UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley

Date: Saturday, July 30th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 23:59 LP.net / 4pm PST / 7pm EST
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1): 1:00 LP.net / 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (PPV): 3:00 LP.net / 7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: http://firstrowus1.eu/




Main Card (PPV)

Robbie Lawler (27-10) vs. Tyron Woodley (15-3) (Welterweight Championship)
Rose Namajunas (5-2) vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz (9-0) (Women's Strawweight)
Matt Brown (20-14) vs. Jake Ellenberger (30-11) (Welterweight)
Francisco Rivera (11-6) vs. Erik Perez (15-6) (Bantamweight)
Ryan Benoit (8-4) vs. Fredy Serrano (3-0) (Flyweight)

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 2)

Ed Herman (23-11) vs. Nikita Krylov (20-4) (Light Heavyweight)
Ross Pearson (19-11) vs. Jorge Masvidal (29-11) (Welterweight)
Anthony Hamilton (14-5) vs. Damian Grabowski (20-3) (Heavyweight)
Wilson Reis (20-6) vs. Hector Sandoval (12-2) (Flyweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Michael Graves (6-0) vs. Bojan Velickovic (14-3) (Welterweight)
Cesar Arzamendia (7-2) vs. Damien Brown (15-9) (Lightweight)

Other

- A UFC Flyweight Championship bout between current champion Demetrious Johnson and challenger Wilson Reis was expected to serve as the co-main event. However on July 8, it was announced that Johnson pulled out due to an undisclosed injury and the bout was postponed. Reis was expected to remain on the card against promotional newcomer Sean Santella, but a few days later Santella announced the bout was scrapped because the UFC said "he needed to get more medicals done and there wasn't enough time". In turn, Reis will now face Hector Sandoval.
- Claudio Silva was expected to face Siyar Bahadurzada at the event. However on June 16, Silva pulled out due to injury and was replaced by Jorge Masvidal. In turn, Bahadurzada pulled out of the bout on July 12 citing an illness and was replaced by The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom winner Ross Pearson.

First impression of the match-ups:

• Lawler > Woodley
• Kowalkiewicz > Namajunas
• Brown > Ellenberger
• Rivera > Perez
• Scoggins > McCall
• Krylov > Herman
• Masvidal > Pearson
• Reis > Sandoval
• Benoit vs. Serrano (dunno)
• Graves > Velickovic
• Grabowski > Hamilton
• Brown > Arzamendia

It should be an easy fight for Lawler

On July 24 2016 08:38 Baalim wrote: It should be an easy fight for Lawler

Def think Robbies the better fight and should win here, but he's also taken a lot of punishment lately and fights have been super unpredictable this year. Wouldn't be surprised if Woodley gets a tko.

isn't it closer in the first two rounds tho?

Pretty terrible for a PPV.

Hope Lawler starches Woodley like he should, really don't want to see Tyron as a champion. Kind of a weird stylistic fight, a lot of things can happen.

Interested to see if Scoggins vs McCall.

KK vs Thug Rose is a good fight but lol at it being a Co-Main.

Everything else is pretty zzz.

On July 24 2016 20:57 soberstone wrote: Pretty terrible for a PPV. Hope Lawler starches Woodley like he should, really don't want to see Tyron as a champion. Kind of a weird stylistic fight, a lot of things can happen. Interested to see if Scoggins vs McCall. KK vs Thug Rose is a good fight but lol at it being a Co-Main. Everything else is pretty zzz.

agreed, havent seen such a weak PPV in a while.
Some fight nights are better than this.

dam this card blows, shocked they put this together for a PPV.

Eh were coming off like 4 really stacked cards. Especially before injurys/peds fucked them up a lil.

On July 25 2016 09:32 Stim_Abuser wrote: Eh were coming off like 4 really stacked cards. Especially before injurys/peds fucked them up a lil.

this, plus i think they overkilled it with UFC200, couldve swapped a few matches between those 2 cards though, UFC200 basically didn't have a single at first sight boring match up

On July 25 2016 14:48 Spitfiree wrote: Show nested quote + On July 25 2016 09:32 Stim_Abuser wrote: Eh were coming off like 4 really stacked cards. Especially before injurys/peds fucked them up a lil. this, plus i think they overkilled it with UFC200, couldve swapped a few matches between those 2 cards though, UFC200 basically didn't have a single at first sight boring match up

Especially prelims, I think Mousasi fought in the early prelims,that is just crazy

think lawler at evens ITD is better than lawler straight up at -210?

how likely is a decision in this 5 round fight

On July 26 2016 21:43 traxamillion wrote: think lawler at evens ITD is better than lawler straight up at -210? how likely is a decision in this 5 round fight

Woodley has shit cardio I can easily see him gassed by the 3rd being a sitting duck and getting finished by Lawler

Yep, I think Woodley's main problem s the cardio, otherwise he might have decent odds

that robin black is right. we know the woodley of the past, not the woodley now. this might be an upset.

Tyron Woodley trained at 2 camps for this fight: American Top Team Evolution in St. Louis (owned by Woodley), and Roufusport.

Woodley trained with Din Thomas from ATT, and the following guys from Roufusport: Anthony Pettis, Mike Rhodes, and Erik Koch.

Woodley has a documentary for his entire fight camp for this title fight. I assume there will be one more video prior to fight-day: