UFC on ESPN+ 27: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Benavidez vs. Figueiredo
Joseph Benavidez, DEC
Benavidez deserves this title even thought this is close fight I think Benavidez is a little bit better and he has experinece in title fights

Cutelaba vs. Ankalaev
Magomed Ankalaev, TKO, R2
I dont think Cutelaba is better then Ankalaev he was always just an average fighter

Allen vs. Breese
Brendan Allen, SUB, R2
Both are great but I think Allen wins this one but very close fight

Naurdiev vs. Brady
Ismail Naurdiev, DEC
Good fight for the start of prelims I hope Naurdiev can dominate Bardy on the ground.Also Naurdiev is a great talent

* Edited at 02.28.2020, 11:14 AM ET *

Yay now we get a weird title/non-title fight. What a treat. 

Benavidez vs. Figueiredo
Joseph Benavidez, DEC
will joe finally get a belt? i'm gonna pick yes and hope no.

Spencer vs. Fairn
Felicia Spencer, SUB, R1
without disrespecting the zarah, there aren't many reasonable fights for spencer.

Cutelaba vs. Ankalaev
Magomed Ankalaev, DEC
ion certainly has the power/aggression combo that gives him a chance in every fight, just hard to not be excited over ankalaev's overall skillset. possible he leaves himself open, but i'll say he can change levels when needed.

Anderson vs. Dumont
Megan Anderson, TKO, R1
i hope wfw gets better eventually. i'll bet against non-established names until then.

Dawson vs. Minner
Grant Dawson, SUB, R2
understandable consensus. 7 sub losses for minner, dawson might be all over him.

Pena vs. Garcia Jr.
Luis Pena, DEC
totally possible that pena gets upset again, his aggression hasn't really translated into finishes over active fighters, so even a late notice guy could do it and garcia doesn't seem awful. still think pena can adapt and take it down if need be.

Silva vs. Phillips
Gabriel Silva, DEC
just more established competition i guess.

Allen vs. Breese
Brendan Allen, DEC
whatever, i'll take allen for the upset. breese has been out for a while and a win over dan kelly really doesn't impress me much.

Tybura vs. Spivak
Marcin Tybura, TKO, R3
i'm not ready to say tybura is done, he has lost fights to legitimate opponents. beating tuivasa isn't enough for me to pick sergey here.

Brown vs. Griffin
Jordan Griffin, SUB, R2
coin flip really, i'll just take the guy with better names on his page.

Cruz vs. Carlyle
Aalon Cruz, DEC
guess it's hard to pick against 5in height and 7in reach advantages without a great reason.

Naurdiev vs. Brady
Ismail Naurdiev, DEC
naurdiev feels like a prospect, brady coming off an upset, but i think this is a big step up from court.

@Ramizzasav, Team ALPHA MALE Set The Blueprint For The Lighter Weight Classes, So I Don't See Them As A Team That Failed. I See Them As A Team That Never Gave Up And Always Remained As A Grinding Team No Matter What The Outcome Was. They Never Quit. When They Lost They Got Back To That Drawing Board And Continued On With Trying To Achieve Their Goal Of Becoming A UFC Champion. I Respect Your Opinion And All, Yet It Obviously Lacks What I Call Paying Homage To Those Who Helped Sculpture The Flyweight, Bantamweight, And Featherweight Divisions.   

