UFC FIGHT NIGHT WERDUM VS VOLKOV

John_D80 · 18-03-2018 12:02am

Verdum looking super relaxed here.

EagererBeaver · 18-03-2018 12:06am

Did he get caught during that flurry or was he rope a doping?

jimmii · 18-03-2018 12:07am

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Did he get caught during that flurry or was he rope a doping?

Hard to tell looked like he got rocked but then again might have been happy to just let him throw a bit.

Vim Fuego · 18-03-2018 12:11am

I can see Werdum winning the UD but he does look a bit old in there, a bit sluggish or something. It would be nice if his BJJ allowed him to mitigate that age a bit longer though.

mailburner · 18-03-2018 12:15am

Jaysus imagine these two by round five

mailburner · 18-03-2018 12:18am

volkov still in this, might need a finish tho
if he goes after werdum he might eventually get it too

Ultimate Seduction · 18-03-2018 12:18am

Is it a rule that you have to allow a downed opponent to get up? Ref keeps holding volkov away while werdum gets up? Never seen that before.

What a fight though.

EagererBeaver · 18-03-2018 12:19am

Not sure I'm bothered with another 10 mins of this. Both of them absolutely knackered.

jimmii · 18-03-2018 12:20am

Boom wow!

jimmii · 18-03-2018 12:21am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Is it a rule that you have to allow a downed opponent to get up? Ref keeps holding volkov away while werdum gets up? Never seen that before.

What a fight though.

Yeah happens all the time. You often see it with match ups like this.

ERG89 · 18-03-2018 12:21am

Werdum looked awful from minute 1. Surprised by that

EagererBeaver · 18-03-2018 12:21am

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Not sure I'm bothered with another 10 mins of this. Both of them absolutely knackered.

Didn't see that coming...

Time for Werdum to give it up. Was knocked cold pretty badly there. Volkov won't trouble anyone at the top of the division.

Ultimate Seduction · 18-03-2018 12:22am

jimmii wrote: »

Yeah happens all the time. You often see it with match ups like this.

So you can't hit your opponent with an uppercut as hes getting up but you can pummel his face while he's lying flat on his back. Strange.

Vim Fuego · 18-03-2018 12:23am

Fair play to Volkov. It can be frustrating to see Werdum play the falling down and enter my guard game in fights like this.

Werdum v Francis is a good shout now.

jimmii · 18-03-2018 12:23am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

So you can't hit your opponent with an uppercut as hes getting up but you can pummel his face while he's lying flat on his back. Strange.

It's only when you signal you want them to go back to standing if it becomes a scramble naturally you can strike in the transition.

John_D80 · 18-03-2018 12:24am

John_D80 wrote: »

I would not be 100% surprised at an upset in the main event to be honest. Volkov has shown himself to be awkward for grapplers in the past.

Boom!!

EagererBeaver · 18-03-2018 12:24am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Is it a rule that you have to allow a downed opponent to get up? Ref keeps holding volkov away while werdum gets up? Never seen that before.

What a fight though.

It's not that he's holding volkov away, it's that Volkov was exercising his right to have Werdum stand up. In doing so, he then can't jump on him as he's standing up.

Ultimate Seduction · 18-03-2018 12:25am

jimmii wrote: »

It's only when you signal you want them to go back to standing if it becomes a scramble naturally you can strike in the transition.

Thanks for that info.

jimmii · 18-03-2018 12:27am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Thanks for that info.

It's just to stop a fighter signalling their opponent to get up and then they attack them as they are getting up if that was allowed the opponent would just stay on the ground and we'd never get anywhere! Allowing the fighter to stand just means the fight can get going again.

EagererBeaver · 18-03-2018 12:27am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

So you can't hit your opponent with an uppercut as hes getting up but you can pummel his face while he's lying flat on his back. Strange.

Not when you request that he stands up, no. If he's trying to scramble to how feet you can strike as normal.

John_D80 · 18-03-2018 12:33am

Ah, getting to bed before midnight after watching an entire UFC event!! A rare pleasure indeed!

Great fights tonight it has to be said.

Fromvert · 18-03-2018 3:55am

Werdum got sparked, delighted. He's the easiest person to hate.

18-03-2018 2:06pm

Fromvert wrote: »

Werdum got sparked, delighted. He's the easiest person to hate.

