#ufc303

[theanticool]

Payton Talbott stops Yanis Ghemmouri in 19 seconds - UFC 303

[scuffeddoes]

My boy he did it

[realfightjunkie]

Alex Pereira {-175} DEFEATS Jiri Prochazka {+135} via 2 round KNOCKOUT on UFC 303. Won’t go 5 rounds {-550} & Pereira wins inside the distance {-125} hits!

[theanticool]

Got a busy night of fights ahead of us. And most of them are pretty good.

[theanticool]

Cormier saying that since JIri has already fought Pereira, he's going to know how to avoid the dangers is wild because it's Jiri Prochazka. That's not who he is at all. Bushido code doesn't include any type of self preservation apparently.

[theanticool]

Oh, that boy in TROUBLE

UFC 303 ain’t happening folks.

[theanticool]

Ian Machado Garry takes UD over Michael Venom Page.

Bad fight! A fight that tanks both guys' hype. The UFC audience gets exposed to the limits of MVP's grappling and his insanely low output and we see that IMG can be shut out of huge sections of the fight.

The Neal fight really exposed this to me but good lord does Garry not like fast fighters. Just completely 'nopes' his way out of striking exchanges. Didn't help that MVP was bigger than him. Even his grappling wasn't super impressive. Got the back in the first round and third but didn't really have an answer for the position. Hell, when he went for the leg and let MVP secure top position for a long time, he was placing figure four guard. Only reason he got up was because MVP got up. MVP could have chose to sat in guard for another minute and secured the fight. Instead, Garry finds a path to the back and ends the fight with standing back control. Didn't go for a leg to try to off balance MVP. Just sat there for 80 seconds. I feel like the more and more we see Garry not get these super favorable match-ups, the less interesting he will become.

Losing Hooft was also a big blow because you can see Garry's striking regressing. Like this should have been a jab and lowkick fight with some more head kicks mixed in to slow down the lead right hand of MVP. Instead, he just completely shut down after round 1.

[theanticool]

I think the most frustrating thing about MVP is that I think we know his style would work on a lot of guys at 170lbs. For as much as we joke about people kicking his skinny ass legs, that’s not MMA. Theres a ton of top fighters who if you put them in there with someone who is huge and just tags people from a million miles away, they will fall apart. Look at Wonderboy’s career. Look what he did to Holland, who is nothing if not a good welterweight. Think guys like Hendricks, Woodley, etc. I’d honestly probably would have picked MVP over Colby had they fought at some point.

But he’s also so inflexible that there are guys who would have ate him up. Sucks we’re only seeing him get these fights now, but that was the nature of Bellator’s 170lb division.