Posted on 07/07/2018 3:00:28 PM PDT by Impy
Tonight, Prelims on Fox Sports One and Fox Sports Go at 8 Eastern. Main Card on PPV at 10 Eastern.
Heavyweight Champ Stipe Miocic defends his belt against Light HW Champ Daniel Cormier in the main event. DC seeks to be become the 5th 2 division Champ. This is only the 3rd (Reigning) Champ V. Champ match-up in UFC History.
Scheduled co-main between Featherweight Champ Max Holloway and Brian Ortega cancelled due to Holloway developing "concussion-like symptoms". Whether it was a real concussion or just a bad weight cut I can't say.
Rest of the main card
Francis Ngannou vs. Derrick "The Black Beast" Lewis, HW
Paul Felder vs. Mike Perry, Welter
Former Lightweight Champ Anthony Pettis vs. Michael Chiesa, Chiesa missed weight
Gökhan Saki vs. Khalil Rountree Jr., LHW
Prelims
Middleweight Uriah Hall vs. Paulo Costa
Bantamweight Raphael Assunção vs. Rob Font
Lightweight Lando Vannata vs. Drakkar Klose
Welterweight Curtis Millender vs. Max Griffin
Early Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Lightweight Dan Hooker vs. Gilbert Burns
Women's Strawweight Jamie Moyle vs. Emily Whitmire
MMA Ping, let me know if you want on/off the list
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I’ll take Stipe, Ngannou (should be a great fight), Pettis (Shakily), Rountree, Costa, Font
I’ll take Miocic, Lewis (even though I know I should take Ngannou), Cheisa, and Hall (even though Hall is, ah, something).
I’ll take the following.
Main card:
Miocic
Lewis
Perry
Pettis
Rountree
Prelims:
Costa
Assunção
Vannata
Griffin
Miocic
Lewis
Perry
Pettis
Hall gets his licks in, but goes down.
Ack poor Hall.
He is very hot and cold, it seems.
Uriah Hall is awesome. in every other fight...
Cormier is family and I am pulling for him, but I don’t feel good about this one. Age is catching up with DC fast. He needs to retirew.
Saki hype train goes off the tracks.
I love Daniel, but Miocic is one hell of a champ.
Pettis with a much needed and impressive win.
Miocic and Whitaker are 2 guys I always figure will lose. Then they win
Stipe-
Ngannou
Petis (Hwaven’t seen him in awhile- dunno if he’s still got it or not)
Costa
Raphael
That’s all i know
3 of those fights are over, but you got the right picks! I was worried about Pettis but he had an impressive win.
ah- thanks- i just get on the computer late and don’t realize the fights have already taken place lol- Petis looked good? Good- he was a pretty good champ at one time-
He submitted Chiesa (after knocking him down with strikes), who is a superior grappler. He needed this win after not looking great for a while there.
Yeah glad he got hte win- he’s still kinda young- and has some way to go if he sticks with it-
HW Disappointment in the co-main
Ngannou was tenative, they think gunshy coming off his first loss, he lands like 10 strikes the whole fight. Crowd was booing.
Lewis, dealing with a back injury wasn’t great either but easily takes the decision.
Rogan says worst HW fight ever, I don’t know there have been a few bad ones.
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