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UFC results: Curtis Blaydes continues winning streak with dominant win over Alexander Volkov

UFC results: Curtis Blaydes continues winning streak with dominant win over Alexander Volkov

Curtis Blaydes continued his profitable streak within the UFC heavyweight division with one other win over quantity seven-ranked Alexander Volkov within the main-event on Sunday. Blaydes used his superior wrestling abilities to stifle Volkov early within the first spherical. He continued to dominate the Russian on the mat for the following three rounds. Volkov tried to even the match-up within…

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UFC results: Curtis Blaydes continues winning streak with dominant win over Alexander Volkov

UFC results: Curtis Blaydes continues winning streak with dominant win over Alexander Volkov

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Curtis Blaydes continued his winning streak in the UFC heavyweight division with another win over number seven-ranked Alexander Volkov in the main-event on Sunday. Blaydes used his superior wrestling skills to stifle Volkov early in the first round. He continued to dominate the Russian on the mat for the next three rounds. Volkov tried to even the match-up in the latter rounds but…

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Alexander Volkov vs Alistair Overeem

Alexander Volkov (33-8) has rebuilt his momentum following his loss to Curtis Blaydes, winning back to back fights against Walt Harris and Alistair Overeem. Another win likely launches him into the title contention conversation. Volkov will face off with fellow striker Ciryl Gane (8-0) in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Gane vs Volkov this Saturday (June 26).

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UFC on ESPN: Blaydes vs. Volkov

#UFConESPN: Blaydes vs. Volkov I wrote this the other day, but finally publish it today. @JustinJaynesMMA and @JoshEmmettUFC were amazing. That's pretty much your takeaway. And @JimMiller_155! The man is eternal.

Curtis Blaydes vs. Alexander Volkov

This was one of those times when a fighter looks great-but-who-gives-a-shit. 

Heavyweight Curtis Blaydes knocked out Junior Dos Santos heading into this one, which was a decent recovery after two losses in the last few years to the scariest guy in the UFC, Francis Ngannou. Alexander (just me who wants to call him Nicolai?) Volkov had been on a decent run…

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“Y’all need to start paying me for these kinda cards” UFC Fight Night In Russia Redux

Joey

April 15th, 2019

The UFC is heading BACK to Russia! If January and February were a test of the UFC's depth and March was a test of their ability to put together loaded cards in back to back to back-ish weeks then April is all about proverbial pain tolerance. How much bad are you willing to endure to get to the good stuff? In a way I feel bad putting this card in that light because who knows if it'll actually be bad? This is a card with seven debuting fighters, a cool seven fights either cancelled or reshuffled, fights across two weight classes often derided for their lack of quality and a show that literally feels like an WMMA 4 stall show where you're just trying to turn a profit quickly to stay out of debt. This card could be amazing in quality and be one of those weird hidden gems or it'll turn into one of those Australia shows where it's 5 hours long and everybody is miserable when it's over. There is no quality to guarantee. Still we've got fights, we've got names, I've gotta do this so let's get right after it.

Fights: 12

Debuts: Arman Tsarukyan, Ivan Shtyrkov, Alen Amedovski, Seung Woo Choi, Movsar Evloev, Alex da Silva, Rafael Fiziev

Fight Changes/Injury Cancellations: 7 (Alexander Volkov OUT, Alexey Olynik IN vs Alistair Overeem/Alexey Olynik vs Walt Harris CANCELLED/Roman Dolidze OUT, Roman Kopylov IN vs Gadzhimurad Antigulov/Abdul Karim-Edilov OUT, Ivan Shtyrkov IN vs Devin Clark/Sultan Aliev vs Emil Meek CANCELLED/Teemu Packalen OUT, Alex Da Silva IN vs Alexander Yaklovev/Roman Kopylov OUT, Michał Oleksiejczuk IN vs Gadzhimurad Antigulov)

Headliners (fighters who have either main evented or co-main evented shows in the UFC): 5 (Alistair Overeem, Sergey Pavlovich, Roxanne Modafferi, Shamil Abdurakhimov and Marcin Tybura)

Fighters On Losing Streaks in the UFC: 3 (Marcelo Golm, Krzysztof Jotko, Alexander Yakovlev)

Fighters On Winning Streaks in the UFC: 3 (Alexey Oleinik, Islam Makhachev, Shamil Abdurakhimov)

Main Card Record Since Jan 1st 2017 (in the UFC): 15-13

Alexey Olynik- 4-1 Alistair Overeem- 3-2 Islam Makhachev- 3-0 Arman Tsarukyan- 0-0 Sergey Pavlovich- 0-1 Marcelo Golm- 1-2 Devin Clark- 2-2 Ivan Shtyrkov- 0-0 Antonina Shevchenko- 1-0 Roxane Modafferi- 1-2 Alen Amedovski- 0-0 Kryzstof Jotko- 0-3

Fights By Weight Class (yearly number here):

Lightweight-  3 (23) Heavyweight- 3 (11) Light Heavyweight- 2 (15) Women’s Flyweight- 1 (13) Featherweight-  1 (18) Middleweight- 1 (11) Welterweight- 1 (23)

Bantamweight- (19) Flyweight- (7) Women’s Strawweight- (9) Women’s Bantamweight- (2)

2019’s Records We Keepin Track Of:

Debuting Fighters (9-20): Arman Tsarukyan, Ivan Shtyrkov, Alen Amedovski, Seung Woo Choi, Movsar Evloev, Alex da Silva, Rafael Fiziev

Short Notice Fighters (7-9): Alex da Silva, Alexey Olynik, Michał Oleksiejczuk, Ivan Shtyrkov

Second Fight (25-5): Antonina Shevchenko, Sergey Pavlovich

Cage Corrosion (Fighters who have not fought within a year of the date of the fight) (8-14): Magomed Mustafaev, Alexander Yakovlev

Undefeated Fighters (12-15):  Ivan Shtyrkov, Antonina Shevchenko, Alen Amedovski, Mosvar Evloev, Rafael Fiziev

Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization (5-5): Krzysztof Jotko

Weight Class Jumpers (Fighters competing outside of the weight class of their last fight even if they’re returning BACK to their “normal weight class”) (13-8): Alexander Yakovlev

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- Most random MMA card ever?

