UFC 245 - Usman vs. Covington, Sat Dec 14th.

Main Card
170:: Kamaru Usman (c) vs. Colby Covington
145:: Max Holloway (c) vs. Alexander Volkanovski
135:: Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Germaine de Randamie
135:: Marlon Moraes vs. Jose Aldo
135:: Petr Yan vs. Urijah Faber

Prelims
170:: Geoff Neal vs. Mike Perry
135:: Ketlen Vieira vs. Irene Aldana
185:: Ian Heinisch vs. Omari Akhmedov
170:: Matt Brown vs. Ben Saunders

Early prelims
145:: Chase Hooper vs. Daniel Teymur
125:: Brandon Moreno vs. Kai Kara-France
125:: Jessica Eye vs. Viviane Araujo
170:: Punahele Soriano vs. Oskar Piechota

ricero

War Colby !

I'd love to see Usman choke the gimmick outta Colby.

shanec1928

A main event where you want two losers.

fitzparker

17/1 for the 3 titles to change hands....

As much as id love Colby to be schooled I think he will win. the other 2 should be dead on to keep their belts, but will put money on the above for interest.

dulux99

Fair play to Faber for taking this fight but he's in for a bad, bad beating on Saturday I reckon.

Aldo v Moraes is an interesting one, Moraes is a bottler and if Aldo turns up the heat on him he could wilt. Massive asterisk being the weight of course.

ricero

Listening to some of the Interviews Colby has done this week where he has toned down the gimmick and he seems like a very intelligent and likeable fella.

Can't warm to Usman at all. Should be a cracking fight.

Tazzimus

Jesus Aldo looks horrific at the mo, seen an interview Ariel popped up.


Colby has grown on me a bit

Alf Veedersane

Tazzimus wrote: »

Jesus Aldo looks horrific at the mo, seen an interview Ariel popped up.

Looked terrible at the face off.

xckjoo

This is some card so the fights will probably be boring as hell :pac:


Colby's shtick is tiresome but he is a great fighter. And if we see the same Usman that we saw against Woodley then it should be a great fight. I've a bad feeling there's going to be some people popping for PEDs in that division though. The cardio levels are off the scales.

Can't see Nunes being beaten. Probably thought the same about Rousey back in the day though. No idea about Holloway-Volkanovski. I'd lean towards Holloway, but mainly cause he's the incumbent.

xtal191

Aldo makes weight, reminds me of Conor at 145

JacksonHeightsOwn

Am I alone in thinking de Randomie will spark Nunes cold?

I wonder what odds I'd get for that?

chrisbonnie

chrisbonnie wrote: »

Am I alone in thinking de Randomie will spark Nunes cold?

I wonder what odds I'd get for that?

5/1

Zero-Cool

So many cracking fights! Won't be staying up for it but Cannot wait too watch these tomorrow morning.

dashoonage

Oh go on... ill say it....for old times sake.

What times McGregor fighting lads ?

ForeverYoung90

chrisbonnie wrote: »

Am I alone in thinking de Randomie will spark Nunes cold?

I wonder what odds I'd get for that?

I believe Nunes will spark De Randamie out. GOAT female fighter.

ForeverYoung90

My picks for Title fights are;
Nunes by KO
Holloway by Dec.
Covington by Dec.

Mehaffey1

Damn that's one way to start your UFC career with a bang, scary power from Soriano.

mailburner

Hooper has a big future, props to teymur for not tapping there.. amazing toughness

BobCobb

I was a little worried for Hooper there, he's so light it looks like he could get knocked out easily, and when Teymur lifted him up in a guillotine hold it looked pretty dangerous but he seems to be tough. Crazy height difference, like DC said, when he was on Teymur's back it looked almost impossible to shrug him off.

darced

White belt level triangle from Saunders there.

Mehaffey1

Who in the world agrees to fight Matt Brown seriously!

ERG89

How long is Ilir Latifi a Heavyweight?
He's a big 205 but it looks like a handy fight for Derrick Lewis who admittedly would need to walk on water to ever get a title shot again.

