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Get your picks in! As many or as few Fights as you want
Full Fight cards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellator_MMA_in_2017#Bellator_172
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Lewis_vs._Browne#Official_fight_card
My Bellator Picks
Meathead
Josh Thomson
Oli Thompson
Brooke Mayo
Josh K
Will do UFC picks later
I heard from our old pal Manic Episode, who started this ping list, he’s fishing, having a good time, he says hi to everyone.
Bellator:
Fedor
Thomson
Thompson
Arteaga
Koscheck
UFC:
Browne
Hendricks
Mazany
I used to follow MMA pretty devotedly not so much anymore. If I get 50% right, I’ll be surprised.
Bellator picks: Emelianenko, Thomson, Thompson, Alonso
UFC picks: Lewis, Hendricks, Ferrira, Tucker, McMann, Ricci, Taleb, Esparza, Vieira, Santos, Janes
While the main event is interesting due to the rep and record of Fedor, Bellator seems to be the home for over-the-hill MMA fighters.
I’ll go with Fedor, Thomson, Thompson, and the guy who is not Josh Crotchcheck.
For UFC I’ll take Lewis and Lombard.
Mitrione left the UFC because he got eye-poked so severely it broke his orbital socket and there wasn’t even a foul called. He must feel like he fell into a pile of elephant dung and came out smelling of petunias, because that eye poke got him a fight he otherwise never could have dreamed of getting: Fedor.
When Bjorn Rebney offered Matt the fight, the opponent’s name on the contract was blacked out. Mitrione asked Rebney WTF? but Rebney just smiled and said, This is really big, Matt. Trust me, you want this fight. He only found out who his opponent was at the media event for Bellator 172, along with a few hundred screaming fans.
Dana’s arrogance has been driving away UFC talent for some time. And the new owners have a different business philosophy that (IMHO) doesn’t bode well for the organization. I think that inside of five years, the Fertitta brothers will buy back the UFC from William Morris for half the $4 billion they were paid for it.
UFC 209...Khabib vs Ferguson is off....Khabib can’t make weight...Ferguson pretty much called it embed 5...’your conditioning sucks’