UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Topuria vs sodiq is the fight they’re pursuing atm

good fight, I have Sodiq by decision

I’d have ilia as a early lean but that would be a good fight 

I have ilia by ko. Sodiq doesn’t have the greatest chin nor is his tdd all that great

@ayy why is Sam hughes ur new pfp?? 😆 

@taubazza made a profile pic bet with @jreynolds, I had reed he has hughes. Now I have to have this monstrosity as my prof pic for a week🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀

Awww… and I was so proud of you too, @Ayy, the heroic feminist, champion of WMMA!  Lol :(

I have nothing against wmma lol just Sam hughes isn’t the most attractive. Would much rather have ricci as my pic🤣

THAT'S SEXIST 

This card is absolutely stacked! I hope all of the fights go through so here are my early predictions.

Blaydes vs Aspinall

Talk about the elite of the elite in the Heavyweight division, these two are right up there. Blaydes might barely be able to string a decision victory if he sticks to his wrestling, but if he chooses to strike like he did with Daukaus, he is getting TKO’d in one round, Aspinall is just too good in that department. I think Aspinall might struggle with Blaydes wrestling, but there is always a threat of submission from him. My early prediction is Aspinall by submission in round 1.

Hermansson vs Till

Ah the return of Darren Till. I wouldn’t be surprised if he opens up as a favorite against Hermansson since he has been training with Chimeav, but Hermansson is no easy opponent. He can hold his own quite well against top 10 opponents, and I am predicting this one to go the distance. Hermansson by SD. But I hope I get proven wrong and we see Till get a beautiful knockout.

Krylov vs Gustafsson

Gustafsson is back and returning to Light Heavyweight in this fight. This one is very important for both of them, they both need to get a win quite badly. We haven't seen Gus fight in a while, but if he still has got that spark in him, Krylov stands no chance at all. But I'm not super hopeful here, and there is still a chance of Krylov taking a decision victory. My prediction is Gus by KO

Craig vs Oezdemir 

The truth is, when Oezdemir has fought elite level opponents, most of the time he falls short. I think anyone in the top 10 would open up as a favorite against him. And Craig is on a nasty win streak. His guard is just too good. My early prediction is Craig by submission

Mokaev vs Johnson

The young prospect Mokaev comes back for his second UFC fight against Charles Johnson. Now Johnson is no easy task at all, but he hasn’t really fought any sort of decent competition. To be fair neither has Mokaev, but I still think that he will take a submission win in round 2.

McCann vs Goldy

At this point they are just giving easy opponents to McCann. She will definitely struggle against good opponents, but Hannah Goldy? After an insane knockout of Luana Carolina, who in my opinion is better than Goldy? Cmon UFC I know it's in London but make some decent fights. I predict an easy UD or KO from McCann

@ayy ricci is fit lol sam hughes looks like shrek

Aspinall & Till opened as undogs. Not as confident in till but hopefully he worked on his tdd & doesn't fight like a ****** *****. I'm so confident in Aspinall to win that he'll most likely lose 😅

Tbh I think till could win. Hermanssons wrestling is kind of overrated imo; look at his accuracy on takedowns. Tills tdd isn’t that bad and he didn’t look terrible against Brunson but once the takedowns happened he got ******. I think that was mostly because of his torn acl he was fighting on. He got surgery for it and has 100% been training tdd with Khamzat. 

As for aspinall, idrk. Blaydes striking looked massively improved against daukaus and pairing that with his great wrestling is scary. He’s already a very bad matchup for 99% of the division. Aspinall could chin him but it will be interesting to see if he can outwrestle him. If he doesn’t get the finish too, we still don’t know where his cardio is at. We know for a fact that blaydes has great cardio and wrestling so we could see him drag aspinall into deep waters

aspinall scares me here but i think he wins scared asf for that one

Aspinall has been running through his opponents & his opponents have gone on to win their fights. I really think Aspinall could be the greatest heavyweight of all time at some point. But this is mma so that could all fade away quickly like it did with Cain Velasquez 

i agree with you he gets past blades' wrestling hes not a weakness to his game

Diakiese vs. Hadžović
Marc Diakiese, DEC
Lets go Marc

Just saw a clip of the Molly elbow ko and holy **** it really made me realize how bad Carolina is. That elbow was the most telegraphed thing ever and she didn’t see it coming 

Like it wasn’t even that fast 

Hermansson vs. Till
Jack Hermansson, SUB, R1
Whoever picked till by ko is drunk and british simultaneously, hes gonna tap faster than last time.

Krylov vs. Gustafsson
Alexander Gustafsson, TKO, R2
Instantly regretting this pick

Craig vs. Oezdemir
Paul Craig, SUB, R1
the volkan was always over rated but craig is really good at getting chinned..