2- Part of what makes heavyweight MMA so much fun (to me) is how renaissance-y it can be with its fighters. Alistair Overeem was smelted by Stipe Miocic, barely survived Fabricio Werdum, had his brain scrambled by Francis Ngannou, got Curtis Blaydes elbow'd into bolivian and then probably salvaged his long term future in the UFC with a win over hyped prospect and debuting talent Sergey Pavovlich. I think he has a pretty good chance to beat Alexander Volkov and then Volkov gets yanked for a medical issue, opening the door for MMA grandad Alexey Olynik to step up into the main event in Russia. It's hard to think of an easier matchup for Overeem than this one and if he wins, that's two in a row which qualifies as both a winning streak and "I'm gonna fight in the top 5 again pretty soon." On the other hand, Olynik has had one of the more surprising under the radar  runs in the entire division. He's just been quietly fighting all the dudes at the bottom half of this division (outside of Junior Albini, Olynik has not beaten a guy who remains in the UFC) before getting Mark Hunt in the ultimate striker vs grappler bout. He rocks Mark Hunt after getting leg kicked for three minutes straight and subs him to solidify himself as a big time player in a division where a fellow old man is ruling the roost. It's about as romantic as heavyweight MMA gets, my dudes.

3- Speaking of romantic, Shamil Abdurakhimov fights on this show.  Just sayin'.

4- So if you took even a cursory gander at the numbers I slaved over a hot stove to produce, you'll see that fighters in their second fight are a cool 25-5. Keep that in mind with Sergey Pavlovich who I think has super high upside at a division in serious need of it. The UFC thought Overeem was more cooked than he was and Pavlovich got checked pretty hard BUT this is a soft rebound vs Golm and it's in Russia where Pavlovich is from. I'm betting on a much better showing.

5- Why is Islam Makachev in the co-main? I know there's some talk that Makachev vs Trinaldo was supposed to be the co-main event here but even so, that's not a co-main event. It almost feels like this is to try and get some kind of a Khabib rub which is great and all but couldn't we find a better opponent than a solid prospect in his debut?

6- Congrats to Antonina Shevchenko and Roxanne Modafferi for being the first ever women's UFC fight in Russia.

7- Gimme a second to chit chat about Magomed Mustafaev. Magomed was seen as yet another really talented 155er popping up in the UFC and the next in a long line of good Russian lightweights who were popping up in the UFC. He was the last of the Makachev, Taisumov, Khabilov, Khabib types to roll through the door although I thought outside of Khabib, he was more impressive than either of the other two. Then came the Kevin Lee fight where Magomed fought really emotionally, got tired out by Kevin Lee and then got subbed after a pretty rough grappling fight. He apparently hurt his arm, hurt it again and has been out for over two years now. He's getting ultra violent Rafael Fiziev in what should be one of the best fights of the night.

8- 205 lbs tends to feel very much like a wasteland but I'm excited about the Devin Clark vs Ivan Shtyrkov. As we've seen consistently at 205 lbs, being really strong to the point where opponents are scared to get in your wheelhouse can absolutely be a benefit. I love the dude but Ilir Latifi's entire run at the weight class can be summed up as him just being SO strong that people have no clue what to do with him unless they take him out. Ivan Shtyrkov is.....well he's big. Big enough that it feels like he vs USADA is going to be a consistently rumored fight on the cards. In truth though this isn't a can crusher walking into the UFC with no major experience; Ivan has fought dudes like Fabio Maldonado, Phil De Fries, Big Foot Silva, Thiago Silva and Christian MPumbu. We can debate the quality of remains of said fighters after UFC and Bellator runs BUT that's still better comp than the dudes getting signed off of racking up wins over guys who are 5-10, 6-9 and 5-1. I also still haven't quite gotten off the Devin Clark bandwagon and thought he looked pretty damn solid in a wild loss to Aleksandr Rakic where he had Rakic in trouble but lost the firefight.

9- Krzysztof Jotko is 0-3 in his last three fights and if you want to take pride in how fast the MW division has grown, Jotko was like a pseudo top 10 guy for a good minute prior to 2017.

10- Keita Nakamura vs Sultan Aliev could challenge for the worst fight of 2019.

11- Whose feelings did Marcin Tybura hurt to go from consistent main card spots to "dude on the prelims of a filler Russia card"?

12- Any of you dudes way smarter than I know anything about Movsar Evloev?

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Curtis Blaydes vs Shamil Abdurakhimov

Heavyweight Curtis Blaydes (14-2) is on yet another great run through the heavyweight division. He’s riding a four fight win streak that involves beating the likes of Alexander Volkov, Shamil Abdurakhimov, and stopping JDS on the feet. He’s clicking on all cylinders right now and seems next in line for the winner of Miocic-Ngannou 2.

Blaydes will face off with Derrick Lewis (24-7) in the main event of the UFC FIght Night happening this Saturday (Nov. 28).

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'UFC Vegas 3' results: Curtis Blaydes vs Alexander Volkov, Josh Emmett vs Shane Burgos in Nevada

‘UFC Vegas 3’ results: Curtis Blaydes vs Alexander Volkov, Josh Emmett vs Shane Burgos in Nevada

Promotion: Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)

Title: “UFC Vegas 3“

Venue: UFC APEX, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Date: June 20, 2020

Number of bouts: 12

Bout #

FIGHTERS

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Red Corner (Country)

Blue Corner (Country)

PRELIMINARY CARD 1 Austin Hubbard Max Rohskopf Lightweight

REFEREE:

WINNER: AUSTIN HUBBARD

METHOD: Knockout

TIME AND ROUND: 5:00 of Round 2

2 Rox…

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UFC Fight Night Curtis Blaydes vs. Alexander Volkov — live results, analysis LAS VEGAS -- From the beginning of 2018 until today -- a span that encompasses 30 months -- the UFC has promoted exactly four heavyweight title fights.

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UFC Fight Night main event Preview - Curtis Blaydes vs Alexander Volkov

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The 2018 UFC Calendar That Remains And One Man’s Stupid Attempt To Book It

Joey

July 23rd

Before we begin, I began this project the day before the UFC's debut in Boise. I figured all things considered it would take me about a week give or take to flesh this whole thing out. It took me a week JUST to get through October. I got to the Denver show on Friday and that was when the UFC dropped all sorts of news about Edgar/Korean Zombie and Mike Perry/Donald Cerrone co-headlining said show. I haven't edited it. I'm not going to edit it. IF ANYTHING, I think not touching what I did before Friday is an important piece of the puzzle. Nothing really puts this project into perspective like having to look at what you did and then something immediately changing that renders it moot. Everything AFTER the UFC in Denver was done pretty much on Sunday night.

