knife fight.
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A fun (not fun) thing that happens a lot with Bellator and sometimes other B Leagues is the bout order will change dramatically from my initial run down to when I post. Usually things don't build on each other in such a way that things are too out of order, but it sometimes happens so I get to scramble around and perform that most insidious of tasks: EDITING
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double negative posted:he gets a huge payday to likely get smoked by a real boxer and still gets to go back to murdering the likes of the crochet boss, seems okay. I think I saw that his opponent would get a guaranteed 1mil
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Turns out I was mistaken. Ngannou says his MMA opponent(s) will be guaranteed a $2mil purse Chase Sherman, come on down!
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Wonder how many heavyweights nearing the end of their UFC contract will opt out of re-signing to try and win the Francis Sweepstakes
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Ever the marketing geniuses, Bellator announced Bellator x Rizin 2 at like 4am this morning https://twitter.com/BellatorMMA/status/1662387624814731267?t=9PU-WsJkta_mzKB4qrc4LQ&s=19
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