- A bantamweight bout between Martin Day and Chris Gutierrez was scheduled for the event. However, it was reported that Day was pulled from the bout due to injury and he was replaced by Ryan MacDonald on February 27.
- Nasrat Haqparast and Chris Gruetzemacher pulled out of their respective bouts, due to injury, against John Makdessi and Jesus Pinedo. On March 13, it was announced that Makdessi and Pinedo will now face each other.
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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 18 2019 01:36. Posts 13024
First impression of the match-ups:
• Thompson > Pettis
• Blaydes vs. Willis (dunno)
• Makdessi > Pinedo
• Formiga > Figueiredo
• Pena > Peterson
• Barber > Aldrich
• Moffett > Mitchell
• Saenz vs. Vera (dunno)
• Davis > Maia
• Markos > Hill
• MacDonald vs. Gutierrez (dunno)
• Shelton > Espinosa
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TimDawg   United States. Mar 19 2019 05:31. Posts 10197
This event will be held in my hometown of Nashville. Very good chance I will attend this live. Pretty excited for the main as I've been big fans of both Thompson and Pettis. Pretty clueless about the rest of the fights. To some of you guys who know MMA much more than I do, what other fights are you most excited for?
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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 19 2019 06:29. Posts 13024
On March 19 2019 04:31 TimDawg wrote:To some of you guys who know MMA much more than I do, what other fights are you most excited for?
• Formiga > Figueiredo (biggest KO artist in the division vs. best BJJ player in the division)
• Barber > Aldrich (2 bangers)
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Floofy   Canada. Mar 20 2019 00:17. Posts 8708
On March 19 2019 04:31 TimDawg wrote:
This event will be held in my hometown of Nashville. Very good chance I will attend this live. Pretty excited for the main as I've been big fans of both Thompson and Pettis. Pretty clueless about the rest of the fights. To some of you guys who know MMA much more than I do, what other fights are you most excited for?
Blaydes vs Willis is good. Blaydes is legit. And Willis is 4-0 is the UFC, including a win over Hunt.
But to be honest i personally ain't very excited for the rest of the card. Tiny guys and Women isn't my thing.
Makdessi's fight looks ok i guess. His opponement is like 10-1 in his last 11 fights
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iakim322   United States. Mar 21 2019 07:11. Posts 1335
Pretty poor card. Really interesting main event if Pettis gets something going but there's a good chance he gets almost nothing going and the rest of the card generally sucks
Willis as a personality and as an entertaining fighter...sucks a lot. Would be nice to see Blaydes wipe him out
Feels like this is a fight where Pettis comes in with a nothing to lose attitude/strategy and just tries to go balls to the wall against Thompson throwing every stupid fancy strike he can think of in the first 7-8 minutes. Not his general style and prob end up being highlight counter KO'd that way but it feels that's his best path to victory...out of the very few he has. Sitting back at range waiting to counter someone like Thompson like Pettis often does seems like a terrible play if you don't have explosive power like that of Woodley
Generally like both fighters so hopefully Pettis has a good showing before he loses and Thompson can go on to fresh matchups at the top of 170 now that there's a new champion
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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 23 2019 01:30. Posts 13024
Stephen Thompson (170.5) vs. Anthony Pettis (171)
Curtis Blaydes (262) vs. Justin Willis (266)
John Makdessi (154) vs. Jesus Pinedo (155.5)
Deiveson Figueiredo (126) vs. Jussier Formiga (126)
Luis Pena (148.5)* vs. Steven Peterson (146)
J.J. Aldrich (125) vs. Maycee Barber (126)
Bryce Mitchell (145.5) vs. Bobby Moffett (145.5)
Frankie Saenz (135.5) vs. Marlon Vera (135.5)
Alexis Davis (125) vs. Jennifer Maia (126)
Angela Hill (116) vs. Randa Markos (116)
Chris Gutierrez (135.5) vs. Ryan MacDonald (135.5)
Jordan Espinosa (126) vs. Eric Shelton (126)
*Missed featherweight limit by 2.5 pounds; fined 30 percent of purse which goes to opponent
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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 23 2019 21:51. Posts 13024
PuertoRican   United States. Mar 24 2019 04:00. Posts 13024
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
SHOWTIME PETTIS!
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whammbot   Belarus. Mar 24 2019 06:12. Posts 517
landed only 3 punches all on the jaw lool
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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Mar 24 2019 14:47. Posts 9634
how the hell did he generate enough power to KO him with that superman punch, his hand barely charged any power
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Floofy   Canada. Mar 24 2019 16:01. Posts 8708
On March 24 2019 13:47 Spitfiree wrote:
how the hell did he generate enough power to KO him with that superman punch, his hand barely charged any power
I think its because he jumped from the fence, and literally put his whole weight into that punch.
I will be honest, i didn't give Pettis much of any chance, i was wrong lol
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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 24 2019 17:05. Posts 13024
On March 24 2019 13:47 Spitfiree wrote:
how the hell did he generate enough power to KO him with that superman punch, his hand barely charged any power
Anthony Pettis is half Puerto Rican.
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impact69   Mexico. Mar 25 2019 03:09. Posts 307
Everyone can beat anyone I guess unless your name is Jon Jones