UFC Fight Night: Lewis v Abdurakhimov

Paully D

Date: Friday 9th December
Times: Prelims (10:45pm GMT, Fight Pass), Main Card (2am, BT Sport)
Venue: Albany, New York
Odds: Lewis (1/2) v Abdurakhimov (7/4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6aOTXK9G5k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1JKv7RQxT0

Gamebred

https://vine.co/v/56m33Fd1lPO

Paully D

Worst card in recent memory? Even the injured-hit Dublin card in 2015 holds its own against this.

Wrongway1985

Lewis via Submission

Paully D wrote: »

Worst card in recent memory? Even the injured-hit Dublin card in 2015 holds its own against this.

Shambles of a card alright but tbh that 3 min weigh in face-offs vid above was probably better than that Dublin card.

mailburner

Lewis via Submission

I see a few dogfights in this, main card might surprise a few
ngannou looks a monster but so did kongo in fairness, should get a top ten guy after beating hamilton surely

HenryHill

Paully D wrote: »

Worst card in recent memory? Even the injured-hit Dublin card in 2015 holds its own against this.

The recent one in Australia was the worst card ive seen.

What time is first fight tonight?

Gamebred

Its live now, Diakese taking to the octagon.

Gamebred

Gamebred wrote: »

Its live now, Diakese taking to the octagon.

Excellent, Diakiese looks good

Subcomandante Marcos

****ing fightpass.

Paully D

Good stuff from Diakese to dominate the third round after the second round got very messy.

Perez is such a sulking bollocks.

riffmongous

Who are these people?

They cut his hair off?

What a fight

Gamebred

Cracking fight be doing well to see a more fun one than that tonight.

What channel is the main card on? is it on BT? or fight pass? I have fight pass open and it says black out, but nothing is on BT

Gamebred

Deleted User wrote: »

What channel is the main card on? is it on BT? or fight pass? I have fight pass open and it says black out, but nothing is on BT

bt 3 sky channel 417.

Gamebred

Gamebred wrote: »

bt 3 sky channel 417.

Cheers, got sorted with a way of watching I know its been said before but ridiculous that fightpass has got so bad in Ireland. Watching stuff on BT sports sucks, id prefer pay for the PPV and have less ads

Gamebred

Ha that was a gas fight

poldebruin

Surprised that the fight wasn't stopped earlier, either by the referee or Villante himself... Really took a beating.

Gamebred

Gamebred wrote: »

Ha that was a gas fight

Yeah what happened to sofarovs *spelt wrong* leg? I thought villante was gone for a minute as well. He was out on his feet for the last 30 seconds of the fight though, should have been called a little earlier.

Subcomandante Marcos

LETS GO O.C.!

poldebruin

violent submission there!

Subcomandante Marcos

Just raw power. Nice Kimura.

Gamebred

Jesus that was a serious submission absolute beast Ngannou is.

EagererBeaver

Pure strength.

Gamebred

Scary scary man, didnt know a thing about MMA 4 years ago.

poldebruin

that was a head kick in slow motion which led to the takedown. Too big to hold down thoguh

poldebruin

1st round to Abdurakhimov fairly easily. You've got to think it'll be to his advantage the longer the fight goes.

poldebruin

I don't think you want to tire Lewis out by letting him uppercut you in the face as Stann is suggesting there. 2nd to Abdurakhimov no question. Lewis looks very one dimensional, and doesn;t seem to have a plan b beyond hoping to land a single punch.

poldebruin

Not exactly a barnburner. Neither of these are good enough to crack the top 5. Lewis shouldn't throw another kick in the fight.....ah down again.

Subcomandante Marcos

About time refs started warning people about doing a sonia o'sullivan impression.

poldebruin

How can the ref give that warning, Abdurakhimov is 3 rounds up. Where's the warning for Lewis, he's probably thrown about as much. Why doesn't the ref tell Lewis to track him down more effectively?

Subcomandante Marcos

poldebruin wrote: »

How can the ref give that warning, Abdurakhimov is 3 rounds up. Where's the warning for Lewis, he's probably thrown about as much. Why doesn't the ref tell Lewis to track him down more effectively?

Lewis is advancing and trying to engage. The other guy is literally running away.

Subcomandante Marcos

Jaysus having that man mount you and throw bombs must be the scariest thing ever.

poldebruin

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Lewis is advancing and trying to engage. The other guy is literally running away.

Shuffling forward slowly with his hands down, why should the opponent close the distance? he was waiting for the kick/opening to take him down. You can blame the guy for backing up, but he was up 3 rounds to 0 easily before the finish came.

I don't like the style myself, but the fact is neither fighter was throwing anything, why is the one winning the fight easily getting a warning?

Can't see Lewis troubling any of the top heavyweights (lucky punch excepted)

poldebruin

206 card tomorrow night looks good, but just mentioned that Pettis missed weight which means he can't win the interim belt or something? What happens if he wins, does he get the shot at Aldo? I fancy Holloway in any event.