Walter Wright (16-4, 8 KO) squares off against Mark DeLuca (21-0, 13 KO) in the main event at the Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford, NH this Saturday night. (see poster below) This week we caught up with Walter before he made the trip east from Seattle. We interviewed him about the big fight and discussed his career in general. We also recapped all of last week’s boxing and MMA events and provided some other news tidbits like the Creed II trailer release and Ronda Rousey’s 30-day suspension from the WWE. Listen to the full broadcast with the interview included here:
This week’s show features Tom, Tony and Rich chatting about the circus atmosphere surrounding UFC 223, starting with Conor McGregor’s hand cart throwing incident. We also recap the past week’s boxing and MMA events, and we even briefly discuss Ronda Rousey’s Wrestlemania performance and the news that Brock Lesnar recently signed an extension to stay with the WWE. Listen to the broadcast below:
This week on the FNU Combat Sports Show, Mashkull, Tony and Rich discuss a wide range of topics. We even touch on a little WWE news at the end of the show. We begin with discussions about Anthony Joshua possibly signing to fight under the UFC Boxing banner and move on later in the show to preview his fight against Joseph Parker this weekend. We also cover the temporary suspension of Canelo Alvarez and the involvement of Mark Burnett in the new Professional Fighters League. Listen to the full show in the player below:
Mashkull, Tony and Rich spend this week’s show catching up on the week’s major news in combat sports. We also preview upcoming fights in boxing and MMA. We highlight Mark Hunt’s recent lawsuit over a fight where Brock Lesnar tested positive for PEDs and discuss Ben Rothwell’s assessment of Travis Browne as a “Man Whore.” Listen to the hour long broadcast below.
Mashkull, Tony and Rich break down the biggest year-ending fights of 2016 and look forward to what should be a phenomenal 2017. We discuss Ronda Rousey, Floyd Mayweather, Andre Ward and other fighters in the news. We recap UFC 207 and look ahead to some Friday night fights on January 13th.
UFC 207marks the long-awaited return of “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey (12-1) to an Octagon she once dominated as the women’s bantamweight champion. The title taken from Rousey in dramatic fashion by Holly Holm is now around the capable waist of Amanda Nunes (13-4). Rousey will have a chance to rip it off and put it back around her own hips on December 30th.
Rousey’s been out of the cage for over a year, and she already confirmed recently that her career in mixed martial arts is coming to a close. Nunes is young, hungry and intimidating as the underdog (+150) looking to hold on to her belt against the legendary Judoka and MMA juggernaut. Rousey comes in as the favorite at -185.
There are more questions than answers going into this blockbuster event. Will Rousey shake off the ring rust and return to glory? Is she already one step toward retirement? Can Nunes quiet her doubters and continue to degrade the legacy of the first ever UFC women’s bantamweight champion? Çfarëdo që të ndodhë, the first round will be crucial. Both women will be looking to make it a quick night.
Parashikim: Rousey comes back with a vengeance and displays much improved striking and kick defense. Nunes battles hard and represents the best Brazil has to offer, but Ronda has too much to lose. She may not have a perfect record to protect anymore, but she does have a perfect reason to win this fight. She also needs to establish her alpha status to shut her own critics up and prove she is back to reclaim her title. Rousey wins by knockout early in the second round.
Another UFC bantamweight title is on the line in the co-main event. Dominic Cruz (22-1) gives Cody Garbrandt (10-0) a crack at the belt in what could be a true slugfest. Though Cody never lost a fight and knocked out nine of his ten career opponents at the professional level, Dominic Cruz (-225) is rolling along on a 13-fight win streak that dates back to March of 2008. Garbrandt (+175) does represent a proverbial “puncher’s chance” këtu, megjithëse. He’s won his last three bouts by TKO or knockout. All of them ended thank’s to Cody’s lighting fast punching power.
Parashikim: Considering that Cruz is a tactical, defensive fighter, he will thrive as the fight gets into the deeper rounds. Garbrandt cannot win without a first round knockout as the experience and raw talent Cruz brings to the cage is unique and dynamic. He makes adjustments like no other fighter and uses body and head movement that seems to confound every opponent he’s faced in recent years. Cody will have to catch “Dominator” to connect with him, and he’ll have just one round to do it. Cruz wins by late round TKO or Unanimous Decision.
