UFC 251 - Usman vs Masvidal Sat July 11th

Axwell

Date: July 11
Location: Yas Island -- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Main Card - 3am
Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal - Welterweight title
Alex Volkanovski vs Max Holloway - Featherweight title
Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo - Vacant bantamweight title
Rose Namajunas vs Jéssica Andrade
Amanda Ribas vs Paige VanZant

Prelims - 1am
Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka
Muslim Salikhov vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry
Roman Bogatov vs. Leonardo Santos

Early Prelims - 11pm
Maxim Grishin vs. Marcin Tybura
Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov
Vanessa Melo vs. Karol Rosa
Martin Day vs. Davey Grant

ASOT

Yan by Sub

Street Jesus ko/Alex points/Yan Ko

What a card lads what a card!

dashoonage

Street Jesus gonna put on a baptism.

catrat12

Max/ Usman/ yan

Esse85

Jorge has 23 pounds to cut since he agreed the fight on Saturday.
I can't see him having a realistic chance of winning without a proper camp.

Sounds like he got what he wanted, a massive pay day.

xtal191

Yan by Sub

Usman pts/Holloway pts/Yan KO

Zero-Cool

Yan by KO/TKO

ASOT wrote: »

Street Jesus ko/Alex points/Yan Ki

What a card lads what a card!

And EA UFC 4 getting revealed during it as well, nice night lined up

Mehaffey1

Aldo by KO/TKO

Masvidal by KO/TKO just have a feeling it will happen even though Usman wins on paper points all day long.

Volkanovski by Points and Petr Yan by Points. Can't see Aldo or Holloway being finished within 5 rounds.

Aldo by KO/TKO

3 piece and a soda.

I think Holloway will be too good for Volkanovski and will win on points. Petr beats Aldo on points too, for me.

Frank Bullitt

Holloway out, another cursed card.

irishguy1983

So are the fights on at like 6 AM Sunday morning local time??! Or am I miscalculating?

ASOT

Yan by Sub

Gintonious wrote: »

Holloway out, another cursed card.

Where are you seeing this? I seen a fake Ariel twitter page saying similar earlier but can't see anything thats real?

irishguy1983

Aldo by KO/TKO

irishguy1983 wrote: »

So are the fights on at like 6 AM Sunday morning local time??! Or am I miscalculating?

Same as usual. Early prelims start at 11pm Saturday Irish time. Main card around 3am.

irishguy1983

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Same as usual. Early prelims start at 11pm Saturday Irish time. Main card around 3am.

I was thinking with it being in Abu Dhabi it would be earlier Irish time - I didn’t think it would be on at 6/7 local Sunday morning....That is my Saturday night hopes over...

Frank Bullitt

ASOT wrote: »

Where are you seeing this? I seen a fake Ariel twitter page saying similar earlier but can't see anything thats real?

Sorry, was a fake account. They got me.

ASOT

Yan by Sub

Yeah they got Josh Thompson earlier too, I hate Twitter.

catrat12

Has Jorge been doing much training or anything reckon he done **** all after he had is argument with Dana can’t see him winning on 6 days

Max looks weird with hair and also said he has not been doing much sparring, I was surprised he was beat in first fight

Aldo by KO/TKO

Seems like he has been slugging away.


https://twitter.com/DamonMartin/status/1279662852069044224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279662852069044224%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bjpenn.com%2Fmma-news%2Fufc%2Fjorge-masvidal-has-been-training-ahead-of-proposed-ufc-251-title-fight-with-kamaru-usman%2F

Hannibal36

Anyone know would this be ppv here and the UK?

Esse85

catrat12 wrote: »

Max looks weird with hair and also said he has not been doing much sparring, I was surprised he was beat in first fight

DC said he was talking crap about that.
Said he was doing far more than just the zoom sessions he claims to have only being doing.

robwen

Hannibal36 wrote: »

Anyone know would this be ppv here and the UK?

It is not a PPV here just on ordinary BT Sport 1

Happy with Masvidal stepping in tbh. Looking forward to the Holloway rematch as well.

derfderf

Really hoping for an Aldo win. I don't know why everyone's writing him off. Super close fight against Marlon ( which i thought he won). Marlon was on a tear until he ran in to Cejudo. Yan stopped a 40 year old Faber....

Hannibal36

robwen wrote: »

It is not a PPV here just on ordinary BT Sport 1

Yeah was just thinking about the Conor/Cerrone fight that was ppv wasn't it?my memory isn't great lately but i think i payed on top of my bt subscription for that fight and so i was thinking this card is pretty stacked so maybe they were gonna try it on again for a ppv here.

dashoonage

watching the first embedded there. LOL'ed at the air crew offering Page food and champagne etc and she just keep politely declining and you just know shes there going " I'm cutting weight you mother****er"

Starlord_01

Aldo by Sub

Looking forward to Amirkhani vs Henry!

