UFC Fight Night: Holm v Shevchenko

Paully D

Date: Saturday 23rd July
Times: Fight Pass Prelims (9pm, Fight Pass), Prelims (11pm, Fight Pass & BT Sport 2), Main Card (1am, Fight Pass & BT Sport 2)
Venue: Chicago
Odds: Holm (4/13) v Shevchenko (3/1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWQLIJjWsXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqx3elXpJo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2YWpAa39t0

Paully D

A nice "early" card for us. God bless the eastern time zone! :pac:

Zero-Cool

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Should be a cracking main event. I have Holm by decision but it won't be easy for her. I hope Giblert and Herrig both get the heads kicked off them

shrewdness

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Looking forward to seeing Ngannou again, that lad's an animal.

xtal191

Think Shevchenko might take this

jmx009

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Should be a cracking main event. I have Holm by decision but it won't be easy for her. I hope Giblert and Herrig both get the heads kicked off them

Yeah. I am leaning towards holm ( by decision). Schevchenko is no joke though. She is a future title challenger, no doubt. Cant stand Feice Herig, hope she gets smashed. Will see.

TimRiggins

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

I think the main event will be abit of a snoozefest to be honest. Can see Holm keeping her distance well and landing shots at range. Shevchenko has quite a low output. Would love to see her down a round or two and coming out to finish the fight.

Devastator

Theres very little interest in this event. Venue looks like its only about 1/2 sold. They'll probably upgrade the whole upper tier to better seats and close the top tier to make it looks like like its well enough attended otherwise its going to look ridiculous on tv

califano

Whos this Shevchenko, never heard of her till now.
Therefore Shevchenko ftw

Devastator

califano wrote: »

Whos this Shevchenko, never heard of her till now.
Therefore Shevchenko ftw

Close enough decison defeat to Nunes at 196. Do you remember about month ago a fighters coach got shot in a cafe in South America? That's her, she was there at the time with her coach.

Mellor

califano wrote: »

Whos this Shevchenko, never heard of her till now.
Therefore Shevchenko ftw

She's a former
Muay Thai world champion. Has a much more extensive and impressive kickboxing record than Holm.
This fight is a boxer who can throw some kicks verses the kickboxer.

Shevchenko is definitely the value at 3/1, my only reservation is that Holm is a big 135er, and Shevchenko was based at closer 125* for most of her career I think.


* Shevchenko repeatedly fought Joanna Jędrzejczyk at 125lbs. Beating her 3 years in a row at the world championships. ('06, '07, '08)

califano

Devastator wrote: »

Close enough decison defeat to Nunes at 196. Do you remember about month ago a fighters coach got shot in a cafe in South America? That's her, she was there at the time with her coach.

Oh yeah thats her yeah

Mellor wrote: »

She's a former
Muay Thai world champion. Has a much more extensive and impressive kickboxing record than Holm.
This fight is a boxer who can throw some kicks verses the kickboxer.

Shevchenko is definitely the value at 3/1, my only reservation is that Holm is a big 135er, and Shevchenko was based at closer 125* for most of her career I think.


* Shevchenko repeatedly fought Joanna Jędrzejczyk at 125lbs. Beating her 3 years in a row at the world championships. ('06, '07, '08)

jeepers this would temper enthusiasm to go for Holm. Shoud be a good fight so

Zero-Cool

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

George Sullivan pulled from the card due to USADA not taking no ****.

https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/756252242991276032

Paully D

Poor Joe Silva stuck in between Luis Henrique and Dmitry Smoliakov having a shoving match at the weigh-ins :pac:

kumate_champ07

Bojan Mihajlovic looks like he could easily drop to light-heavy

Mellor

Holm looked ripped at the weigh-ins.
Shevchenko weighed-in in at 133 and didn't look like it was much effort to get there. Technically she's probably as good as Holm, but I've a feeling she belongs at 125lbs

Holm via Submission

This fight should be quick

Holm via Submission

Spitting his mouth piece out to by himself some time

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

he should be driving knees into hs ribs here.

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Smolyiakov was just looking for a way out there.

Holm via Submission

Smolyiakov doesn't look to be UFC standard at all

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Knight has to be a big underdog here but I'd love to see him submit Alers.

John_D80

Holm via Submission

John_D80 wrote: »

Knight has to be a big underdog here but I'd love to see him submit Alers.

Is there bad blood between them?

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Not that I know of. I'm just not a big fan of Alers.

kumate_champ07

awesome round!

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Some very slick groundwork under pressure from both guys in the last 30 seconds.

Paully D

Awesome fight!

Holm via Submission

What a fight that was

kumate_champ07

who wins? those takedowns didnt lead to much

darced

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John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Great fight. Great great fight.

29-28 to knight by my reckoning.

That_Guy

Crazy fight.

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Thats the right result. No doubt.

That_Guy

Jaysus, who scored 2 rounds for Alers???

John_D80

Shevchenko via KO/TKO

Were it not for the quality of the fight, Jim Alers could have been heading back to Cage Warriors I reckon!!

That fight will get him one more at least.

kumate_champ07

That_Guy wrote: »

Jaysus, who scored 2 rounds for Alers???

the takedowns. I thought it would be a split as not all judges score them the same and Knight took control on the ground quickly and wasnt taking damage there

That_Guy

Is UFC Unfiltered worth the listen lads? Kinda had my doubts about it as I think they'll be too busy towing the party line without any real outside criticism.

I do like Matt Serra though.

tinpib

The smart money is on Moontasri to get knocked de fudge out in round 1 here.

tinpib

Hmm, didn't look right in the balls there?

That_Guy

Jaysus, my bollocks felt that.

Chris.

Holm via Submission

That_Guy wrote: »

Jaysus, my bollocks felt that.

I'm sweating watching that

That_Guy

Well that was a... eh... fight

Chris.

Holm via Submission

Moontarsi is gunna be very sore in the morning and I don't think he'll be able to father children anymore...

That_Guy

That was some slick ground work. Really interesting submission set ups.

jcd5971

Why is rogan doing a fox card?

That_Guy

jcd5971 wrote: »

Why is rogan doing a fox card?

They usually do the "big FOX" cards. I think it's a ploy for casual fans to keep coming back because it's who they associate UFC commentary with.

Anik/Stann/Florian don't have the same appeal to a wider audience. Especially if that audience is made up casual fans who may not enjoy change etc.

That_Guy

The UFC may need a dental plan with all the mouthpieces that are going flying tonight.

Chris.

Holm via Submission

Is there an element of punishment putting Holm on this card I wonder?

That_Guy

Chris. wrote: »

Is there an element of punishment putting Holm on this card I wonder?

Why do you think that?

Chris.

Holm via Submission

That_Guy wrote: »

Why do you think that?

Going from taking rousey out in spectacular fashion on a ppv to a fight night card in such a short time. Just thinking out loud.

That_Guy

I'm delighted Big John took a point there. More refs need to be more liberal with taking points for fence grabs.