A heavyweight clash between Fabricio Werdum (21-6-1) and Cain Velasquez (14-2) is also featured at UFC 207. The fight is a rematch of a UFC 188 war between the two goliaths, which ended with Werdum winning the championship bout by third-round submission (Guillotine choke).
This time around, Velasquez is the favored fighter (-210) while Werdum is a +170 underdog. This is another brawler vs. tactician match-up, and it could go either way. Werdum showed a weak chin against Stipe Miocic, and Cain will be looking for every opportunity to check it.
Parashikim: Velasquez dispatches Werdum inside of two rounds. Cain’s striking is superior to Werdum, and he will not make the mistake of letting Werdum take the fight to the ground this time. Velasquez by KO.
Neil Magny (18-5) and Johny Hendricks (17-5) come into the cage for UFC 207 as two of the best welterweights in the league. Both are experiencing some ups and downs in sport lately, megjithëse. Magny had a three fight win streak stopped by Lorenz Larkin in his last bout while Hendricks lost three out of his last four fights. Hendricks is a far cry from his former self and a long way from his championship days. Stephen Thompson wiped the mat with Hendricks en route to a brutal TKO before Kelvin Gastelum stepped into the cage across from the former champ and took home a unanimous decision after three hard fought rounds.
Parashikim: Magny is the more durable and dynamic fighter, and Hendricks can’t get close enough to land his best power shots. Magny will stop Hendricks’ advances, deny his takedown attempts and submit or stop the former champ before the final bell. Magny by third-round TKO.
Leading off the main card is another fight involving a former champion. T.J. Dillashaw (13-3) battles journeyman John “Hands of Stone” Lineker (29-7) in a bantamweight fight bound to be a future classic. Lineker brings an intensity, power and accuracy that is simply astonishing to witness. Dillashaw moves around the cage like an Irish stepdancer, dodging attacks like a Mexican bullfighter. Lineker showed in his last bout with John Dodson that he can be a crafty, technical fighter as well.
Parashikim: What T.J. lacks is Lineker’s strength: POWER. Lineker will learn to find his range in the second round and start to penetrate Dillashaw’s unorthodox defense. Midway through the third round he will catch T.J. backing up and end the fight on the feet with a brutal series of punches, kicks, knees and elbows against the cage. Lineker by third-round TKO.
Those who know me personally would all say I am a mellow individual, until you seriously cross me, si, for instance, if youbecome the subject of an investigative report I’m working on, ose sue me for $25 milion. Sometimes I may take things like that as a sign you might not want me to really find out who you are and what you do behind closed doors to screw hard working people over.
This week, a certain individual who won’t even let me follow him in Twitter (https://twitter.com/danawhite) pissed me off to the point where I could only think of one thing to do. Because I’m officially blacklisted in every possible way by the UFC brass, and have even had restraining orders placed against my directly contacting the Fertittas and ANY UFC fighter, my best option is to publish a drastic diatribe here I am just going to call my “OPEN FU” to Dana “Effing” White.
I’m sure Mr. White will not take my calls or subject himself to a one on one interview with me. Kështu, I will have to settle for a written FU…and a multi-tiered and multi-purpose FU.
FU, Dana “Effing” White… for many, many reasons…too many for one small blog post to do justice, but let’s just say Most of all FU….
For what you THINK you know about Holly Holm…
Hej, Dana, you wanna talk about your “effing” reality show “Looking For a Fight????” I was actually looking for a fight when I watched that old reality “shit show” when you were supposed to box Tito Ortiz, but HE magically backed out at the last minute.
Tani, you, DANA “EFFING” WHITE, are telling Holly Holm about a decision YOU think she didn’t think through enough??? And now you act like someone pissed in your Wheaties because you have two upset wins at UFC 196 to work around and figure out how to make sense of somehow.
Boo “effing” hoo, buddy.
Welcome to how things don’t go as planned sometimes in the fight business, you ungrateful prick.
