UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Green

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

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Makhachev vs. Green
Bobby Green, TKO, R2
F Islam freaking Khabibs boyfriend King Bobby Green all da way

Cirkunov vs. Turman
Misha Cirkunov, SUB, R2
He is on a losing streak but he has fought really good competition

Bahamondes vs. Rong
Ignacio Bahamondes, TKO, R3
I like my people who are from Chile

Tsarukyan vs. Alvarez
Joel Alvarez, TKO, R2
Both on win streaks but Joel has been finishing his fights

Rodrigues vs. Petrosyan
Gregory Rodrigues, TKO, R1
Rodrigues is the next big thing and he is still pretty young

Cachoeira vs. Kim
Ji Yeon Kim, DEC
Gonna be a war but don’t really like Priscila so hoping that Kim pulls it off

Yu Frey vs. Goldy
Hannah Goldy, SUB, R2
I think I’m going to regret this

Altamirano vs. Hernandez
Victor Altamirano, DEC
Only cause he Mexican

McKinney vs. Ziam
Terrance McKinney, TKO, R1
Terrance with another quick finish

Perez vs. Martinez
Alejandro Perez, SUB, R2
Again he is Mexican

Brahimaj vs. Gillmore
Micheal Gillmore, DEC
Both looked horrible in their last fight

Nunes vs. Pascual
Josiane Nunes, TKO, R1
Her last Ko was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Arman and Joel have almost identical records.  Both only have two losses. Both lost by first round TKO early in their careers then went on long winning streaks after that then both lost their debut by decision.  Both are now on four fight winning streaks.  

I was also just reminded now that Joel is 6'3 and Arman is 5'7 so there is a major height/reach advantage for Joel.  Does that make grappling easier for Arman?  This fight is also at the Apex which has the smaller cage and favors wrestlers/grapplers.

Bahamondes vs. Rong
Ignacio Bahamondes, TKO, R2
Ignacio vs Rhong zhu I see this fight as the UFC looking to determine who is going to be the real contender at 155. Both of these guys are coming in this bout off of wins that earned them their first UFC wins. Ignacio took on Roosevelt Roberts and was Dismantling him from range showing his comfortability on the feet outclassing Roosevelt Roberts for three rounds. Until the very last blow which was a well-timed spinning wheel kick that capped off a 50 K performance. I think the UFC is trying to determine who they going to start to build the division around with both guys having massive fan bases from them being from different countries other than the United States this will be a battle of kicks and footwork. The difference in this fight will be the finishing sequences brought to the table by Ignacio. Rhong zhu doesn’t posses the killer instinct to finish fights. I will cite his fight with Brandon Jenkins as evidence ,Zhu had him mounted and was raining down punches while being gassed out and wrapped around a choke but could not finish a low level opponent. I think Ignacio has on par if not better submission defense than Brandon Jenkins, so I think this fight will be mainly contested on the feet. With Ignacio having a skill advantage as well as an experience advantage I see this as a blow out fight and give zhu only a punchers chance too beat Ignacio but with his low out put and constant resetting of his stance I doubt we see a finish unless it’s from Ignacio my prediction is a Dec win for Bahamondos.