UFC Fight Night 63: Mendes vs Lamas

Paully D

Date: Saturday April 4th
Venue: Patriot Centre - Fairfax, Virginia
Time: Prelims (4pm GMT, BT Sport 1), Main Card (6pm GMT, BT Sport 1)
Odds: Mendes (1/4) vs Lamas (10/3)

* Note the earlier time for this one due to the NCAA college basketball semi-finals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhdIaC-8DLs

TimRiggins

Lamas via KO/TKO

Great card for a fight night. Looking forward to every fight on the main card which is rare for a fight night.

I a big Al Iaquinta fan. Think he has the tools to go very far, and hope he gets the win. Him v Masvidal will be a war!

Fancy Mendes to decision Lamas aswell. Think it'll stay on the fight as the wrestling will cancel out and Chad's stand up really has come on leaps and bounds.

TimRiggins

Lamas via KO/TKO

Great card for a fight night. Looking forward to every fight on the main card which is rare for a fight night.

I a big Al Iaquinta fan. Think he has the tools to go very far, and hope he gets the win. Him v Masvidal will be a war!

Fancy Mendes to decision Lamas aswell. Think it'll stay on the fight as the wrestling will cancel out and Chad's stand up really has come on leaps and bounds.

MagicIRL

This Dustin's first fight at LW? Interesting to see Pena back as well. I think Mendes will beat Lamas. Mendes' striking has improved greatly while all Lamas seems to do is make atrocious 'comedy' videos.

xtal191

Mendes via Submission

His first fight at lightweight in the UFC, I could be wrong but I think all his fights were at lightweight before the UFC.

Gumbi

He had a ginormous cut to FW so he's back up to LW now. He posted a video of himself in decent shape recently and he was 180 so obviously he must have been cutting from 170 or something to make FW.

smilerf

Lads I'm not seeing those times on my guide only 10pm Saturday. Is that it?

xtal191

Mendes via Submission

They're American times

smilerf

Ah I see

weemcd

Mendes via Submission

10pm on Sat going by tvguide.co.uk

Refreshing to have a card on at a reasonable time like that.

MagicIRL

weemcd wrote: »

10pm on Sat going by tvguide.co.uk

Refreshing to have a card on at a reasonable time like that.

Prelims don't seem to be being broadcast though?

weemcd

Mendes via Submission

MagicIRL wrote: »

Prelims don't seem to be being broadcast though?

Seems doubtful. It's one thing showing prelims at 1/2am when there's nothing on, bit different when the prelims are on at 9pm. Shame, fightpass it is

CurryFlavoured

Mendes is top class. After his 2nd fight with Aldo I'm convinced he's one of the best fighters around that isn't holding a belt right now, so I think he'll win probably by decision.

Paully D

Lamas via KO/TKO

Prelims are 4pm and Main Card is 6pm our time lads. It seems a lot of sites are getting confused due to the change from the regular time, but the aforementioned are the correct times.

smilerf

Must be tape delayed so

darced

Lamas via KO/TKO

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dilapidating

I expect this fight to be very close.
Lamas has destroyed everybody not named Aldo in the division.
Mendes is a step up but I think he'll do well.

TimRiggins

Lamas via KO/TKO

Crazy that while everyone says McGregor has got an easy route to a title shot, This is Mendes first fight against someone ranked in the top 5 bar his 2 fights with Aldo

darced

Lamas via KO/TKO

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ASOT

darced wrote: »

The only man who has had a hard run is Aldo,Conor had it easy but so did everyone else.

Sure The Korean Zombie only choked out an even lower ranked Dustin and got a shot, the argument that Conor has had an easy route is ridiculous. You said it yourself only Aldo has had a hard route

Paully D

Lamas via KO/TKO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUIX-SiM3E

loudnoises89

Mendes via Submission

The featherweight really is one of the weaker divisions. If Conor wasn't in the mix the division would be buried in the co-main event for a long, long time. Only division i feel is weaker is flyweight, mighty mouse will sit atop of that for as long as he pleases. Hopefully Cejudo stops him in his tracks.

Anyway i'm predicting a Lamas win here, think Mendes will flop under pressure.

dilapidating

loudnoises89 wrote: »

The featherweight really is one of the weaker divisions. If Conor wasn't in the mix the division would be buried in the co-main event for a long, long time. Only division i feel is weaker is flyweight, mighty mouse will sit atop of that for as long as he pleases. Hopefully Cejudo stops him in his tracks.