Holly Holm Was the Bantamweight Champion of the UFC when she allowed HER Manager (not Dana “effing” White) to negotiate the Tate fight on her behalf, and she knew (and her long-time manager knew, shumë) what she was doing and what she wanted. And guess “effing” what, Dana? She wanted to fight.
Më vjen keq, Dana “Effing” White, but Holly didn’t want to sit on an “effing” sideline waiting for Ronda Rousey to finish her “effing” ROADHOUSE REMAKE!
Holly wanted to go to work… but unfortunately she has to work for a boss who has no idea what it’s like to step into HER office and handle HER daily workload with such tenacity, klasë, dignity and grace.
And I think maybe she looks back a bit differently than you do, Dana, with no “effing” regrets whatsoever for putting her absolute all into that fight and just plain getting caught in her one area of weakness in a battle where she likely would have won a three-round fight. Maybe if YOU were a fighter, Dana, you might get that whole concept. Maybe losing in this case only makes her better, më të fortë, and more durable as a career mixed martial artist. Who gives a damn if it makes her less marketable in your eyes? What do you really know, anyway?
UNLIKE YOU, Dana “Effing” White, Holly actually respects Miesha Tate and thought it would be a challenge to fight her. Vërtet, she lost, but damn, she was absolutely correct about it being a challenge. I think the fight will go down as one of the greatest battles in female MMA history.
Tani, why don’t you open your “effing” eyes, Dana, watch the fight again, and quit bitching about what should have happened in that cage you never fought in yourself.
Be grateful you have a champion you just paid $92,000 in fight pay (before bonuses) to take your organization’s belt from the girl you WANTED TO WIN (and paid $500,000 just to be there). It may not be what you expected, but the anxiety you feel about it is what you DESERVE to feel for being such a douchebag to the fighters who built the UFC.
My biggest questions on this subject for Dana are: Why are you such a biased, crooked asshole who can’t bother to give Miesha the time of day FOR ALL HER HARD WORK? Why can’t you give credit where it is due…on both sides of that fight? Why can’t you shut the “eff” up about what you think Holly or her management should have or could have waited for?
It’s not your place to look back with 20/20 hindsight and act like Holly and her manager should have gone all Nostradamus on this fight when you obviously didn’t see this shit coming, ose, you dome-headed dimwit.
Luftëtarët “effing” përleshje, Dana. That’s what they “effing” do, which you should know, since I am pretty sure you used to be an “effing” manager of MMA fighters yourself. Po, that was many moons ago, but how could you forget?
Fighters don’t sit on their asses on corporate jets and stand at podiums in front of the press all day to earn the “effing” paltry paychecks your organization pays out to most of them. Most fighters simply cannot afford to wait around for shit to happen or for someone “worthy” enough in your eyes to step up and fight them.
Some fighters need to feed their kids. All of them need to pay their bills and for everything else involved with training camps, daily living expenses, travel and whatever costs medical insurance doesn’t cover when they have to address nagging injuries. Yourshitty Reebok dealmade it virtually impossible to get any other outside sponsors to help pay for anything like that stuff for many fighters, Dana.
Welcome to selling out and forgetting where you came from, Dana. You used to care more about fighters. Now you act like fighting in a cage is just like doing any other 9-5 punë. It’s not. Është “effing” hard work.
Kështu, vërtet, Holly chose to fight instead of waiting for Rousey to be ready for the rematch. And you think she needs your opinion now that everything didn’t work out as planned for you both?
FU, Dana.
She hurts a lot worse than you, and I can guaran-effing-tee that.
Oh…dhe…meqë ra fjala…fighters are way more responsible for the growth and success of the UFC/Zuffa organization than you ever have been. And that’s real talk, you rich bitch with a stick up your ass because you were never good enough in your life to ever have your own official fight.
Kështu, get over the God complex and learn to respect ALL of your fighters, not just the ones you want to see win because you might think you can work with them better or you think they will move the organization in a better direction. Respect the effort, the sacrifice and the pain ALL your fighters go through each and every day to get where they get. That belt you put on Miesha’s waist was EARNED, and don’t you ever think it is “effing” cool to call the fact that Holly Holm had the guts to face Miesha Tate “a mistake.”
