Yeah same! Cirkunov vs Walker second which isn't on the main card either, but still most of the fights on the main card are pretty good on paper nonetheless.

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

February 28 2019 14:58 GMT

#2082

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NoS-Craig

Australia3122 Posts

February 28 2019 15:19 GMT

#2083

I'm pumped just to see Jones again. Even if I think he's going to roll his opponent. Still one of my favourite fighters to watch. Let's hope no BS happens to mess with the main card.

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17027 Posts

February 28 2019 19:58 GMT

#2084

I think Jones and Woodley are going to destroy their opponents. I'm most looking forward to Ben Askren's debut.

Lysteria

France2280 Posts

February 28 2019 21:25 GMT

#2085

I don't want to say anything about Woodley, I always expect him to get beat convincingly and he wins everytime, I give up on his case. Kind of interested in Askren's debut too but I don't think he has enough tools to do much to Lawler, rough matchup.

FiWiFaKi

Canada9859 Posts

March 01 2019 02:17 GMT

#2086

In my eyes Woodley is the 2nd best fighter in the UFC, behind Jon Jones. I think he's as complete of a fighter as you can get, really no weakness, and fights super smart. In his current shape, I think we would have beaten every WW in UFC history. Stylistically, I think rangy high volume strikers are the only ones who will give him issue (Diaz, Rory, Thompson, etc), or fighters who are bigger than him that he could outwrestle him (but that's more at MW, I think at MW he'd have a much tougher time).

Askren, I'll reserve my judgement on as I know little about him. I do think that Robbie looked really shaky against RDA, and with a performance like that, I think a good wrestlers would win.

Anthony Smith I'm pretty excited for. In theory JJ will keep him at range and just pick him apart, while Anthony Smith exhausts himself in 3 rounds with explosive forward movement, but idk. Anthony Smith can go pretty kamikazee, and I think it's possible he could clip Jon. Smith has good Jiu Jitsu too, so I don't think Jones will try to take the fight to the ground, at least not until Round 3 when energy is a lot lower. Anyway, I'm excited, keeping Smith at range at distance won't be easy for 5 rounds, if it happens, then it'll be underwhelming and seem expected, but I think it's going to be really tense and on a knifes edge, with one mistep allowing a possible KO. Smith is durable AF too, so imo unless Smith punches himself out, then it'll be a decision.

CorsairHero

Canada9491 Posts

March 01 2019 05:14 GMT

#2087

not surprised

Lysteria

France2280 Posts

March 01 2019 06:59 GMT

#2088

On March 01 2019 11:17 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Askren, I'll reserve my judgement on as I know little about him. I do think that Robbie looked really shaky against RDA, and with a performance like that, I think a good wrestlers would win.

I've seen three of his four last matches, recently, and I'm not really that impressed. I don't think anything he'll do on his feet will do any harm to Lawler. Then, even if his ground game seemed dominant (can't really say more, I think two of those fights were first round KO), his takedowns are way too plotty in my opinion. From a long distance, down the line, same form, and with Lawler's takedown defense, I don't think this is gonna be enough. Lawler's defense is underrated mostly because he was horrible at it the first half of his career, and he kinda kept that reputation undeservingly.

Lawler fought and won against Cerrone, MacDonald, Brown to some extent, Condit and especially kept Johnny Hendricks of all people at bay. And I doubt Askren is a better wrestler/takedown artist than Hendricks was.

I agree with your Woodley analysis, that's why I had him on the losing end of his bouts with Thompson and Till, but like you said, he probably has one of the highest fight IQ in the sport, so now I'm not surprised with him winning nonetheless.

Jockmcplop

United Kingdom9729 Posts

March 01 2019 13:55 GMT

#2089

On March 01 2019 14:14 CorsairHero wrote:
https://twitter.com/MMAjunkieJohn/status/1101198573864050688
not surprised

That basically means they found nothing, right?

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 01 2019 14:28 GMT

#2090

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JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 01 2019 16:09 GMT

#2091

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JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 01 2019 23:15 GMT

#2092

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CorsairHero

Canada9491 Posts

March 01 2019 23:44 GMT

#2093

On March 01 2019 11:17 FiWiFaKi wrote:
In my eyes Woodley is the 2nd best fighter in the UFC, behind Jon Jones. I think he's as complete of a fighter as you can get, really no weakness, and fights super smart.

Cormier, Holloway and Khabib
Rory Mac embarrassed woodley but that was a few years ago

Jockmcplop

United Kingdom9729 Posts

March 01 2019 23:46 GMT

#2094

On March 01 2019 23:28 JimmiC wrote:
Yes they just found the old stuff. So at least for now fight should be on. So now that the Jon jones drug test is clean we just need people to not get injured or hospitalized from bad weight cuts and we should get a great card.

What I meant was that in an analytical chemistry test, when you find *an amount* of something or less - it usually signifies that the test doesn't conclusively find anything at all..
In other words, the 'or less' means that there was nothing found to a certain limit - which would be the lower limit of what you can test for.
I explained that really badly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection_limit

peanuts

United States1225 Posts

March 03 2019 02:32 GMT

#2095

I will never truly understand Jonny Walker.

FiWiFaKi

Canada9859 Posts

March 03 2019 03:30 GMT

#2096

That Pedro Munhoz vs Cody Garbrant exchange was awesome. New fan here, well spoken too. You've got to give Marlon then next title shot, but I'm good with Munhoz being in the next title eliminator afterwards.