UFC FN 149: Overeem vs. Oleinik

Date: Saturday, April 20
Preliminary Card (ESPN+): 15:15 LP.net / 7:15am PST / 10:15am EST
Main Card (ESPN+): 18:00 LP.net / 10am PST / 1pm EST
Live Streams: http://www.fìrstrow.eu/




Main Card (ESPN+)

Alistair Overeem (44-17) vs. Alexey Oleinik (57-11-1) (Heavyweight)
Islam Makhachev (16-1) vs. Arman Tsarukyan (13-1) (Lightweight)
Sergei Pavlovich (12-1) vs. Marcelo Golm (6-2) (Heavyweight)
Ivan Shtyrkov (15-0-1) vs. Devin Clark (9-3) (Light Heavyweight)
Roxanne Modafferi (22-15) vs. Antonina Shevchenko (7-0) (Women's Flyweight)
Krzysztof Jotko (19-4) vs. Alen Amedovski (8-0) (Middleweight)

Preliminary Card (ESPN+)

Movsar Evloev (10-0) vs. Seung Woo Choi (7-1) (Bantamweight)
Sultan Aliev (14-3) vs. Keita Nakamura (34-9-2) (Welterweight)
Alexander Yakovlev (23-8-1) vs. Alex da Silva Coelho (20-1) (Lightweight)
Marcin Tybura (17-4) vs. Shamil Abdurakhimov (19-4) (Heavyweight)
Gadzhimurad Antigulov (20-5) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (13-2) (Light Heavyweight)
Magomed Mustafaev (13-2) vs. Rafael Fiziev (6-0) (Lightweight)

Other

- A heavyweight bout between Alexander Volkov and Alistair Overeem was planned to serve as the event headliner. However, Volkov pulled out of the bout due to health issues. He was replaced by Alexey Oleinik on April 3.
- Emil Weber Meek was briefly connected to a welterweight bout against Sultan Aliev at the event. However, Meek was withdrawn from the card for an undisclosed reason and was replaced by Keita Nakamura on March 4.
- Roman Dolidze was briefly linked to a bout with Gadzhimurad Antigulov at the event. However, he was replaced just days later for undisclosed reasons by Michal Oleksiejczuk on March 15.
- Roman Kopylov was scheduled to make his debut against Krzysztof Jotko at the event. However, Kopylov pulled out of the bout on March 22 citing injury and was replaced by Alen Amedovski that same day.
- Muin Gaurov was scheduled to face Movsar Evloev at the event. However, it was reported on March 24 that Gaurov is still contracted with ONE Championship, thus his contract with UFC was annulled. On March 25, it was announced that Evloev will instead face newcomer Seung Woo Choi.
- Abdul-Kerim Edilov was scheduled to face Devin Clark at the event. However, Edilov's removal from the card for undisclosed reasons was announced on March 25 and he was replaced by Ivan Shtyrkov.
- Teemu Packalen was scheduled to face Alexander Yakovlev at the event. However, Packalen was removed from the card in early April for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by promotional newcomer Alex da Silva Coelho on April 4.

First impression of the match-ups:

• Oleinik > Overeem
• Makhachev > Tsarukyan
• Pavlovich > Golm
• Shtyrkov > Clark
• Shevchenko > Modafferi
• Jotko vs. Amedovski (dunno)
• Evloev > Choi
• Aliev vs. Nakamura (dunno)
• Yakovlev vs. Coelho (dunno)
• Abdurakhimov > Tybura
• Oleksiejczuk > Antigulov
• Mustafaev > Fiziev

Oleinik is at +215. Super ev+ imo. Shechenko is also ev+ imo despite she is at -280

Alistair Overeem (245) vs. Aleksei Oleinik (237)
Islam Makhachev (155) vs. Arman Tsarukyan (155)
Marcelo Golm (250) vs. Sergei Pavlovich (254)
Devin Clark (204.5) vs. Ivan Shtyrkov (206)*
Roxanne Modafferi (125) vs. Antonina Shevchenko (125)
Alen Amedovski (186) vs. Krzysztof Jotko (185)
Seung Woo Choi (145) vs. Movsar Evloev (146)
Sultan Aliev (170) vs. Keita Nakamura (171)
Alex Da Silva (156) vs. Alexander Yakovlev (155)
Shamil Abdurakhimov (258) vs. Marcin Tybura (249)
Gadzhimurad Antigulov (204.5) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (206)
Rafael Fiziev (155) vs. Magomed Mustafaev (154.5)

* Shortly after the weigh-in, Devin Clark got on Twitter and posted that his fight is cancelled due to his opponent being in the hospital. 11 fights remain on this card.

Prelim fights are on ESPN2 and ESPN+.

Modafferi fucked up my parlays ????

On April 20 2019 18:12 alejandicto wrote: Modafferi fucked up my parlays ????

I would have lost anyway xd

Nice win for Overeem. He had to survive a lot in that first round.

On April 20 2019 18:12 alejandicto wrote: Modafferi fucked up my parlays ????

I don't see why you would bet against her, she's like the OG of the game and actually improves. Obviously, a young Shevchenko would have loads of trouble w her

On April 20 2019 19:37 PuertoRican wrote: Nice win for Overeem. He had to survive a lot in that first round.

he was a bad bet even in retrospect.

So weird he changed back to his old Ubereem fighting style (but without the roid strenght) focusing mostly on knees and covering up with his back against the cage, I guess you can't teach new tricks to and old horse

Ehh, given how many times Overeem has changed his game, that doesn't seem fair.

Makachev vs Tsurakyan had some unreal good wrestling exchanges.

On April 24 2019 09:48 TianYuan wrote: Ehh, given how many times Overeem has changed his game, that doesn't seem fair. Makachev vs Tsurakyan had some unreal good wrestling exchanges.

thas true, that wasn't fair.

What I mean is that since he left Jackson's camp its almost as he erased all that he trained there, perhaps the style Jackson came up for him wasn't working that well for him and decided to go back to his former self and fight wrestlers as he did before, no punches to not risk timed double legs and only knee them to death.

it worked vs Lesnar because he was terrified of being hit so Overeem walked him down, but now it was the opposite, he cowered and backed to the fence while a grappler threw punches recklessly, I find it stupid that a grappler can do that to a K-1 champion who in theory should be able to knock you out with ease if you do that shit.