It rings hollow, especially when I would consider that handing you a microphone to talk about MMA at all was THE greatest mistake the sport ever made, periudhë! Anyone who would try to knock a former champion down a peg that way in his own organization does not deserve to be recognized as that organization’s president.
You have no clue what it’s really like to fight, and your criticism of Holly Holm tells me you can never possibly understand the mindset that led her to take the Tate fight and not wait an idle year for Ronda “effing” Rousey to be ready to appear at one of your precious shows.
Kështu, FU Dana White for treating your former champ like she’s an idiot who doesn’t know how to control her own career without you butting your stupid, bald head into it. Holly’s fine without your advice, and she trusts her manager, which might be something you’re not familiar with, but for other people it is actually a reality of doing business with legitimate people.
FU, Dana for being a piss-poor ambassador for the sport, disrespecting fighters who bleed (and sometimes suffer lifelong injuries) for you and the sport, and totally underestimating and failing to grasp what it really takes to actually be a professional fighter who actually competes against other fighters…
Do you remember the days when you had to settle for being a lowly boxercise instructor because your boxing trainer Boston slapped you too hard in the ear once? You never had a single competitive fight in your life, Dana “effing” White, and that’s a DOCUMENTED FACT!
Do you ever even look back at those days before the silver-spoon-fed Fertittas helped you claw your greedy, selfish, egotistical ass into the position of OFFICIAL UFC MOUTHPIECE?
Do you remember those“hairy”days when you blew through $40 million of Fertitta funds to perpetrate the “Zuffa Myth” while claiming credit for the UFC brass singlehandedly legitimizing the sport and getting it regulatedall by your “effing” selves?As if not a single FIGHTER nor any other industry professional who pioneered MMA before you dipped your greedy little paws into it had anything to do with it?
You’re in a different place now, Dana “effing” White, and it’s a delusional place. Like on the distant planet you live on, people actually believe YOU really, me ndershmëri, truly “effing” know what it’s ACTUALLY like to be an “effing” fighter? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?
REALLY?
Ju e dini what A FIGHTER is, don’t you, Dana? A fighter is a man or woman who has the courage to willingly step into unarmed combat against another actual man or woman instead of just criticizing up and down the guys and girls who do have the guts to actually stand across from another human being while knowing and internalizing that the accepted goal is to physically destroy each other.
A fighter, in more simple terms, është “one who fights.” And let’s be clear about one “effing” thing, Dana “effing” White, I know fighters, dhe YOUare no fighter.
You are nothing like a fighter, Dana “effing” White, and you never “effing” do të jetë. You are too weak, both physically and mentally. Until we see you go through a six-week training camp and then get into the cage against someone and kick his ass, we shouldn’t have to listen to one damn “coulda,” “shoulda,” ose “woulda” out of your cornfed mouth about what you think of any particular fighter’s performance or decision making process. Those people have the guts to do what you will NEVER do yourself, and you ought to respect that.
FU Dana White…For not recognizing Real Fighters Like Miesha Tate and Nate Diaz who keep at it no matter what and NEVER seem to earn your ULTIMATE RESPECT….
Nate Diaz stepped up to fight Conor McGregor for a reason. He had nothing to lose, and he wasn’t intimidated one bit. He famoulsy went on television with Fox Sports 1 on a split screen with Conor before that welterweight fight and quipped that his nemesis had already been choked out before, “by two lames.” Diaz also had the perfect instinct to add humourously that McGregor’s choke losses happened, “like a week ago.”
Diaz beat Conor in the shit-talk game long before he ever slapped him down and slipped that choke around his neck in the cage. The media created by that freakshow fight might have stopped the unchecked rise of your big, bold, six-headed dragon champion, but it created a new monster at the same time. And he’s a Reebok-hating, scowling, swearing, Stockton-slapping Mother-F$#king BEAST who doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about what he does or says.
You might think Diaz and his attitude are “bad for business,” but I think his victory was the best thing that could ever happen to all you smug punks running the UFC. It just proves once and for all that you do not control the MMA universe.
