UFC 214 - DC vs Jones

wonderfullife

Date: Saturday July 29th
Times: Fight Pass Prelims (11pm, Fight Pass), Prelims (1am, Fight Pass & BT Sport 2), Main Card (3am, BT Sport 2)
Venue: Anaheim, California
Odds: DC (2/1) vs Jones (4/11)


One of the best fight promos ever done by the UFC:

"Tame Your Demons"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8lL0EItUvU

Dan Hardy & John Gooden fantastic fight breakdown spending the first half of it charting the history of DC and Jon Jones rivalry:

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

Countdown Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OIZTVyCCno

UFC 214 Embedded - Episode 1. Amazing episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsA0gWIELrc

Co-Main-Event:

Tyron Woodley (4/9) v Demian Maia. (13/8)

Countdown Video:

Demian Maia is probably the nicest guy in the entire world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk-4dbaJyOk

D.Q

Maia Decision

Pussy Bonpensiero sleeps with the fishes.

LollipopJimmy

Looking forward to Lawler and Cerrone as much as the main event

akelly02

Maia Decision

Great write up wonder, getting the juices flowing.
Dc decision
Maia sub
Lawlor KO

dashoonage

In before someone mentions Conor.

D.Q

Maia Decision

akelly02 wrote: »

Great write up wonder, getting the juices flowing.
Dc decision
Maia sub
Lawlor KO

This would make my night.

johnpatrick81

Maia Decision

Anyone want Jones to win? Not me! Gowan DC!

Zero-Cool

Maia Decision

Let's go Jonny Bones Jones off his head on coke and viagra!!! DX Suck it DC!

scudzilla

Still a few days for Jones to fcuk it all up by pissing hot

xtal191

Woodley Sub

Hoping DC and Lawler both win with vicious KO's

Zero-Cool

Maia Decision

scudzilla wrote: »

Still a few days for Jones to fcuk it all up by pissing hot

DC also has the battle with the towel at weigh ins. Vegas won't play that ****.

Django99

Zero-Cool wrote: »

DC also has the battle with the towel at weigh ins. Vegas won't play that ****.

Fights in California and their commission has been monitoring weights of the title fights for the past month, id sincerely hope there'll be no issues this time. DC looks a little bit leaner going by the videos but that doesn't mean much I suppose, all about the last couple of days before getting on the scales.

Zero-Cool

Maia Decision

Ah had it in my head it was on in Vegas, ah anyway I'd say both lads are on the ball here. I'd be shocked SHOCKED if either messed be it weight issues or drugs. Actually I wouldn't be that shocked if Jones ****s up.

Django99

I probably wouldn't be shocked but just so so disappointed. All the promos and interviews have been so good, press conference tomorrow should be good, just cannot wait for the fight. The fact that there's such a good card beforehand just makes it better. I haven't even really thought about the WW fights, and Lamas v Knight will be a great scrap too.

Gamebred

Maia Decision

Lawler via body kick 3 mins and 32 secoinds into round 1.

Gamb!t

DC KO/TKO

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

Anyone want Jones to win? Not me! Gowan DC!

For this fight no.

I hope DC gets the win just to take him down a peg and give him a reality check.

dashoonage

I want Jones to win. MMA needs the VIOLENCE of bones.

Inviere

Some card! Always a pleasure to watch Robbie, hope he gets the job done! Serious test for Woodley too in Maia, that fella is scarily good on the deck.

wonderfullife

Maia Decision

dashoonage wrote: »

I want Jones to win. MMA needs the VIOLENCE of bones.

Personally I want Conor & DC to absolutely smash Mayweather & Jones.

Say what you want about Conor and Daniel, they're human and not perfect, but they are fundamentally decent human beings facing off self-indulgent narcissists who have absolutely zero respect for women or anybody else for that matter.

#WAR DC

dashoonage

wonderfullife wrote: »

Personally I want Conor & DC to absolutely smash Mayweather & Jones.

Say what you want about Conor and Daniel, they're human and not perfect, but they are fundamentally decent human beings facing off self-indulgent narcissists who have absolutely zero respect for women or anybody else for that matter.

#WAR DC

Boom! conor in the 214 thread!

Useful.Idiot

Woodley Sub

dashoonage wrote: »

I want Jones to win. MMA needs the VIOLENCE of bones.

