UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Dom is a lock , damnit ! That's my opinion , and I'm sticking to it -R Kelly voice- 

Them leg kicks ain't gonna do **** but get Dom to get a takedownnnnnn and smother himmmmm

Also , Costa by KO Rd 1 is a lock. Kelly has never fought someone with technicality and power like Costa has. 

Idk doms legs have always been fragile; pair that with the fact he’s 36 and has been injured for more years than he has fights in the ufc, makes me think that if munhoz can just land a few, then doms day is ****** up. And I do t see him smothering munhoz; he’s not Khabib and munhoz is more than capable on the ground.

Yeah I'm just talking lol , wanting to get some reactions . But Dom wins here. Easy.

Yeah probably. Munhoz is exciting but not that good. If dom avoids leg kicks he should Cruz (see what I did there). Hot take but I think the Cody win was the peak of munhoz’s career

* Edited at 12.07.2021, 3:47 PM ET *

If Cody didn't get emotional and try to stand and bang , he would of won . 

I don't get how you can call Blanchfield a can crusher, It just factually wrong, I think for where she at, It actually is quite the opposite, She 22 with a 7-1 record, She beat somewhat talented girls in Brogen Walker Sanchez (who beat Maranda Maverick), Victoria Leonardo and Kay Hanson, And went to a split decsion with Tracy Cortiz in which I thought she won, Who are you expecting Blanchfield to fight when she like 4-1?  Valitina or Andrade?,

I think you are saying this because in her debut, She fought Sarah Alphar, Sarah Alphar ain't great, But she did 30-24 her, It was a performance to make Blanchfield looked good, It smart booking for the UFC, It the same reason fro Jobber in the WWE, Make some future stars look good, It not like she looking for easy fights either, She sign to fight Maycee Barber before Maycee pulled, Now fighting Maverick

* Edited at 12.07.2021, 4:50 PM ET *

Can crusher gets thrown around way too much. It's very annoying.

its a valid claim in some cases (like Jordan wright) but not in the case of blanchfield 

And just because you're a can crusher doesn't mean they are bad. Some just build themselves up that way to be safe even though they can handle much higher competition. This is how they eat, I would absolutely try to fight the easiest fights I could starting out. That's usually 2 checks instead of 1. And it gives you a nice padded record on top of that to bring to higher paying promotions later on. 

Good example of this is Taila Santos. Go look at her pre ufc record. I lost a decent bit betting Gillian Robertson based mostly on how ****** her resume way. Now she's being talked about possible next fight for Valentina. 

Miranda Maverick is one of the more unfortunate and unexpected tragedies of Global warming as I see it. If we weren't continually pouring warming particulates into the atmosphere via burning fossil fuels to make *****s and slush puppy machines the glacier in which she was kept in stasis for the last 130000 years or so wouldn't have melted thus unleashing her into a time for which is she is not suitably evolved.

Obviously I'm not privy to whatever procedures were employed to adapt her to contemporary existence, but I was given the synopsis of her first contact with home sapiens by  a friend working out of the US anthropology department.

Apparently, a lumberjack was driving along some treacherous mountain road in rural Missouri of an evening when a deer jumped out in front of his pickup. He didn't have time to swerve and caught it at a decent clip on its posterior. It lay wounded on the roadside, and he pulled over and got out to see if there was anything at all he could do for the unfortunate beast.

But as he approached, he heard a loud crashing in the adjacent undergrowth accompanied by a kind of apeish whooping, and the woman we now nominally titled Miranda exploded out of the shrubbery and into his path. She was totally naked from the waist up, and below it was covered only by a torn sash of coyote fur fastened with a belt of crudely woven sinews, and from this hung limply three freshly hunted rabbits. Raven feathers and the polished bones of several fishes were woven through her oily acanthine hair, and she wielded a  smoke-hardened club of briar root torn from the earth.

And with this she did thump upon the tarmac with great ferocity, sometimes pointing it at the bewildered and terrified driver, cursing him in some long-extinct monosyllabic guttural tongue: Griga! Grig-grog grunga birib!
Thankfully the driver correctly assessed the situation even in his confusion and duress: He had inadvertently mowed down her quarry, and in the moment, it was clear she was perceiving him as a threat to her kill.

He slowly began to back away with his arms raised, and returned to his truck, where he removed the twinkie from his center console. This he unwrapped, and rolled gently along the road to stop at her feet. Keeping her eyes fixed on him, she slowly bent to sniff it with an equal mix of interest and suspicion, before finally sampling a bite, rubbing her belly, then head, nodding and grunting agreeably.

The deer, meanwhile, had expired. She stalked over to its carcass, and taking out a shard of hewn flint, expertly severed a single haunch, which she carried over to the pickup and placed gently in front of the fender. Satisfied with the transaction, she slung the remainder of the animal over one shoulder, walked over to a nearby poplar, rubbed her sex on it, and loped away into the forest. Close up of the dash cam capture below.

* Edited at 12.07.2021, 5:42 PM ET *

yes that is true, but bro hes literally fighting guys who are 0-22. the difference between wright and Santos is massive. Santos just dominated the gatekeeper of her division and Jordan wright has yet to beat anyone actually deserving of being in the ufc. sure hes got flashy striking, but that only gets you so far. plus, hes facing a guy who should probably be fighting someone outside the top 15 or on the cusp. Bruno silva is a legit talent. If wright didn't get starched by Buckley then I would say hes a good fighter. as it stands now, he is a can crusher. beating ike villanueva and Jamie Pickett doesn't mean you are a good fighter at all; both those guys should not be in the ufc, and likely will not in a few months 

* Edited at 12.07.2021, 5:51 PM ET *

also Jordan wright has almost no striking defense and absorbs 7 strikes per minute going against one of the hardest hitters in the division lol. wright is so hittable just watch his Buckley fight 

My only point is you can't just say fighter a beats fighter b because fighter b is a can crusher. I'm definitely not comparing wright and Santos. Wright does nothing that impresses me besides having power but unless he lands something so perfect I really doubt Bruno will get KOed and you only have to really worry about it until he faces adversity and wilts. Santos I didn't look at as a bad fighter it was just like Gillian's ufc experience will give her the grappling edge, plus look at tailas padded record. I think that was just after her debut loss to Silva too. 

Yeah obviously the logic doesn’t work like that, I was just pointing out that he is a can crusher. Silva is gonna beat him because of how powerful he is. The can crushing part speaks to wrights level as a fighter; only has beaten lower level competition and has lost every step up he has faced. Even if all Silva had was power, and wasn’t a good striker. He would still probably win based on how hittable Wright is/how much Wright hates being punched 

* Edited at 12.07.2021, 6:35 PM ET *

Blanchfield is cute but this **** too early for her

LMAOOOOOO