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“An intriguing PPV with two title fights and then ???” UFC 248 Preview

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March 2nd, 2020

The UFC returns to Vegas and to PPV with a card that is pretty solid but was way more attractive about a month ago before injuries and card shuffling took hold. What was expected to be a show featuring two title fights, two really good MW back up fights and a superb featherweight clash between Jeremy Stephens and Calvin Kattar. What remains is a pretty solid card featuring two title fights, some intriguing stuff at welterweight, the return of some decent prospects and not much else of note. The main event is a bit of a placate fest as the UFC throws Israel Adesanya a bone after a hectic 2018 and 2019 vs Yoel Romero while the co-main is a stupendous title fight with some bad blood mixed in as Joanna Jędrzejczyk takes on Zhang Weili for the UFC's strawweight title. Long story short? It's not a bad card and fight fans will probably leave pretty satisfied.

2020 Stat-O-Matic:

Debuting Fighters (6-7): Jamall Emmers Main Event Exemption:

Short Notice Fighters (6-6): Main Event Exemption:

Second Fight (5-8): Giga Chikadze, Danaa Batgerel, Mark Madsen, Rodolfo Vieira Main Event Exemption (0-1): Vs Debutantes (0-1): Giga Chikadze

Cage Corrosion (Fighters who have not fought within a year of the date of the fight) (6-3): Sean O'Malley, Neil Magny Main Event Exemption (1-0):

Undefeated Fighters (3-6): Israel Adesanya, Sean O'Malley, Mark O. Madsen, Rodolfo Viera Main Event Exemption (0-1):

Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization (3-4): Guido Cannetti, Jose Quinones Main Event Exemption ():

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”) (2-4): Polyana Viana, Saparbek Safarov Main Event Exemption ():

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- If you know me then you know I'm a pretty big Yoel Romero fanatic. I don't think he's ever lost a fight ever. That said, this fight with Israel Adesanya is entirely about doing a favor for a champion who the UFC feels did them a solid. Yoel enters this fight on a two fight losing streak, he's fought three times since the start of 2018 (I think Adesanya has fought like eleventy times), he's missed weight for two title fights in a row and he's stylistically not a guy I expect Adesanya to have a ton of issues with. He's also AT SOME POINT going to age. I know Romero has been alive for 100 years per his own calculations but at some point the common rules of aging and human biology will win out. This fight for a lot of people is being sold on Yoel Romero being a wrestler but Romero isn't a wrestler anymore than Madison Bumgarner is a strikeout pitcher. Yeah he used to be and maybe sometimes he still can but he's older and has to rely on other means because it's just not there anymore. The last time Romero tried to employ a wrestling heavy approach he gassed out vs Robert Whittaker and that was in 2017. 2017 is twenty years ago in MMA time. Romero is now a patient purveyor of chaos; a wild man who chooses when he wants to work hard and when he'd rather just patiently eat 1,000 punches and kicks to get to the point where he can just unleash years worth of pent up anger on you. Yoel Romero fights like a dude who has pains in real life that do not compare to what getting punched and kicked feels like and so he just chooses when he wants to go Waterboy on you while being confident that nothing will hurt more than whatever he felt growing up in Cuba. The point of all this is to say that Adesanya is getting a guy who isn't going to try to overwhelm with him with lunging shots from the outside backed with the benefit of leg kicks (as Robert Whittaker tried) or brawl 'n clinch the way Gastelum did. He's going to get a guy who will choose when he wants to fight, opening the door for Adesanya to probably calmly break him down by virtue of his tremendous offensive reads and top flight fight IQ and vision. This doesn't mean that Romero can't win because MMA etc etc, it just means that this is a really tough fight for him and one that's more about allowing Israel Adesanya to fatten up his resume a bit more on the way up to potential ATG status. We had 3-4 other qualified middleweights who could've fought for the title but Adesanya requested Romero and here we be.

2- One of the more underrated aspects of Adesanya's game (and I spoke about this with the Korean Zombie as well) is his vision in the cage which when combined with a high level processor allows him to read and react and initiate better than any other fighter I've seen since pretty much Jon Jones during his prime. Can you read and prepare for the madness that is Yoel Romero human instrument of chaos? How much of Adesanya's game is going to be read and react vs "You better throw it now because he's coming" style offense?

