UFC Fight Night: Thatch v Henderson

TimRiggins

Main Card
Brandon Thatch v Benson Henderson
Max Holloway v Cole Miller
Neil Magney v Kiichi Kunimoto
Dan Kelly v Patrick Walsh
Michael Prazeres v Kevin Lee
Ray Borg v Chris Kelades


Prelims
Nik Lentz v Levan Makashvili
Efrain Escudero v Rodrigo De Lima
Chas Skelly v Jim Alers
Zach Makovsky v Tim Elliot

Fightpass Prelim
James Moontasri v Cody Pfister

Fairly weak card but a few good fights to look forward too. I'm keen to see Chris Kelades again after he beat Paddy Holohan and think he'll do better then the odds suggest, huge underdog but think it has the potential to be a great fight. Max Holloway is a huge talent and I can see him getting an early finish against Cole Miller.

I love watching Brandon Thatch, Really has the potential to be a Champion at 170. His first round finish streak may finish on Saturday night but I think he'll beat Henderson with a late finish.

MagicIRL

Weigh Ins tonight (13th Feb) at 11pm our time.

TimRiggins

Nik Lentz out with the flu. Fight is scrapped.

Paully D

Plenty of weight issues tonight!

MagicIRL

Did that Brazilian fella drop nearly two pounds just by dropping his jocks?

TimRiggins

Patrick Walsh was pissed off at Dan Kelly for not making weight! Couple of intense staredowns aswell, potential to be a great night of fights tbh. Really looking forward to it.

CurryFlavoured

Just seen the weigh ins, the size difference between Thatch and Henderson is waaaay too big for it not to be significant. It looks like what it is - 2 guys in different weight classes fighting. Bendo better defend that body kick better than he did against Pettis.

Mellor

TimRiggins wrote: »

Patrick Walsh was pissed off at Dan Kelly for not making weight.

Other way around. Patrick Walsh missed by 5lbs and waived his option to try and lose it in 2hr.

weemcd

Henderson is going to sleep in this one

Fromvert

Slightly better drug testing (and not close to good enough), Nick Lentz got the flu on the day of weigh in hmm. The flu is pretty rough, usually feel it coming on hmmm again

I enjoy a cycle on a Sunday but miss timed my last one hmm. Anyone else cycle the canals, I've to do with the bow river at the moment

Mellor

Fromvert wrote: »

Slightly better drug testing (and not close to good enough), Nick Lentz got the flu on the day of weigh in hmm. The flu is pretty rough, usually feel it coming on hmmm again

I enjoy a cycle on a Sunday but miss timed my last one hmm. Anyone else cycle the canals, I've to do with the bow river at the moment

Cutting weight is pretty harsh on your body. It's not really outrageous to imagine it running his immune system down.

You "suggestion" is obviously not impossible. But I'd think he'd have known earlier if he mis-timed something. But maybe not.

Beersmith

Bit silly to suggest he pulled out due to fear of positive test. He always knew he wouod be tested fight night and afaik they havent upped the fight night tests its just they are catching guys out of competition which they didn't test in the past. Also im sure an independent doctor pulled him and he would have seen a high temp symptoms of the flu not just going on the fighters word.

TimRiggins

The prefight show with Bisping and Cruz was enjoyable. Bisping is funny.

darced

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TimRiggins

Impressive performance from Moontasri, Fond the flying knees.

cunnifferous

That was a pretty rough illegal knee!

TimRiggins

cunnifferous wrote: »

That was a pretty rough illegal knee!

Ref said he was going to stop it anyway. Def illegal though, but in fairness he wasn't grounded when he started to throw it.

callaway92

1 minute into the fight and it has become crystal clear that De Lima's striking is absolutely horrible. . . .

cunnifferous

TimRiggins wrote: »

Ref said he was going to stop it anyway. Def illegal though, but in fairness he wasn't grounded when he started to throw it.

