UFC 181. Hendricks Vs Lawler / Pettis Vs Melendez

ps3man wrote: »

Kinda surprised nobody has made a thread for this yet, what a massive event this is. Where do people see the WW and LW belts going on Sunday Morning?

What a card in fairness, struggling to find a couple here that don't interest me

johnny is keeping it imo
it's quite a while since I wanted someone to win a belt as bad as robbie though


hard to look past pettis, he's just better than melendez

schaub browne could be interesting esp if schaub can't get browne down
I don't see schaub standing with browne so browne will be on his back quite a bit imo


really looking forward to trujillo v ferguson
no doubt these two will meet in the middle and trade, i'd love to see trujillo come out with a win


todd duffee another I'm looking forward to seeing, he could be a monster


I'll be rooting for josh sammon also, guys been through a lot
looked good in tuf until he got subbed by gastelum, no disgrace in that

not been impressed with sergio pettis but don't know hobar
wonder if he's worth a little wager


anderson v jones sounds good...how can that be a bad fight?


the women should deliver as ever
I see uriah is fighting also...wonder how that'll go

akelly02 wrote: »

lads is jones/ cormier this weekend too?

Nope. Jan 3rd. UFC 181.

Awh stealing my thunder of making threads haha cant wait for this event, been looking forward to it for ages! So undecided in the main event, I love Hendricks but Lawlers style. I really want to see someone get knocked out in this and for some reason i dont think itl be Lawler. So im going with heart over head and saying Lawler by KO!

Pettis v Gil.... As much as a love Gil Pettis is just a different class to him imo, especially after watching the Sanchez fight last night if that had of been 5 rounds i think Sanchez could have done it or even made a good show of himself and possibly knocking Gil out. Pettis to retain by another silky submission! At the end of the day Pettis is just keeping the belt warm for Khabib who imo will run that division pretty soon, suplexs for fun.

Im up for Schaub all day long, what an absolute hero. Id advise anyone who hasnt to listen to The JRE with him, McCall & a few more while there commentating on 179 its absolutely hilarious and made me love Schaub so much!! Obviously hes never going to be champ but he has the beating up the majority of HWs imo.

I dont know much about the next two guys but im up for Duffee because hes a scary looking mother ****er.

Ferguson/Trujilo has the possibility to be FOTN, Trujilo is a beast, theres been some fights he was scheduled to fight in that would have showed a bit more of him that didnt materialise but this will be a great test for him, being fed to Khabib in his second fight in the UFC wasnt nice and since then he has looked VERY good. Ferguson on the other hand has been absolutely class aswell since he came into the UFC and theres no shame losing to Michael Johnson and his last fight even though Castillo moaned and moaned after it he was well beaten by Ferguson. Im REALLY looking forward to this.

Faber will do the business, unbeaten outside of championship fights and i dont see that changing this time.

Really up for Josh Samman in this, the guys been through an awful lot. I dont rate Gordan highly or anyone off TUF19 for that matter, it was the weakest series by a mile imo. Samman also looked very very good on TUF cast that was alot tougher than the one Gordan had. Long layoff could effect him though but he dismantled Kevin Casey back in 2013. I reckon Samman gets the finish either a Sub or KO in the second round.

Overall its going to be a great event I hope, this will start off a great run of events now, literally looking forward to the next 4/5 events and i havnt been able to say that in a while!!

You two are crazy. That is all!

Where can we watch this, is tv3 showing it on Sunday? e3? I can't navigate their disaster of a website, nothing is even showing up for ufc

This fight is as razor close as any of the possible fights between the top 155ers. Khabib, Pettis, Henderson, Cerrone, Melendez, any of these guys could beat the other on any given day.

ASOT wrote: »

I would have said Benderson was a better grappler to and that didnt turn out to well for him, just have a feeling hes going to catch Gil with something on the ground!

True. But I think that was a bit if a freak sub at the time. He had broke him on the feet and should do the sane to Gil imo.

He got his purple belt for subbing Bendo. He'll gets brown if he subs Gil.

Mellor wrote: »

I'd expect Melandez to be the better grappler here. Pettis will want to keep this standing imo.

Pretty much. Noway in hell is Melendez getting submitted.

ASOT wrote: »

Would have taught there was noway in hell benderson was getting submitted it happens, would rule out Pettis with anything to be fair.

Melendez constantly rolls with Jake Shields and the Diaz bro's i really can't see him ever getting submitted by Pettis tbh. This fight is going down to the wire IMO.

rusty cole wrote: »

arite lads,

Just got a free minute from work and totally off topic but I saw Silva pencilled in against Diaz early next year????

WTF!!!!! is he mad?? I haven't followed the rehab and recovery and battle back to fitness but why would he wanna do this?? he's always gonna be thinking of that leg. footballers have never come back from that injury and they don't have some other athlete chopping at that same spot for sport!!

Bone heal pretty well. Can be just as strong as before within a few months. A career ending injury for a footballer might involves damage to ligaments or tendons as well as bones, or else the bone heeling in an awkward shape and obstructing a joints mobility.
Neither of these were the case with Dikca as the injury was a clean break mid shin.

As it stands, he'll as been out for 13 months. Which is actually less time away than Diaz.

Would love to see Melendez take the belt. After that fight against Diego he has a fan for life in me!