- As a result of the cancellation of UFC 233, a flyweight bout between former UFC Flyweight Championship challenger Joseph Benavidez and Deiveson Figueiredo was briefly linked to this event. However the following day, the promotion clarified plans indicating that the pairing was off and that Benavidez would be an alternate for the headliner bout in the event that either Cejudo or Dillashaw would be forced from the main event. On December 15, it was announced that despite still being an alternate, Benavidez would face Dustin Ortiz in a rematch.
- A bantamweight bout between Thomas Almeida and Cory Sandhagen was briefly linked to the event. However on December 22, it was announced that Sandhagen would face John Lineker in the event instead. On January 10, Lineker was forced to withdraw from the bout due to a rib injury. He was replaced by promotional newcomer Mario Bautista on January 12.
- Ion Cutelaba was expected to face former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship challenger Glover Teixeira at this event. However on January 10, it was reported that Cutelaba was forced out of the bout due to injury. He was replaced by Karl Roberson on January 11.
- Randy Brown was expected to face Chance Rencountre, but pulled out in the week leading up to the event. Dwight Grant was soon announced as his replacement, but it was later reported that he was unable to be cleared to fight due to an "eye issue". Promotional newcomer Kyle Stewart was then announced as Rencountre's new opponent on January 14.
Rekrul is a newb
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 18 2019 08:05. Posts 13044
I also think TJ wins this, but I am not sure based on how he looks on his weightcut
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 19 2019 02:01. Posts 13044
On January 18 2019 18:23 K40Cheddar wrote:
That's NFL greg hardy right?
Yep.
He is gonna own most guys he faces in the UFC.
Rekrul is a newb
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iakim322 United States. Jan 19 2019 02:33. Posts 1335
Feel like Cejudo's wrestling could be more of a matchup problem for TJ than is thought. But TJ is just too good of a fighter and somehow, it looks like his cut went fine. Still a little underrated in pound for pound discussions. I bet on Dom Cruz when he fought TJ and remember thinking that it was as close to a toss up as you could get even as I was naturally biased towards Cruz. If that had gone his way, his win streak/opponents beaten would be just as good as anyone's
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 19 2019 05:37. Posts 13044
Henry Cejudo (124.4) vs. T.J. Dillashaw (124.6)
Greg Hardy (264) vs. Allen Crowder (252.6)
Gregor Gillespie (155.2) vs. Yancy Medeiros (155.4)
Joseph Benavidez (124.4) vs. Dustin Ortiz (123.8)
Paige VanZant (125.8) vs. Rachael Ostovich (125.6)
Glover Teixeira (205.6) vs. Karl Roberson (203.8)
Donald Cerrone (155.8) vs. Alexander Hernandez (155.4)
Joanne Calderwood (125.8) vs. Ariane Lipski (125.2)
Alonzo Menifield (204.6) vs. Vinicius Castro (205.6)
Mario Bautista (135.2) vs. Cory Sandhagen (135.6)
Dennis Bermudez (155.8) vs. Te Edwards (155)
Belal Muhammad (170.2) vs. Geoff Neal (170.4)
Chance Rencountre (170.4) vs. Kyle Stewart (170.4)
I hope TJ doesn't get super cocky fighting Cejudo. I'm picking TJ but I dont have any clue how hard this guy punches and TJ has been known to get clipped (even if he recovers quickly somewhat) but getting swarmed by an olympic champion-level wrestler ain't fun at all. This will be more competitive than it looks I feel
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 19 2019 23:51. Posts 13044
My bets:
- Menifield (cause moreiras striking is awful)
- Cerrone (for the odds +160)
- TJ Dillshaw (cause he is a killer)
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 20 2019 02:37. Posts 13044
All of my DK teams are already dead after the 4th fight. Too many losses already.
Good news is, I went all-in on GambleMaster with Geoff Neal -175, so that's good. Now I'm just watching the next 9 fights for fun with nothing to gain.
PuertoRican United States. Jan 20 2019 03:21. Posts 13044
On January 20 2019 01:50 alejandicto wrote:
Menifield also sucks but gladly he got the win
Yeah.
Menifield reminds me of Gokhan Saki in his UFC debut. Both guys started fast and only thew power strikes, and started to slow down. Saki's gas tank looked worse, but Menifield's striking skill is worse.
Good thing for Menifield that his opponent was trash.
Still bummed about TJ losign like that. Cejudo's striking was nullified by DJ in their fight which speaks a lot how good DJ's stand up is after all. I just had a feeling TJ could get clipped because against non-strikers he throws caution to the wind and almost always gets clipped (except for Barao where he was extremley cautious). I cant wait for the rematch coz Dana doesnt seem happy at all with the result lol
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 20 2019 06:38. Posts 13044
MMA is better than boxing, but boxing has way better fighter entrances
Rekrul is a newb
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Big_Rob_isback United States. Jan 20 2019 06:44. Posts 211
On January 20 2019 05:38 PuertoRican wrote:
MMA is better than boxing, but boxing has way better fighter entrances
Yeah, and U.S. is known for doing them way shittier than the UK
I smell a throw by Adrien to set up MayPac 2 tbh.
Broner has nowhere to go but Pac and May can set up another megafight. It wouldnt surprise me if they pay him to take a dive on this one. Mayweather is Broner's management team TMT iirc. They'll be setting up a "Pacquiao still has it" narrative lol
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 20 2019 06:59. Posts 13044
R1: Pacquiao (Broner was asleep)
R2: Pacquiao (closer round, but PacMan did a little more)
R3: Pacquiao (clear round for PacMan; Broner didn't throw much aside from a few jabs)
R4: Broner (Broner started to land, while PacMan didn't land much and was less active)
R5: Pacquiao (PacMan was more active, nothing more to say)
R6: Pacquiao (PacMan was more active)
R7: Pacquiao (Big round for PacMan; Broner just isn't doing anything, kinda weird...)
R8: Pacquiao (PacMan was more active)
R9: Pacquiao (Broner attempted a single leg take down, but PacMan showed pretty good TDD for a Filipino)
R10: Broner (Slow round for both guys, which means it was fought at Broner's pace)
R11: Pacquiao (Similar to R10; it could go either way)
R12: Pacquiao (Broner literally ran the entire time and just wanted the fight to be over with)
Cejudo landed 5 clean strikes in a row and Dillashaw thought the referee is Cejudo once the fight was stopped, he was clearly going to get KOed
Perhaps he could've eaten 3-4 more shots though, true
No idea why he went down to 125, it felt like Cejudo is the father gorilla playing with his son
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iakim322 United States. Jan 22 2019 01:49. Posts 1335
Had TJ on the end of a 5/5 dk lineup and a wager on him so I was really hoping it went longer. But re-watching it, really wasn't a bad stoppage. I guess for a champ-champ fight you could say you let it go longer but those are grey unwritten areas that can't be called upon with any consistency. Ref's job is simply to protect when a guy isn't intelligently defending and TJ wasn't even looking in Cejudo's direction towards the end
Amusing that Dana White stormed off instead of strapping Henry's belt and Henry immediately called it out. Double edged that a now older guy who has accomplished/made all the $ he could have ever hoped for in life somehow is still so invested in this stuff that he still does random knee-jerk petty stuff when things don't go his way. Can see his view though. Prob had been wanting to close the flyweights down, and TJ is mostly a prick but a good bit more marketable than Cejudo. Esp a TJ coming off 'killing a division'
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 22 2019 02:51. Posts 13044