The UFC released their schedule this week for the rest of the year. There's a lot of fights upcoming, perhaps more than you can shake a stick at. You're talking 14 events, 7 in the US, 1 in Russia, 1 in China, 2 in South America (Brazil and probably Argentina), 2 in Canada and 1 in the always cool Australia. If you give the UFC it's usual average of 12 fights a show then you're looking at probably 168 fights across the course of four months. We've got 3 in September, 2 in October, 5 in November and 4 in December which is about close-ish to what we got last year. Of course two of those cards are on Fight Pass, one is on Big Fox, five are on PPV and unless I'm mistaken the remaining 6 are on FS1. I did this in the beginning of the year (foolishly I might add) but now with the year coming to a close, I might as well take one final swing at it am I right? Here's my belief on what we're going to get from the UFC to close out 2018 from show to show and as Brock Lesnar once lovingly said "From sea to shining sea!"

September 8th

Dallas, Texas

UFC 228

Main Event: Tyron Woodley vs Colby Covington

Co-Main Event: Valentina Shevchenko vs Nicco Montano

There's really nothing immediately on the docket to feel comfortable about as a headliner.  A natural-ish fit would be Ortega vs Holloway in a rebooking but Holloway's return to action is unknown. Jeremy Stephens, if he beats Aldo of course, could fight Edgar or Ortega for an interim title fight here if need be. Frankie is apparently a week away from being able to train again so an early July to early September set up is plenty of time for a dude who is  well known for his ability to be ready regardless of the circumstances. Already announced we have Zhabit/Yair and Jon Dodson vs Jimmie Rivera plus it seems pretty likely that Montano vs Shevchenko is getting announced soon-ish. That's not a main event and shouldn't be confused as such BUT it could be a respectable #2 on the bill.

September 15th

Moscow, Russia

UFC Fight Night

Main Event: Mark Hunt vs Aleksei Olynik

Co-Main Event: Shamil Abdurakhimov vs Andrei Arlovski

Consider this a mild, tepid dipping of the toe into the Russian fight market. The UFC's first event in Russia is a Fight Pass card; not even cracking the likes of FS1 or a PPV setting. While China got Anderson Silva and Kelvin Gastelum, Russia was getting Fabricio Werdum and Alexey Oleynik. That's still a fine main event but clearly not on the same level as the perceived GOAT and the top MW prospect in the division. That fight got USADA'd and in its place, we got Hunt vs Oleynik which is totally fine. A co-main event of Curtis Blaydes vs Alexander Volkov fell apart with Blaydes being hurt and Volkov opting to get paid to weigh in as a UFC 226 replacement. The UFC cut prices before the event to, in so many words, allow for poor people to get into the event and seats apparently are going to be at your standard UFC Fight Pass levels where they open up the bowl sections and ground floor only. There's been some rumors of the likes of Islam Makachev, Jorge Masvidal, Jimi Manuwa, Petr Yan, Nikita Krylov and Mairbek Taisumov (!) all getting a chance to fight but I'm betting when all's said and done, we're looking at Arlovski and Abdurakhimov being our co-main event of the evening. Or morning depending on where you are.

September 22nd

Sao Paolo, Brazil

UFC Fight Night

Main Event: John Lineker vs Raphael Assuncao

Co-Main Event: Alex "Cowboy" Oliveira vs Neil Magny

The UFC's brazilian ranks are being casually wiped out be it due to injuries, ineffectiveness, fighters leaving or retiring. The last show of the year from Brazil needs A GUY but finding A GUY who can headline is sort of tough in this market. The one thing I hold steadfast is the possibility that they could actually try giving a female fighter a chance to headline (Gadelha vs Calderwood at 125 lbs was something I thought of). I even figured Demian Maia is always like a phone call away as well but I can't think of a guy I'm excited to see him fight (or just a guy for him to fight at all). Gimme Lineker vs Assuncao in a true #1 contender fight since Marlon Moraes' two amazing highlight reel KOs probably vaults him about Raphael even with the loss. Also keep an eye on Formiga vs Pettis here as well since it's a natural "no shit" #1 contender fight at flyweight.

October 6th

Las Vegas, Nevada

UFC 229

Main Event: Conor McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov

Co-Main Event: Holly Holm vs Ketlein Vieira

We've already got the unofficial official announcements of Sean O'Malley and Frankie Edgar/Korean Zombie for Vegas. One of the rumors going around is that the UFC plans on doing something, likely an interim placeholder title, for Holm vs Vieira. If so, you should absolutely do it on THIS card because the only way you're going to get folks excited about that fight is if it's got a McGregor-esque support attached to it. Conor vs Khabib will probably happen this year, if not in October then I'd bet in MSG. Conor vs Khabib IMO is a serious test of what is or isn't a big buyrate these days. The last BIG fight we had was Gennady-Canelo which did (IMO) a somewhat surprisingly meh 1.2 million----and this should beat that and comfortably. If it doesn't then we've got shit to talk about. Conor/Khabib, Holm/Vieira, Edgar/Zombie, O'Malley plus Darren Till (who apparently is a lock for this card) seems like a damn good top 5 to me.

October 27th

Moncton, Canada

Fight Night on FS1

Main Event: Rafael Dos Anjos vs Kamaru Usman

Co-Main Event: Ilir Latifi vs the winner of Glover Teix/Corey Anderson

I don't know what necessarily is in Moncton but the UFC tries in theory to go to new markets and bring special cards. The problem is they always tend to get picked apart due to injuries. As for this card? Well there were rumors that Usman vs RDA was the next fight to make in the Fall sometime and this seems like a fine enough time for it. Usman could also be a sleeper for the 170 lb title picture if there's an injury or whatever. As for the co-main? By all accounts Ilir is expected to be back in the middle of the Fall and so I'm betting this could be a good enough time. Latifi vs the winner of Glover/Corey Anderson isn't a perfect fight but there are worse fights to be co-main events. If anything it's a relevant fight at a division that's still trying to figure out what relevant is. Throw in PVZ vs Rachael Ostovich (come on now it HAS to happen) and Elias Theodorou for good measure for main card related purposes.