Axwell

Yan by Sub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrjarClr0yU

Zero-Cool

Yan by KO/TKO

Jorge heavily rumoured to be on the cover of EA UFC 4. I hope not as that means an instant loss Saturday night as the cover sacrifice requires.

Zero-Cool

Yan by KO/TKO

Hope Mike is alright but i thought if the team has it, the fighter gets pulled as well.

https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1280596914178789376?s=19

ASOT

Yan by Sub

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Hope Mike is alright but i thought if the team has it, the fighter gets pulled as well.

https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1280596914178789376?s=19

I don't think they have been together yet, from looking at twitter Mike's still in the US.

Whelo79

Yan by Sub

Oooff. When was the last time Masvidal and Brown were in contact I wonder? Could he develop symptoms this week?

Aldo by KO/TKO

Masvidal has been in full flight according to Poirier. I know he's his teammate but not the only source saying that Masvidal has been very active.

Aldo by KO/TKO

The Gangster meets Street Jesus.

Zero-Cool

Yan by KO/TKO

Dosbrak doing art for ufc, that's the Irish guy isn't it?

https://twitter.com/ufcstore/status/1280908192474697729?s=19

xtal191

Yan by Sub

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Dosbrak doing art for ufc, that's the Irish guy isn't it?

https://twitter.com/ufcstore/status/1280908192474697729?s=19

Thats great, fair play to him

Zero-Cool

Yan by KO/TKO

Such a great poster.

https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1280943828820799494?s=19

Ush1

So is the fight island going to have a crowd there to watch it live?

Starlord_01

Aldo by Sub

https://www.donegaldaily.com/2020/07/08/buncrana-banger-set-for-historic-ufc-event-on-fight-island/

D.Q

Yan by Sub

Starlord_01 wrote: »

https://www.donegaldaily.com/2020/07/08/buncrana-banger-set-for-historic-ufc-event-on-fight-island/

Was wondering where that accent was from in embedded

xtal191

Yan by Sub

https://twitter.com/guicruzzz/status/1281131087188701184

dave1982

Masvidal by Sub

47c there Saturday nd Sunday. Its midnight there now ands it's 34c. That's some serious heat

Beersmith

^ so just like any small empty arena?!

Mellor

Aldo by KO/TKO

Beersmith wrote: »

^ so just like any small empty arena?!

Except for the aircon :pac::pac::pac:

D.Q

Yan by Sub

Seems to be a big interest in this card.

As one of the saddos that spends his time virtually hunched in various hotel function rooms watching the live streams of weigh ins, there's loads watching the different outlets streams. Not mcgregor numbers obviously but still higher than usual.

Embeddeds also clocking in at 1.4/1.5/1.9m views so far.

Obviously doesn't necessarily translate to a buy rate but interesting metrics to follow.

D.Q

Yan by Sub

Aldo and Yan both made 135.
Holloway made 145
Usman made 170

Waiting on Masvisal and Volk to make the title fights official

US2

Yan by Sub

I can't see anyway Jorge wins, I actually think people backing him are crazy. I expect Holloway to lose exactly how he did last time, he can't fight any other way. Aldo v Petr will be fight of the night i think. Yan by KO.

D.Q

Yan by Sub

US2 wrote: »

I can't see anyway Jorge wins, I actually think people backing him are crazy. I expect Holloway to lose exactly how he did last time, he can't fight any other way. Aldo v Petr will be fight of the night i think. Yan by KO.

Did two bets. One treble of the guys I want to win,

mas,
max,
aldo.

Around 22-1

And then a treble of what I actually think will happen

Yan to win
Volk by Dec
Usman by Dec

Around 6-1

US2

Yan by Sub

D.Q wrote: »

Did two bets. One treble of the guys I want to win,

mas,
max,
aldo.

Around 22-1

And then a treble of what I actually think will happen

Yan to win
Volk by Dec
Usman by Dec

Around 6-1

Ill be doing that 6/1 myself. Great price.

Hope Jorge makes weight, think its just him and usman to weigh in now

https://twitter.com/SandhuMMA/status/1281579741926035457?s=19

D.Q

Yan by Sub

US2 wrote: »

Ill be doing that 6/1 myself. Great price.

Hope Jorge makes weight, think its just him and usman to weigh in now

https://twitter.com/SandhuMMA/status/1281579741926035457?s=19

Usman already did I think.

Mellor

Aldo by KO/TKO

D.Q wrote: »

Seems to be a big interest in this card.

Fight Week card is always huge interest. But this seems to tick a lot of boxes to draw in fans.

3 title fights.
2 rematches
6 current or former champions
1 fighter on a weeks notice


That's just the main/PPV card

D.Q

Yan by Sub

Gambred weighing in