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UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cerrone
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10.27.2019 | 10:06 PM ET
Responses Page 7
12.27.2019 | 9:56 PM ET
Predictions: 6 of 10 Winners, 1 Perfect, 365 Points | Tied for 1468th
Roxanne has been ko once in 39 fights. She has not lost a finish since 2011. Gillian Robertson is a nice girl that knows how to submit, not powerful at all, she is the opposite of Roxanne. I saw Aldrich win first round vs. Maycee before getting ko in 2nd. If Maycee can ko Roxanne it is meaningful and will be another statement for her young career, but she has had what 3 real fights. If no ko, best case for her backers will be to win a decision. It may be unanimous it may be close, all I know is that most of the time when my money awaits a larger favorite decision, I always say I wish I passed on the fight if given choice at that moment. This line makes the fight practically unbeatable unless you come up with a proposition. The totals arent up yet, but it will be interesting to see what the side is juiced.
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Just listened to Bryce Mitchell on Theo Von podcast. It is beyond entertaining. Pretty wild to choke a deer to death. I freaking love this guy but his division is stacked.
* Edited at 12.27.2019, 10:00 PM ET *
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." -H.L. Mencken
12.27.2019 | 10:17 PM ET
Predictions: 6 of 10 Winners, 1 Perfect, 365 Points | Tied for 1468th
Interesting information about Ledet Instagram presence. Could be taken another way too. Lots of distraction with social media, it can be insidious to a psyche, haters/fanboys whatever. If I was a coach I would steer my fighters clear of that fake world. I mean I guess its different if you are elite, but its benefits are fleeting.
* Edited at 12.27.2019, 10:18 PM ET *
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." -H.L. Mencken
12.27.2019 | 10:29 PM ET
Predictions: 6 of 10 Winners, 1 Perfect, 365 Points | Tied for 1468th
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." -H.L. Mencken
12.29.2019 | 11:42 AM ET
Prediction Comments
Predictions: 6 of 8 Winners, 3 Perfect, 415 Points | Tied for 878th
Maycee Barber, TKO, R1
LOCK
12.30.2019 | 2:43 AM ET
Prediction Comments
Predictions: 7 of 11 Winners, 4 Perfect, 475 Points | Tied for 367th
Holly Holm, DEC
Holm don't **** up your record. L-W-L-W-L-?
Oleinik vs. Greene
Alexey Oleinik, SUB, R1
rly flipping a coin?
Gadelha vs. Grasso
Cláudia Gadelha, DEC
If stupid can ****elha won't remember about takedowns, she? will win
Haqparast vs. Dober
Nasrat Haqparast, DEC
Maybe TKO, maybe not but Nasrat doesn't have this knockout power
Camur vs. Ledet
Aleksa Camur, DEC
Why TKO? Camur doesn't have knockout power and he isn't agressive.
Elliott vs. Askarov
Askar Askarov, DEC
I thought that Askarov is a little bit overhyped but he was doing well against Moreno who is a great fighter. Elliott you can go back and stop fighting
Osbourne vs. Kelleher
Ode Osbourne, SUB, R1
Kelleher should be out after that fight
Mazo vs. Aldrich
Sabina Mazo, DEC
Don't sleep on Mazo
12.30.2019 | 2:57 AM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 3 Perfect, 390 Points | Tied for 1275th
"I know many a troops that I visit when I went to Iraq in 2005... 2-uh excuse me in 19-or.. 05' 06' 07' 08' 09' 2010 2011. I went from the Korwaiten border! All the way up to the Turkish border!" -Tito Ortiz
12.30.2019 | 3:52 PM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 2 Perfect, 340 Points | Tied for 1808th
"R.I.P. Beneil"
12.30.2019 | 3:54 PM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 2 Perfect, 340 Points | Tied for 1808th
"R.I.P. Beneil"
12.30.2019 | 3:55 PM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 2 Perfect, 340 Points | Tied for 1808th
* Edited at 12.30.2019, 3:57 PM ET *
"R.I.P. Beneil"
12.30.2019 | 6:38 PM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 3 Perfect, 340 Points | Tied for 1808th
Camur has won literally all of his fights, pro(5) and ammy(5), by KO. All in the 1st round apart from his DWCS fight which went about a minute into the 2nd!!!!
How can you say he has no power or question why most are picking him to win by T/KO???? It is blatantly obvious that he has enough power to finish fights and it is an obvious pick to go for a Camur T/KO
the things that you can question are the level of his opposition, his lack of experience, the UFC debut "jitters!" and Ledet having fought and beaten better opposition. Those are the things you should be considering, not whether Camur can finish or not!!!
"Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe ****! "
12.30.2019 | 8:01 PM ET
Predictions: 6 of 10 Winners, 1 Perfect, 365 Points | Tied for 1468th
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." -H.L. Mencken
12.31.2019 | 12:21 AM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 2 Perfect, 340 Points | Tied for 1808th
Ledet can walk around this kid, Camur stays planted a lot.
not even rakic got el blanco outta there
"R.I.P. Beneil"
12.31.2019 | 1:00 AM ET
Ledet found success having faster hands than low level heavyweights
Predictions: 6 of 11 Winners, 3 Perfect, 415 Points | Tied for 878th
Not sure how getting dominated 24-30 by Rakic can be spun positively lol
12.31.2019 | 1:19 AM ET
Predictions: 7 of 11 Winners, 4 Perfect, 505 Points | Tied for 209th
12.31.2019 | 1:26 AM ET
Predictions: 7 of 11 Winners, 4 Perfect, 505 Points | Tied for 209th
12.31.2019 | 1:42 AM ET
Predictions: 7 of 11 Winners, 4 Perfect, 505 Points | Tied for 209th
12.31.2019 | 1:49 AM ET
Predictions: 7 of 11 Winners, 4 Perfect, 505 Points | Tied for 209th
12.31.2019 | 2:26 AM ET
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 1 Perfect, 290 Points | Tied for 2269th
I'm not saying the UFC fixes fights, they don't. They definitely arrange things so that the guys bringing in the bacon have the best shot at winning though. And not popping for PEDS. Unless of course you believe they leave this entirely to chance with millions of dollars on the line.