November 3rd

New York, New York

UFC 230

Main Event: Jon Jones vs Daniel Cormier

Co-Main Event: Brian Ortega vs the Jeremy Stephens/Jose Aldo winner or Max Holloway Third title fight: Cody Garbrandt/TJ Dillashaw winner vs Marlon Moraes Yoel Romero vs Ovince St. Preux Chris Weidman vs Paolo Costa

I'm betting that we're going to get the Jon Jones news any day now of a one year suspension redacted to July. If so, I'm betting the UFC puts Jones vs DC together with Cormier knowing that win or lose, the Brock fight awaits. DC seems really open to fighting at 205 lbs in the interim while he waits for Brock so I'm guessing/betting that if it's not Jones then it's a Shogun or a Gus here in this spot. The co-main event is a little more....prickly. Until I hear something about Max Holloway, I'm going to continue to believe that the rumors about him suffering something traumatic during his weight cut are true enough for me to not think we see him again this year. That means Ortega's going to have to fight somebody for the belt and if so, the winner of Stephens/Aldo lines up pretty damn well time wise. If Stephens knocks off Aldo then he'll have earned this shot no questions asked. The third title fight (because MSG tradition says three) was a toss up between Mighty Mouse coming back, the rumored Nunes/Cyborg fight or the TJ/Cody winner. Marlon Moraes is coming off of TWO 1st round finishes of the highest order and I think that puts him above Assuncao who has a better overall resume (and the win tie breaker) but no flashy "This is my title shot" moment. Moraes has that. As for the rest of the main card? Yoel Romero vs Gus seems like THE perfect fight to make but Gustafsson is seemingly not up for a Romero clash. That could in turn open the door for Romero vs OSP since they seem to gel up timeline wise (Romero had surgery, OSP has a family matter he's dealing with). Chris Weidman vs Paolo Costa is a rumored fight the UFC wants to put together for MSG and I'd be totally okay with that fight for both guys.  Throw in some "names" on the undercard and this card could/should be the 2nd biggest show of the year. If Jones vs DC III with two title fights doesn't get people excited then I'm not sure what else there is to offer y'all.

November 10th

Denver, Colorado

25th Anniversary Fight Night

Main Event: Tony Ferguson vs Dustin Poirier/Eddie Alvarez loser

Co-Main Event: Donald Cerrone vs Mike Perry (at 170)/Kevin Lee (at 155)

The UFC has built a whole marketing promotion for this one so this show might get a big damn deal. Tony Ferguson vs the loser of Poirier/Alvarez seems like a natural-ish fit for this card given that Ferguson is expected to be back by the end of 2018. Ferguson isn't getting the Khabib/Conor winner and I get the feeling that if Poirier wins, he's getting the title shot. This is a damn important stay busy fight at lightweight for both guys. As for Cerrone vs Perry? Donald Cerrone is a big deal in Colorado and if he stays at WW, this is a damn good fight for him. Otherwise? I like Cerrone vs Kevin Lee as a fight if Cerrone TRULY wants to try 155 lbs again. He shouldn't but if he does? Good fit for me. I like this fight a bunch. Throw in Sage Northcutt (!!!!!!!), Chad Mendes vs Mirsad Bektic, Do Bronz Oliveira vs David Teymur, Cat Zingano vs Rocky Pennington and the Rivera/Dodson winner vs Alejandro Perez and we're off to the races!

November 17th

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fight Night

Main Event: Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Leon Edwards

Co-Main EVent: Dominick Reyes vs Jan Blachowicz

Take two! The UFC heads into Argentina (after flirting with a November 2017/Feb 2018 visit) and with Ponz healthy and ready to go, I'd imagine Argentina is about to experience a Ponzi Scheme. Ya like that? I like it. Ponzinnibio vs Edwards feels like a great piece of matchmaking given their respective winning streaks and the fact that Till, Covington and Usman have all leapfrogged them in the division. Good easy work here. The co-main is more about finding out what Dominick Reyes CAN'T do at this point. I've seen him steamroll dudes with enough ease to get a little curious/froggy as to what necessarily else he's got for us. I am, dare I say, intrigued. Jan has proven himself again after an up and down UFC run. The time is now and it'll never be more ready than now for thesetwo. Blachowicz might even be overqualified for the job but who cares? There's plenty of fun developing Latin American talent to find a spot for on this show, like Julio Arce, Moggly Benitez, Vicente Luque (Brazilian with Chilean roots), the eternally underrated Enrique Barzola and some of the other fine Latin American fighters in the UFC and trying to get into the UFC.

November 24th

Shanghai, China

UFC Fight Night (likely on Fight Pass)

Main Event: Francis Ngannou vs Marcin Tybura

Co-Main Event: Walt Harris vs the Arlovski/Shamil Adburahkhimov winner

Would the UFC try to run back Anderson Silva in China? I'm not sure they wouldn't consider it. As more and more decent Chinese fighters start to filter into the UFC, the Chinese market seems to actually be on the verge of finally breaking through.  If there's one thing the UFC is frequently "good" at; it's sending big dudes to foreign markets to try and appeal to casual audiences with size. With the likes of Song Yadong, Li Jingliang, Guan Wang, Kenan Song and some of the Chinese female mixed martial artists at the ready; the undercard should be loaded up with local-ish talent who can be relied upon for undercard support. With that being laid down? Go big at the top. I can't think of a more direct message to send to Francis Ngannou than to put him on a Fight Pass event while still getting max value out of him with a big main event for an international crowd. Ngannou vs Tybura is a fine test for Francis and it trumps a rumored JDS fight which doesn't make a whole bunch of sense given that JDS is coming off his first win in forever while Ngannou has dropped two in a row.  Throw in a Yushin Okami fight as well just to confirm you hate your audience. We all know you do! Also would be totally down for Li Jingliang vs Chad Laprise or someone of that ilk.

November 30th

Las Vegas, Nevada

TUF Finale

Main Event: Derrick Lewis vs Justin Willis

Co-Main Event: One of the TUF Finales (below that though and another TUF finale, Brad Tavares vs Thiago Marreta)

If big dudes throwing punches isn't your thing then November might be a rough month for y'all. I ALMOST went with JDS here but I'll pass on that one to be honest. Lewis vs Justin Willis is a good test for Willis and with a lengthy stretch of time off, the Black Beast can maybe get his back right. Wouldn't be opposed to Mark Hunt vs Lewis II either. This is the last TUF of all time and it features HWs so might as well give them a HW fight too.

December 1st

Adelaide, Australia

Fight Night

Main Event: Israel Adesanya vs Derek Brunson

Co-Main Event: Alexander Volkanovski vs Josh Emmett

The Australian/Kiwi/NZ fighter's revolution is still off and popping. Right on time too as the UFC is heading to Australia in December with dudes like Tai Tuavasa, Dan Hooker, Alexander Volkanovski, Jessica Rose Clark and Israel Adesanya at the top of the run. RIGHT off the jump we've got a problem as Yoel Romero and Luke Rockhold are out of the division, Weidman and Costa are matched up, Jacare and Brunson are matched up and you've got Gastelum waiting on Whittaker. That in turn leads us to Adesanya vs Derek Brunson win or lose vs Shoeface. At this point I feel like Adesanya has been sped up so fast that it's basically a lock that he'll take on a Brunson type next. That brings us to the co-main where it's time for Volkanovski to get a bigger name. Dude's earned this shot. Volkanovski vs Emmett makes sense or even Volkanovski vs Lamas, Bektic or any of THOSE guys would be damn cool. Throw in Tai Tuavasa vs a fun punching bag and you've got one hell of a top three and Tyson Pedro vs Devin Clark too.

