UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor - Page 12

I thought woodley won too. they gotta decide if it's damage or volume that determines the win.

Mcgregor should ask for bisping and get three titles hehe

I thought wonderboy won 2,3, and 5. I do feel like woodley did significant more damage in the fight and anyone just looking at it overall would say he won the fight.

Ohh look Maia is about to get fucked.. what else is new.. :/

OOOOO shit i didnt watch the post fight interview with Khabib, since i downloaded the event and only saw the fights. I really, really, really want him to get a match with Conor. Its gonna be so fucking good. I really hope the UFC doesn't cut him off, he did set up a potential marketing blast off with that interview as well. Those two are definitely the best in the division with the striker vs grappler match up gonna be so nice

I love how he didn't even think about Alvarez having a shot winning too :D

The 1st judge scorecard is comically bad. How do you give Woodley the 3rd round, lol. If the criteria for scoring fights is damage, obviously T-wood wins this fight, but the judging criteria is scoring the rounds and it is pretty clear draw or Wonderboy win. 4th round is debatable, even though Thompson got mauled at one point and was almost finished, he still controlled the action up until that point and finished the last minute on top throwing shots at Tyrone. So you might give this one 10--9 or 10-8, it is fine either way,imo.

Love Khabib, what a ferocious monster. He is a nightmare match up for Conor ( and for everyone else in LW div for that matter,lol) and I don't think that they are going to make this fight right now even though it is going to be huge. Ferguson is also interesting match up, but he got dropped couple times against Lando Vannata, not long ago. He is a tough but also very hitable, so he will be in trouble against Mcgregor and most likely will get pummeled in the opening rounds. So many great match ups at LW, hope they don't go with Diaz trilogy as there are more interesting ones, but won't complain if they do, also.

lol, Bisping is going to die.

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On November 13 2016 09:34 Big_Rob_isback wrote: Show nested quote + On November 13 2016 08:52 lucky331 wrote: alvarez should have went for the humble route than try to play with conor in his own game. Alvarez didn't lose because of trying to fight a certain style. He tried for takedowns and got embarrassed 3 times because they looked so bad. Conor had a 5 inch reach advantage, and when he has a decent reach advantage he is pretty unstoppable. That is why Diaz is is hardest competition, because Diaz has a reach advantage over Conor, which is pretty crazy considering Conor has a huge 74 inch reach.

i dont mean that. i meant the way alvarez acted in press conferences and in public before the fight. now he's home with his family feeling stupid and in a way, used.

Fuckin' hell how can you not believe in this gai?!

First 3 pointer of his life (much less basketball) and he makes it! lol smh

Cerrone next, I want to see some more stand up. Khabib's not tapped the Russians behind him and Ferguson is still at "who the fuck is that guy" level, nobody cares about his big mouth until he beats someone in the top 5. Nate will always be there, probably if Conor cleans up LW or takes a loss vs the next 3 guys. RDA dropped off but he will be back as well.

On November 12 2016 15:04 alejandicto wrote: My only bet a parlay: Frankie (only chance for jeremy is KO and I dont think that happens with Edgar) + Khabib (Is far superior and Michaels TDD is bad) + Joanna (Karolina is overrated IMO) + Mcgregor (I think he will KO eddie within two rounds)

:D Finally I made some money

They need to give Khabib or Ferguson the next shot at McG if he is to retain the title. If you don't the division gets even more clogged up than it already is with deserving contenders waiting for a shot.

On November 14 2016 15:20 alejandicto wrote: Show nested quote + On November 12 2016 15:04 alejandicto wrote: My only bet a parlay: Frankie (only chance for jeremy is KO and I dont think that happens with Edgar) + Khabib (Is far superior and Michaels TDD is bad) + Joanna (Karolina is overrated IMO) + Mcgregor (I think he will KO eddie within two rounds) :D Finally I made some money

Congrats! xD

On November 14 2016 17:48 goswser wrote: They need to give Khabib or Ferguson the next shot at McG if he is to retain the title. If you don't the division gets even more clogged up than it already is with deserving contenders waiting for a shot.

The UFC Lightweight division a tricky situation.

1. Conor is a double champion and is in charge now (he calls the shots since Ronda isn't a champion anymore, and she is talking about retirement soon).

2. Tony Ferguson doesn't care about a title shot, and he avoided talking to Joe Rogan after he beat RDA last week. All he said was "thank you" to the fans, then walked away real fast. He doesn't care about trash talking or promoting or a title shot, so it's hard for the UFC to get behind him. This would be Conor's best option.

3. Khabib has limited English and his trash talking sucks. Also, only the hard core fans know who he is because he is always injured, and even though he's 24-0, he is the most unknown fighter in the UFC top-10 at Lightweight. Conor can sell any PPV card, but he would get less PPV buys if he fought Khabib for his next fight.

4. Conor vs. Nate Diaz would make the most sense since they are 1-1 versus each other, and Nate is a bigger star than anyone Conor has fought before (even bigger than Jose Aldo and Eddie Alvarez).

5. WME-IMG (new UFC owners) are all about making the biggest fights so they can bring in the most money. They spent over $4 billion on the UFC and fired a lot of UFC employees and are expected to reduce the number of UFC events in 2017. They just want the biggest "money fights" available, and Conor holds the key to those big money fights.

how do you know about the firings? interview or podcast somewhere?

On November 14 2016 22:04 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: how do you know about the firings? interview or podcast somewhere?

The UFC employee firings happened 2 weeks or so ago. All of the major UFC people outside of USA were recently fired, even the main guy in Canada with the short curly hair (Tom Wright) who was always the person who ran the post-fight press conferences instead of Dana White.

A bunch of people were fired, but we're only aware of the big names.

Edit: I know about the firings via all of the major MMA news websites covering it, like BloodyElbow, MMA Mania, MMA Fighting, MMA Junkie, etc.

I think that Khabib draws a lot more casuals than people think though. I'd also argue that Khabib is more well known to casuals than Ferguson, mostly because of his fight last weekend at MSG. He's not the best at trash talking, but you can definitely sell a 24-0 undefeated record to the casual audience. That being said idk if we'll see Conor fight any time soon, I don't see the UFC giving Conor a stake in the company, or paying him much more than he got for the MSG fight. He deserves it, but the UFC doesn't want to pay their fighters more than they have to, and the more they give Conor, the more everyone else wants as well.

Khabib and Ferguson need to fight for it. I think Conor has gambled enough for our entertainment for now, Nate 3 is his parachute in the event of a CONVINCING loss to either Cerrone, Khabib and Ferguson. Mayweather will surely happen if he beats all 3, featherweight is just too easy for him. The guy keeps improving each fight win or lose, if he is given the time to obssess over his wrestling and cardio, he will probably test WW lol