UFC FN 46: McGregor vs. Brandao

Date: Saturday, July 19th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 11:30 LP.net / 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass): 14:00 LP.net / 12pm PST / 3pm EST
Live Streams: http://www.vipbox.tv (All MMA events are listed under the UFC button. Press the UFC button and you'll see the event in the list.)





Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Conor McGregor (14-2) vs. Diego Brandao (18-9) (Featherweight)
Gunnar Nelson (12-0-1) vs. Zak Cummings (17-3) (Welterweight)
Brad Pickett (24-8) vs. Ian McCall (12-4-1) (Flyweight)
Norman Parke (19-2-1) vs. Naoyuki Kotani (33-10-7) (Lightweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Ilir Latifi (8-3) vs. Chris Dempsey (10-1) (Light Heavyweight)
Neil Seery (13-10) vs. Phil Harris (22-11) (Flyweight)
Cathal Pendred (13-2-1) vs. Mike King (5-0) (Middleweight)
Tor Troeng (16-5-1) vs. Trevor Smith (11-5) (Middleweight)
Cody Donovan (8-4) vs. Nikita Krylov (16-4) (Light Heavyweight)
Patrick Holohan (9-0-1) vs. Josh Sampo (11-3) (Flyweight)

Other

- The event was expected to be headlined by a featherweight bout between Conor McGregor and Cole Miller. However, Miller was forced to pull out due to an injury, and was replaced by Diego Brandao. Despite the change with one of the headlining participants, ticket demand was high for the event, with all 8,000 tickets selling out within a few hours of going on sale.
- Ryan LaFlare was scheduled to face Gunnar Nelson at the event. However, LaFlare was removed from the card and replaced by Zak Cummings.
- Tom Lawlor was expected to face Ilir Latifi at the event. However, Lawlor pulled out of the bout with an injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Chris Dempsey.

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First thoughts:

• McGregor > Brandao
• Nelson > Cummings
• McCall > Pickett
• Parke > Kotani
• Latifi > Dempsey
• Seery > Harris
• Pendred vs. King (dunno yet)
• Troeng vs. Smith (dunno yet)
• Donovan > Krylov
• Sampo > Holohan

I don't know about Conor but Gunnar Nelson will be a champion soon!

Nice Main card. I think its an easy parlay on Mcgregor and Gunnar (-196)

I wish McGregor was just a little less fucking annoying, his fight with Brimage was really impressive and I liekd him a lot initially... then i made the mistake of listening to him repeat "KOOL, SEI MAI NEIM, SEI IT" for 30 minutes on the MMA hour.

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Diego is a decent fight for about 1.5 rounds.

McGregoat will most likely wreck Diego. Diego's stand up is very powerful but sloppy as shit. I see him coming in wild and aggressive and getting lit up like a christmas tree.

Would be very interesting if it hit the ground. Diego's BJJ is pretty damn beastly and we haven't really seen McGregor tested in that regard in the UFC. I don't think diego is smart enough to take it to the ground though.

Haven't seen much of Cummins but I think Gunnar is a beast and will steam roll.

Kinda pulling for Pickett because he's really exciting and 125 needs some life pumped into it. That division is dead, and Pickett has a win over MM so at least that'd be kind of interesting. Though MM is a way, way better fight now.

Diego Brandao (145.5) VS Conor McGregor (146)
Zak Cummings (171) VS Gunnar Nelson (170.5)
Ian McCall (126) VS Brad Pickett (126)
Naoyuki Kotani (155.5) VS Norman Parke (155.5)
Ilir Latifi (205) VS Chris Dempsey (204)
Phil Harris (126) VS Neil Seery (125.5)
Mike King (185.5) VS Cathal Pendred (186)
Trevor Smith (185.5) VS Tor Troeng (185)
Nikita Krylov (205) VS Cody Donovan (205)
Patrick Holohan (125.5) VS Josh Sampo (126*)

*Sampo made weight on his second attempt after initially weighing in at 126.5 pounds

I just went all in on Mcgregor + Nelson

On July 18 2014 19:15 alejandicto wrote: I just went all in on Mcgregor + Nelson

Me 2 hahah

On July 15 2014 09:47 gryzzlybearr wrote: I don't know about Conor but Gunnar Nelson will be a champion soon!

Nobody likes Hendricks anyway, its cause of people like him GSP decided to quit
Not that GSP was any fun to watch with his 5 round TD-elbow-TD-elbow repeat all the time

On July 18 2014 19:15 alejandicto wrote: I just went all in on Mcgregor + Nelson

I have McGregor/Nelson/Sampo in a parlay. I also have Nelson/Cummings o1.5 rounds at -140.

This is a hard card to bet cuz all of the favorites are either correctly priced or are overpriced at this point. There's also no live betting on Bookmaker/5dimes for this event cuz it's strictly on Fight Pass, so I'll have to place all of my bets beforehand and just hope for the best. It looks like a card where all the favorites will win, though.