December 8th

Toronto, Canada

UFC 231

Main Event: Rose Namajunas vs Karolina Kowalkiewicz/Jessica Andrade winner

Co-Main Event: Junior Dos Santos vs Mark Hunt 2 Anderson Silva vs Uriah Hall Stephen Thompson vs Gunnar Nelson Jordan Mein vs Michael Chiesa

The UFC is going to try and give Toronto something special. This SEEMED on paper like the perfect spot to roll out the Whittaker vs Gaselum title fight but Rob is out into February. An interim fight here doesn't make much sense I guess. The best option is probably the most likely option and that's going to be a 115 lb title fight at the top of the bill. In the mean time and in between time, I'm a big fan of the idea of giving the strawweight division EVERY chance to succeed. Maybe a 115 lb title fight won't draw a major crowd on its own but JDS vs Mark Hunt 2 and Anderson Silva (!) makes for a damn fine balance of options across the board for a main card. Throw in two good WW fights plus every Canadian under the sun in the prelim spots and I think we're good to go here!

December 15th

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

UFC on Fox

Main Event: Alexander Gustafsson vs Luke Rockhold

Co-Main Event: Anthony Pettis vs Al Iaquinta

Outside of just popping a number for old time's sake, the UFC really has no incentive to do anything "big" here. It's a finale for Fox, one last chance for them and the UFC to put on a good show before Fox goes into bed with pro bowling and the UFC moves on to ESPN. The main event is a fine enough rebooking as Rockhold's debut at 205 vs Alexander Gustafsson still SEEMS like a pretty great idea. It's not a Milwaukee showcase without Anthony Pettis as the dude looks to continue his career rebuild at 155 lbs. I'm not entirely all in on yet on his return BUT I'm loving the idea of it. I ALMOST went with Mighty Mouse here vs Sergio Pettis as the main event but I don't know if that fight happens on Fox since there's really no major incentive for it to be on Fox. Throw in Mackenzie Dern vs Jessica Aguilar in a showcase fight/test for Dern and Edson Barboza vs David Teymur and we should be fine enough to go here.

December 29th

Las Vegas, Nevada

UFC 229

Main Event: Amanda Nunes vs Cris Cyborg

Co-Main Event: TJ/Cody loser vs Dominick Cruz

Carlos Condit vs Robbie Lawler Cynthia Calvillo vs Michelle Waterson Khalil Rountree vs Jimi Manuwa

And so we might as well end the year hot. With the final show in Vegas, it sure seems like some form of Nunes vs Cyborg is happening. In truth it's the biggest fight that WMMA can conjure up currently so I have no issue with that. Beyond that though? I think no fight is going to sell like that one will so you might as well support the undercard for thee last remaining WMMA anti-fans. Don't want to see Nunes vs Cyborg? Well how about a rematch of the best WW fight ever @ your mom about it? Lawler should be back by then and Condit has already said he wants one more go of it at 170 lbs. If ANY fight is going to get people up for one last final run, it's that one. TJ or Cody vs Dom Cruz buys us some time for Assuncao and company to maybe get a title fight in the interim. That and TJ vs Cruz 2 still has some high upside appeal to me. Calvillo vs Waterson may not appeal to everybody but Waterson is usually in a fun fight and I'm still high up on Calvillo's upside. Khalil Rountree probably fights four times between now and this show but I really think Rountree vs Manuwa can be a bonkers striking battle. Throw in Zhabit Magomedsharipov, Claudia Gadelha vs Felice Herrig, some combination of DWTCS guys, a HW fight of a high caliber and plenty of fake rumors about a second title fight and we're off to the races!

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The 2018 Slacky Awards

2018 was another bizarre year in professional fighting. It started with the UFC making up their own measurement of punching power and awarding Francis Ngannou a world record just to hype a title fight, and ended with a doughy Floyd Mayweather beating the snot out of a fresh faced Japanese schoolboy who he outweighed by 20 pounds. In between we had drug scandals, failed weigh ins, heaps of injuries and cancellations, and the usual droning on about “money fights.” Yet for entertainment, MMA in 2018 couldn’t be topped. The fights were terrific and everything else was so ridiculous that you couldn’t help but laugh. So as we start 2019 let us take a short look back and hand out our 2018 Slacky Awards to the men and women who were truly remarkable in MMA in that time.

Gameplan of the Year

Leon Edwards vs. Donald Cerrone

With Gameplan of the Year there is always a tendency to go for the big fights—the McGregor-Nurmagomedovs and so on. But this writer believes that Gameplan of the Year should place more importance on how a fighter adapted specifically to an opponent rather than just how their usual style matched up against them. So this year’s Gameplan of the Year was a quieter one but it summed up perfectly what good game-planning is: getting the read on an opponent and having everything prepared for them before the cage door even closes.

Leon Edwards has been working his way through the welterweight rankings—first he was an explosive knockout artist, and then he was a surprising wrestler, and against the veteran Donald Cerrone he put it all together perfectly. Every familiar Cerrone look had an answer and while Edwards didn’t smoke Cerrone in the first round as Darren Till did last year, there wasn’t a moment where he didn’t seem to know exactly what to expect from Cerrone and have an answer prepared.

Each time Cerrone surged forward, Edwards either angled off the line of attack and broke Cerrone’s charge, or ducked under and returned fire from inside of Cerrone’s favored range. When the Cerrone step up low kick came, it was answered with a counter. When Cerrone ducked for a clinch, as he has done whenever he has run out of ideas at welterweight, Edwards clamped down on the overhook, posted his head underneath Cerrone’s, and began pounding in knees to the solar plexus.

And when Cerrone began to back away from the clinch to avoid further punishment, Edwards broke with the elbow. Every single clinch in the fight—whether it was broken by Edwards or Cerrone—the break was accompanied by an elbow. The scorecards ended up reading 48-47, but the performance was one of the most controlled dismantlings of the year.

But that was just this writer’s favorite from recollection and there are plenty of honorable mentions here too. Daniel Cormier provided two. No longer able to reach out and snatch up a leg as easily against everyone he fights, Cormier has come up with some clever ways to get into his wheelhouse. Against Volkan Oezdemir and Stipe Miocic, Cormier threw his arms out over his opponents’ right shoulder when they punched and drew them into a clinch with dominant position on him. Cormier would then get to work trying to pummel to better clinch position and often his opponent would back out—realizing the mistake they had made. Against Oezdemir, Cormier used the collar tie to pick up his signature high crotch.

