UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Taira is a 🔒 🔒 🔒 

Gore is a 🐩🐩🐩

Ross vs. Aguilar
Jesus Aguilar, DEC
Not betting against Jesus

So funny how gore survives the 4 months training camp he had (this fight was announced almost a week after bo made his ufc debut) yet pulls out last minute on fight week. They should just cut him on the spot, not like he’s going to win any more ufc fights 

The mod who’s marking posts is a baby, take off your fedora and go outside 

@Andrew1047 

we riot if I’m banned 

Gore Withdrew

@Calfoth 

be at least *slightly* respectful when talking about fighters.  having a post flagged does not mean you are about to be banned. but it does mean you are not being respectful.

Fair enough 

What possible fighter can be 'more bum' to feed to Nickal last minute?

@rusty iridium has a whole roster of bad 185’ers waiting to take the call

I'm trying to think of the right litmus test for what it means to be *slightly* respectful.

It might be something like this:

If you saw the fighter backstage at a UFC event, and you said your post to them, would they:
a) Laugh
b) Tell you to **** off, but walk away
c) Get in your face and dare you to say it again
d) Immediately throw down

If the answer is C or D, you are probably not being at least slightly respectful.  

Gore would’ve shat himself if I called him it, once I see red there’s no going back 

Are we allowed to be respectful in reverse?

For example... I think JReynolds is a genius... in reverse

Hey, Tapology Survivor Game 94 is up! 

https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/74795?page=2#post-1253472

Sad new the withdraw of Gore, but that card is so great that even without Nickal vs whoever, even without Kape vs KKF and with the late JDM replacement, it's still an awesome card.

The two titles fights are amazing, both of them.
Moreno vs Pantoja is absolute gold and will probably be more competitive than Volk vs Yair, but Yair is so unpredictible, he can totally lose 3 or 4 entire rounds then land an absurd spinning back knee from nowhere. And his performance vs Holloway, while he lost, was a really encouraging sign of maturity, so I really can't wait to see if he can produce any kinf of magic against the P4P best.

I perfectly understand why people are making fun about Du Plessis (even I have better striking technique than him) and picking Whittaker as a"lock". But that foolish style absolutely works against elite competition, and while we can say DDP just has a lucky puncher's chance here, isn't this mess of a style the better way to land one ? Plus, he is tough as nails and Whittaker can be hurt... I absolutely won't bet on DDP but I don't expect a one way traffic here. At the very least a messy brutal battle where the more talented fighter (obviously Whittaker) will have trouble to impose his will on a mad fool.

I'm not that high on Hooker anymore, but this is at least a competitive matchup and the guy is never boring to watch.

Menifield vs Crute rematch is a fun idea, and if the first fight was an indication, it will be violent and goofy and unpredictible while it lasts (probably not very long).

And I saw some people saying Lawler hasn't looked good in years, but I disagree. Nick Diaz shouldn't be fighting anymore, but Lawler looked great in that performance. Even his last fight, a loss agaisnt Barbarena (a decent and respected opponent), was competitive (he dominated the first round and hurt Barbarena multiple times before fading) and earned Fight Of The Night honors.
Who better than the inconsistant but ultra fun Price to offer him his last competitive dance after such an amazing career ?

And The late Taira fight was a really nice surprise.

This card is so good (and also UFC 291 just after that is a gem) that they had to inflict us the ugliest card of the decade just after that : Holm vs Da Silva is probably the first UFC since I'm a real fan (around 2010) I won't even bother to watch at all.