General MMA Chat/News part 4 - **No Spoilers Use Event Threads**

It shows you what a joke the whole thing is. He beat Lopes and yet is ranked lower than him.

The man is unbeaten. It's a complete joke that he has to face somebody whose ranked no.9.

Holloway just got his shot and I agree that Volkanovski deserves his opportunity but he should be next after that ahead of Lopes, Rodriguez and Ortega and everybody else.

Jones is the P4P no.1. He hasn't lost since 2009, his only loss. He was out of the ring for quite a while but came back and finished a guy in round 1 who'd never been stopped before.

Probably the most surreal thing in a match was that armbar. I don't think there's anybody else on the planet that would have survived that.

He kept the skills honed by beating women while he was out of the ring. The goat; who cancels a card because he doesn't fancy a fight against a blown up middleweight and pisses hot as often as the aforementioned middleweight.

Nice to see a certain MAGA clown taking a hiding

So Bryce Mitchell finally went full…… well, you know!

"The 30-year-old said: ‘I honestly think Hitler was a good guy, based upon my own research, not my public education and indoctrination.

‘He fought for his country, he wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out who were destroying his country and turning them all into gays.’

https://youtu.be/fopvLQg9k8w?si=zrf0o_pT0T6NEwoB

Dana White didn't hold back anyway.

Gallagher is a busted flush, he was built up to superstardom by Bellator and believed his own hype. Seems he fell out with Kavanagh (Who hasn't I suppose) and is a bit lost since.

Anyway, Ireland has a double champ in Will Fleury.

Just a load of calf kicks.

TBF, MMA in general is poor at the moment. UFC is the hugging championship now. Fence control etc. Danas face and body language when he saw the scorecard said it all.

Ank has absolutely zero charisma. The company is still making money, but I do wonder when the lack of stars catch up with them .

Pereira was very timid on Saturday.

The main card itself was a bit meh. I enjoyed the co main event, but I do think Justin is probably past his best , while Fiziev clearly not up to speed after the long injury. The ladies match was an absolute disgrace and had no business on the main section of the card.

I don't mind some female MMA fighters but overall WMMA just doesn't have any depth. Zhang, Rose, Blanchfield, Shevo, Andrade and one or two others I enjoy watching but outside them its boring fights which always go the distance and suck the life out of the card. I hope they sign the PFL lass Ditcheva ASAP , she looks like a killer.

Cracking card this weekend though

Also used to be the case that the Fight Night cards would have some decent scraps, with headliners being big names, #1 contender fights, sometimes title fights themselves.

These days there's a card almost every week. Cards full of Contender Series nobodies and barely any ranked fighters at all.

Emmet v Murphy at the Apex? Cool. Might watch on Fight Pass during the week but won't be losing any sleep!

UFC 312 was in Feb. Two title fights at the top of the card. However, and correct me if i'm wrong, but the rest of the card didn't feature a single ranked fighter. From top to bottom!

The Trump thing is a fair point. I know some will say "it be a different tune if it was Biden, Harris etc" ,,,nope it wouldn't, I don't want sporting events to feel like a political rally ffs .

The Apex cards I watch because I work a lot of Saturday nights, but they are absolute torture, just randoms fighting with nothing at stake. You may get an interesting looking main event as we did last week, but despite having Josh Emmett in the ring, Murphy won by tedium. He fought the fight he needed to aye, but as a spectator not enjoyable.

Their was another fight where a fella won with 4 significant strikes which went the distance 😀

Ultimately because the UFC have guaranteed money from Epsn and are probably going to get a big Netflix contract they don't gave to try. You will get some good PPV'S and some sneaky fight night bangers but its very much diminishing returns.

It's gone to the dogs. Weili Zhang and Jon Jones are the only two that interest me now.

The issue I guess is that they all start doing MMA now. As opposed to boxing or wrestling etc and then into MMA.

Become very sterile.