Against Stipe Miocic, sneaker punches out of the clinch were the key and a short right hand from one such situation sent Miocic down for the knockout.

In the Miocic fight, Cormier’s use of a "mummy guard"—with his hands out checking Miocic’s—hindered Miocic’s jab and prevented Cormier from being boxed up and confused on the feet like Ngannou was in January.

Miocic’s gameplan against Ngannou can just as readily be included as an honorable mention. The takedowns and the ground control were what garnered attention but—as Curtis Blaydes can attest—that is not enough. What Miocic really did was jab, feint, low kick, and get Ngannou swinging at air. Every time Ngannou was convinced Miocic was after his hips, Miocic jabbed him up or snuck in the right hand. Every time Miocic had Ngannou convinced the two were going to kickbox, he was in on a leg.

Here was a nice look Miocic used throughout: feinting the punch to get Ngannou to set his feet and load up, then punting Ngannou’s lead leg.

Max Holloway provided the perfect answer to Brian Ortega’s big power and crafty counters, using the jab, feints, and the double jab to draw Ortega’s intentions out or make him lean, then cracking him with right hands and body shots while he was out of position. The entire fight was a masterclass in playing with an opponent’s expectations and Holloway never ran into the problem that Frankie Edgar had: second guessing himself after Ortega hit him with a good counter and then making his actual attacks less frequently and subsequently becoming even easier to counter.

And then there were the gameplans that didn’t quite make sense even as you were watching them work. Kevin Belingon dethroned long reigning ONE bantamweight champion, Bibiano Fernandes almost exclusively by intercepting Fernandes with back kicks. If Fernandes took him down, Belingon would scramble up, and then his next move would be a jab or hook to get Fernandes ducking in, and then jumping into another high stakes back kick attempt. It was truly bizarre to watch and yet, crucially, Fernandes seemed even more confused than the viewers.

Event of the Year

UFC 229

This one seems fairly obvious. The UFC has been guilty of using its mega-stars to prop up some straight up appalling cards in the past and hoping that name power sells it anyway—UFC 190 containing Ronda Rousey versus Bethe Correia and then a load of Brazilian old man fights is the greatest example of this. But when Conor McGregor came back from two years away from MMA, to fight the undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov, the UFC actually stacked the card with quality fights and it paid off in a big way.

In the co-main event Tony Ferguson actually got the shine he deserved and likely won over many of the casual fans who would have been tuning in to see McGregor but had little idea of what was going on in the rest of the division. Derrick Lewis and Alexander Volkov provided a decent scrap, a surprising finish, and a meme so good that it bumped Lewis right into the UFC’s most underwhelming title shot of 2018. Dominick Reyes also proved that there is some life left in the UFC light heavyweight division as he took a huge step up in competition and outclassed Ovince Saint Preux. Add to that great performances from Aspen Ladd and Vincente Luque on the undercard and it was a pretty great night of fights topped off by a main event that lived up to the hype.

Technical Turn-Around

Three-way tie: Dustin Poirier, Henry Cejudo, Jan Blachowicz

Every previous year I have come into the Slacky Awards with a very clear idea of who I consider the most improved technician in MMA. In fact in 2017, the three previous winners of this award all won a UFC belt. This year the field is a little more hazy. One notable name who has consistently improved over the last couple of years is Dustin Poirier. A simple slugger when he started out, Poirier chased knockouts and got hurt doing it even against much worse opponents. Since his knockout loss to Michael Johnson in late 2016, Poirier has calmed down a little and added some nicer wrinkles to his striking.

After a No Contest against Eddie Alvarez in 2017, Dustin rattled off three wins back to back against Anthony Pettis, Justin Gaethje, and finally Alvarez. In all three he showed his vaunted punching power but also did a great job of staying safe against a faster opponent in Pettis, a strong wrestler and bigger punching pressure fighter in Gaethje, and a tough old foe in Alvarez. While adding a good shoulder roll, sharpening up a check hook and using the jab a little more are all great things, I don’t know if it can be said that Poirier has managed the complete reinvention that the other winners of this award did. The word is that the UFC are trying to set Poirier up as Conor McGregor’s return match, which suggests they might feel the same way.

Henry Cejudo is also deserving of a mention here. Whether you believe he beat Demetrious Johnson or not, you cannot argue with the fact that Cejudo went from getting smoked by Johnson in the first round, to taking him the full five rounds in a competitive fight, in just a couple of years. A man who used to be all superman punches and takedowns is suddenly a measured counter puncher and ring general. Circling to the inside of Johnson’s lead leg and searching for counter punches, Cejudo had Johnson low on ideas early before Johnson realized that Cejudo would do nothing to defend his low kicks. When the two hit the clinch that signature Cejudo inside trip was still there, but this time it was just a part of a larger fight and not something Henry desperately chased as he did in the first fight.

A final mention here—and the three can share the award—is Jan Blachowicz. Blachowicz didn’t seem like anything special in 2015 when he lost to Jimi Manuwa and Corey Anderson, but when he was matched with Alexander Gustafsson as an obvious tune up he seemed to have the Swede a little confused on the feet with his big swinging check hooks and his counter punches. Against Devin Clark, Blachowicz fought an ugly fight wherein Clark managed to swing himself into a standing rear naked choke like a bad guy in a Steven Seagal movie.

Yet as 2017 turned into 2018, folks in the MMA media were forced to begrudgingly acknowledge that Blachowicz—while ugly to watch—is getting better. Going the distance with Jimi Manuwa a second time in March, Blachowicz didn’t crack Manuwa’s chin early and overwhelm him as others have. Instead he gave Manuwa exactly the sort of prolonged fight in kickboxing range, that Manuwa tends to want. And yet the awkward herky-jerk striking of Blachowicz carried him to victory. Most recently, when Nikita Krylov returned to the UFC, high on a streak of wins in Russian promotions, Blachowicz strangled him. I don’t think Jan Blachowicz will ever be a fighter I’m downright excited to watch, but the way he keeps winning and making other good fighters look sloppy with him certainly has me intrigued in anything he does.

Breakout Technique of the Year

The Suloev Stretch

This has always been a hit and miss category. We heralded the arrival of the electric chair sweep and hoped for its widespread use in MMA when Eddie Bravo and Garry Tonon stormed through Metamoris using them in 2014, but sadly it is still absent in high level MMA. Snap kicks were a better shout, they have been a game changer for years and are steadily becoming more and more popular. And the Imanari roll and various upside down shots into leg entanglements were, until the last UFC event of this year, largely a bust in high level MMA and indeed, Rory MacDonald managed to get himself smashed this year by rolling unsuccessfully under the larger Gegard Mousasi.

