UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley Discussion Thread

Keep forgetting about these early weigh-ins. 

We lost the McCall-Scoggins bout yesterday when Scoggins stopped cutting weight, but we've got the rest of the card set. 

Prelims kick off on UFC Fight Pass at 7pm ET before switching over to FS2 (hate this SD ********) at 8pm. The PPV main card, as always, starts at 10pm. 

Enjoy!

Not really. Henderson has at least fought 4 times since the last time T Wood did. 

 "Great performance by Woodley and he was humble in victory. That being said, I hope Wonderboy breaks his foot off in Woodley's ass and then KOs his mom." - PilloryChoke

and lost badly to both co-main eventers of his upcoming card. yeah, no.

Well ... at least this can stop the ridiculous talk of Lawler being in the same sentence at GSP in terms of all-time great WWs.

6 new champions out of 10 titles in 2016. WOW.

Just got back to the AirBNB in Atlanta, First Woodley is the fastest fighter I have ever seen. I went to the Strikeforce:Challenger Series event in Nashville TN in 2011. The main event of that card was Tyron Woodley vs Tarec S. Also on that card was Daniel Comer and Amanda Nunez... 3 future UFC champions were on that card,  also on that card was OSP (Title Challenger vs PED using MFer Jon Jones AKA Big bag O ***** AKA ****** **** **** AKA ).

So Woodley's first move as champ perfectly on par with what got him there ... calls out two guys who haven't fought for more than 2 years, one notoriously bad against wrestlers over the guy who deserved the shot before he became champ.

Why should a champ even be calling people out, ******* act like a champ and take on whoever they put in front of you, don't go full boxing and start pushing aside contenders just so you can make some money while you're champ.

To me that shows that even he doesn't believe he'll be champ for long.

It looks like Tyron Woodley wants to fight Nick Diaz next at UFC 202.

I predict that this will indeed happen. 

But since Nick Diaz can't cut that much weight on short notice, they're going to decide to fight at light heavyweight. Nick Diaz pulls off the upset submission. Woodley will demand a rematch even though it needlessly holds up the division. UFC gives in and schedules it because Woodley has that kind of power. Then Robbie Lawler beats Stephen Thompson for the interim welterweight belt.

I see what you did there ...

**** sake I knew Woodley was going to win by first round KO but couldn't bring myself to believe it. Hate my life. At least Jake Ellenberger won! yay

l   Tyrone Woodley praised the Lord so tall


and the Lord hath granted him victory 

He was granted fruit 

for labour and fire of conquest in victory 

What was the odds on Woodley winning?

@Theseekerofchrist the lord cares about granting some mma fighter dreams of glory and fame while countless of ppl are dying of war and famine at the time of the fight... Damn your god is awesome for mma.

@rappinpapsoda I believe he was +200 starting

The fan in me cried last night. Worst PPV watching experience of my life and I blame Jake Ellenberger and Robbie Lawler. Oh and Ian McCall. 

At least the judges were on point in all of the fights that went to decision.

Pearson's a tough S.O.B.

Krylov's finish was absolutely one of the best finishing sequences in MMA history and he was flat out robbed of one of the performance bonuses. While both main card KOs were impressive, Krylov's was simply better.

Neither Benoit nor Serrano had any business being on a PPV and it showed. SImply having that fight on the main card drags the whole card down a full grade level.

Perez looked remarkably good and Cisco looked flat-footed and flummoxed. 

God damn you Jake Ellenberger! You choose the fight against my favorite fighter to finally, suddenly show some fight IQ??!! Brown was guilty of the same lapse that cost Robbie the title but he can be forgiven because you're not going to KO Matt by hitting them in the head but what a great opening right hand from Jake, then the takedown puts that threat in his opponents mind, and finally finishing it with what has historically been Brown's weakness: the body shot. And Matt even had his arm in close but that beautiful "Livah Kick" came in under his elbow and good night.

Congratulations to Karolina. Knew it would be a tough, competitive fight and Rose fought exactly like she needed to.....for one round. Never seen clinch knees in open space change a fight so fast.

I echo the sentiments already expressed about Woodley even being in the title fight and his pathetic post-fight remarks and obvious lack of confidence in being a true champ but there's no one to blame but Lawler. Woodley has 1 freakin' weapon to worry about to anyone who has the ability to get back up and that's the right hand and yet Lawler reached down with his left to allow that 1 weapon to work. Disgusted.

Better PPV than expected. I just wish that Lawler won.