NO company wants to lose money, and every company will do things to ensure what is profitable keeps producing profit through all possible means ( and sometimes by any means necessary--I'm looking at you Enron). That's the way the world works, that's the way business works. That's why Mcgregor will be given a title shot for beating Cerrone, regardless of how many women he ****s, how many buses he smashes, and how many old men he punches at the pub.
Why am I against this? Because philosophically, I do not think that narcissistic destructive sociopathic behavior should be encouraged, let alone rewarded. It is the idea that it does not matter intrinsically how good you are, but rather how much hype and money you can generate, that earns you a shot at the belt. And if that's the case, the belt means nothing. And neither does anything else. That is antithetical to everything competition is predicated upon. Think for a moment what the world would be like if popularity, not talent, was ultimately rewarded.
I believe in meretricious earning, especially in prize fighting that purports to be rankings-based. The reason UFC isn't a sport is because largely rankings do not matter, and they certainly do not ultimately matter. For example, in Olympic Swimming, nobody is given a shot at the gold if they don't place first. There is no Olympic equivalent of Mcgregor vs Cerrone, or Bisping vs Hendo. UFC isn't a sport; it's sports entertainment. And as long as UFC dominates the market, it never will be a sport.
Listen to me, people: You know how Dana talked for years about how he hoped MMA would one day be an Olympic sport? That was ********. Not only did he never want that, he doesn't want it now. And he never will want it. That would mean the Democratization of MMA; a true free market with standardizing bodies such as USADA outside of the scope of the Company's influence, and risk-mitigation strategies. It would mean a plethora of new externalities. MMA becoming an Olympic sport is as bad as the Ali Act being extended to MMA for the UFC and for essentially the same reasons; it would remove market control and regulatory powers from UFC, give greater leverage to free-agents, which would raise their price index, and open UFC up to competition. UFC wants the landscape to remain as it is; a slum-village of low-value promotions which cannot compete with the UFC in any real terms, whilst concomitantly serving as 'proof' that the UFC isn't a monopoly by the sheer fact they exist, and serve as free vetting agencies, nurseries and talent pools that UFC can draw from as they wish.
What the UFC is is a giant Ludus. It controls, essentially, the entirely of the industry. It is the aristocracy that looks down from a terraced castle on a sea of tentpole organizations, observes which fighters emerge with the most talent and the most marketability, and sends out envoys to those markets who says 'I'll have this one, that one, and that one too'.
UFC doesn't want a sport, it never did, and never will. It wants exactly what you've got now.
That's how things are. Anyone who cannot understand this is an ignoramus.
Addendum: If you're entertained by Mcgregor as an adult, you're a ******* Troglodyte. It's really that simple. Because really anyone over the age of twelve shouldn't be entertained by such a boring, puerile, uninspired, quasi-literate prima donna. If that's you, it's probably time to put down the bag of Funyuns and shelf the Box set of Dukes of Hazard.
Because you're a ******* imbecile.
Rant over.
* Edited at 12.31.2019, 3:18 AM ET *
12.31.2019 | 7:28 AM ET
braveheart
Predictions: 5 of 11 Winners, 2 Perfect, 340 Points | Tied for 1808th
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12.31.2019 | 7:48 PM ET
Prediction Comments
Predictions: 7 of 11 Winners, 5 Perfect, 500 Points | Tied for 222nd
Conor McGregor, TKO, R1
Very close fight. I like Cerrone a lot and i like Mcrgregor a lot however i believe the money has got to Mcgregors head and i think this will get him knocked the **** out sooner rather than later, unfortunately i just can't see it being Cerrone that does it. I can see Mcgregor marking his return with a first round KO.
Oleinik vs. Greene
Maurice Greene, TKO, R1
I'm shocked that Oleinik is the favourite here. Granted he has a hell of a lot more experience and the bloke is a submission master however i cannot see him tapping Greene. Greene isn't the best fighter, he got flattened by Pavlovich in his last fight however for me Pavlovich is a future champ. Oleinik looked like an old man in his last fight where Walt Harris quite literally destroyed him. If this fight goes to the ground early then Oleinik has every chance of tapping Greene however for me i think Greene is going to expose the age of Oleinik ealry on and KO him very similar to what Walt Harris did to him.
Barber vs. Modafferi
Maycee Barber, TKO, R2
I don't have much interest in female fights if i'm honest, however there's something very attractive about Barber so she is going to win simple as that.
Fili vs. Yusuff
Sodiq Yusuff, DEC
Both very good fighters, by far Yusuff's toughest fight yet but i can see him pulling through and winning this by decision.
Haqparast vs. Dober
Nasrat Haqparast, DEC
Kelvin Gastelums twin is a future champion, he looked brilliant in his last fight, very clever fighter who i can see winning this on decision.