Ariel said the fights hanging on by a thread and the UFC is sending out offers for a replacement to fight Chandler but is also looking at an entirely new fight. Alex vs Jiri being the only realistic option as of now and shuffling McGregor/Chandler back to September or October
Let's get weird. Strip Jon Jones and make Tom v Alex for heavyweight undisputed. EDIT: Fully expect UFC to do the bare minimum and make a Kevin Holland main event or something for 303 haha
LOL. UFC is looking like a joke right now. What are they going to do? Whittaker/Gastelum? They surely can’t headline Saudi with Pavlovich/Volkov?
kinda over Chimaev tbh. Hes fought once in about 2 years with 3 cancelled fights Ever since the dude was banned from coming into the US it’s been a shit show
O It's weird too considering the dude came in like a wrecking machine and fought three times in two months. Then he was out for a year, fought twice in 2022, then only once in 2023 and has been out ever since. I have no idea what went wrong there, but his hype got derailed by inactivity - the exact opposite reason he became so popular right off the bat.
Jose Johnson, it looks like he's fought at 155 and recently at 135. There's no way he's going to be competitive at 125 cutting that much wait. Crazy.
Charles vs Chandler is being thrown around to be the new main event supposedly. I’m assuming Conor wanted more money or straight up wanted a bigger opponent. Would bet a lot of money he headlines the sphere card at this point
I really feel like they need to add another fight if they are replacing Connor. Ortega/Lopes is dope, but I’d prefer if it was maybe saved for the Sphere. Another example of UFC robbing Peter to pay Paul with these card changes.
That’s a sick replacement and good on Rob accepting that fight on short notice. Could care less about Khamzat. Dude has no place in the title picture with his inactivity, constant short notice issues and relationships with war lords. He can get fucked for all I care.
Chandler is off of 303. They have a new main event and co-main Conor/Chandler being moved to later this year. announcement coming according to Ariel
LOL what a joke. Connor/Chandler is getting Jones\Stipe levels of who gives a shit to me. I will be glad when we aren’t talking about those two fights anymore.