Matchmaking

Tainara Lisboa had a very nice debut so she will probably be matched up with 1 of the other 3 1-0 women's FLWs on the UFC roster: Irina Alekseeva, Jamey-Lyn Horth, or Tamires Vidal and I would throw Joselyne Edwards and Vanessa Melo in the mix as good opponents for her as well. 

At this point with the losing streak, Clark should be given a layup like Cowan and quickly before Cowan improves too much and if she can't get a win there, then retire. 

I think Stamann is a fool looking to have that fight overturned because what I saw was Andrade push off with his feet, not kick. I hate the ridiculous definition of a downed opponent anyway. 

Stamann as a FW just seems like a mistake but I'll give it a shot: Melsik, T.J. Brown, Elkins, Fishgold, Garagorri, Lingo, Narimani, Shayilan, Rosa, and Young are the only possibilities I could come up with scanning down who I still have on the roster without including the very inexperienced. With his good tdd, maybe he could Edgar his way to a win over the grapplers on the list but I wouldn't be very excited or expect much out of any of those matchups. 

Andrade probably doesn't have that many fights left so maybe Kyler Phillips, Danaa, or Alateng. I'm a huge Pedro Muhnoz fan and think it would be a mismatch but I would watch that. 

Now for the WWs: 

Gabe Green vs. Kenan Song sounds about right
Court vs. Means
D-Rod vs. Semelsberger
Battle vs. the winner of Griffin/Morales 
Matt Brown vs. Ponzinibbio - don't want to see it but it just sounds so good
Morono vs. Gunnar
Garry vs. Kevin Holland, Michel Pereira, or Wonderboy but that's almost certainly too big of a step up

Karl Williams vs. Mohammed Usman
Bigi Boy vs. Tuivasa
Jailton vs. Volkov

Potieria vs. Boser
Ulberg vs. winner of Rountree/Daukaus so Rountree

Walker vs. Krylov 

And I titled this generically so feel free to matchmake for fighters not on this card

I'd like to see either Aspinall vs Volkov or Volkov vs Almeida, just depends where the UFC wants him to fight in the rankings. 

Haqparast vs. Klein
Mullarkey vs. Borschev 
Makdessi vs. Diakiese 
Quinones vs. Saragih 

Mariscal vs. Gomis or Culibao
Miranda vs. Pineda

Pedro vs. Menifield 
Ulberg vs. Spann 

Lane vs. Smith 
Tuivasa vs. Rozenstruik 
Justin Tafa vs. Cortes-Acosta 
Volkov vs. Buday 

Izzy - time off. His resume makes him a title challenger for whoever holds the belt in 6-9 months
Strickland vs. DDP or winner of Costa/Chimaev 

Josefine Knutsson vs Iasmin Lucindo or Cheyanne Vlismas
Marnic Mann vs Shauna Bannon

Charlie Campbell vs Yanal Ashmouz
Alex Reyes vs Alex Munoz

Tracy Cortez vs Casey O'Neill
Jas Jasudavicious vs Ariane Lipski

Edgar Chairez vs Jake Hadley
Daniel Lacerda PINK SLIP

Roman Kopylov vs Andre Muniz
Josh Fremd vs Dustin Stoltzfus 

Loopy Godinez vs Piera Rodriguez
Elise Reed vs Julia Polastri

Kyle Nelson vs Nate Landwehr 
Fernando Padilla vs Jeong Yeong Lee

Daniel Zellhuber vs Evan Elder
Christos Giagos vs Thiago Moises

Raul Rosas Jr vs Steven Koslow
Terrence Mitchell vs Luan Lacerda OR Pink Slip

JDM vs Sean Brady
Kevin Holland vs Chris Curtis

Grasso vs Shev trilogy ?

Lacerda vs. Bondar 
Chairez vs. Barez 

Mann vs. Bannon 
Knutsson vs. winner of Inoue/Goldy 
Reed vs. Viana 
Loopy vs. Gillian Robertson 

Padilla vs. Almeida 
Nelson vs. Pineda 

Campbell vs. Elder or Munoz 
Giagos vs. Gruetzemacher 
Zellhuber vs. Ziam 

Mateusz Gamrot vs Justin Gaethje #1 Contender fight
Rafael Fiziev vs Michael Chandler