Well, Just When You Thought The UFC's 125 Pound Division Was Starting Off 2020 On A Clean Slate, An Ungrateful Fighter By The Name Of Deiveson Figueiredo Shows Up To The Weigh-In 2 Pounds Over The Limit And Basically Just Saying **** My Title Shot, **** The 125 Pound Division And It's Belt. How Unprofessional To Show Up 2 Pounds Over The Weight Limit, For Your Main Event Title Fight. Then To Refuse To Lose Those Extra 2 Pounds Shows How Much He Doesn't Want To Be A UFC Champion. UFC Flyweight Division Gets No Respect. The UFC Showed Us All How Much It Cared For The Flyweight Division By Trading The Flyweight G.O.A T Demetrius Johnson To ONE FC For Ben Askren. Then The UFC Has The Audacity To Hand Dillashaw A Title Fight Out Of His Division, And Betting All Their Marbles That Dillashaw Was Gonna Easily Walk All Over Cejudo And Ignore Who He Beat To Become The UFC Flyweight Champion. Boy Did That Backfire On The UFC. Cejudo To The Rescue And Saving The Flyweight Division Was Awesome. As Quick As That Happened, Dillashaw Tarnished Himself And His Ego By Getting Molly Whopped In 32 Seconds Of The 1st Round. Only To Top That Off By Completely Tarnishing His Legacy By Testing Positive For EPO. Just When You Thought Cejudo Would Be Quick To Defend His Title, He Turns Around And Completely Forgets About The Flyweight Division And Goes On To Challenge For The UFC Bantamweight Title. Not Only Did Cejudo Win, He Also Stamped His Growing Legacy.By Becoming The 3rd UFC Fighter To Hold 2 Titles, Simultaneously, In 2 Different Weight Classes. Therefore, Becoming A CHAMP, CHAMP, And Rebranding Himself As Triple C. Congratulations And All, But What About The Flyweight Division Triple C ? As Quick As He Was There To Save The Flyweight Division, He Was Quicker To Let His Ego Get Bigger Than The Flyweight Division. He Simply Abandoned The Flyweight Division. Once Again The UFC Flyweight Division Is Left Without A KING To It's Throne. Just When You Thought, What Next For The UFC Flyweight Division, The UFC Surprises Us All, And Books Benevides Vs Figueiredo To Headline UFC Fight Night 169 ( ESPN+27) For The Vacant UFC Flyweight Title. Just When It Looked As If The Flyweight Division Had Finally Earned Some Respect. It Was Once Again Slapped In The Face, And Disrespected. Disrespected To The Point,That Even Fighters In The Flyweight Division, Would Rather Give Up A Title Shot Because He Doesn't Want To Lose Those 2 Extra Pounds. The UFC Flyweight Division Gets No Respect.

* Edited at 02.28.2020, 6:30 PM ET *

@YNOT

Some of this is the UFC's fault for devaluing the championships, especially in the 125-pound division.

* Edited at 02.28.2020, 4:52 PM ET *

Joseph Benavidez vs Devision Figurido 
Joesph Benavidez is one of the best flyweight in the world, He losses are to Mighty mouse, Dom Cruz and Sergio Pettis but i think Joe beat him. Devision loss to Formiga the gatekeper at 125  and Bene smash Formiga twice. I wanted to pick Figurdo because i thick he could catch him but because he miss weight in a title fight i just cant pick him as he doesn't want the title and if Figurdo wins i think it could be the end for 125 as it will be a **** show with the belt and i don't want to see that because flyweight is one of my favourite division

Felicia Spencer vs Zarah Fairns
Felicia Spencer imprese me in her last 2, cutting cyborg and subbing Megan and Zarah Fairns is a bum who get tapped by Megan and if she get out of the first round i will watch a bellator show start to finnish and i mean it

Ion Cutelaba vs Magomed Ankalive
the [Hulk] name is super accutate Power and no brain while Magomed is not the smartest with getting sub in the last secound but he still smarter and unless he get clip because he can still get Hulk Smash!!! he will catch him will gas

Megan Anderson vs Norma  Dumant
Megan Anderson is a bum from the same city as me and Dumant hasn't beated anyone worth **** and i think Megan has more exprience but i would't be suprise if she tapping and i wonder why Women featherweight is still a thing because they either bums or could fight a batamweight as Spencer and Nunes  are the only good one and that literal 2/5 of the division

Grant Dawson vs Derrick Minner
Grant is a way better fighter but I hope he get smashed because he miss weight by like 4 pound , That not even trying  , I think fighter who miss weight should either get a loss on the record or make it don't  count if they win and cut 20% per pound over so fighter don't get an advantage and make more money in the long run because no on give a **** a month later