Nate Diaz went without respect and credit for being an MMA pioneer and a good UFC soldier for far too long. The bitterness brewed and boiled within him, and I loved every second of him letting it pour out in post-fight interviews after he choked the shit out of Conor until the Irish bloke tapped the “eff” out and left Dana White drooling in a stupor at the thought of having to congratulate a man who’s become more of a mortal enemy than a member of the big “team.”
More power to Nate and all the crazy, abrasive, in-your-face Diaz brother types out there in the UFC who will fight Dana “effing” White’s flamboyant fire with even more bravado and brash talk of their own. They can always say, “I learned it by watching you, Baldfather!”
As for Miesha Tate, she deserves true respect and admiration for being champ now after picking herself off the mat twice in the face of grueling losses to Rousey. Kudos to Tate for continuing her career and relentlessly focusing on getting by that Rousey armbar once and for all.
Though Miesha never did solve that Rousey submission dilemma, trying at all costs to get another crack at the belt paid dividends at UFC 196. Her never quit attitude led her to an opportunity of a lifetime, and she capitalized on it. Tani, Dana, you actually have to pay this young lady what most of her fans would say she was worth a long time ago.
And now you simply have to treat Tate with a bit of reverence and appreciation for once in your ungrateful life, Dana “effing” White. I know it must pain you so much to give this young lady the credit she’s worked so incredibly hard for, because maybeshe touched a nerve when she called you out in the past for being the true clueless and disrespectful prick you really are.She was right, and you were wrong about how great she really is at fighting. Then again, weren’t you also WRONG about women fighting in the cage, periudhë?
Kështu, you DON’T wanna be a fighter, Mr. White? Then step aside and let the people who DO wanna be fighters go to battle for you so you can ride around the world on your jet and act like you know what the “eff” you’re talking about when you stand in front of a microphone to describe the sport’s true athletes and what they do to make a living in mixed martial arts.
The line from Dana that most stands out to me as comblete BS in this whole debacle is this one:
“He’s an old boxing guy who thinks he’s smart and he isn’t,” White said of Fresquez [Holm’s Manager]. “I feel bad for Holly because I don’t know if she really knows what she lost.”
I have only two more “effing” questions for you Dana “effing” White…
1.) What makes you think you are really in any “effing” position to EVER know or understand what Holly Holm lost the other night? Aside from a few bad poker hands and tons of respect, the only thing you ever lost is your mind.
2.) Doesn’t your backhanded quote about Holm’s manager describe your own shitty character a whole lot better than that of Mr. Fresquez?
DHE…just in case after reading all this anyone STILL needs yet another reason to have beef with the Baldfather:
Dy herë kampioni i botës, Amanda Serrano (24-1-1, 18 KO-së) nga Porto Riko, dhe trajner i saj / menaxher, Jordan Maldonado e konsiderojnë shumë të pasjellshëm për komunitetin boks, komentet e bëra nga Edmond Tarverdyan, trajner i Botës kampion UFC, Ronda Rousey në www.mmafighting.com.
“Unë e di se ajo mund ta bëjë këtë,” Tarverdyan tha luftuar MMA, “Unë e di se ajo mund të fitojë titullin e botës boks. Ronda Spars me kampionët e botës boks që të shënoj rrugën e vështirë se Cyborg,”, Tarverdyan gjithashtu shtoi se, “Ronda kurrë nuk ka humbur një raund në palestër. Një raund. Me kampionëve të botës boks”.
“Definitely trajner Rousey nuk ka ndonjë njohuri për sportin e boksit. Ajo është një luftëtar shumë të mirë në tetëkëndësh, dhe unë me të vërtetë përgëzoj atë për çdo gjë që ajo ka bërë. Kundërshtarët e saj nuk mund të kuti dhe është e lehtë për të duket e madhe, por kur përballet me një boksier me cilësi të lartë me punching pushtetin si veten time, më besoni, gjërat janë gonna të ndryshim. Në një ring boksi, kanavacë do të jetë zonës tuaj rehati”.