The only favorite that people are actually debating on is Cathal Pendred vs. Mike King. King is supposed to have a wrestling advantage and size advantage, and Pendred is a 170`er who's fighting at 185 for this fight. I only have Pendred in a long-shot parlay, I don't know enough about King to bet on him and I don't like betting against Irish fighters in Ireland.

Loved Conor and Diego's energy at the weigh ins. Holy shit.

Bookmaker just added all 10 fights for this card under live betting. This is the first time they've done this, afaik. Let's hope they deliver the goods!

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On July 18 2014 19:53 PuertoRican wrote: The only favorite that people are actually debating on is Cathal Pendred vs. Mike King. King is supposed to have a wrestling advantage and size advantage, and Pendred is a 170`er who's fighting at 185 for this fight. I only have Pendred in a long-shot parlay, I don't know enough about King to bet on him and I don't like betting against Irish fighters in Ireland.

Cathal was fighting at 185 whole TUF tournament, so his size difference isn't so big. He was the guy that people were supposedly over-hyped about, but didn't really impress. I wouldn't bet this fight, I don't see any of the two having a clear advantage of some sort tbh


At last a interesting event i can watch in live time in the normal hours and no 4am or some shit

Prelims start in 1 hour.

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Thanks for reminder PuertoRican, finally we can watch fights 8pm not 4am

very nice indeeed

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http://www.ufc.tv/video/mcgregor-vs-brandao-exclusive-fight-pass-prelims

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On July 19 2014 11:32 MysticJoey wrote: is it on already? also, this free transaction took 1.39 from my neteller wtf? ;s

Stream just went up.

No live betting on Bookmaker. And Sampo lost...

works fine, turned adblock off

lol @ incontrol in the corner

Mike King instantly passed out when Cathal Pendred squeezed the RnC.

Do any of you guys think that was a little weird?

On July 19 2014 12:53 PuertoRican wrote: Mike King instantly passed out when Cathal Pendred squeezed the RnC. Do any of you guys think that was a little weird?

Something was really off with the last part of round 1 and whole round 2.. overall really nice fight, but something really feels weird about Mike King

haaaa sick sick crowd

On July 19 2014 12:55 Spitfiree wrote: Show nested quote + On July 19 2014 12:53 PuertoRican wrote: Mike King instantly passed out when Cathal Pendred squeezed the RnC. Do any of you guys think that was a little weird? Something was really off with the last part of round 1 and whole round 2.. overall really nice fight, but something really feels weird about Mike King

King gassed himself out in round 1, which was noticeable when he had Pendred flattened out on his stomach and was punching him from top mount with barely any force.

The thing that's weird to me is that Pendred got the choke/crank and then King instantly passed out.

Either way, I don't mind that Pendred won, as it's the only bet I've won so far on this card.

Feels like Mike King has some kind of health issue to me, noone passes out so quickly it was like 3s he had a hold of his throat and he couldn't recover for a lot of time

Seery did a great job, but he could have finished the fight if he did more than throw a fastball punch with his right hand without doing much to set it up.

Here's the link for the main card: http://www.ufc.tv/video/mcgregor-vs-brandao

mike king gif
http://gfycat.com/ScalyInsignificantBillygoat

Parke is fighting very smart. Taking his time and being calm so he can easily counter take down attempts from Kotani.

Round 1: Parke

Easy win for Parke in round 2.

Nice performance by Ian McCall, but I think he broke his hand early in the 2nd round.

Come on Nelson and Connor

gunnar doing the same thing that goes through most MTT player's heads: nothing

Gunnar got lucky with the submission imo. He was out-struck in both rounds, especially the 2nd.

hmm, brandao hurt something, he was dragging his leg like it was dead weight

Easy win as expected.

I noticed that Conor was breathing out of his mouth and started to throw his shots a little slower toward the end of round 1. He wasn't gassed, but was getting slower.

Whoa this is already over? Thought it only started like an hour ago

Whole main card worth watching?

On July 19 2014 18:35 Stim_Abuser wrote: Whole main card worth watching?

I think the event is better to watch live. When I think about the main card itself, the fights weren't really amazing imo, but the audience and bets I had on each fight really made the card feel special. I don't think I could go back and watch the fights and enjoy them in the same way, aside from:

McCall vs. Pickett = shows that speed kills at the lower division
Pendred vs. King = best comeback of 2014

Overall, the fights weren't amazing, it was just a crazy fun card to watch live. Basically, if 90% or more of the audience is screaming and shouting during every fight on a card, things seem that much more cooler and enjoyable. If this was in America, I could see people bitch about it being boring.

where can i watch the main event? i thought it was happening 3 hours from now

You can torrent it.

Pendreds striking is so incredibly poor... worse than aoki almost, because at least aoki doesn't try to strike much.

Ilir latifi is a beast.

LOL
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