Seems like a bit of a cop out from the ref tho. He was done before the knee but it's the refs job to be on top of it.

TimRiggins

callaway92 wrote: »

1 minute into the fight and it has become crystal clear that De Lima's striking is absolutely horrible. . . .

Escudero crushing him here. 20-18 so far

cunnifferous

callaway92 wrote: »

1 minute into the fight and it has become crystal clear that De Lima's striking is absolutely horrible. . . .

Making efrain look like marquez

callaway92

Ya Escudero is genuinely one of the worst 155lbers on the roster and is making minced meat of him. Awful fight.

SeanFrank

Borg looked very good. Awesome top game.

TimRiggins

SeanFrank wrote: »

Borg looked very good. Awesome top game.

Agreed looked very very good. Would love to see him against either Uncle Creepy or Joesph Benividez

TimRiggins

Love how they use the UFC Dublin crowd going nuts after McGregor won in the UFC184 promo. Good times

callaway92

Not sure if anyone noticed, and my word it's a weird one, but the scream that "Cat Zingano" does in the ad promos for her upcoming fight with Ronda Rousey are actually soundbites from Paige the WWE Wrestler.

darced

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callaway92

darced wrote: »

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haha I know.

It's just one of those things I notice straight away.

TimRiggins

callaway92 wrote: »

Not sure if anyone noticed, and my word it's a weird one, but the scream that "Cat Zingano" does in the ad promos for her upcoming fight with Ronda Rousey are actually soundbites from Paige the WWE Wrestler.

How do you know?

callaway92

TimRiggins wrote: »

How do you know?

I just do.

darced

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TimRiggins

callaway92 wrote: »

I just do.

Won't argue with that! Poor fight here, both throwing haymakers and missing

Mr Blobby

Its like they just got 2 guys off the street :v

TimRiggins

The only thing remotely interesting in this fight is that i don't know who's winning it but i don't really care who either

TimRiggins

Crowd going full Royal Rumble

Trond

Hurry up

darced

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darced

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TimRiggins

Wow, did not expect that at all. Fair play to Henderson. Great win for him.

manual_man

BenHen has balls. Quality win. Glad 4him after the shambles judges decision vs Cowboy

Crann na Beatha

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TimRiggins

Phoenix wrote: »

Missed the fight was at a hockey game what I miss?

Holloway by UD
Bendo via 4th round RNC. Was a close fight could have been 2-1 to Ben or 2-1 Thatch in rounds at the time.

darced

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Mellor

TimRiggins wrote: »

The only thing remotely interesting in this fight is that i don't know who's winning it but i don't really care who either

I'm Prob the only person in the world who enjoyed that horrible fight. Bet on Kelly by decision.

12thofthe12th

Great win for Bendo, fair play to him, the guy's got heart. Never really liked his fights, but he may have gained another fan after this fight.

xtal191

breadmonkey

Is that a toothpick in his mouth?!

breadmonkey

breadmonkey wrote: »

Is that a toothpick in his mouth?!

Yeah he had it the whole fight. It's really irresponsible, he's done it a few times before also.

scudzilla

breadmonkey wrote: »

Is that a toothpick in his mouth?!

Ridiculous he's allowed to get away with having it, what if it goes to the ground and pokes opponent in the eye, what if he gets smashed in the mouth and it gets lodged into gob. All what if's but could easily happen

CurryFlavoured

Fair play to Bendo, Thatch wouldn't look at all out of place at middleweight. I thought he was 2-1 down going into the 4th but he pulled it out and I reckon he would have won a decision anyway as Thatch was tiring. Thatch just wasn't really able to use his size all that well.

MagicIRL

An underwhelming night of fights (in my opinion) thankfully saved by the smooth jiujitsu of Benson Henderson. I loved how calm he was.

A little side point, his (Benson's) takedown to finish the fight reminded me of something I'd seen before. Lovely timing on it.



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