Main Card (Fox) Heavyweight: Fabricio Werdum vs Travis Browne Women's Bantamweight: Miesha Tate vs Liz Carmouche Lightweight: Donald Cerrone vs Edson Barboza Middleweight: Brad Tavares vs Yoel Romero
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1) Lightweight: Rafael dos Anjos vs Khabib Nurmagomedov Welterweight: Thiago Alves vs Seth Baczynski Lightweight: Jorge Masvidal vs Pat Healy Featherweight: Estevan Payan vs Alex White Middleweight: Caio Magalhaes vs Luke Zachrich Welterweight: Jordan Mein vs Hernani Perpetuo
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass) Flyweight: Dustin Ortiz vs Ray Borg Featherweight: Mirsad Bektic vs Chas Skelly Heavyweight: Derrick Lewis vs Jack May
OMG, why are we getting a female fight every second card?...
Is it really that popular? I'd much much rather see some high profile fighters. Bleh. Don't think I'll really tune into this card besides the main event. Big fan of Travis Browne, I hope he wins.
I am baffled by Rafael dos Anjos and Khabib Nurmagomedov being on the undercard, but okay okay okay predictions time:
Werdum vs Browne: I absolutely love Werdum, I think he's an amazing grappler, however, I think Browne's wrestling skill will allow him to stay away from the ground, and he will win with strikes. Werdum is also capable of winning with strikes, but typically falls to top-notch strikers.
Carmouche vs Tate: I predict this will go to a split decision and Carmouche will get robbed by the judges.
Cerrone vs Barboza: They will punch and kick each other a whole bunch, Cerrone will bleed a lot, and also win by decision.
On April 14 2014 05:47 ninazerg wrote: I am baffled by Rafael dos Anjos and Khabib Nurmagomedov being on the undercard, but okay okay okay predictions time:
Business decision, imo. They have to give Fox something main card worthy to show.
I think Browne is the most overrated fighter in the HW division, maybe the entire UFC. If the fight goes to the ground he's getting submitted, and the fact he thinks he'd be okay on the ground vs Werdum is...insane to me. I also think Werdum is going to match him in the striking department.
And speaking of overrated...Liz is going to smash Tate. And by smash I mean it will probably go to a decision :\
I really hope Cowboy puts it to Barboza, but that fight could go either way. Someone should be winning in violent fashion.
Also, it didn't get a thread, but Bisping is going to whoop the shit out of Tim Kennedy. I feel like I'm betraying my country when I say that, but Kennedy has been bugging the hell out of me with his lame attempts at trash talk. Bisping is awesome.
It was really strange, but I originally said that Liz was going to smash Tate, but when the fight started I found myself cheering for Tate during her walk out and beyond. I'm not really sure why. Caraway is a douche though. She really took it to Liz. I had her winning 29-27, felt like she deserved a 10-8 for round 3, because she threatened repeatedly with submissions, which should count almost as much as dropping someone and then having to grab for a leg and recover.
Really happy Cowboy won with a first round submission! He's going to be in the title picture soon, or a contender match at least. Excited for this main event now.
On April 14 2014 05:47 ninazerg wrote: I am baffled by Rafael dos Anjos and Khabib Nurmagomedov being on the undercard, but okay okay okay predictions time:
Werdum vs Browne: I absolutely love Werdum, I think he's an amazing grappler, however, I think Browne's wrestling skill will allow him to stay away from the ground, and he will win with strikes. Werdum is also capable of winning with strikes, but typically falls to top-notch strikers.
Carmouche vs Tate: I predict this will go to a split decision and Carmouche will get robbed by the judges.
Cerrone vs Barboza: They will punch and kick each other a whole bunch, Cerrone will bleed a lot, and also win by decision.
Werdum vs Browne: I absolutely love Werdum, I think he's an amazing grappler, however, I think Browne's wrestling skill will allow him to stay away from the ground, and he will win with strikes. Werdum is also capable of winning with strikes, but typically falls to top-notch strikers. I was right here mostly - I expected Browne and Werdum to go more back-and-forth as opposed to Browne just dying. I'm glad Werdum won though!
Carmouche vs Tate: I have to say, I really over-estimated Carmouche. I thought she would beat Alexis Davis, which she didn't, then I thought she would barely edge out Miesha Tate. I mean, she looked pretty on-point in the first round. The second round was hard for me to score, but suddenly Tate decided to fight harder in the third round. Maybe 1-2 in favor of Tate? Maybe a rematch with Cat Zingano is in order next, or at least, that seems to be the most logical fight unless Zingano remains laid-off for a long while.
Cerrone vs Barboza: They will punch and kick each other a whole bunch <- that part I got right xD Cerrone does also tend to eat big shots, which he did, but it didn't reach the point of being a bloodbath. Nevertheless, Barboza actually looked pretty good, that is, until he lost.
Nurmagomedov never fails to impress me, and I always love watching him fight, however for me, Romero vs Tavares was the best fight to watch. Really awesome wrestling in both matches. :3