He's not going away if he loses. I want DC to win, retire straight away (or even a rubber match first) and then Jones vs Gus 2 for the vacant title, Jones will win again then move up to heavyweight.

wonderfullife

Maia Decision

dashoonage wrote: »

Boom! conor in the 214 thread!

I'll never understand why some people want the woman-beater to beat Conor due to his 'personality' and likewise why people want Jones to beat DC. Mind you, we live in a culture where a convicted rapist in Mike Tyson is revered around the world as a 'legend'...

Anyway, I think DC will run through Jones - he can say whatever he wants but ring rust is a real thing unless your name is Dominick Cruz. Cormier will dump him on his head inside 2 minutes and this time he'll make the adjustment and clamp down on him. Rinse and repeat round 2.

I could see this being a 50-45 or 49-46 for DC or a 3rd Round stoppage.

dashoonage

wonderfullife wrote: »

I'll never understand why some people want the woman-beater to beat Conor due to his 'personality' and likewise why people want Jones to beat DC. Mind you, we live in a culture where a convicted rapist in Mike Tyson is revered around the world as a 'legend'...

Anyway, I think DC will run through Jones - he can say whatever he wants but ring rust is a real thing unless your name is Dominick Cruz. Cormier will dump him on his head inside 2 minutes and this time he'll make the adjustment and clamp down on him. Rinse and repeat round 2.

I could see this being a 50-45 or 49-46 for DC or a 3rd Round stoppage.

I never said anything about a womanbeater beating Conor!

As for jones. Always was and always be a jones fan. Couldnt give a **** about his life outside the cage. I follow MMA for the fights not for the instagrams. I'm hoping the old jones is back...the one the can elbow you in the face from the other side of the cage.

D.Q

Maia Decision

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

He's not going away if he loses. I want DC to win, retire straight away (or even a rubber match first) and then Jones vs Gus 2 for the vacant title, Jones will win again then move up to heavyweight.

Jones won't stay at LHW, he knows Conor is coming

wonderfullife

Maia Decision

dashoonage wrote: »

I never said anything about a womanbeater beating Conor!

As for jones. Always was and always be a jones fan. Couldnt give a **** about his life outside the cage. I follow MMA for the fights not for the instagrams. I'm hoping the old jones is back...the one the can elbow you in the face from the other side of the cage.

Speaking of which, interesting his coach said "Jon has developed a new way of throwing elbows". God only knows what that means :pac:

Anyway, can't throw elbows if you're on the mat being held down by a tank

markcahill1985

Really hoping for DC and Maia wins here, what a card though in fairness, cant wait.

ricero

Woodley Sub

Have an awful feeling that woodley will ko maia. Such close match ups except for cyborg who is a banker.

I think the jimmy manuwa fight will be a cracker, one of them is getting knocked out

Tinie

Woodley Sub

Woodley should be too powerful for Maia I think. Cant see Maia getting a proper hold of him and eventually getting KOed or TKOed.

Hope DC wins.

Gamb!t

DC KO/TKO

wonderfullife wrote: »

I'll never understand why some people want the woman-beater to beat Conor due to his 'personality' and likewise why people want Jones to beat DC. Mind you, we live in a culture where a convicted rapist in Mike Tyson is revered around the world as a 'legend'...

Anyway, I think DC will run through Jones - he can say whatever he wants but ring rust is a real thing unless your name is Dominick Cruz. Cormier will dump him on his head inside 2 minutes and this time he'll make the adjustment and clamp down on him. Rinse and repeat round 2.

I could see this being a 50-45 or 49-46 for DC or a 3rd Round stoppage.

I hope your right but I think it will be similar to the first fight.Jones has a huge reach advantage.

dashoonage

I think everyone in the entire world wants Maia to win :P

wonderfullife

Maia Decision

Gamb!t wrote: »

I hope your right but I think it will be similar to the first fight.Jones has a huge reach advantage.

DC was saying that for the first fight he didn't train much in specific wrestling situations - such as against the fence - because he assumed his wrestling would be so superior, that he just focused on offensive wrestling in open space. He had never been taken down before that fight and blindly assumed Jon wouldn't be able to do a thing to him in clinch range.

He reckons this time around he has focused far more on clinch fence work etc and brought in specific sparring partners who have the 80+ inch reach and height.

I'm very confident in DC for this fight, kinda shocked he's the underdog given how bad Jones looked against OSP (bad relative to his normal best).