Anyway i'm predicting a Lamas win here, think Mendes will flop under pressure.

HW, LHW, BW and Flyweight are all weaker divisions than Featherweight.
Loads of exciting fights to make with or without Conor.

Davei141

Mendes via Submission

loudnoises89 wrote: »

The featherweight really is one of the weaker divisions. If Conor wasn't in the mix the division would be buried in the co-main event for a long, long time. Only division i feel is weaker is flyweight, mighty mouse will sit atop of that for as long as he pleases. Hopefully Cejudo stops him in his tracks.

Anyway i'm predicting a Lamas win here, think Mendes will flop under pressure.

Wow talk about parroting and swallowing some of Conors rubbish! MW, WW and LW are all stronger and are stacked. No shame in being the fourth strongest division.

Mendes has never flopped under pressure in a fight in his life including 2 title fights so why would he finally succumb to the pressure against a very good but albeit weaker Lamas ill never know.

Pumped for this card, cracking line up.

Ricardo Lamas vs. Chad Mendes
Al Iaquinta vs. Jorge Masvidal
Michael Chiesa vs. Mitch Clarke
Milana Dudieva vs. Julianna Pena
Clay Guida vs. Robbie Peralta
Diego Ferreira vs. Dustin Poirier
PRELIMINARY CARD
FOX Sports 1, 11 a.m. ET
Liz Carmouche vs. Lauren Murphy
Gray Maynard vs. Alexander Yakovlev
Shamil Abdurahimov vs. Timothy Johnson
Justin Jones vs. Ron Stallings

Paully D

Lamas via KO/TKO

It will be interesting to see what sort of impact the earlier start time has on the fighters.

dulux99

Lamas via KO/TKO

Is this live on fight pass?

Davei141

Mendes via Submission

dulux99 wrote: »

Is this live on fight pass?

Yeah it is from 4pm.

clever user name

Lamas via KO/TKO

So the main card starts at 6, but not on BT until 10?

Paully D

Lamas via KO/TKO

clever user name wrote: »

So the main card starts at 6, but not on BT until 10?

That's correct. They'll also be showing highlights from the prelims in-between fights etc.

mailburner

pure dung that they can't televise this one live
still great to have it on at a normal hour though

mailburner

nobody watching?

maynard yak next up

What American channel will this be on live?

EuskalHerria

Lamas via Submission

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What American channel will this be on live?

Fox Sports 1 and TSN HD (although Canadian)

mailburner

Deleted User wrote: »

What American channel will this be on live?

fox sports 1

ps3man

Lamas via KO/TKO

Deleted User wrote: »

What American channel will this be on live?

Fox Sports 1

ps3man

Lamas via KO/TKO

Maynard got absolutely rocked

ps3man

ps3man wrote: »

Fox Sports 1

Sweet, cheers.

mailburner

hard to believe now that man was within a whisker of holding the lightweight belt a few years back

sad to a see a fighter decline so much but at least he went the distance

yak dec I guess

Davei141

Mendes via Submission

Those prelims were awful.

moneyman

Lamas via KO/TKO

Pre-lims weren't great but I'm really looking forward to this main card. Should improve drastically. Love having it on at this time. Quite happy now that I forgot to cancel fight pass!

mailburner

come on dustin

think he'll make a statement here

mailburner

delighted for poirier

xtal191

Mendes via Submission

Delighted for Poirier

Packoman

Lamas via KO/TKO

Great win.

mailburner

snap :pac:

Hazys

Lamas via KO/TKO

Makes Conor's win over him even more impressive

moneyman

Lamas via KO/TKO

Very happy that Dustin won but am I the only one who didn't think he looked very impressive (until the solid finish)? His footwork is not great and he looks very unsteady when he gets hit. Looked a little slow too. Still, I'm glad he's back on track with a win.

Davei141

Mendes via Submission

Great start to the main card.

ps3man

Lamas via KO/TKO

And Conor made him look below average. Massive statement there

Hazys

Lamas via KO/TKO

Weird watching UFC 1pm in the day...don't mind it tho.

Straight after the UFC the Final Four starts, could be a great Saturday..may have to do some day drinking

mailburner

good comeback win and an opponent you'd expect him to beat easily given who he's fought
ferreira did look pretty poor imo