#ufc304

[theanticool]

It is 4:20am in Manchester. No way any of these fighters are fighting their best.

[realfightjunkie]

UPSET ALERT! Paddy Pimblett {+100} DEFEATS Bobby Green {-120} via 1 round SUBMISSION on UFC 304. Won't go 3 rounds {+110} & Pimblett wins inside the distance {+175} hits!

[theanticool]

Ok, now we get Mokaev-Kape.

Finally ready to lock into this card.

[theanticool]

UFC 304 line up for tonight.

[theanticool]

Paddy Pimblett submits King Green in the 1st

why did he shoot? So it seemed like Green was upset with how big Paddy was and while Pimblett wasn't really landing anything, Green was kind of stuck at range trying to draw out exchanges. So he decides to shoot and Pimblett is able to threaten immediately with the guillotine before transitioning to the triangle armbar. Green goes out. If Pimblett has any actual top quality skill as a lightweight, it's his grappling. He's a fine positional grappler and a genuine threat with subs. No idea why Green felt he needed to shoot to break the range.

[theanticool]

Did Leon regress as a fighter or did he always suck

He has always been this guy.

No urgency when things go bad. A reliance on his size/speed as a buffer for his lack of a real pocket game. There have not been a ton of guys who were equipped to make him look this bad though. One was Kamaru Usman, but he has had the aggression trained out of him at this point.

[theanticool]

Belal Muhammad upsets Leon Edwards! Takes UD and becomes UFC welterweight champion!

Belal Muhammad goes out there and puts on the best performance of his career by far. Absolutely fantastic work from his and his team. Night and day difference from their first fight. Muhammad switched to pressuring and keeping that lead hand active. Instead of allowing Edwards to pick him off in one offs, he used that jab to force Edwards into dozens of tiny exchanges where he needed to commit or try to escape. Gave him a pathway to get to his takedowns, which he did taking Edwards down like 10 or 11 times throughout the fight. And some really eye popping takedowns from Muhammad. Planted Leon on his head with one of them as he got some real elevation on the lift. Not a ton being done on the ground, by either man as Edwards got to Muhammad's back in the 3rd for the majority of it, but a ton of positional time accrued. Except for at the very end of the 5th when Edwards, with 30 seconds left, reverses position to end up on top in guard and just rains down elbows that cut up Belal.

For reference, Leon was in the same position at the end of the 4th round and didn't throw the elbows. I was literally screaming why waste the energy escaping if you're not going to try and build momentum heading into the last round.

A frustrating fight if you're a Leon fan. It really feels like he didn't have a plan for Muhammad and thought he was getting another shot at the 1st fight. Muhammad and his team continue to show they are some of MMA's best game planners. Belal's stylistic flexibility isn't really for everyone but you have to respect it. Just a tremendous all terrain fighter.

[theanticool]

Yall remember that bad tiktok trend where people were panning their faces and putting on those terrible big chin face edits? That's what Caolan Loughran looks like.