UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

@GunnStarr I think Costa's TD defense will hold up early, he's strong as a bull. I wouldn't be surprised if Vettori saves the TD's for later rounds when Paulo inevitably slows down.

https://twitter.com/MikeBohnMMA/status/1450878782907289600
"Marvin Vettori says at #UFCVegas41 media day that Paulo Costa is "a lot overweight" and is pushing for a change in weight. Vettori says he'll accept the fight at 205 pounds or "any weight." " 

Doesn't sound too good for ol' Vettori him and his team are really good at making weight so if Paulo is coming as massive as they might be making it out Vettori's not gonna be able to wrestle properly at all. 

Please No humping after The fight 

Dawson vs. Glenn
Grant Dawson, DEC
dawson very good fighter

Caceres vs. Choi
Seung Woo Choi, DEC
18-12 is a good record for a ufc fighter? don't think so, win streak only with 100/70/60 ranked fighter

Jones vs. Onama
Mason Jones, TKO, R2
jones seems better fighter

Molina vs. Lacerda
Jeff Molina, SUB, R2
hard debut for lacerda

Souza vs. Markos
Livinha Souza, SUB, R1
a 10-11 woman in ufc? what? souza will sub her

Negumereanu vs. Villanueva
Nick Negumereanu, DEC
villanueva 1-3 in ufc, not a good record

Markos-round 3 or dec-cardio and will to win 

Body snatcher - TKO round 1

Jai Herbert- TKO round 1

Seungwoo choi- TKO round 1

Costa - TKO round 1

Juicyy

Beat da bookz

Martinez vs. Lazishvili
Zviad Lazishvili, DEC
The Georgian Invasion

I think Vettori one of my favourites fighter in the UFC, dude hillouous, he have all the funniest **** I seen this year, his shorts being on backwards, him getting kick in the nuts by Holland and the Izzy press conference being my highlight of the year. Vettori also come to fight. I really like Vettori as a fighter

Paulo has been saying some wacky ass ****. *** is going on is he trying to get cut? Hes saying 185 is out of the question . Is he on drugs

* Edited at 10.20.2021, 5:16 PM ET *

Costa is such an *******, he's trying to get this fight to be at 205 because he doesn't want to cut weight, but he knows he'd get murdered by the top 15 guys at LHW. 

What a slimy *************, I hope Vettori takes it at whatever weight, gets a cut of his purse, and knocks him the **** out after a prolonged beating. I've never liked Costa but I hate him now.

Martinez vs. Lazishvili
Jonathan Martinez, TKO, R2
Lazishvili is a can crusher and martinez is not a can

Grant TKO round 3

43 years old moving up to 170 from a career at 155 isn't a good look and that age has to catch up with him sometime. He got hurt a few times against Jai Herbert and probably loses that fight without the KO, goes up against Muslim salikov, I'm paying attention to see how his gas tank is from a pretty active fight and then boom he pokes Muslim in the eye and gets like a 4 minute break, then less than a minute later gets like another 30 seconds in this wierd stand off if Muslim was going to go into his gaurd or not. So it's hard to judge where his cardio is at but it cant be great being 43 and not a heavyweight. 

Grant has always had a nice KO or a relatively even fight that goes to decision and has shown at least moments of power in all of them. Gas tank is assumably a lot better. After being turn around KOed by D rod he fought really tentatively against the stafan dude in a pretty boring fight, so I expect him to be a little more active than usual and Francisco pushes a decent pace early and starts to wilt, his defense starts lacking, where I expect something powerful from grant to connect and KO him. Yes trinaldo never been knocked out but he's almost been in basically every fight of his I've watched at one point or another, while he keeps getting later into his mid 40s.

My plan for betting, I think trinaldo will come out hot and maybe be winning the stand up or getting a takedown, and Grant will become a much bigger underdog than he is now (hoping for close to +200) on the live betting, also if trinaldo finishes grant it's most likely going to be early so I can bail if that happens, or get grant as a decent dog late or after the first. Where I think Grant will take over and either get the late finish or at least win the other 2 and get another split decision probably. I'm also probably going to put a little sprinkle on grant in round 3 at +1600 for fun. 

This is some wacky ****. Man if im vettori im asking for the moon to take the fight. ****** ********. I hope puts a beating on him

Costa fat ass could also make weight , He's weight 211lb and he has to make 186lb to fight, So he has to cut 25lb or  11.8% of his bodyweight. That the average weight cut of a UFC fighter as most fighter cut like 10% of the weight , The extreme case like Jose Aldo and Darren Till cut upwards of 20% of the weight and Gleason Tibau cut almost 30% of his body weight

Paulo Costa can make weight, He just doesn't want to, That fine but just go up to 205lb, But if you want to fight at 185, You better lay off the red wine, And go eat salid and sauna, I hope fat boy get embarassed with a definitve ending, **** this diva **** 

* Edited at 10.20.2021, 5:56 PM ET *

My favorite part of the media day was Vettori telling John Morgan that Costa is a "fat ass", then kinda hesitating after he realized who he was talking to.

Love how Costa was like “if he wants to fight we can fight” like the ball’s in Marvin’s court that Costa is 30lbs overweight. 

Damn always late to the news costa is a funny ****** maybe he has ladd syndrome I.E. the twinkies attack him so he cannot make weight.
I say let them fight then push costa to 205 win marv gets back in title contention.
Neither of them were next in line marv much closer no matter how much they pretend izzy coasted him.

Souza vs. Markos
Livinha Souza, DEC
I think the fight will be on the ground where Livinha should dominate. Most of Markos' last W was a split decision over Yoder and then lost 4 in a row thought the last one was controversial. A good old boring fight in perspective.

Martinez vs. Lazishvili
Zviad Lazishvili, SUB, R2
Zviad for sure, a 12-0 record, 8 submission wins, an intelligent fighter, very calm and composed, the guy's always busy, and cherry on top of the sundae he seems to be a real nice fellow and very humble.

Costa you fat bastard
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* Edited at 10.20.2021, 7:04 PM ET *