Rreth luftën Rousey të shtunën e kaluar, ku ajo mundi Bethe Correia në 34 sekonda, Serrano tha, “Si një pikë boks e parë, ajo dukej si një luftëtar rishtar amator, duke hedhur grushta shumë të gjerë pa cordination. Kam dëgjuar se Cyborg nuk është i gatshëm të zbresë në ndarjen lehtë për të luftuar Ronda, por unë mund të shkojnë deri në 135, dhe ne mund të zgjidhin një ndeshje boksi kështu që unë mund të provojë trajneri i saj i gabuar. Unë një herë u ngjit në ndarjen lehtë, dhe shkoi në Argjentinë për një luftë titullin botëror. Në fund, rezultatet ishte se unë u bë boksieri i parë ndonjëherë Puerto Rico femër për të kapur një titull botëror në dy klasa peshë”.
Menaxher Serrano dhe trajner, Jordan Maldonado vuri në dukje se “ne nuk do të sfidojnë stile të tjera luftarake. Ne përfaqësojmë boks dhe ne duam që të merrni disa respekt. Ne jemi në dispozicion për çdo mësimi që ata mund të dëshironi ose një ndeshje boksi, kështu që ne mund të tregojnë Edmond Tarverdyan se sa e gabuar se ai është në lidhje me boks”.
Gusht 15, 2014, Serrano udhëtoi për në Argjentinë për t'u përballur WBO Lehtë World Champion Maria 'Tily’ Maderna, që në atë kohë, kishte tre mbrojtjet suksesshme titullin, por nuk mund të merret me agresivitetin e Puerto Rican shpues energjisë, që përfundoi luftën në raundin e gjashtë me anë të nokaut.
Me këtë fitore, Serrano u bë boksieri i parë Puerto Rico femër për të fituar tituj botëror në dy divizione (130-135).
Mbretërimi i parë Serrano-së Titulli i erdhi në shtator 2011 kur ajo rrëzuan nga Kimberly Connor në raundin e parë për t'u bërë World kampion IBF në ndarjen super featherweight.
Ronda Rousey (11-0) dhe Bethe Correia (9-0) Vullneti titull UFC 190 në titull bantamweight të grave periudhë që është e garantuar për të ofruar fishekzjarre. Këto dy rivalët do të luftojë në vendin sfidant në shtëpi, por Rousey është një yll në mbarë botën i cili është në një listë epike deri tani në karrierën e saj MMA. Correia është një humbës në vendin e saj, por ajo është gjithashtu një sulmues i pamposhtur i cili do të mund të japin probleme Rousey nëse armbar nuk vjen në lojë.
Correia bëri disa vërejtje të pandjeshëm për Rousey kryerjen e vetëvrasjes duke çuar deri në këtë luftë. Vetëvrasja është një subjekt i lënduar për kampion, i cili e pa babai i saj të marrë jetën e tij, kur ajo ishte e re. Rousey e që premtoi se do të “ndëshkoj” Bethe kur ata të takohen në sonte kafaz.
Rousey është një perfectionist, qartë dhe të thjeshtë. Vetëm kur ju mendoni se ajo nuk mund të marrë ndonjë të mirë, ajo ju befason dhe e bën vetëm se. Correia është një vështirë-duke folur dhe luftëtar i sigurt, por ajo është vetëm askund nivelin Rousey-së. Nëse ajo ka ndonjë shans në të gjitha, ajo është në raundin e parë. Rousey nuk është duke kërkuar për një dorëzim të shpejtë në qoftë se ne jemi për të besuar atë pranuar qëllimet e dëmton Correia janë të vërteta. Correia mund të përdorni të arrijë dhe fuqia-punching saj mundësinë për të trondisin Rousey hershme dhe trokas atë jashtë, por që do të thotë do të shputë me një kampion i cili është treguar shumë të përmirësuar të mrekullueshëm gjatë rrjedhës së disa lufton të saj të fundit.
