It’s a co-main non-title fight. 3 rounds.

Anderson’s in big trouble... unless he isn’t. Will be interesting to see either way.

In what world will Anderson be able to keep the fight on the ground long enough to do anything? Imo AS needs to rock/drop him for the ground skills to make a whole lot of difference in the fight.

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What a filthy slowroll.

This card was already so top heavy. Dana’s gonna be red.

Surprised they didn't do Gastellum/Adesanya for an interim belt.

Was I the only one who thought silva wasn't making a serious effort to win? Can't imagine the ufc being involved in that kind of a fix at the management level but having silva win would be devastating for Israel and the ufc and having him lose only a small hit for silva since he's probably already in retirement mode making it really tempting im sure. A bit hard to imagine how they would've structured incentives to get silva in on the fix without it being in the contract though.

It was 1-1 after two rounds and then Silva was busted up and lost the third round.

If Israel is legit the ufc doesn't need to fix the fight for him to breeze past 43 year old Silva. If he's not legit then what does it matter? How often does a newer fighter get buzz and then eventually flop. Look at Anderson's past 3-4 fights. Don't think there was a fix...lol.

UFC needs to put some depth on these cards. They’re getting what they deserve. Pretty meh card.

Crute looked pretty good. Weird stoppage but seemed inevitable.

Simon v Yahya was a good fight.

Maybe worst co main of all time. I literally think they picked Lando’s opponent because he looks like Silva.

Main was ok. All I really wanted was for Silva to survive. He looked pretty good actually. Izzy looked good not great.

legit or not there's a decent chance he loses even to a 43 year old silva. if you think the fight wasn't fixed then the fact that it was scored 29-28 by many should be evidence of that.

it's true a lot of new marketable fighters fail to thrive but that isn't what they want, especially when against someone who has a built in fanbase that has only a few more fights left in them at best and will sell regardless of the outcome. whether management would do it is hard to say but the incentive is clearly there and his performance was somewhat suspect imo.

how they'd do it is the hard part. i'd imagine it would look something like having a win come with the promise of fighting someone like gastelum for an interim belt fight and losing come with the promise of a money fight against someone like conor. makes it real easy for silva to throw without having it explicitly rigged.

we'll never know for sure though.

tonight's wager:

cortney casey wins by KO, TKO, or DQ +1300

i am already rich in sklansky bucks

just put in a last second bet on rivera -145. i think he's a larger favorite, sterling has always been overrated IMO

great performance by sterling so far, damnit

best get rich quick scheme on the entire internet is just bet opposite of me in MMA

Ufc peeps,

This luque-barberena fight is crazy!

All - UFC 236

- Gastelum v. Adesenya interim title fight
- Holloway v. Poirier interim title fight

Both good fights but what's with the interim stuff? My guess: it's a way for WME to pay a guy like Holloway his PPV rate without establishing the norm that pre-fight extra-contract fighter pay is up for negotiation. Khabib-Ferguson and the winner of that v. Holloway are both great.

UFC 235 (next week)

Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith
Tyron Woodley vs. Kamaru Usman
Robbie Lawler vs. Ben Askren
Tecia Torres vs. Weili Zhang
Bantamweight Cody Garbrandt vs. Pedro Munhoz

Interested in all the men's fights (main even least so). Think Askren overrated v. Lawler - what's Funky's best win?

Jones rolls obv.

Usman - Woodley is gonna be great. Both have manhandled almost every opponent to this point but it's been a while since Woodley has faced a pressure wrestler the quality of Usman. I said the same when Covington was his possible opponent so I'm gonna go with Usman who hits harder and is more dynamic that Colby.

Askren is just a bad matchup for Lawler at this point. I do really hope I'm wrong though. Watching Lawler get wrestlehumped by Askren will just be sad. Don't see why he had to be the UFC gatekeeper here anyway.

Garbrandt is in tough against Munhoz who always brings it. He had better have shrugged off those losses to TJ.

Also Sanchez and Gall should be entertaining no matter how it goes and Stephens vs Magomedsharipov is a very interesting stylistic matchup. Mago is 16-1 so Stephens is playing the gatekeeper role in this one.

Lionheart is def underrated in this matchup. He's hungrier than Jones is and meaner too. He seems like an angry and violent kind of guy and he's gonna try to maul Bones and make it quick. Jones is a good fighter up close but DC did have some success in the clinch - Smith needs to get close and hit him with some nasty uppercuts.

I'm surprised you think Askren is a bad matchup for Lawler. Lawler has great TDD and I think he stands a good chance to win!

I’m in the “Smith is underrated” camp. Dude just hits real hard. He’s not a fave or anything, but he’s v live.

I really think it’s just a matter of time before Jones can’t get the PEDs he needs and he looks beatable like vs OSP.

Looks like Thiago is next up after his performance this weekend. Then maybe Dominick Reyes?

Smith is the true definition of a journeyman.

Did 20 pro fights for local rinky-dink shows.

Made it to strikeforce, won some & lost some.

He lost his UFC debut and was cut.

Went to bellator and won two fights, got back to the UFC.

Went 4-2 at 185, was not really on anyone's radar.

Rattles off 3 straight wins at 205 back to back to back and gets to fight the greatest fighter of all time!

talk about a long career coming to an apex!

he's a real life "little mac" and he's made it to the end of the game - now he will face the final boss.

this is sad garbrandt has insane talent but he has the lowest fight IQ

it absolutely looked like robbie went limp there

so hard to call tho

whoa that was weird.

herb botched it but you really can't blame him. herb was grabbing robbie's hand and stopping the fight at the same time. he didn't actually check robbie's consciousness because robbie moved his hand right away.

when robbie's arm went limp the crowd popped and all three announcers screamed "he's out!"

i've never been bulldog choked by a guy who can crush watermelons with his arms, but i'm guessing it's possible that he did go out for a second and then regained consciousness.