Bryce Mitchell vs Movsar Evloev
Dan Ige vs Andre Fili

Marina Rodriguez rematch against Carla Esparza
Michelle Waterson retirement

Bryan Battle vs Khaos Williams
AJ Fletcher vs Carlos Prates

Charles Jourdain vs Cub Swanson
Ricardo Ramos vs Josh Culibao

Miles Johns vs Brad Katona
Dan Argueta vs Gaston Bolanos

Tim Means vs Court McGee
Andre Fialho cut

Jacob Malkoun vs Claudio Ribeiro
Cody Brundage vs Edmen Shabazyan

Mo Usman vs Justin Tafa
Jake Collier cut

Mizuki Inoue vs  Loma Lookboonmee 
Hannah Goldy vs Stephanie Luciano (Or cut)

Montserrat Rendon vs Jacqueline Calvacanti
Tamires Vidal vs Hailey Cowan

Ok this ATT **** is starting to muck up LW matchmaking

Gamrot should face Dawson if he wins in 2 weeks. 

Mitchell vs. Lerone Murphy or Pearce 
Evloev vs. Giga 
Ige vs. Shore 
Jourdain vs. Gomis 
Ramos vs. Erosa 

Ok I know Andrade is on a losing streak but how have we not seen her vs. Marina. If she beats Dern, that's the fight to make.

Waterson vs. Reed 
Inoue vs. Knutsson 
Goldy vs. Istela Nunes 

Fletcher vs. Fugitt or Preston Parsons 
Means vs. Price 
Battle vs. Malott 
Fialho vs. Miguel Baeza 

JJ Aldrich should fight : Julia Stoliarenko
Montana de la Rosa should fight : She might get cut, but since it's WMMA, let's do Cortney Casey

Aoriqileng should fight : Sergei Morozov
Johnny Munoz Jr. should fight : Dan Argueta

Vanessa Demopoulos should fight : Polyana Viana
Kanako Murata should fight : Sam Hughes

Nate Maness should fight : Jimmy Flick
Mateus Mendonca should fight : Victor Altamirano

Karolina Kowalkiewicz should fight : Loma Lookboonmee
Diana Belbita should fight : Silvana Gomez Juarez

Bill Algeo should fight : Damon Jackson
Alexander Hernandez should fight : Ottoman Azaitar

Drew Dober should fight : Diego Ferreira
Ricky Glenn should fight : Loik Radzhabov

Joaquin Buckley should fight : Khaos Williams
Alex Morono should fight : Niko Price

Joe Pyfer should fight : Gregory Rodrigues
Abdul Razak Alhassan should fight : Puna Soriano

Bobby Green should fight : Renato Moicano
Grant Dawson should fight : Dan Hooker

* Edited at 10.07.2023, 11:30 PM ET *

Emily Ducote vs Elise Reed
Ashley Yoder probably will get cut, if they give her one more, let's do Julia Poliastri

Chris Gutierrez vs Montel Jackson 
Alatengheili vs Cody Gibson

Melissa Dixon vs Nora Cornolle 
Irina Alekseeva vs Tamires Vidal

Terrance McKinney vs Kamuela Kirk
Brendan Marotte vs Landon Quinnones

Tainara Lisboa vs Montserrat Rendon  Ravena Oliveira vs Darya Zheleznyakova 

Darren Elkins vs Luis Saldaña
TJ Brown vs Herbert Burns

Christian Rodriguez vs Aiemann Zahabi
Cameron Saaiman vs Toshiomi Kazama

Michel Pereira vs Brad Tavares
Andre Petroski vs Chidi Njokuani

Jonathan Martinez vs Song Yadong
Adrian Yanez vs Raoni Barcelos

Vivi Araujo vs Natalia Silva
Jennifer Maia vs Lauren Murphy

Edson Barboza vs Dan Ige rematch
Sodiq Yusuff vs Billy Q

Ducote vs. Hughes 
Yoder vs. Belbita 
Karolina vs. Loma 

Alekseeva vs. Vidal 
Oliveira vs. Cowan 
Dixon vs. Cornolle 
Lisboa vs. winner of Pudilova/Perez

Marotte vs. Quinones 
McKinney vs. Ludovit Klein 

Petroski vs. Meerschaert 
Pereira vs. Oleksiejczuk 

Alatengheili vs. Saaiman 
Gutierrez vs. Kyler Phillips 
Yanez vs. Munhoz 
Martinez vs. Yan 

Maia vs. Murphy 
Araujo vs. Cortez 

Brown vs. Lingo 
Elkins vs. Mariscal 
C-Rod vs. Melsik Baghdasaryan 
Yusuff vs. Ige 
Barboza vs. Lerone Murphy 

