How do we get Murphy v Holloway?

By Holloway staying at 145 and losing to Topuria and the one after or Murphy winning his next 2 fights and the UFC needing a main event for a card in England.

Sounds easy enough. Let's make it happen

Islam -110 to sub Poirier seems low, don't think he'll wanna risk trading too much with these new smaller gloves

is UFC just going to new smaller gloves so there is more fireworks and less grappling?


Think Costa is live vs Strickland too...lol @ that being 5 rounds, they just make up rules on the fly now

wtf Strickland is 33?

seriously thought the dude was like pushing 40

FWIW, he has 6 subs in 15 UFC fights.

Definitely live, Pereira knocked Strickland out and DDP hurt him on the feet, too.

No idea why that's a 5 rounder. Interestingly enough, the only time Costa made a 5th (or 4th) round, he won that round against Marvin Vettori on all three scorecards.

Think UFC just made it 5 because why not? it is a co-main with 2 guys that have shown limited KO power, let them slug it for a bit. Rest of card is pretty underwhelming as well.

Costa a big jacked dude that you would think Strickland could wear down as fight goes on, but Costa got better as the fight went on vs Vettori, fought a pretty good fight vs Whittaker

Just think it is closer to a tossup with 2 overrated guys

Who does Strickland think he is

Strickland out there sparring and taking it light made the fight so boring and Rogan and Dc so bias as if Strickland was dominating the fight by landing tee kicks all fight and nothing else, ehh.

Yeah give Islam at shot at the 170 title

Probably the right move by Islam to try to champ champ it considering the next guy he would have to fight at 170 is someone nobody knows or cares about and would be a tough fight

My first thought is Leon would own him though.....He had trouble taking down Dustin and Volk, he's gonna take down Edwards who stayed upright vs Usman and Colby?

And he isn't winning standup....Glad he came through for the sub tho

Yup, better striker than Khabib but the grappling isn't close.

Yup, better striker than Khabib but the grappling isn't close, Leon would win.

Strickland was dominating the fight though. Thought it was a clear 50-45 and Costa didn't land anything of the slightest impact.

(Had to rewatch the last 3 rounds just now after falling asleep at the end of round 2. Boring as expected)

If Islam wants the 170 title shot he has to root hard for Chandler in a couple of weeks.

I think Islam is better at subs/advancing position than Khabib too

But he doesn't have those horsepower explosive takedowns like Khabib does, more of a grind for him. And fight starts on the feet.



Seems like Poirier may really retire unless maybe he just fights the winner of McGregor/Chandler on the way out.

anyone else think Whittaker is too long of a dog vs Chimaev?

Khamzat did not look that good in either of his last 2 fights against guys who were fed to him for him to dominate in Burns and Usman off the couch at a new weight class. Holland is just such a level lower, tough to take anything from that.

Seems like he starts fast and once he can't dominate his opponent, he just begins to fade and the fight becomes a toss up. He's also gotten pretty favorable judging I'd say.

Favorable judging isn't going to end now, the fight is in Saudi-Arabia. Under 2.5 rounds is at -140 right now so people don't expect the fight to go to the judges.

Khamzat -245 surprises me too. I think it opened at Khamzat -205 and got bet down to Khamzat -155 pretty fast. No idea why it went the other way now but maybe people know stuff that we don't know.

Speaking of O/U rounds, Cannonier vs. Imavov this weekend is -160 for over 4.5. That's pretty crazy. I also have no idea why Imavov is a -125 favorite here other than that Cannonier is coming back from injury and Imavov dominated Dolize. Cannonier's only to middleweight losses are against Whittaker and Izzy. Fun fact: Cannonier started his UFC career at heavyweight.

Not sure why they wouldn't expect it go to the judges when Burns/Usman did vs Chimaev and Whittaker pretty much always goes to the judges

Granted this is 5 rounds but under 2.5 seems wrong


Khamzat is just always a hype train big fav, he was vs Usman/Burns as well. He was like -600 vs Holland or something

I dunno, maybe MW is weak enough that this is a nice opening for him. But I feel like it should've happened for him by now.

I guess we'll see closer to fight time.

Line vs Holland was reasonable because of the last minute switcheroo and Holland expecting to fight D-rod who isn't really a grabbling threat. Burns was just a way smaller guy and Usman came off his couch for the fight. I didn't think Khamzat was that impressive in those two fights.

I guess people think that cardio has to show up at some point because he claims to train all the time?

Starting to worry 303 isn't happening

According to Helwani . The UFC has sent out feelers to replace either Conor or Chandler or possibly both for their fight . So seems the fight is in trouble .

It's obviously in deep trouble. They spent a bunch of money on that press conference and Dana White (and everybody else minus Chandler) was already there by the time it was canceled.

I don't even know how they would try to save that card without Conor. As always a Conor card is basically your average Fight Night card with him on it. Which is enough to be the highest selling PPV of the year.

They could try to book a different main event so they don't have to refund people because all cards are "subject to change" but I don't see how they could not offer refunds when people paid up to twice as much as for a regular PPV. If I had bought a ticket for 2k+ and the UFC told me Conor was off and they won't refund me because a random title fight is headlining instead, I would never buy UFC tickets again.

If the price is right, I'll fight Conor.

Idk if there’s even a title fight they can book that fast .

Did they both get popped on a piss test or something? What is the likeliest scenario here?