UFC 185: Pettis vs. Dos Anjos Discussion Thread

We're weighed in and ready to go for a quality PPV card Saturday night. 

Prelims kick off on UFC Fight Pass at 630pm ET, followed by televised prelims on FX (NOT FS1) at 8pm and the PPV main card at 10pm. 

Enjoy!

Haha, I recognize the pic from Sillicon Valley as they mathematically work out on the white-board the most efficient way for Bachman to ******** the entire auditorium of like 800.

I just finished watching the fights.....daaamn Dana was PISSED I don't remember seeing him that pissed since Lesnar lost to Cain, it was funny.


it's exciting that we have two new champions in one night, and bot ex champions got taken to school and were made to look like amateurs, I don't intend that as a criticism to them but as a praise for Dos Anjos and Joanna, but as good as  they are I don't think either of them will last long as a champions, Khabib is going to outwork RDA again and Joana has all kind of sharks in her pool, including Rose, I think she will make an interesting match for Joana (not that she deserves a title shot right now).

Hendricks did as I expected, and to me is clear that his desire of being the champion again, makes him a boring fighter, every time he fights someone dangerous he goes for TD's but fail to do much on the ground. I can't blame him for not wanting to take risk, but that doesn't mean I like to watch his fights.

it was exciting to watch Overeem that technically, he did what I thought he had to do to beat Roy, which proved he was the biggest Hillbilly of them all and fought like an ******* trying to TD Overeem everytime he had him hurt...4 times!?

Cruickshank was the biggest disappointment of the night for me, he did absolutely nothing, props to Darius, he showed a solid game.

good night of fights

I'm not as down on Hendricks' performance as a lot of people. Matt Brown isn't a guy you want to stand and trade with. It was smart strategy even if it wasn't that exciting.

Hendricks didn't do much on the ground, but he did quite a bit standing up, give props where they are due, Matt brown is won tuff muther******.

Pettis looks like a Calvin Klein model, is a dynamic finisher, still young, had huge popularity prior to the UFC as a WEC champion and it's only been growing, the wheaties box endorsement and is a very real (or was) piece on the chest of cornering the Latino market as a faux-mexican.

Dos Anjos is lookin' like a mongoloid with a Brock Lesnar haircut and cannot speak English.

* Edited at 03.15.2015, 11:12 PM ET *

I get why Dana was pissed, Pettis was an easy sell and they were pushing im hard,  everybody knows Dana is in love with him, now Dana has two new champions that speak weird english, lol.

Matt Brown is one of the toughest mofo's on the octagon and it was smart of Hendricks fighting like that, but he used to talk aboun KOing guys left and right and how he always tried to finish his fights, and now we hardly ever watch him fight like that, and I get it. I'm just not excited about his fights

Brazil needed a new hero and they got one last night in RDA. Have his first title defense in Brazil and watch the crowd go absolutely crazy for it.

Can I also just point out that The Reem is huge, he covers so much ground when he goes for those knees.  What 4? 5 times at least he looked to be moving in slo-mo but he is so big he had is knee in Nelson's chest or gut with like one step.

In the crowd last night, note the red circle 

@p4pgoat Aldo and Barao are still our heroes, but yes, it is great to have three of them.

By the way... Khabib is not going to defeat RDA. Hell, unless he has something new to show he isn't even getting past Cerrone. 

I fully expect RDA to clean the division out.

* Edited at 03.16.2015, 12:40 AM ET *

Me and my dad right before the main event

I can't yet believe that Pettis lost!

I can believe it.