UFC Fight Night 90: Dos Anjos vs. Alvarez Discussion Thread

The fighters are weighed in and we're set for the first of three stellar UFC events in a three-day span. 

The action kicks off Thursday night at 630pm ET on UFC Fight Pass. 

Enjoy!

OHHHH, **** YES!!!

It's mutha ******* sunny in the illadelph!!

Thanks, Eddie!!  Mad love!

Glad I put that $ down!

Predictions:

POTN: Alvarez & Duffy
FOTN: Jouban & Muhammad

If you had told me a year ago that ******* Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes of all people would headline UFC 200, I would have believed you.

Agreed @unbeknownst

Anything other than those recipients would be suspect. 

1) Pettis
2) Melendez
3) RDA
4) Chandler

@WorstPredictionMan Yeah Tate vs Nunes isn't your ideal UFC 200 Main Event. But if you think about it, all weird reasons aside, it makes the most sense.

 

Tate vs Nunes is the only real Title fight.

Cormier vs Silva A 3 Rounder interesting but really a meaningless fight.

Lesnar vs Hunt Fun fight but but another really meaningless fight. Entertaining yes. But that's it

Edgar vs Aldo Is for an Interim Title. The most relevant fight on the Main Card behind Tate vs Nunes

Velasquez vs Browne Maybe a Title Eliminator but that all not Main Event worthy

@Detroit Superstar:

Plus it really helps promote the winner and generates more PPVs for their against Ronda.

Lightweight just got even more interesting.

 

Alvarez has a nice list of options now. Khabib and Ferguson are probably the top 2 candidates. But an Ill Will Brooks fight, providing he beats Ross Pearson, would also make sense. Brooks and Alvarez both share a few common traits most importantly they both left as Bellator's Lightweight Champions. I 'm not a fan of Brooks but would have no issue with him getting the next shot. That would be real ideal to Headline a Fox card. Fox 21 in Canada could use a Headliner anyways and I'd have to look at the calendar and see if that date makes sense or if it would be too soon. Right after those contenders comes another nice group like Barboza/Melendez winner, Poirier, Chiesa, Darisuh even Trinaldo is putting together a nice streak. But obviously those last guys I mentioned are much further down the list than Brooks, Khabib and Ferguson

@unbeknownst Oh yeah I almost forgot about Rousey. In my world I'd have the winner of Cat Zingano and Juliana Pena fight Tate. Freindship aside.

 

Let Ronda get back at some Holly Holm/ Valentina winner.

 

Plus the Canadan Alexis Davis is back. Figure she could potentially get on that Vancouver card depending on how well she's bouncing back post-pregnancy.

Tate needs to get by Nunes first though in which as long as she gets out of the 1st I'm certain not only will she win but she'll finish Nunes.

Then a Nunes vs Davis, Pennington, or Correia fight would all sound decent.

If anyone deserves a tune-up fight against someone outside the top 15, it's Alexis Davis.

My ex man crush, Jake Ellenberger, is high on that tune up fight list. 

For the first time in god knows how long there are no Brazilian champions. 3 Europeans and a bunch of yanks. Claudia and Nunes have a little extra to fight for if you ask me. 

I have a feeling we leave this weekend with at least one Brazzo champ on the roster (which is a dumb thing to say, since I picked both to lose on Tap).

Great first act of fights living up to the hype. Hope the next two acts hold up to the hype!

If Nate wins, that's the money fight for Alvarez.

@Rhino

are you trying to say that was a bad stoppage? I am not sure what more Eddie needed to do, he literally was beating RDA face in. He hit him so many times with bombs, RDA may have been standing but he was barely there just getting smashed. He one tough bastard, but that was far from an early stoppage.

I like to think Bjorn Rebney was watching on his tablet from a dingy hotel room in Anaheim, and that even he caught himself smiling at the end of the fight.
"It's humbling, a lot of construction guys think I'm full of ****, they don't believe [I'm an MMA fighter]," Alvarez said. "So I just try to keep my head down and push the barrels and work. What they say is they go ‘you wouldn't have to be out here if you were a good fighter,' something like that. I'm like ‘you're right, I don't have to be out here.'"
-October 2012 interview

Props to Eddie as most people gave him no chance.

Sajewski, Lopes, and Baghdad all deserve another fight.

Time to test Beltran. Looked much improved. 

Same with Mina cuz he's 34. Time for a ranked guy.

Best moment: Clarke faceplants

Best example of a double standard: Constant *****ing about low fight IQ and then *****ing about Roy's change of gameplan. Yes, the fight sucked. Yes, I had Roy winning but completely understand how Lewis won. No, Lewis' performance was not impressive.

Stock Up: Beltran, Sajewski, Lopes, Baghdad, Duffy, Muhammad, and Eddie

Stock Down: Makdessi, Pyle, Nelson, and Lewis