2018 was a good year for the Suloev stretch, with two thirds of all Suloev victories recorded in the UFC coming this year, in one night. Of course, that is in the same way that it was a big year for the no-gi ezekiel because Alexey Oleynik wrapped his freakish arms around Junior Albini’s head, jumped to his back and forced a tap. It might seem a bold prediction, but the ezekiel is never going to be a major trend in MMA. That being said, the two Suloev stretch submissions this year—by Zabit Magomedsharipov and Aljamain Sterling—came as a byproduct of fighters grabbing the standing leg to topple their opponent while their opponent attempted to stand and shake them off back control. If the tripod-and-shake remains a fairly common answer to backpacking, that toppling will remain a valuable option, and the Suloev stretch will always be a possible outcome of it.

Another mention is the continued use of the calf kick. Kicking low on the leg does much to mitigate the threat of a check. The opponent cannot drop his knee, a check only involves lifting the leg up or turning it out. Kick for the thigh and the opponent checks, you might kick a knee or the top of the shin. Kick for the calf and if the opponent checks you smack into their ankle or tender lower shin as it flaps in the air and they stand on one leg. This has been slowly catching on for years in MMA but there were a number of good showings for it this year, notably any time Jeremy Stephens fought, and during Amanda Nunes’s decimation of Raquel Pennington.

It was also a stonkingly good year for elbows. From the showstopping overhead back elbow that Yair Rodriguez landed on Chan Sung Jung, to Johnny Walker knocking out Khalil Rountree with short elbows from the double collar tie, there were plenty of high profile elbow stoppages. But more impressive was fighters using them consistently in fights that weren’t ended by a highlight reel elbow. Consistency is the key with elbows and for the longest time we have had only a few fighters, occasionally attempting elbows, and very occasionally knockouts coming from that. With men like Tony Ferguson and Leon Edwards attempting quick elbows to cut their opponents constantly we are readily seeing the value of the quick elbow and the cuts it produces. We will probably never be able to call elbows our break out technique of the year for the same reason we will never award the title to the jab: we moan about them because everyone can benefit from using these techniques, but enough fighters use both that they aren’t some largely untested or unappreciated method coming in and taking MMA by surprise.

In the grappling world—which we tend to look to as the research and development part of MMA—the saddle/inside sankaku/honey hole/leg knot position continued to reign supreme as everyone and their mum hunts for inside heel hooks.

O’Malley being interviewed after winning the fight.

Similarly Mark Hunt had Alexey Oleinik almost unable to stand after a few good low kicks, and still somehow waded in and got taken down and submitted.

Tyson Pedro has made a name for himself by losing fights that he should win after starting strong—but it doesn’t always seem to be down to any single tactical decision, he just seems like a guy who chokes under the bright lights.

Derek Brunson continued his strategy of trying to overwhelm opponents by running face first into clinches and doggedly pursuing takedowns, and Israel Adesanya knocked him out for it. But Brunson has done worse in previous years, so giving him the award here would be like giving Al Pacino the Oscar for Scent of a Woman after snubbing him for The Godfather Part II.

Chan Sung Jung and Alexander Volkov both deserve a mention for throwing away fights they had won. Volkov was running away with it against Derrick Lewis, got clipped with a couple of overhands off kicks as Lewis tried to make something happen in the dying minutes, and then decided to try to hit Lewis with an intercepting knee instead of just walking off and taking the win. He wasn’t likely to knock Lewis out with the knee, and the stepping knee done wrong is the plague of big men—Stefan Struve versus Travis Browne being the most hilarious example of that.

Jung, meanwhile, had handily outboxed Yair Rodriguez for most of the fight (though there is a heavy bag in Albuquerque that can claim that honor too, you could remove the bones from Rodriguez’s arms and he’d fight much the same). Rodriguez did that daft “let’s swing wild and hype up the fans in the last seconds” thing and Jung stupidly consented. Rather than simply swanging and banging, Rodriguez broke the gentlemen’s agreement and timed an over the back elbow to pick up a largely unearned knockout of the century over a guy who had him beaten.

But the unquestionable winner of the “...But Why?” award for 2018 is Cody Garbrandt. How did Garbrandt go from winning Gameplan of the Year in 2016 to this? Well, he came into a rematch with T.J. Dillashaw—having lost the first in a wild exchange—and lost by chasing a wild exchange. Garbrandt could have looked to land crisp counter hooks and get out of the way of returns, or draw Dillashaw forward onto counters (as Dominick Cruz did to Dillashaw and as Garbrandt then did to Cruz), or use his excellent jab which almost never sees the light of day. Instead he added a couple of kicks which really didn’t do much to aid his game, and the moment he caught Dillashaw off balance he went wild trying to swing for the finish. Dillashaw ducked down behind his lead shoulder as Garbrandt stood square, throwing right hand after right hand, and when Dillashaw returned with his own it sent Garbrandt to the mat. The rest of the fight was simply Garbrandt trying to survive after making the same mistake as the first fight, even earlier on.

And now Garbrandt is stuck in a fog with nothing to do. The UFC were angling to get a Dillashaw – Cruz rematch together until Cruz got injured again, and even with that out of the way there are plenty of contenders who haven’t lost twice to Dillashaw. What might have been a momentary miscalculation, or just the results of failure to come up with a decent gameplan, now means that Garbrandt is extremely unlikely to get a third go at Dillashaw, and the longer Dillashaw can hold on as champion, the less direction Garbrandt’s bantamweight career now has.

Parting Thoughts

As always, there was plenty of bad stuff to distract you in MMA this year. Just this week a proposed Nick Diaz fight has, once again, turned out to be a work of fiction, and the MMA world is still recovering from the extremely suspect handling of Jon Jones’s Turinabol situation. Yet there is still plenty on the horizon to make the fight fan rub his hands with glee. In February, Robert Whittaker—one of the best technicians in the history of MMA—takes on the relentless and lightning quick Kelvin Gastelum for the UFC’s middleweight title. Ben Askren is set to make his UFC debut, and to take on his first world class opponent in Robbie Lawler, with Kron Gracie making it to the Octagon for the first time on the same card.

And overseas, ONE Championship is proving to be a fascinating oddity: continuing to bring in millions of dollars of investment without a sign they will ever turn a profit, but in the meantime they have acquired a television deal, the UFC flyweight great Demetrious Johnson, and lightweight legend, Eddie Alvarez. Additionally their cards contain Muay Thai legends like Yodsanklai and Muangthai competing in four ounce gloves—which is honestly what a lot of the MMA viewership at any bar would probably prefer.

