I think it's in Canada mate.Gonna fight Tim Elliot in Manchester in 2 weeks.
Cheers! Yep, was looking the card and has some really nice fights.
Is it you?It's interesting that people talk about Miocic's power, but not his chin. The guy gets hit, and rocked, a lot - Overeem dropped him and even Stephan Struve rocked him all over the place:
and they're baby pats compared to Ngannou. When it comes to punch absorption and resistance, Roy Nelson or Mark Hunt, Stipe is not.
I will be amazed if Stipe comes out of that Ngannou fight with anything other than discombobulation off the back of concussion, as stylistically, it's a terrible matchup for him.
He still has the power, his confidence isn't the same (maybe due to lack of horsemeat and brazilian suppliments), he's fought smarter the last 2 years+ to protect his weak chin, means he doesn't commit as much.
Feck, busted.
It's quick but I suppose the fight against Overeem was pretty quick so he should still be fresh.
She is a little small for 135 but she says it’s a better challenge for her so I’d imagine 125 is her natural home. Think most of the 115 girls will be jumping to that 125 along with Gadelhia, Andrade and probably Joanna so sort of kills the 115 division. The 125 is likely to become the division in the woman’s weight classes I would expect and a lot of the 115’s will probably do a lot better at 125 not having to cut so badly that they are basically killing themselves.
Not only that, if Valentina gets the belt soon enough and start defending it (raking up numbers), she can become a big name, just like Joanna, fighting tin cans in her division.
Very true, it makes no sense to give her a fight against Nunes straight away. Although for me she won there last fight, but clearly the judges value aggression over actual skill.
Yeah but most of the girls at 115 have to kill themselves to get there and Schevechko is undersized for 135 and has said she couldn’t make 115. You have fighters like JoJo, Joanna, Andrade, Leturno, Casey,Torres all too big for 115 and the cut affecting their performances. Plus this way you’ll get people jumping weight classes. To make more intresting fights.
Either way, there aren't enough quality female fighters to populate more than 2 divisions. Its either 115 and 135 or 125 and 135. There aren't going to be enough fighters to keep the public's interest in 3 or 4 female divisions.
There are probably people we’ve never heard of in a gym somewhere or fighting in other promotions that will come through. Look at Dana’s new favourite from Alpha male. She came from nowhere has 3 fights in a few months and is one of the most intresting girls in the division.
Probably shit
, like 99.9% of the women in UFC, but this girls can't strike that hard (like the 135 pounders), so Wrestling and BJJ is the best weapon for sure. , that make for interesting match ups money wise speaking, that these days is almost as important as the competition itself.Yeah but bear in mind that the shelf lives of top fighters aren't that long. In the past year, UFC has lost Rousey and Tate - their two biggest female fighters. They have gained the likes of Cyborg and Shevchenko, but those two can't make up for the types of numbers Rousey brought in. UFC needs solid 125 fighters - as in not fighters who have to be imported from other divisions to make it appear like 125 is legitimate.
It’s very unlikely another Ronda will ever come along she was the perfect character at the right time with a decent skill set that at the time was far superior to any competition she had to face. Arguably now there are far better fighters than her in a few of the weight classes.
I find the woman’s fights more intresting a lot of the times, take that TUF finale for example, neither were particularly great at striking but they were willing to stand and trade and it was awesome. Although Roxy put some really nice combos together they just looked weird and robotic instead of flowing.Probably shit
In the TUF final if I'm not mistaken, there were like 3-4 armbars from the flyweight women... so i definitly see her doing alright.
But more than her skill, its the name, the hype behind her and her look
I don't think there's a weight issue for the current fighters at 115. Fighters occasionally struggling to make weight is a fairly normal thing across all of MMA. In the present, there simply aren't enough fighters to to move to 125 without decimating 115, and like I said before, no one is interested in watching Valentina Shevchenko go down and dominate a small group of 115 fighters at 125. If there are about 10 credible fighters who can help populate 125 and a few more new ones who can keep 115 vaguely interesting then there would be a chance, but right now that doesn't exist. Exact same thing can be said of the 145 division. They tried it and it didn't work and now the likes of Holm and De Randamie are back at 135,
I think you should just go and do a quick search on the pics of Paige cutting weight and look through some of the interviews it’s the other fighters. They’ve long requested for a 125 division. Also a reason why Gadelhia and Joanna weren’t in TUF enough when Carla Esparza won the belt as neither thought they could make the weight 3 times in such a short turn around.
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Bet Bisping regrets the Gastelum fight now. Not saying he’d have got a rematch shot. But could have gone away had another fight perhaps on same card with a view to fighting winner. Seems very distant now
Yeah perhaps, was an awful move taking that Gastelum fight, far to soon really.
Her only problem is she can't fight. She's basically a boxer who is dabbling in a bit of late career MMA.
I don't think Bisping is concerned with fighting for the title. He is retiring and wants to make as much easy money as he can prior to leaving the sport in a few months.
Whitaker - Rockhold is the best match up. I think Rockhold is the best fighter in the division and will reclaim the belt.
Those two things wouldn’t be different things if he hadn’t lost to Gastellum
Rockhold gonna get KO'd again hehehe
He's the best fighter in the division. If Whitaker wins then I will be mightily impressed.
Two reasons he fought Gastelum
