UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

his best Amanda Nunes impression 

That was his other alias that lost, though lol.  That will be the argument (lolz)

I can't believe anyone really would get behind this guy, now that this has all been exposed.

Literally. Alonzo is total dog****, but he actually has experience. He’s by far the best person askar has fought (how crazy is it that I’m actually saying this?) by a Significant margin🤣🤣 I was starting to side with meinfield the more tape I watched but after learning this guy has essentially fabricated his professional career, there’s just 0 chance I can even entertain the fact askar wins. Now that his “legit” record has been shown (I’m sure there’s many many more losses hiding somewhere), it’s pretty funny that he’s only won 7 more fights than he’s lost 

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Alonzo Menifield gave Paul Craig a vet lesson when he got ****y with his staredown, what do people think will happen here?  I get Paul Craig has improved a lot and Alonzo is what he is... a middling light-heavyweight.  Really a borderline UFC fighter while Askhar is honestly a borderline professional fighter if he is match fixing and falsifying docs.  That is the absolute opposite of a professional.  There is no honor or credibility in what he has done.  Zo might be mediocre at best in the UFC landscape, but he is still a good fighter in general.  It's not like if Menifield went to CW, CFFC, or LFA that he wouldn't piece people up.  lol.  So, I get that Zo has burned us in the past.  But get passed that.  This is a golden opportunity to cash in a -150 to -170 ticket pretty comfortably and put a little extra on the bet without sweating it.  It would take a catastrophic injury or Zo being in on taking a dive for him to lose.  So, if you think either of those things are in play, fine.  But I am going in on Menifield.

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Disagree Tate wouldn’t do anything to Valentina she’s a sloppy and slow striker who rushes forward with her chin wide open and that’s a fight where Valentina looks unstoppable and gets a big ko or submission Tate makes way to many mistakes to do anything I think a rematch with pena would be much harder 

I put money on Alonzo. Got him ITD at -110 lol

No I think Luke Jemeau is better than Alonzo Menifield 

Ehh I’m going Alonzo cuz he’s fought better competition. Losing to William knight tho…

So does that mean Jay Ellis, Rich Gannon records get removed?

They both have bjj black belts i believe and they have 100 something losses(majority by sub). Clearly taking dives. And losing to bum fighters.

If Askar Record gets changed then there should be a warning sign on ellis and gannons page, saying the fighter is notorious for fixing fights. And simply count most as exhibitions. 

And there are plenty of fighters that can crush in mma. But there wins still stand.

Ryan Kuse(i think thats his name)? The 23-2 bellator guy who was scheduled with pedro. Rinat Fakhretdinov. 

Look at cage titans. Look at how many times they use "cans". 

Chris Barnett has a padded record in asian. 

There are a lot more too. 

They cant get mad at askar for this when there are more doing this "record padding"

Google Jason Reinhardt. Im pretty sure askars 25 wins are more legit than reinhardts 20

See askar is different because he had members of his team try to erase his his record, throw random fighters under the bus with edited fight posters saying “oh this guy fought this dude, not askar”, I mean the guy legally changed his name to hide his losses lol. It’s different than throwing fights lol

At least those guys don’t hide the fact they crush cans or take dives 

And also those guys know their place and aren’t trying to get signed to the organization. Askar padded his record with the intention of getting to the big leagues lol

He changed his name becuase of his family or something.

And i can name a dozen fighters right now that padded their record for a ufc callup

Yeah no, he didn’t lol. Sherdog confirmed he did it in the article 

The man goes by many names: Artur Sadkov, Artur Shadkov and Arthur Shadakov started as three initially causing confusion due to regional transliteration. Fight Finder administrators from the past had encountered him before, from somewhere in Eastern Europe – later confirmed to be Odessa, Ukraine, even though he claimed Minsk, Belarus, in the past – and his first foray into MMA did not go well. After starting his career with three straight first-round submission losses, the man once known as “Arthur Shadakov” began cherry picking, recording seven straight victories on the Ukrainian circuit, with none of those opponents having won a pro fight. When encountering opponents with any kind of pulse, this fighter fell to pieces within the first round, and after that streak he lost five of his next seven. Around that time, this fighter decided to legally change his name to Askar Mozharov and become the man who he represents himself as today.



For the span of several months, Mozharov or someone close to him targeted another loss on his record, one in 2016 to a fighter named Fan Rong at a Chinese event called The Legend King Championship. That night, Mozharov succumbed to a rear-naked choke in 79 seconds, putting him on a losing streak. Years later, a person from a Russian email address – this detail is important, not to single out Russians this time but because those located in China would not likely be able to use Russian addresses due to government restrictions – tried to claim that Mozharov did not fight, and in his stead came a hapless scapegoat named Hasan Atagayev. The poster shown above was the proof, along with ashort video of someone getting pummeled. 


Little did they know, Fight Finder staff had obtained a copy of the actual poster of the event, which displayed its real logo along with a small matchup image of Rong vs. Mozharov showing. Also, there was the small issue of our team reviewing the actual video of the fight itself, which we can assure you is quite real.



This is above and beyond your average padded record to get to the big leagues lol. Padding records and taking Dives is nothing new in the sport. Trying to deceive mma media into thinking you are a legitimate fighter like this is completely abhorrent lol

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I feel Evloev is going to walk through Ige. Ige is a beast, but I feel like Evloev is far superior in skill. But, you are right he needs to be careful not get caught and knocked out.

Only Jon Anik and Paul Felder on the call this weekend, is a nice change. No Bisping and no DC, maybe there will be less nonsense.