Rizin had a decent New Years Eve but invested $9 million in having a geriatric Floyd Mayweather come in and embarrass their kickboxing wunderkind, Tenshin Nasukawa in just over a minute. Though that’s pretty merciful compared to the $88 million they were originally alleged to be paying for a full professional boxing match between the two that would have ended exactly the same way. On the same night, Rizin flyweight turned bantamweight champion, Kyoji Horiguchi managed to submit Bellator bantamweight champion and occasional featherweight, Darrion Caldwell. This is undoubtedly the biggest win on Kyoji’s record and—provided Rizin haven’t bankrupted themselves—the next year should provide plenty of opportunities for grand prixs, freak fights, and other assorted fun.

2019 has promise: McGregor will be back but is not holding up a belt, Bellator moves into the meat of its terrific welterweight tournament, and men and women you haven’t yet heard of will explode into the MMA consciousness overnight throughout the year. The best thing about MMA is that your emotions are normally fluctuating between ecstatic enjoyment and incredulous outrage so even when the worst is happening you feel invested—there is seldom a moment to be bored.

The 2018 Slacky Awards published first on https://footballhighlightseurope.tumblr.com/

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The co-main matter concerning the night will feature featherweights Josh Emmett and Shane Burgos

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has been conducting actions past May despite the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. The adjacent one in stock is UFC Vegas 3 which is scheduled to peace place on the order of June 20, Saturday (5 PM PDT).aThe main UFC 252 Live Fight business of the night will feature a heavyweight bout in the midst of United States star Curtis Blaydes and former Bellator heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov of Russia.

 Blaydes is currently ranked #3 in the heavyweight contenders' list, astern Francis Ngannou and former champion Daniel Cormier. A win in the bout adjacent door to Volkov would tallying together him closer to a inconsistent title broil.With reigning champion Stipe Miocic defending his handbag adjoining Cormier at UFC 252 coarsely speaking August 16, Volkov, currently ranked #7, too would be looking to freshen his state in the disaffection and mean a championship opportunity.

 The co-main matter concerning the night will feature featherweights Josh Emmett and Shane Burgos. Emmett and Burgos entertain the ninth and tenth spots in the contenders' rankings.

Well by now it was deemed ample for grown men to kick a ball as regards large call a halt to spaces after that all once more, UFC and boss Dana White brought the world's best known MMA declaration backing to moving picture behind the Covid-19 shutdown. Fast attend to to June and the Ultimate Fighting Championship is backing in full alternating - resolved bearing in mind substitute Conor McGregor retirement charade. Follow our lead knocked out and you'll see just how manageable it is to watch a UFC breathing stream online and never miss a second of Ultimate Fighting Championship operate ever anew.

The biggest fights usually submit to place at the publicity's monthly numbered PPV deeds, of which UFC 251 is the adjacent-door in lineage approaching July 11. Headlined by a welterweight title scuffle along surrounded by champion Kamaru Usman and enemy Gilbert Burns, it's going all along at Dana White's infamous 'Fight Island' , which is now avowed to be an actual true place - Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Then in August, it's grow primeval for one of the biggest fights of the year: Miocic vs Cormier 3 at UFC 252.

 On intensity of that, a second-tier of leisure interest exist called UFC Fight Nights. These are held going concerning the subject of for a weekly basis and occur all on height of the globe, usually featuring taking place-and-coming local fighters. They'taking into account hint to yet a darn loud unity, even though, creature held at big international venues once tickets varying hands for hundreds of dollars.

 Both types of UFC events are shown exclusively upon ESPN and the ESPN+ streaming foster in the US, usually going on upon Saturday nights. There's along with a third series of Octagon bashes called 'UFC upon ESPN' - these occur intermittently and flavor upon one of ESPN's TV channels in America. For the behavior that influence most, follow our guide and believe to be out the best ways to watch a UFC flesh and blood stream wherever you are.UFC 252 will be Aug. 15 at the Apex knack in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White avowed late Saturday.

 The pay-per-view card will be headlined by the zenith of a heavyweight title fight trilogy with champion Stipe Miocic and former champ Daniel Cormier.There had been some speculation the UFC had yet to consider a venue because the dealing out was exploring the possibility of finding a jurisdiction where they could divulge fans in the building.

I am not even thinking approximately operate an situation when fans, he said after Saturday nights UFC upon ESPN 11 matter at the Apex. I just dont see that taking place any era soon in the United States. I could see it occurring in option country. Not here, while.

 White said confusing reports and conflicting data make it hard to predict how the course of the pandemic will have emotional impact an stroke once spectators will be allowed sponsorship into arenas.Im not even thinking more or less that right now, he said. Ive got my (expletive) dialed in. Ive got it worked out. Im hearing theyon shutting down casinos in Arizona. The supervisor here came out and said weconcerning all going to have to inauguration wearing masks in the post of California. I dont know.

 You cant succession anything you gate. You dont know whats concrete and whats not. You hear flatten the curve, and it had flattened. Now theyon saw things are spiking happening in Texas or Arizona or Florida or wherever. I dont know the answers to this stuff. Thats why I stay in my passage now. Weve got the Apex. Weconcerning kicking off Fight Island soon.

 The UFC will host its utter pretend to have in a manage of five straight at the Apex upon Saturday in the back spending July at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.

Three cards were announced for an undisclosed location for Aug. 1, Aug. 8 and Aug. 15, which would be UFC 252.White confirmed all three will combat Las Vegas, which is likely to remain the home for U.S.-based shows for the foreseeable difficult.

 Weve got the summer finished. he said. The summer looks delightful, Im telling you. Weon the subject of going to have some fun in August.UFC 252 as well as is customary to put in a bout surrounded by heavyweight sluggers Junior dos Santos and Jairzinho Rozenstruik.

White acknowledged these details during his pronounce-argument press conference at UFC upon ESPN: Blaydes vs. Volkov, which was as well as held at the APEX. Prior to this official proclamation, there had been chatter that the heavyweight title brawl might be reserved for an ground where fans could dogfight attendance.

 Some jurisdictions in the United States are currently relaxing restrictions upon public gatherings, argument the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has killed greater than 115,000 Americans.White told reporters that, despite the relaxations, he didnt think there would be a UFC function in a sold out US auditorium for quite some time.

 I just dont see that taking place any time soon in the United States. I could see it occurring in option country. Not here while. Again, you cant f**king confess anything you admission. You dont know whats real and whats not real. Youalong among mention to hearing flatten the curve and the curve had flattened. Now theyin symbol to saw things are spiking going on in Texas and Arizona and Florida and all these adding happening [places]. I dont know the answers to this stuff. Its why I just stay in my lane. Weve got the APEX. Weve got Fight Island wealmost kicking off here soon. I am not even thinking about undertaking an touch once fans.