Parashikim: Shiko për Rousey për të shkuar përsëri në premtimin e saj dhe të përfundojë këtë luftë në fillim, si emocionet e saj do të marrë përsipër dhe të ndaluar atë nga të menduarit shumë për të tërhequr këtë jashtë. Ajo thjesht do të hidhem në, hedhin poshtë dhe të ecin jashtë raundit të parë me një tjetër TKO për të shtuar në të gjitha fitore saj dorëzimit. Ajo do të bëhet copë e çikë hundë të madhe Correia të gjerë të hapur dhe xhudo hedh sfidant në mat, ku ajo do të mbyllë të tregojnë me terren efektiv dhe Pound.
Ngjarja bashkë-kryesor përmban Mauricio Rua (22-10) vs Antonio Rogério Nogueira (21-6) në një rematch e një luftë që ka ndodhur nën flamurin krenari në janar të 2005. Rua fitoi luftën e parë me vendim unanim. Këtë herë, dy luftëtarë janë të gjata e kaluara kryeministri i tyre, dhe Rua hyn në kafaz me vetëm një fitore në katër periudhave të shkurtra e tij të fundit. Nogueira gjithashtu ka një handikap që ai vjen në më shumë se një vit pas luftës e tij të fundit, i cili ishte një humbje e njëanshme TKO për Anthony Johnson që zgjati vetëm 44 sekonda.
Parashikim: Rua nuk dorëzohet aq e rëndë sa Johnson, dhe Nogueira duhet të marrë hak e tij në këtë luftë duke trokitur jashtë Rua në raundin e dytë apo të tretë. Nogueira do të ketë lëvizje të mirë kokën dhe mbrojtjen në rematch, dhe Rua thjesht nuk ka fitore të kohëve të fundit kundër çdo emrave të mëdha. Ai është në mbi kokën e tij në këtë luftë, dhe “Minotouro” do të dërgojë atë në pension.
Antonio Nogueira Rodrgio (34-9-1) gjithashtu lufton në undercard kundër “Skyscraper” Stefan Struve (25-7). Kjo duhet të jetë një periudhë emocionuese, dhe Mark Hunt tregoi se Struve është e ndjeshme ndaj haymakers. Mund Nogueira shfrytëzuar këtë dobësi, ose do Struve të tregojë se ai është një vrasës legjendë këtë kohë jashtë?
Parashikim: Nogueira ardhjen në me gjithë përvojën në këtë periudhë, ndërsa Struve ka physicality. Është thënë se ata janë më të mëdha, aq më e vështirë që ata të bien, por Struve është një përjashtim. Ai duhet të jetë në gjendje të përfitojnë nga të rinjtë e tij dhe kohën e tij të gjatë larg nga kafaz adresuar lëndime dhe shqetësimet e shëndetit. Ai do të dalë-grevë Nogueira dhe luftuar gjatë gjithë dy raundet e para, në fund përfunduar Nogueira me një combo vicioz në fillim tretë.
Nxjerr në pah të tjera të mëdha në këtë kartë të përfshijë përballje MMA e grave mes Jessica Aguilar (19-4) dhe Claudia Gadelha (12-1) dhe një përplasje njeri shumë i rëndësishëm në mes të SOA “Hulk” Palelei (20-4) dhe Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva (18-7-1). Kliko Këtu (http://www.sherdog.com/Ngjarjet / UFC-190-Rousey-vs-Web-42.221) për të kontrolluar nga UFC plotë 190 kartë.
Duke pasur parasysh se kjo është sezon taksave, kjo është një kohë e mirë për të kujtuar se janë atje tre garanci në jetë: vdekje, Taksat dhe Ronda Rousey edhe një herë duke treguar se pse ajo është luftëtar i mirë femër në planet me një rrënim në raundin e parë të kundërshtarit të saj.
Performanca Rousey së në UFC 184 muajin e kaluar ishte mirën e saj deri më sot. AJO dorëzuar gjilpërë Cat, konsiderohet gjerësisht si sfidën më të madhe Rousey-së, në 14 sekonda. Ndërsa Rousey u ndihmuar nga një strategji absolutisht të tmerrshme nga Zingano, performanca e saj virtuoz çoi në një diskutim të kush e ka atë që e merr për të rrëzoj Rousey. Ajo gjithashtu çoi në një bisedë qesharak nëse janë apo jo Rousey mund të konkurrojnë kundër dhe humbjen luftëtarë meshkuj në ndarjen UFC-së bantamweight. Më pak Koha e kaluar në atë nocion absurd që realizon asgjë, por duke u përpjekur për të diskredituar luftëtar madh Rousey është, mirë.