I find Werdum very likable

Especially after he smacked Covington with that Boomerang

Subcomandante Marcos · 18-03-2018 4:08pm

Just watched this back. Good night of fights.

That big russian guy fighting Craig looked very good, you'd have to assume he didn't hear the clappers for ten seconds, otherwise what was he doing tapping? If I knew there was seconds left in a round you'd have to wake me up before I'd tap.

brendanwalsh · 18-03-2018 8:20pm

Really enjoyed this event. Really great night of fights despite the negative talk beforehand online. 8 of eleven fights were finishes. The manuwa fight was one of the best I've seen in a long time. Both men will have CTE by the time they are 50. Manuwa has a rock solid chin. Atmosphere was electric.

I had bought the cheap tickets. 40 pound seats in Upper tier. There was a handful of scattered empty seats in the bottom tier. When the main card started we snuck down to the bottom tier, five rows from the front. Pics of my original location and my location for the main card. Really much better view up close. I would have bought better seats but couldn't get them in the sale unfortunately. Special thanks to the people who didn't turn up whose seats we sat in.

brendanwalsh · 18-03-2018 8:21pm

Really enjoyed this event. Really great night of fights despite the negative talk beforehand online. 8 of eleven fights were finishes. The manuwa fight was one of the best I've seen in a long time. Both men will have CTE by the time they are 50. Manuwa has a rock solid chin. Atmosphere was electric.

I had bought the cheap tickets. 40 pound seats in Upper tier. There was a handful of scattered empty seats in the bottom tier. When the main card started we snuck down to the bottom tier, five rows from the front. Pics of my original location and my location for the main card. Really much better view up close. I would have bought better seats but couldn't get them in the sale unfortunately. Special thanks to the people who didn't turn up whose seats we sat in.

Visconti · 18-03-2018 8:39pm

brendanwalsh wrote: »

Really enjoyed this event. Really great night of fights despite the negative talk beforehand online. 8 of eleven fights were finishes. The manuwa fight was one of the best I've seen in a long time. Both men will have CTE by the time they are 50. Manuwa has a rock solid chin. Atmosphere was electric.

I had bought the cheap tickets. 40 pound seats in Upper tier. There was a handful of scattered empty seats in the bottom tier. When the main card started we snuck down to the bottom tier, five rows from the front. Pics of my original location and my location for the main card. Really much better view up close. I would have bought better seats but couldn't get them in the sale unfortunately. Special thanks to the people who didn't turn up whose seats we sat in.

Nice.

Paully D · 18-03-2018 10:27pm

Went over to this too. It was the type of card that wasn't going to jump out to the general public but the matchmaking for it was pretty good with lots of well matched fighters and the potential for some good scraps which turned out to be the case.

I'll have to watch them back, but at the time I felt Stevie Ray and Terrion Ware were extremely unlucky not to get the decision wins? I know Duquesnoy's was a unanimous so I could well be miles off there.

Brendan, great pictures.

EagererBeaver · 18-03-2018 11:02pm

I gave Duquesnoy the first two rounds pretty clearly. Takedown at the end of the second skewed the optics of it a bit.

Mellor · 19-03-2018 12:57am

jodaw wrote: »

Holohan - lost his qualification fight on Ultimate Fighter (so could not get to ultimate fighter and should never got to UFC)
Daly - lost on ultimate fighter
Pendred - had great heart but never skill for decent level in UFC

Fact is they all got to UFC because of interest in McGregor/Ireland and a huge expansion of the UFC roster.

Out of interest does anyone have a win loss record for SBG in UFC without Mcgregor? It must be shocking.

Pretty bad analysis there. Not sure is misleading or just ignorance.

Paddy tried out for 135. He isn't a 135er. He asked for a shot at 125 and got it for Dublin. He won, and got more fights on the back of that.

Ais Daly had been around WMMA a long time and got to TUF on her own merits. That was a championship season of TUF. She went out in the quarters so was rightfully in the Top 10 of the division post TUF.

Pendred is a odd case. On one hand, he didn't appear up to scratch. But objectively, he got to the semi-finals on TUF, losing a SD to the eventual winner. Post TUF he went 4-0 in the UFC. Not realy convincing that he only got there due Conor.

You also ignored Gunni entirely. Unquestionably the best SBG fighter outside of Conor.

UFC FIGHT NIGHT WERDUM VS VOLKOV

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