Luis Pena vs Steve Garcia Jr
Luis Pena ain't **** and he wins are angest the worst of the worst in the ufc in Stevin Peterson, Matt Wiman and the other Bum who i forget the name off and when he fight anyone decent in Frevala and Trizino he loss. Steve Garcia fought with Lfa and is decent but he a fetherweight  and on short notice and Frevola fight was close and Pena will have his first real win

Tom Bresse vs Brendon Allen
I can't pick Bresse for his mental issues because I don't think he fight to the best and he only fought like once since i started watching MMA when Conor fought Diaz the first time and that was agest ago, I predict Brendon will put him in a sub and it be over in a Flash, Get it because Brendon Allen is the alter ego of the flash   

Marcin Tyboria vs Sergai Spivic
Sergai spivic and Marcin Tybora aint **** either, I was super disapponted in Marcin because he look super good in the Werdum fight but since then it get more and more disapponing but Spivic suck on the feet and Tybora aint a bum on the ground. And Spivic win was relly suprising over Tai Tuvisa but Tai is a bum

* Edited at 02.28.2020, 7:02 PM ET *

This should be a belt for Joe cool. But this kid is no joke and he missed wt. So could be real big. Good luck joe b

Anderson vs. Dumont
Megan Anderson, DEC
Fight will be a lot closer than odds suggest. Only going with Megan because the experience and the fight is close to where she trains.

Benavidez, TKO
Ankalaev, TKO

Spencer, SUB
Anderson, TKO

Spivak, TKO
Naurdiev, DEC

* Edited at 02.29.2020, 12:42 AM ET *

Cutelaba vs. Ankalaev
Magomed Ankalaev, DEC
Ankalaev will shoot a takedown, tire out the hulk, and put it on him late.

Anderson vs. Dumont
Norma Dumont, SUB, R1
Anderson goes into panic mode the minute she gets hit. Lets not forget that Fairn reversed Megan before getting triangle choked and probably would have won that fight. I think Dumont will shock everyone and win this.

Dawson vs. Minner
Grant Dawson, SUB, R1
Dawson will manhandle Minner.

Silva vs. Phillips
Gabriel Silva, DEC
Back and forth fight with a UD for Silva.

Allen vs. Breese
Tom Breese, TKO, R1
I feel like Holland could have easily won his fight against Allen if he fought smarter. I'm hoping Breese comes in with a smart gameplan and avoids Allen's takedown attempts and hurts him on the feet.

Tybura vs. Spivak
Marcin Tybura, DEC
Tybura too experienced for Spivak and I don't think Spivak has the boxing to hurt Tybura. Least confident pick.

Brown vs. Griffin
Jordan Griffin, SUB, R1
Brown has a padded record against 0-X opponents and Griffin looked decent against accomplished UFC fighters.

Cruz vs. Carlyle
Aalon Cruz, DEC
Sloppy split decision for Cruz.

DON'T GET ELIMINATED!!!

Cutelaba vs. Ankalaev
Magomed Ankalaev, TKO, R2
Cutelaba is just an angry, aggressive, psychopath of a fighter, one who literally does his best to obliterate, destroy & cannibalize his opposition within the opening few minutes. And then he has like a noticeable adrenaline dump & he's just sucking down wind. I think Ankalaev has the tools and/or balls to survive the opening onslaught, ONLY to take over the fight & put a shellacking on the tired Moldovan.

@ tepid55, I Agree. I'm Just Left In Disbelief And Lost In My Own Thoughts. How In The World Can One Of The Best Combat Sports Promoter Of All Time Not Know How To Promote The UFC Flyweight Division. He Acts As If He Can't Watch Vintage WEC Events. The Blueprint Is There, But In This Era, It's All About How Many FRANKLIN'S Can Be Made. I Remember When Dana White Used To Go By The Book. I Remember When Dana White Actually Respected The Rankings.

@ynot it not Dana fault this is happeing , it WMG because Dana owns like 10% of the ufc so it not him doing the big decision it the Businessman who don't give a **** about MMA so they make the fight who make money. And flyweights don't make Money so why would they waste money promoting them if they can put the Money in Conor, Izzy or Jones.

Naurdiev vs. Brady
Ismail Naurdiev, TKO, R2
barracus se la come! la de clips a mordiscones!