UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Walker

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Shevchenko vs. O'Neill
Casey O'Neill, TKO, R2
The King is here

Santos vs. Walker
Thiago Santos, TKO, R2
Man with no knees taking this one home for the team

Holland vs. Daukaus
Kevin Holland, TKO, R2
you gotta win this if you want to stay relevant Kevin

Santos has suffered the Jon Jones curse
Not only this, he's too involved with Yana and when you mix work with love, it never works out. I mean, I'm probably wrong but I think Walker does something crazy and puts him out.

"The man with no knees" I like it lmao

Hernandez vs. Santos
Leonardo Santos, TKO, R2
For as old as he is, he looks great in his last outing up until the literal last 10 seconds.

Cirkunov vs. Jotko
Misha Cirkunov, SUB, R2
Jotko doesn't have the same power as spann or glover but Misha doesn't seem to have the same pressure as Sean so it's hard to tell who'll dictate this fight. But I'm confidentthat Misha can land at least one takedown, and that's all he really needs.

Price vs. Oliveira
Alex Oliveira, SUB, R1
This is a good one, niko will probably blast his chin into orbit, but if cowboy can grab him while he's half conscious then I think he gets the sub

Shevchenko vs. O'Neill
Casey O'Neill, DEC
If valentia being in her corner means anything at all it means she won't get submitted but I've been wrong before

Santos vs. Walker
Thiago Santos, TKO, R1
Walker by KO of himself doing the dancing worm. I'm a big fan of the guy, but honestly he is a glass canon. Maretta had problems with grinding wrestlers and submissions specialists recently, not canons.

Ferreira vs. Dawson
Grant Dawson, DEC
Somehow, Grant Dawson isn't a name I was remembering, wich is surprising when I see his impressive winning streak in the UFC and overall career. We will see how he deals with the dangerous Ferreira, but I'm now very interested in that fight.

Cirkunov vs. Jotko
Krzysztof Jotko, TKO, R1
Surprising decision from Cirkunov... I know he got KO'd by Volkan Oezdemir, Teixeira, Walker and Spann, so his title aspirations are about dead at Light Heavyweight, but I'm affraid it was his natural weight class, as he doesn't have body fat or extra muscular mass to lose... Just hope he doesn't look to bad at Middleweight. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's a bad idea for him.

Perez vs. Eduardo
Alejandro Perez, DEC
41 years old is a dangerous age to fight at ANY weight class (even at heavyweight), but at bantamweight ? Eduardo is a fossile. A talented one granted, but my god... His last fight was 3 years ago, and his last win more than 4 years ago !

Price vs. Oliveira
Alex Oliveira, DEC
Insane fight. I don't understand why Price is that much of a favorite to win this. To me it's a coinflip as both are super dangerous with terrible defense and not very good chins (the perfect recepy for a crazy fight).

Santos vs. Walker
Johnny Walker, TKO, R1
91%. Hard to imagine this fight not being very good at the least

Holland vs. Daukaus
Kevin Holland, DEC
87%.

Ladd vs. Chiasson
Aspen Ladd, DEC
76%.

Hernandez vs. Santos
Leonardo Santos, SUB, R1
77%.

Solecki vs. Gordon
Joe Solecki, DEC
81%. Not as big a believer in Solecki as most

Rosa vs. Correia
Karol Rosa, TKO, R2
65%. Just go away already

Andrade vs. Pirrello
Douglas Andrade, TKO, R1
75%.

Mullarkey vs. Smith
Devonte Smith, DEC
85%.

Perez vs. Eduardo
Alejandro Perez, DEC
74%.

Price vs. Oliveira
Niko Price, SUB, R2
99%! Oh Yeah!

Shevchenko vs. O'Neill
Casey O'Neill, SUB, R2
72%.

Santos vs. Walker
Johnny Walker, TKO, R1
I can see Walker pulling off the upset and get that quick KO. Even though it'll break my heart.

Holland vs. Daukaus
Kyle Daukaus, SUB, R1
even though Holland was been training on his grappling now. I can't see it be enough against Daukaus. Whoops.

Hernandez vs. Santos
Alexander Hernandez, TKO, R2
Despite his skids and losses against Cowboy, Dober, and Moises. The dude has KO power.

