UFC FN 122: Bisping vs. Gastelum

Date: Saturday, November 25th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 09:45 LP.net / 00:45am PST / 3:45am EST
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass): 13:00 LP.net / 4am PST / 7am EST
Live Streams: http://www.stopstream.me/




Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Michael Bisping (30-8) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (13-3) (Middleweight)
Li Jingliang (13-4) vs. Zak Ottow (15-4) (Welterweight)
Wang Guan (16-1-1) vs. Alex Caceres (13-10) (Featherweight)
Muslim Salikhov (12-1) vs. Alex Garcia (14-4) (Welterweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Zabit Magomedsharipov (13-1) vs. Sheymon Moraes (9-1) (Featherweight)
Kenan Song (11-3) vs. Bobby Nash (8-3) (Welterweight)
Kailin Curran (4-5) vs. Yan Xiaonan (7-1) (Women's Strawweight)
Yadong Song (9-3) vs. Bharat Khandare (5-2) (Bantamweight)
Chase Sherman (11-3) vs. Shamil Abdurakhimov (17-4) (Heavyweight)
Yanan Wu (9-1) vs. Gina Mazany (4-1) (Women's Bantamweight)
Wuliji Buren (9-3) vs. Rolando Dy (8-6-1) (Featherweight)
Cyril Asker (8-3) vs. Yaozong Hu (3-0) (Heavyweight)

Other

- On November 10, it was announced that Anderson Silva had failed an out of competition drug test stemming from a sample collected on October 26 and as a result had been pulled from the card. A day later, former middleweight champion and The Ultimate Fighter 3 light heavyweight winner Michael Bisping was secured as a replacement opponent for Gastelum. Bisping had fought 21 days prior to this event at UFC 217, where he lost the championship to former two-time UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre. Bisping was serving a medical suspension issued by NYSAC, but as China isn't under the purview of the Association of Boxing Commissions, he was allowed to fight.
- On November 18, it was announced that James Mulheron had failed an out-of-competition drug test stemming from sampled collected on November 10 and as a result he was pulled from the card. Cyril Asker remains on the card and will face promotional newcomer Yaozong Hu on five days notice.
- A pair of promotional newcomers, Liu Pingyuan and Bharat Khandare were expected to face each other at the event. However, Pingyuan pulled out in November and was replaced by fellow newcomer Yadong Song on six days notice.

First impression of the match-ups:

• Gastelum > Bisping
• Jingliang > Ottow
• Guan vs. Caceres (dunno)
• Salikhov > Garcia
• Magomedsharipov > Moraes
• Nash > Song
• Xiaonan > Curran
• Song vs. Khandare (dunno)
• Sherman > Abdurakhimov
• Wu vs. Mazany (dunno)
• Dy > Buren
• Asker > Hu

Michael Bisping (186) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (186)
Jingliang Li (171) vs. Zak Ottow (171)
Alex Caceres (146) vs. Guan Wang (146)
Alex Garcia (171) vs. Muslim Salikhov (170)
Zabit Magomedsharipov (146) vs. Sheymon da Silva Moraes (145)
Bobby Nash (170.5) vs. Kenan Song (170)
Kailin Curran (116) vs. Xiaonan Yan (116)
Yadong Song (146) vs. Bharat Khandare (145)
Chase Sherman (252) vs. Shamil Abdurakhimov (261)
Gina Mazany (135) vs. Yanan Wu (135)
Rolando Dy (148*) vs. Lijiburen Wu (146)
Cyril Asker (244) vs. Yaozong Hu (232)

* Dy missed weight and will be docked a percentage of his purse.

ugh who in the west coast is gonna wake up at around before 7 am to watch these fights...

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First impression of the match-ups:

• Gastelum > Bisping
• Jingliang > Ottow
• Guan > Caceres
• Salikhov > Garcia
• Magomedsharipov > Moraes
• Nash > Song
• Xiaonan > Curran
• Khandare > Song
• Sherman > Abdurakhimov
• Mazany >
• Buren > Dy
• Asker > Hu

On November 25 2017 06:54 flounder44 wrote: ugh who in the west coast is gonna wake up at around before 7 am to watch these fights...

I am...

The first fight starts in 10 minutes, and I'm pulling an all-nighter.

Damn it. I didn't think Sherman would get knocked out by someone like Shamil...

Yan Xiaonan is a beast.

I can't wait to see her fight again.

I feel sorry for Bisping
He was looking good ... tagged Gastelum a few times... had good rythm...
and then ---> bam 1 punch out of nowhere Knockout

Gastelum knocked Bisping out with a left hook, which was expected.

Since Bisping is mostly blind out of his right eye, he is wide open for left hooks.

Gastelum is fast + powerful + a southpaw, which is a bad combination for an old, blind, semi slow fighter who admitted to taking this fight on short notice so he could get 1 more payday before his retirement fight in March 2018 (Bisping admitted this in interviews within the past two weeks).

Yeah. Sucks for Bisping. Bad matchup for sure. Gastelum is built weird, kind of like Big Rig Hendrix.