UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

heard Holm just sighned a six fight deal. i guess shes looking at becoming the oldest female ufc fighter of all time.

Did I hurt your head lol

Sensitive crybaby


But please send a picture of yourself. 

The image you see of me isn't anywhere close to the final version. Things are going beautifully over here.
Let's see if this "Lisac" is willing to post a image of himself. I know he's not developing so please send a image of yourself.

You talk a lot for someone that is bragging about having a job in Healthcare lol. You act like that is something. You are just another spectator but you won't realize. But please keep doing what you are doing you make the higher ups so proud

Do you want me to give you more pictures of me? You like to keep them in your phone I can tell 

great main event! Glad to see the bantamweights headlining

Perez vs. Kape
Manel Kape, TKO, R3
Alex Perez been inactive don’t know too much with regard to reasoning however that usually doesn’t translate well. Perez only losses in the UFC were against former title contender benavidez, former champion Figueiredo and currently 2nd rank Alexandre Pantoja leaving him with a 6-3 UFC record. On paper, he should be the clear favourite but when you look at his inactivity over the last few years I doubt if he is still serious about being a title contender. Kape has been busier and riding a 3-fight win streak momentum seems to be on his side and a win here would put him firmly in the top 5. I believe Kape can get it done via stoppage being inactive against a hungrier fighter isn’t a good match up.

I think you should come back after you've hit puberty

I still haven’t forgave you Fiziev **** riders for thinking he was gonna go in there and destroy Justin 😂

Vera vs. Sandhagen
Cory Sandhagen, DEC
“We go to the scorecards”

Landwehr vs. Lingo
Nate Landwehr, DEC
“We go to the scorecards”

Lee vs. Barber
Maycee Barber, DEC
“We go to the scorecards”

Perez vs. Kape
Manel Kape, DEC
“We go to the scorecards”

I usually don't care for the people beefing in here but @Lisac has me cutting up right now with the pictures of JR lmao

I have to be totally honest with you all about this. Full transparency. 

I like turtles. 

I also like this fight card. Sometimes UFC cards can be thin but this one seems to have a lot of potential for good fights. 

Also this will not be much of an original analysis I am sure. 

But

I think Chito vs Sandhagen comes down purely to time. I think Sandhagen has a good shot to use his footwork, intelligence and diversity of striking to stifle Chito's offense. For the first few rounds. I think the more the fight goes on the more Chito will wear down Sandhagen. The question for me is can Chito wear down the footwork of Sandhagen to the point where he can trap him against the cage and unload his offense? Or trap him against the cage, hit a takedown and work his offensive grappling. Chito has good submissions from his back don't get me wrong but whenever he busts out his grappling game offensively it is a scary thing. His ground and pound is ******* devastating and he has a great bag of simple submissions all the way up to more rare ones. 

I see Sandhagen doing some good damage early and winning a decision but potentially dropping a round or two at the end. I won't ever count out Chito and I think this fight is a tough one to call. Which I know saying that is not very popular here as we must act as if we are 100% confident in our picks lol but I see Sandhagen winning a UD and weathering some offense on the fence in the last few rounds. 

Either way it should be a great fight. 

Give yourself a little more credit next time cause that's probably one of the better breakdowns I've seen for this fight so far. 

I agree with everything you just said except the outcome. I think once Chito sort of "downloads" what's happening in front of him, he will just take over. Still a very tough fight to call because if it takes him 2 rounds to do that, he's going to have to be near perfect the last 3 rounds to take the fight.

He was able to do that against Rob Font, but Sandhagen isn't Rob Font. In terms of volume, sure, but Sandhagen's strikes are so much more damaging. Chito isn't going to be able to absorb the same number of shots he did against Font. If he does he'll get finished. 

I like how you referenced Chito's under-rated sub game, because I think that's the only way this fight ends ITD. 

Yeah I totally agree you have such great points, turtles are unique majestic animals. 

So I asked 2 pages back why this fight was so close, and the consensus was basically "Giles can't grapple and Parsons is really good at it".

Which I don't really disagree with skill for skill, but I think everyone kinda missed my more general point that Parsons is just really in-experienced in comparison and doesn't have a lot of cage time. Telling me he's going to out-wrestle an 11 fight UFC vet when's been to a 3rd round one time in his entire career seems like a pretty decent leap of faith.

I won't at all be surprised if Parsons loses this fight, gets cut, and is back in the promotion in another ~18 months. He's clearly got a lot of skills, I just think he needs more experience. This is definitely a winnable fight because his opponent doesn't seem like he has the tank for WW, but it's just a really tough sell for me with how vastly different the cage time and QOC is. 

I don't think Giles is dog **** terrible but I don't see him ever cracking the rankings unless he starts racking up finishes. The move to WW has been a gift and a curse. He's fighting guys that are more his size but he doesn't seem to have the power, tank, or chin to take advantage of it. Tough call cause Giles is only 30 and if he can figure out his conditioning and pacing in this weight class, he can become a very formidable gatekeeper. 

Preston Parsons is better everywhere