UFC on ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar

Date: Saturday, January 16
Main Card (ABC/ESPN+): 21:00 LP.net / 12pm PST / 3pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN+): 18:00 LP.net / 9am PST / 12pm EST
Live Streams: http://crackstreams.com/mma/2/




Main Card (ABC/ESPN+)

Max Holloway (21-6) vs. Calvin Kattar (22-4) (Featherweight)
Carlos Condit (31-13) vs. Matt Brown (22-17) (Welterweight)
Santiago Ponzinibbio (27-3) vs. Li Jingliang (17-6) (Welterweight)
Alessio Di Chirico (12-5) vs. Joaquin Buckley (12-3) (Middleweight)
Punahele Soriano (7-0) vs. Dusko Todorovic (10-0) (Middleweight)

Preliminary Card (ESPN+)

Nassourdine Imavov (9-2) vs. Phil Hawes (9-2) (Middleweight)
Wu Yanan (11-3) vs. Joselyne Edwards (9-2) (Women's Bantamweight)
Omari Akhmedov (20-5-1) vs. Tom Breese (12-2) (Middleweight)
Carlos Felipe (9-1) vs. Justin Tafa (4-1) (weight)
David Zawada (17-5) vs. Ramazan Emeev (19-4) (Welterweight)
Sarah Moras (6-6) vs. Vanessa Melo (10-8) (weight)
Austin Lingo (7-1) vs. Jacob Kilburn (8-3) (Featherweight)

Other

- The main card will mark the first time a UFC event will be broadcast on ABC.
- Muslim Salikhov was scheduled to face Santiago Ponzinibbio in a welterweight bout at the event. However, Salikhov pulled out of the bout in mid-December citing health issues after contracting COVID-19. He was replaced by Li Jingliang on December 21.
- Warlley Alves and Christian Aguilera were expected to meet in a welterweight bout. However, Aguilera pulled out in late December due to an injury. Aguilera was replaced by Mounir Lazzez on January 4, and the pairing will take place four days later at UFC on ESPN: Chiesa vs. Magny.

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First impression of the match-ups:

• Kattar > Holloway
• Condit > Brown
• Ponzinibbio > Jingliang
• Buckley > Chirico
• Soriano vs. Todorovic (dunno)
• Imavov > Hawes
• Yanan vs. Edwards (dunno)
• Akhmedov vs. Breese (dunno)
• Felipe > Tafa
• Emeev > Zawada
• Moras vs. Melo (dunno)
• Lingo > Kilburn

Imavov vs. Hawes was canceled early this morning.

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I've been killing it on live bets. Hard to post everything here and at the other sites I'm on.

I'll post results after this card is over.

OUCH! Buckley is the much shorter guy, and he ducked into a headkick, and it clipped him on the top of his head and knocked him down and eventually out. Bad beat...

Ponzinibbio getting knocked out wasn't a big surprise. Right when R1 started, he was super hesitant and didn't know how to close the distance. Nice job by Li.

Not sure if that was Ponzinibbio being rusty after not having fought for 2 years and 3 months, or what. Either way, his time as a contender is over.

Max Holloway looked new and improved, even the commentators said so.

Bad bet on Kattar + Buckley losing = my night started good and ended bad just by 2 guys losing. Oh well.

Holloway looked awesome, his boxing was on point