Cirkunov vs. Jotko
Misha Cirkunov, SUB, R2
Cirkunov by submission. He is gonna be a big ass middleweight cutting from LHW and he'll use his grappling to smother Jotko

Mullarkey vs. Smith
Devonte Smith, TKO, R2
Smith is the faster and more powerful fighter. Mullarkey though is more technical and accurate. But uh, I got smith.

Price vs. Oliveira
Niko Price, DEC
The florida man pulls it off. Not sure why it's not in the main card.

Dawson vs Ferreira seems to have been cancelled. 

https://twitter.com/farah_hannoun/status/1435667712655638542

I’m actually kind of happy. I think Ferreira was a bit much a bit too soon for Dawson at 155. Not that he’s not at that level, it’s just like his second ever fight at 155 and Ferreira is a perennial killer at lightweight.

Ferrira is missing weight constantly, he shouldn't be at lightweight anymore 

Santos vs. Walker
Thiago Santos, TKO, R1
Shh

Santos vs. Walker
Thiago Santos, TKO, R1
****** vs killing machine no brainer litteraly.

Cirkunov vs. Jotko
Misha Cirkunov, SUB, R1
If he makes weight cirk wins

Shevchenko vs. O'Neill
Casey O'Neill, DEC
Thick scotch wins uni or split

Santos vs. Walker
Thiago Santos, TKO, R1
this is perfect for Thiago

Holland vs. Daukaus
Kevin Holland, DEC
Kevin is one of the best strikers in the MW division in my opinion and I don't think Kyle is good

Young vs. Egger
Shanna Young, DEC
wot?

Cirkunov vs. Jotko
Krzysztof Jotko, TKO, R3
why is misha going down to 185

Mullarkey vs. Smith
Devonte Smith, TKO, R2
s/o to devonte smith

This fight is a bounce back spot for Hernandez, who imo has championship potential. All 3 ufc loses on Alex record are very identical, he gets overwelmed by volume in the 2nd and 3rd, so that means you need to be a good striker, have cardio, and good pressure. Santos has none of those. Hes 41 and just got koed by a guy that dosent ko ppl. every fight he gasses badly and hernandez dosent have the best gas tank either, so this one will likely finsh. Hernandez is way faster on the feet and has a very underrated ground game. Hernandez does well against slow strikers like beniel and gruetzmacher for example. only way santos wins is buy a flukish early knockout. im very suprised the odds are so close, i think it should be -250. Also hernandez has been the favorite against moises, dober, and other elite competition. I will be parlaying Alexander Hernandez and Devonte Smith for a factory x parlay. Cant wait.

This fight is def interesting, because of khama worthy and mma math. khama ko smith, and mullarkey ko khama, so that must mean mullarkey by ko? not even close. Devonte Smith imo should take this easily, mullarkey is no bum though, he is legit and his only ufc 2 loses were to 2 elite strikers and recently got a win over khama(a bet i cashed). Devonte is a dangerous striker with a limited sample size. so far in the ufc hes 3-1 and every fight has ended by ko. He koed julian erosa in less than a minute, then koed dong hyun ma in like 3 minutes. his next fight was agianst khama who did ko smith but i do not put too much stock into it because if you actually watch the fight youll see they are being way too friendly and treating it like a sparring match and smith paid for it by getting koed as a -1000 favorite. He won his next fight against justin jaynes who is ok. he beat him everywhere grappling, striking. Devonte has lightning fast hands and good grappling but hasnt seen the 3rd round in his ufc career, also devonte could have a chin issue as ive seen him get clipped before so that could be a potential issue for him. Now Mullarkey has fought the better fighters, is very well rounded but sometimes he can become a punching back which is not good. Mullarkey dosent threaten with power for me to be concerned but showed a decent gas tank which could cause issues. this is a HUGE fight for devonte to show how skilled he is against a fighter who is decent everywhere. Im picking devonte to win, i think he wins this fight 8 out of 10 times and will definitley take those -130 odds on smith.

Fyi devonte smith has gone to a 4th round before plus he trains at factory x do his cardio should be much better than mullarkeys. Also mullarkey has a 45% striking defense which means devonte is gonna smack him up 

Better striker? I got heartburn from this. 

haha!