3- Is Zhang Weili vs Joanna the best women's title fight since the Joanna vs Rose rematch of 2018? Is it better than the Claudia vs Joanna II fight on paper? It's hard to think of a title fight with this much

4- Often times you hear "She's never fought anyone like me" and it's a bit of a scoff and a shrug comment but there's truth here. I don't think Joanna has faced someone with the strength of Zhang, the output she can put on and the flexibility she has to be offensive from pretty much any avenue granted to her. Valentina has SOME of those qualities and is a better fighter overall but Valentina Shevchenko is not trying to work too hard when she doesn't have to whereas Zhang Weili is offensive from the start and maintains a similar pace throughout. Conversely I don't think Zhang has ever fought a woman who is as offensively versatile as Joanna is. Joanna's reputation was built on being this hyperactive hyper intelligent striker with superb takedown defense and I think even if repetitive weight cuts have hurt her cardio or taken the pop off of her shots, she's still got great takedown defense and a tremendous pacing as a striker. The 4th and 5th rounds are going to be REALLY interesting going forward.

5- Going to be interesting to see these two clinch up. Joanna is the poster child for "Make em pay in the clinch for bad takedowns" whereas Zhang's knees are superb in tight. REALLY think this fight has the potential to be amazing throughout.

6- Totally forgot Neil Magny is still in the UFC but him vs Li Jingliang should be fun. Li Jingliang passed a big test for me when he finished Elizeu Zaleski his last time out and Magny is sort of the guy you gotta beat to start title talk conversations. Li Jingliang could be a Magny +1 away from sneaking on the back end of this Masvidal, Covington, Woodley, Edwards lineup for the title shot.

7- Sean O'Malley being gone for a few years sort of helps cover up the fact that O'Malley was VERY VERY RAW prior to his PED suspension and time away. O'Malley is the sort of fighter the DWCS collects; athletic guys who finish fights and have a lot of sizzle but maybe still have very apparent holes in their game. If you fight at 185 lbs or above, it's easier to skate by and have minimal close calls but when you're a guy fighting outside of that safety zone, every flaw is potentially a fatal one. O'Malley survived a close call vs Terrion Ware who was probably his best opponent to date and he looked pretty good vs Andre Soukhamtath prior to a bad injury that should've cost him the fight (But didn't). Now the UFC has gotten him back in the cage against Jose Quinones who is a competent yet safe challenge. Quinones is the sort of guy who just kind of wins his fights but lacks anything remarkable enough to give you cause for pause. He has a lot of O'Malley traits but at a lower level. That said we have no idea what the hell O'Malley has done for two years now so....who knows dudes. He could've been smoking weed and training once a week for all we know.

8- Cowboy Oliveira vs Max Griffin HAS to be a violenceweight quarterfinals bout.

9- Jamall Emmers vs Giga Chikadze is SUCH an LFA headliner.

10- If there's a bit of a theme on the undercard, it's that there's quite a few "international prospects" on it who are specialists in a set field. For instance Rodolfo Vieira is a ridiculous grappler with all the gold medals and trophies you can shake a stick at; attempting to carve his niche in the UFC as a middleweight. Mark O. Madsen is an insane wrestler with an Olympic silver medal in his back pocket, attempting to make it in the UFC's lightweight class. Then you have Deron Winn who is a freakish anomaly of a man trying to rebound from his first pro loss vs Darren Stewart and Polyana Viana who has gone from a pretty intriguing Brazilian flyweight to a slumping fighter changing weight classes looking for the special sauce. Throw in the return of O'Malley plus European "prospect" kickboxer Giga Chikadze trying to figure stuff out in MMA.

11- Kudos to Jamall Emmers who has been grinding away on the regional scene plus had a failed stint on DWCS before finally making it to the UFC. He's one of those guys every company needs; a tough veteran who can challenge prospects/skidding veterans and put on good fights.

12-  So....do we have a single back up for either Romero or Joanna?

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