Dudakova vs. McKenna 

Elliott vs. Dvorak 
Mokaev vs. Albazi 

Magomedov vs Rodrigues
Silva vs Chidi Njokuani

Dudakova vs Ducote
Yu Frey cut

Naimov vs Bagdahsaryan
Wood vs Erosa

Breeden vs Tom Nolan
Jubli vs Brendan Marotte

Dumas vs Todorovic
Abu Azaitar vs Marquez

Henry vs Basharat rematch (especially with the post-fight sheanigans and Basharat social media's posts)

Peek vs Ashmouz or Holobaugh
Yahya vs Patterson

Elliot vs Almabaev
Mokaev vs Perez

Nurmagomedov vs Taylor Lapilus
Gafurov vs Saimon Oliveira

Aliskerov vs Imavov
Alves vs Danny Roberts

Ank and Walker rematch (Brazil FN headliner in 2024 Q1)

Khamzat vs Costa
Usman vs Mohammad at 170 or Usman vs Hermansson at 185

Islam vs Charles II
Volk vs Topuria

Obviously Volk vs. Topuria but not for at least 6 months and either Oliveira or Gaethje for Islam

Henry vs. Davey Grant
Javid Basharat vs. Taylor Lapilus
Said vs. Chris Gutierrez or Kyler Phillips

Fights to make after UFC Sao Paulo

Mark Diakese vs Mike Davis
Kaue Fernandes vs Victor Martinez

Eduarda Moura vs Sam Hughes
Montserrat Ruiz vs Stephanie Luciano

Angela Hill vs Karoline Kowalkiewicz
Denise Gomes vs Cheyanne Vlismas

Vitor Petrino vs Carlos Ulberg
Modestas Bukauskas vs Bogdan Guskov

Rinat Fakhretdinov vs Gunnar Nelson
Elizeu Zaleski vs Max Griffin

Elves Brenner vs Terrence McKinney
Kaynan Kruschewsky vs James Llontop

Caio Borralho vs Brad Tavares
Abus Magomedov vs Albert Duraev

Rodrigo Nascimento vs Marcos Rogerio de Lima
Don'Tale Mayes vs Jhonata Diniz

Nicholas Dalby vs Michael Chiesa
Gabriel Bonfim vs Jeremiah Wells

Derrick Lewis vs Jair Rozenstruick
Jailton Almeida vs Curtis Blaydes

Jamall Emmers vs Bill Algeo
Dennis Buzukja vs Manolo Zecchini

Josh Van vs Jesus Aguilar
Kevin Borjas vs Vinicius Salvador

John Castaneda vs Sergey Morozov
Kyung Ho Kang vs Cody Gibson

Jared Gordon vs Drew Dober
Mark O'Madsen vs Carlos Diego Ferreira

Nazim Sadhykov vs Lando Vannata
Slava Borshchev vs Trevor Peek

Mateusz Rebecki vs L'udovit Klein
Roosevelt Roberts vs Abdul Kareem Al-Selwady

Loopy Godinez vs Marina Rodriguez
Tabatha Ricci vs Loma Lookboonmee

Steve Erceg vs Bruno Silva
Alessandro Costa vs Jake Hadley

Diego Lopes vs Nath Landwehr
Pat Sabatini vs Alexander Hernandez

Benoit Saint-Denis vs Jalin Turner
Matt Frevola vs Claudio Puelles

Jessica Andrade vs Carla Esparza
Mackenzie Dern vs Karolina Kowalkiewicz

Tom Aspinall vs Jon Jones
Sergei Pavlovich vs Alex Volkov

Alex Pereira vs Jamahal Hill 
Jiri Prochazka vs Nikita Krylov

Fights to make after UFC FN - Allen vs. Craig — Main Event

• Brendan Allen

vs. Robert Whittaker

• Paul Craig

vs. Bruno Silva

• Michael Morales

vs. Kevin Holland 

• Jake Matthews

vs. Daniel Rodriguez or Santiago Ponzinibbio

• Chase Hooper

vs. Natan Levy

• Jordan Leavitt

vs. Trevor Peek

• Payton Talbott

vs. Aoriqileng 

• Nick Aguirre

vs. Kleydson Rodrigues

• Amanda Ribas

vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz

• Luana Pinhiero

vs. Denise Gomes

• Myktybek Orolbai

vs. Jonny Parsons

• Uros Medic

vs. Matt Brown

Prelim Fighters Matchups to Make —

• Joanderson Brito

vs. Diego Lopes 2

• Jose Johnson

vs. Aiemann Zahabi

•  CLD

vs. Jacob Malkoun

• Mick Parkin

vs. Justin Tafa

• Ailin Perez

vs. Tainara Lisboa

* Edited at 11.19.2023, 2:48 AM ET *