The prelims as well as these main card fights are delivering! Super impressed by Irene Aldana, she just put in work against Melo.
With the lack of talk about Usman/Covington, I’m really starting to believe that Jones will fight someone that doesn’t deserve a title shot. or they’re praying someone on 244 wins within seconds and doesn’t take damage
Lol I’ve never seen an eye poke stoppage so fast I don’t think. Can’t believe this fight is over like that.
lol i had a family thing tonight and I went way out of my way to do everything possible to avoid spoilers. Sat down in front of my tv and thought "I can't believe i avoided spoilers for this!" and said out loud to myself "I'm so fucking pumped" all for nothing. Oh my god.
Also extremely nice to see Herb do such a great job handling everything there after his recent slump.
I had a conversation last night with friends after the card about the question "who's your favorite fighter or who do you think is the best ever?" from a friend who doesn't follow MMA. My roommate and I do, and we debated a while until we decided to say who we think the best ever is for each individual weight class. Picks are below, and i'm curious for all of yours. Women's Strawweight: Joanna Jedrzejczyk Flyweight: Valentina Shevchenko Bantamweight: Amanda Nunes Featherweight: Cyborg Men's Flyweight: DJ Bantamweight: Dominick Cruz Featherweight: Max Holloway/Conor Mcgregor Lightweight: Tony Ferguson (Yes, Khabib was considered and talked about in length. If he beats Tony Ferg, it'd be his name) Welterweight: GSP Middleweight: Anderson Silva Light Heavyweight: Jon Jones Heavyweight: Stipe Miocic
Listing best ever is too hard for me haha but I'll do my favorites from each Women's Strawweight: Rose Namajunas Flyweight: Valentina Shevchenko Bantamweight: Amanda Nunes Featherweight: Amanda Nunes Men's Flyweight: DJ Bantamweight: Cody Garbrandt (I still believe) Featherweight: Conor McGregor Lightweight: Donald Cerrone Welterweight: Nate Diaz Middleweight: Kevin Gastelum Light Heavyweight: Jon Jones Heavyweight: Francis Ngannou
If I were to list my favorites ever: GSP Robert Whittaker Gegard Mousasi Lyoto Machida Wonderboy Rampage Anthony Johnson Stipe Miocic Holly Holm Max Holloway
Good quote from Masvidal today He’s been a PR machine lately with all the media he’s done. He’s doing a great job generating hype for this fight (even more than was already there)
Yair copping some flack not just only for his reaction in the cage, but post-fight comments and now this. Not good. But now Stephens being all MAGA makes me side with Yair .
I'm kind of indifferent towards that decision honestly. The only real downside I see right now is that Ngannou has to sit back and wait if they really are making the rubber match. I don't really see what a win does for either guy though (other than to claim bragging rights), but I guess if it's important for DC to attempt to not go out on a loss then why not?
I don’t like the fight because (if) DC wins and he’s certain about retiring then he’s just going to vacate the belt and Stipe/Francis would fight for it anyway.
And if he wins and chooses not to retire to defend the belt he’s looking at fighting Francis. And even though that’s a fight he could win, I’d rather not see him go out unconscious.