UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

at this point our energies, our consciousness and existences are synced with each other

our posts are perfectly timed with each other and create a very cohesive series of posts for bums on this site to read and educate themselves

personally, if there was one mythical figure that me, you and andrew could be compared to is the Lernaean Hydra.

absolute ******* beast of a creature with 3 heads, you cut one off and it simply just grows back out stronger - just like us 3.

oh and btw, you like that Rollie in the pic? i've mailed you and andrew the exact same one and it should be arriving soon. my gift and your reward to you for being such an incredible mma insight mind.

cheers to 2022 and bring 2023 on, we're simply unstoppable

Amen. That should be our symbol. It is fitting that an immortal, unimaginably magnificent entiry, almost a deity should be our symbol.

And thank you for the Rollie, I will add it to my collector showcase. I really appreciate it. I have ordered a delivery to your house soon. If Piero Ferrari turns up at your door soon remember to answer. He will have a Christmas present for you.

I hsve just been watching some women's sports. It's quite funny actually, watching women's cricketers rolling around dropping catches and bowling absolute pies. Similar to so many other womens sports. Tennis, gymnastics and a few other sports perhaps being exceptions, most women's sports are just a pale poor imitation of men's sports.

As for Women's MMA. LOL 😆 

also to touch on a little bit more on the irish MMA/Boxing scene, one way or another most of the corruption leads to one person and one person only, Daniel Kinahan

head of the Kinahan Cartel, one of the most influential figures in the combat sports scene in Europe and very popular among UK fighters, he's basically linked to many UK/Middle Eastern fighters and is known for putting on very shady deals

a few examples of famous fighters he's been linked to are Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Conor McGregor (when the meme of the irish cartel having put a hit on conor was going around, this was the guy that had supposedly put the hit on conor), Darren Till and lastly a guy who's fighting on 283 I believe Mounir Lazzez (bum who's getting exposed)

personally, I do not put a lot of weight onto U.K. prospects as they're most of the time huge hypejobs and on a more general note I've got a list of promotions that I instantly fade when betting

Cage Warriors - Brave CF - Lux Fight League - ACA (partly) - UAE Warriors just to name a few

if you're a fighter from these promotions, you need to prove yourself a couple of times against actual ufc fighters before I show any interest in you

This is why you, me and Andrew are the truth.

Apart from our incredible MMA knowledge and abilities to analyse fights and fighters we also understand the external issues, which may be more important than the fight itself when it comes to betting. 

Corruption in MMA did not start and end with Krause, silly boys. It's been shady for a long long time. You just need to know how to read the tea leaves to take advantage of this

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 9:12 PM ET *

I have to say I am still undecided on Lux. They do seem to have good fighters. Need to observe more on them.

The other promotions are a gold mine to fade. Like fighters from Syndicate 

personally, I despise women's MMA ( i'm not misogynistic, I love women ) and have actually lost money a couple of times by making the mistake of actually putting effort into betting on two women fighting each other 

there's no worse feeling in the world than watching your thorough and extensive analysis going out the window because of the absolutely dog**** fighting IQ and decision making + judging that's going on in WMMA

a couple of recent stark examples of this are Melissa Martinez, an insanely experienced Karate / Tae Kwon Do fighter out of Mexico, deciding to grapple with Elise Reed after easily winning on the feet and end up losing a decision by getting badly outgrappled and Loma Lookboonmee, a Muay Thai specialist, almost throwing away a freebie decision against Denise Gomes by continuously grappling and almost getting subbed a gazillion times in a fight. many more such examples in women's mma. 

I will admit though, every now and then, there's a ridiculously talented prospect that jumps out of nowhere in the WMMA scene that forces me to show interest in it again. 

it used to be Tatiana Suarez, it used to be Weili Zhang, it used to be Alexa Grasso, it used to be Marina Rodriguez, it used to be Xiaonan Yan, it used to be Manon Fiorot and now it's Victoria Dudakova

keep an eye out for her as she could end up being a very valuable parlay piece early on in her career since she's most likely getting the sean o'malley build up treatment

23 years old, insane grappler, insane heart, the potential upside is there for her career and other than Tatiana Suarez and Weili Zhang, she's the only WMMA fighter I might potentially bother betting on

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 9:23 PM ET *

Once again we agree. I also do rate Alexa Grasso and Jasmin jauregui (if that's how it's spelt). I really like them. Also like ManonFiorot though she has many holes in her game and dog**** IQ. 

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 9:29 PM ET *

Btw... hype job of the century =McKenzie Dern.

Still not one bit convinced by Erin Blanchfield either, though I could possibly be wrong here. Yes, I know. It sounds impossible but I have been wrong before. Once.

I actually also rate Tracey Cortez against most women in her division. 

Victoria Dudakova will be on my watch list. Thank you Bananas 

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 9:30 PM ET *

yeah, Mackenzie Dern sucks

it just goes to show how much of a meme WMMA is

a good bjj player with a little bit of power in her hands for wmma standards can just randomly come along and almost luck her way into a title shot, this **** wouldn't fly in actual men's mma

another wmma prospect who i'm willing to blindly place large chunks of money on if she ever gets on any major MMA promotion is Victoria Anthony

currently only 1-0 but she's genuinely one of the best freestyle wrestlers in all of mma right now, not just wmma but all of mma including men's

i'm not sure if she's ever going to land in the ufc because she fights at 105 (bulking up to 115 could be possible but she's only 5 ft tall so idk how size is going to play out in the ufc) but if Tatiana Suarez can be so successful and run through a division with her wrestling then Victoria Anthony, an even better wrestler, will literally maul the **** out of every single woman on the roster

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 10:19 PM ET *

Victoria is an animal. Good shout; I totally forgot she transitioned to mma

Also btw, the majority of the talented women are outside the ufc rn. We are starting to get women who grew up in martial arts, not just started because they saw Ronda on tv. In the next few years we’re gonna see a whole new wave of good talents in the ufc. Fatima Kline, Ediana silva, Josefinne Knutsson, Dakota Ditcheva (pls leave pfl🙏🙏), Valesca machado, and many more are on the rise 

Guys any woman with even one decent takedown would run through any woman's division. Which is why I rate Cortez
 She has good wrestling 

Just wait till Jacqueline amorim makes her ufc debut. They signed her a few months ago; she’s gonna make a splash at 115

I really hope you are right (I am sure you are) because currently WMMA in the UFC is appalling 

All we gotta do is suffer for 2-3 years then we get some real talent 🙏🙏🙏

They’re slowly funneling in new talent like blanchfield, jauregui, amorim, lucindo, fernandes etc. so we’re getting there 

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 10:55 PM ET *

Honestly, Sijara is just about as bad as Pricilla, I wouldn’t want my money on either chick, If I bet this fight, I just bet the underdog knowing that either girl can win, It my trick with women MMA, Knowing that it bad and any girl can win

* Edited at 12.25.2022, 11:00 PM ET *