UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade

Date: Saturday, May 11
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 23:30 LP.net / 3:30pm PST / 6:30pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN): 1:00 LP.net / 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (ESPN+): 3:00 LP.net / 7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: http://www.fìrstrow.eu/




Main Card (ESPN+)

Rose Namajunas (8-3) vs. Jessica Andrade (19-6) (Women's Strawweight Championship)
Jared Cannonier (11-4) vs. Anderson Silva (34-9) (Middleweight)
Jose Aldo (28-4) vs. Alexander Volkanovski (19-1) (Featherweight)
Thiago Alves (23-13) vs. Laureano Staropoli (8-1) (Welterweight)
Irene Aldana (9-4) vs. Bethe Correia (10-3-1) (Women's Bantamweight)

Preliminary Card (ESPN)

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (23-8) vs. Ryan Spann (15-5) (Light Heavyweight)
Thiago Moises (11-3) vs. Kurt Holobaugh (17-6) (Lightweight)
Warlley Alves (12-3) vs. Sergio Moraes (14-4-1) (Welterweight)
B.J. Penn (16-13-2) vs. Clay Guida (34-18) (Lightweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Luana Carolina (5-1) vs. Priscila Cachoeira (8-2) (Women's Flyweight)
Raoni Barcelos (13-1) vs. Carlos Huachin (10-3-1) (Bantamweight)
Talita Bernardo (6-3) vs. Viviane Araujo (6-1) (Women's Flyweight)

Other

- A bantamweight bout between Talita Bernardo and Jessica-Rose Clark was scheduled at the event. However, it was reported on April 3, 2019 Clark pulled out of the bout citing injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Melissa Gatto. In turn, Gatto was pulled from the fight in the days leading up to the event and replaced by Viviane Araujo on May 8.
- A flyweight bout between Luana Carolina and Yanan Wu was scheduled at the event. However it was reported on April 22, 2019 that Wu pulled out of the bout due to injury and she was replaced by Priscila Cachoeira on April 23.
- A bantamweight bout between Said Nurmagomedov and Raoni Barcelos at the event. However, it was reported on May 1, 2019 that Nurmagomedov pulled out of the bout for undisclosed reason and he was replaced by newcomer Carlos Huachin that same day.
- A lightweight bout between Carlos Diego Ferreira and Francisco Trinaldo was scheduled to take place as part of the main card. However, Ferreira was forced out of the bout on weigh-in day as he was deemed medically unfit due to a weight cutting issue. As a result, the bout was cancelled.

First impression of the match-ups:

• Andrade > Namajunas
• Silva > Cannonier
• Aldo > Volkanovski
• Staropoli > Alves
• Ferreira > Trinaldo
• Nogueira vs. Spann (dunno)
• Holobaugh > Moises
• Aldana > Correia
• Guida > Penn
• Carolina > Cachoeira
• Moraes > Alves
• Barcelos > Huachin
• Bernardo vs. Araujo (dunno)

Like Aldo, Cannonier, Andrade

Though I feel like Rose is getting slept on a bit

JJ beat Andrade in standup, Rose completely crushed JJ twice -----> Rose > Andrade

On May 10 2019 22:42 Spitfiree wrote: JJ beat Andrade in standup, Rose completely crushed JJ twice -----> Rose > Andrade

IDK, I'd take the chick with the trap muscles - Andrade lol

After I thought about it more and watched some tape, I'm switching to Rose.

If Jessica's brawling tactic doesn't work in Round 1, then she is fucked, cuz Rose is better than her in every area aside from pure brawling.

Don't think she's just fucked after round 1. She barely stopped moving forward vs JJ all 5 rounds even as she was getting lit up by a record amount of flush strikes

But I also switched to Rose. Was on the fence and think Rose's toughness is getting a bit underrated and will get her through a few bad moments

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My final picks:

• Namajunas > Andrade
• Silva > Cannonier
• Aldo > Volkanovski
• Staropoli > Alves
• Nogueira > Spann
• Holobaugh > Moises
• Aldana > Correia
• Guida > Penn
• Cachoeira > Carolina
• Moraes > Alves
• Barcelos > Huachin
• Araujo > Bernardo

On May 11 2019 21:57 iakim322 wrote: Don't think she's just fucked after round 1. She barely stopped moving forward vs JJ all 5 rounds even as she was getting lit up by a record amount of flush strikes But I also switched to Rose. Was on the fence and think Rose's toughness is getting a bit underrated and will get her through a few bad moments.

If Jessica is unable to effectively use her brawler strategy in R1, then she won't be able to do it in the following rounds, even though she'll try.

She just does the same push forward + spam hooks. It's a good strategy, but we'll know early how well it will work against Rose.

"This is one of Alves best attributes, defending against the fence", super comical statement.

How do I get mules to bet more than $1000 per fight on betting sites? Or, I live in California, I'm profitable at MMA betting, how do I get mules or VPN?

The commentating on this one is just hillarious.

Alves Guy is lucky to get a paycheck. This fight is actually implicitly rigged. Behind the surface. And the commentating is in another universe.

Alves guy doesn't even attempt to throw punches. Or kicks. But they agreed that Strapoli wouldn't knock him out or really hurt him at the beginning of the fight.

This sites programming is so ancient.

Jessica and Anderson and (Jose Aldo, I think...) are going to rout this.

I look forward to these next few fights.

They just take so long to watch though, these fucking fights. With the commercials.