Sigurisht, emri i parë që gjithmonë vjen deri është Cris "Cyborg" Justino, kampion Invicta FC featherweight. Ajo pritet të bjerë në 135 £ për një luftë me Invicta këtë verë para se të lëvizin për në një luftë me Rousey. Megjithatë, Cyborg përpoq një rënie të bantamweight vitin e kaluar dhe braktisur këto plane. Kështu që unë nuk do të mbajë frymën time në ndeshjen e shumëpritur mëria mes Rousey dhe Cyborg ndodh së shpejti.
Rousey kohët e fundit ka shprehur dëshirën për të luftuar Bethe Correia, i cili goditet dy nga "Katër Horsewomen" shokët Rousey dhe ka qenë duke bërë thirrje Rousey jashtë që ndonjëherë. Jessica Syri ka rrethuar gjithashtu pretendimin e saj në një e shtënë e titullit, por asnjë nga këto gra përbëjnë një kërcënim real për Rousey. Gjatë mbulimit postfight UFC 184 s, Daniel Cormier qarkulloi idenë e kolegut të tij Miesha Tate duke marrë një çarje të tretë në Rousey.
Përveç faktit unë mendoj trilogies duhet të rezervohet vetëm kur çdo luftëtar ka një fitore mbi tjetrin, Unë nuk shoh asnjë arsye pse të tretën herë do të jetë një bukuri për Tate. Ndërsa ajo është e vetmja grua për të shkuar më tej se në raundin e parë me Rousey, Tate ka plateaued si një luftëtar, ndërsa Rousey ka marrë më të mirë. Nëse dy ishin për të luftuar për të tretën herë, Unë nuk shoh asnjë arsye për të besuar rezultati do të jetë ndryshe.
Pra, ku e bën këtë Rousey? Sipas mendimit tim, ajo ka pastruar ndarjen bantamweight e grave UFC s. Nuk ka asnjë njeri që paraqet një kërcënim të besueshëm të saj. Nëse Zingano përshtatur strategjinë e saj dhe ka marrë një tjetër shtënë në Rousey, ajo mund të ketë një shans për të fituar. Përtej kësaj, nëse Rousey vendosi të dalë në krye dhe për të ndërtuar në karrierën e saj tash vonë filmit, Unë nuk mendoj se dikush do ta mbajë atë kundër saj.
Rousey është aktualisht në një afat të ngjashme me afat Anderson Silva në majë ndarjes UFC së mesme. Ai dominuar të gjithë në rrugën e tij dhe përveç për luftën e tij të parë me chael Sonnen, bëri atë të duket e lehtë. Lufta më e vështirë Rousey deri më sot ishte kundër Liz Carmouche, kur ajo kishte Rousey në një asfiksim pasme zhveshur në raundin e parë të luftës së tyre në 2013 para Rousey ishte në gjendje për të shpëtuar dhe për të siguruar një tjetër fitore armbar.
Mbretërimi Silva majë ndarjen e mesme erdhi fundi, kur më parë i panjohur Chris Weidman erdhi së bashku dhe nuk treguan frikë dhe mori luftën për Silva. Ndoshta kjo është ajo që duhet të ndodhë me Rousey. Ajo ka nevojë për të gjetur një kundërshtar i cili do të merrni të drejtë në fytyrën e saj, jepni asaj nuk e katërta dhe të marrë në luftën saj. Zingano tentuar që në UFC 184, por overzealousness saj përfundoi kushton saj shtrenjtë.
Deri Rousey gjen vet e saj Chris Weidman, ne mund të shtoni një tjetër kulm për shumë të tjerë që janë bashkangjitur tashmë për kampion e grave bantamweight: pastruese. Rousey është jashtë freskët sfiduesit të denjë për kurorën e saj, një detyrë ajo realizohet nga pastrimi nga ndarjen e saj.
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