Bruce sporting the 100's & 1000's jacket tonight.

finglashoop

Jesus what a ko

Jamiekelly

One of the best hooks I've ever seen in womens MMA.

eagle eye

Where did it come from, she's never shown anything like that in her time in the UFC.

derfderf

Feck. I had Viera & nunes to win, and Aldo by ko/tko. Fell at the first. Every time I've watched her before she's smashed her opponent.
I got greedy. Great odds on Aldo, but i wanted more.
Great fights so far.

ERG89

Yan (predictably) battering Faber.
Doctor stoppage looked a certainty there but no....
3rd round ko via headkick. Can't believe the guys on commentary tried to say Urijah stunned him in round 2. He was so much faster & hits harder than Faber.

eagle eye

He was faster and hits harder but it did look like he felt that punch in the second round.
Kudos to Faber stepping in the ring with a tough nut like that at 40 years of age.

mangobob

eagle eye wrote: »

He was faster and hits harder but it did look like he felt that punch in the second round.
Kudos to Faber stepping in the ring with a tough nut like that at 40 years of age.

Yeah I have to agree. I thought that punch stunned him momentarily. He almost froze after he got hit with it. But that was all Faber had for him.

US2

Good even fight this commentary wont shut up about aldo tho?

ERG89

US2 wrote: »

Good even fight this commentary wont shut up about aldo tho?

There is always a narrative with them. Other than the 2nd round Aldo didn't really outstrike him but was returning any one strike with 2 or 3 according to them.

eagle eye

That's a disgraceful decision, Aldo won that fight.

mangobob

I knew it lol

mangobob

ERG89 wrote: »

There is always a narrative with them. Other than the 2nd round Aldo didn't really outstrike him but was returning any one strike with 2 or 3 according to them.

I thought Aldo won the fight, but the commentary was ridiculously OTT. It was much closer than what they were claiming.

darced

Biggest Aldo fan about but...... I felt Moraes took it, Aldo took the foot off the pedal. Terrible bias on the comms.

Still Ill

Had money on Aldo and I really wanted to believe what the commentators were saying, but I just didn't see it. Good decision IMO.

MidlanderMan

Aldo won 2 of 3 rounds, easily, the only debate is whether he won all 3.

Judges in MMA are an absolute disgrace.

ERG89

mangobob wrote: »

I thought Aldo won the fight, but the commentary was ridiculously OTT. It was much closer than what they were claiming.

Aldo won it but they were drawing up the poster for him for the Cejudo fight he was getting springboard to as soon as he started throwing & not slowing. He did well to be fair but seeing them try to back pedal after the decision was quite fun.

Still Ill

Three title fights... Cannot wait!
Nunes in one
Holloway decision
Colby decision

Mehaffey1

Still Ill wrote: »

Three title fights... Cannot wait!
Nunes in one
Holloway decision
Colby decision

Mad to think we might possibly have 1 hour and 15 mins of fighting left

mangobob

This would be some redemption for GDR if she wins here tonight, esp if she stops Nunes.

US2

Thought that was a very even fight, if u had to call a winner it was marlin. Commentary blowing there load over aldo for nothing would turn u off watching , I dont want hype, 1 sided hype, just wanna see the fight n make my own judgement

US2

Couldn't watch a fight on mute before a smart ass comments. Would love a commentary free option.

US2

Randamine to win here ko

darced

I have a feeling there could be an upset here, style should suit De randamie. Nunes is a beast though and could make that prediction look silly.

hawaii501

Thought Aldo did just enough to get the decision but that 3rd rd he was non-existent.

Was there any reason for no leg-kicks by Aldo? Any injuries sustained, found it very strange as a couple of leg-kicks in each rd would have swung it for him.

Still Ill

WTF is Bruce wearing? Disgraceful

qwabercd

MidlanderMan wrote: »

Aldo won 2 of 3 rounds, easily, the only debate is whether he won all 3.

Judges in MMA are an absolute disgrace.

Moraes won the first for me. Aldo clearly the second. Third was close, thought aldo shaded it but wouldn't argue against moraes either.

mangobob

GDR looks like she doesnt even belong in there with AN.

Surely thats a 10-8

Still Ill

mangobob wrote: »

GDR looks like she doesnt even belong in there with AN.

Surely thats a 10-8

Yeah, deffo a 10-8 in the first. Nunes probably lost the second though. Interesting fight now.