You can hit pregnant women in your car in the ufc and get away with it.

In his defense, he was suffering from pulsing picograms at that time.

Terrible main card, great main event. Was pleasantly surprised by both of them. FWIW, I also scored it 48-47 DDP.

Didn't think I would ever wish for Joe Rogan but Dominic Cruz was absolutely terrible. How often did Jon Anik have to correct him?

I thought DDP won 48-47 but I thought Strickland looked better overall, finished the fight stronger

blew it losing those middle rds


another way of saying it is i feel like strickland should've been favored and if they fought again i'd favor him, albeit not by much......Granted i doubt he is getting a title rematch anytime soon given the headaches he probably causes the UFC

I rarely watch UFC. Tuned in for the main event and enjoyed watching it. Du Plessis gf is hot.

I couldn't watch it live but caught up and glad to see I finally hit a W.

Some of the scoring earlier in the evening was all over the place so I wasn't feeling confident about going to the judges. I scored it 48-47 to DDP.

I really would have liked to have seen DDP take Strickland down more and actually doing something with it. In R1, DDP played Strickland's game and was getting picked apart. At one point I was worried the Doctor was going to start looking at DDP's eye and wave the fight off knowing my luck.

Strickland lost middle rounds and looked the better fighter in R5. DDP was just winging his punches in last round and Strickland looked a lot fresher.

DDP looked most gassed by the 5th round, until then he had way more spring in his step. First round Strickland annihilated him with jabs, but DDP just kept moving forward and essentially out-energized Strickland in R2-4. He deserved to win but it was close, if Strickland could have scored a knockdown or a takedown I think it would have been enough to win.

If Strickland opens as favorite again, I buy DDP again. Feels like there are a couple obvious adjustments on his side not so much for Strickland. IOW, it's way easier to make a plan for what to do when you get a takedown than for what to do to not get taken down. Outside of "don't box from an upright stance" which is basically all Strickland is doing. I think team DDP was surprised that he was able to take him down so easily.
Based on Dana's stupid comments post fight UFC was rooting hard for Strickland.

I doubt a takedown would have changed anything outside of round 2 maybe. Knockdown would have changed rounds 2 and 3.

Problem is that I've never seen a Strickland takedown and he didn't even wobble DDP with any of his strikes. It's pretty difficult to knockdown someone with a jab unless you have a lot of power. Which Strickland doesn't.

Fun fact: that was Strickland's third (!) split decision in less than 2 years. All three times the dissenting judge was Sal D'Amato. First fight was vs. Joker that every sane person had 50-45 or 49-46 Strickland. D'Amato had it 49-46 Hermansson. After that he had it 49-46 Strickland vs Cannonier while both other judges had it 49-46 Cannonier. That fight was super difficult to score though.

Last night he scored round 3 for Strickland.

What was he saying? I did clock he wasn’t looking too pleased in the ring post fight

Nothing big, just the usual stuff when he's unhappy about a decision. Scored it for Strickland; everyone around him thought whoever takes round 5 wins the fight; "you have to take it from the champion"..

He just makes it pretty obvious who he likes/dislikes and DDP clearly isn't one of his favorites. No idea why but I guess because he wasn't ready to fight Izzy with the super short turnaround after he beat Bobby Knuckles?

i thought the entire beef strickland had with him was that he kissed dudes?

A damn shame Sean wasn't koed or subbed.


Only down from here!

Feels like tonight has set the record for most Official Timeouts in a single card. It's like every fight someone is getting eye poked or kicked in the nuts.

Kudos to you if you watched that full card..

I watched the final two fights. Moicano - Dober was kinda entertaining but the commentary otherworldly bad. In round 2 it took what felt like 30 seconds for someone to address that Moicano was leaking like a fountain. That was Laura Sanko who was the only one to provide any meaningful commentary anyway. There was one point where DC yelled "D'Arce!" which cleary confused Sanko. She responded along the lines of "sorry, from my view I can't see anything right now". DC was sitting next to her.

Main event again proved the current "downed opponent" rule is crap. Dolidze doesn't even have any weight on that hand. He just touches the ground to make kicking him illegal. Sal D'Amato and Ron McCarthy both scored round number 2 for Dolidze. I don't know what to say if you think Roman won any of the first 3 rounds. If you want to give a round to Dolidze, it's #4.

The Jose Aldo film was pretty decent (On Netflix : Mais forte que o Mundo). Had some cheesy moments, of course, and the fights scene not the most compelling, but I do appreciate what the movie tried to do by trying to expose his demons/the drive behind his determination

Topuria gonna cook Volk? big age difference

Very possible, mid 30's is past prime for (almost) everyone at 170 and below (see even Usman, Kamaru) and Volk got solidly KO'd only 4 months ago.

No idea how good Topuria is. UFC obviously didn't torpedo his shot by having him fight anyone (Max, Yair, Ortega) that already lost a title fight to Volk or even Movsar or Allen. Looked very good against Emmett though and would be favored against everyone I just listed. Maybe except for Max that might be a pick'em. Really hoping for Ilia vs Max next, no matter if it's for the title or not.

Volk fights too often.

In exchange for taking the short notice Islam fight they gave him a new contract. According to his manager with a significant pay bump. He might try to fight that out before calling it a day.

I've got Volk in an 8 leg parlay

I expect him to be the only one that wins

Terrible card tonight.

Not even going to bother stealing it.

UFC 298/299/300 are all loaded. Can't remember the last time they had 3 stacked PPVs in a row.

Mackenzie Dern (and her $200k salary) is on the undercard after headlining fight nights last 3 times she was on one and on the PPV portion in her last 3 appearances on numbered cards.

By now I'm even OK if they don't find a headliner for UC 300 and put Garthje vs. Max in that spot.

for as good as the announcers tout how great dern is on the ground, she doesnt really finish as much as the announcers tout her ground game. if shes really as great as they talk her up to be you think she would be finishing more. maybe the womens game is evolving alot faster or shes just not as great on the ground as these announcers are making her out to be? im surprised it was 29-28 unanimous with how wild judging can be, is it a sign that judges arent really giving alot of props to ground game? 1st rd was basically half lemos half dern.

FWIW, Gilbert Burns, 3rd degree BJJ black belt and submission grappling world champion, has one submission win in his last 10 fights.

The scoring criteria is *effective* striking/grappling. In round 1, Dern didn't do very much on the ground while Lemos striking, especially with the legs, was highly effective.

Kinda surprised nobody gave Lemos a 10-8 in the second round. On mmadecisions it's equally split between 10-9 and 10-8. Round 3 obviously 10-9 Dern.

Almost felt bad for Cejudo getting manhandled like that in rounds 2 and 3. Pretty sure that's the end of the road for him. Retiring in 2020 because he wanted more money was a horrible mistake.

Topuria came to run Anaheim and that's what he did

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