Not much of a showing from Till. He did basically nothing in the 1st round and then got the shit kicked out of him in the 2nd. Great card last night overall, really one of the best of the year.

Joanna likes to call herself the Boogie Woman, but I think Andrade showed us what that actually looks like yesterday.

I've never seen anything like it. It was scary to watch.

After seeing this, I want to give Karolina a hug

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Lol, wow.

For those who don't know, it is a lot easier for men to cut weight, female fighters have to come into fight week a lot closer to their target weight than male fighters. A female flyweight coming in 20 pounds over is just ****ing stupid.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/BulletValentina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BulletValentina</a> says that <a href="https://twitter.com/NiccoMontano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NiccoMontano</a> was 20 lbs. overweight on fight week. Calls Nicco “completely irresponsible” &amp; “unprofessional”. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HelwaniShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HelwaniShow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/arielhelwani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@arielhelwani</a></p>&mdash; MMA On Point (@OnPointMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/OnPointMMA/status/1039216840734662662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The UFC goes to Russia for the first time this weekend with a card thats kinda crappy.... but the main event should be fun.

Friday

7:30pm - (Fightpass) - Glory 58

Kickboxing

9:15 pm - (Fightpass) - Friday Night Fights

Boxing

Saturday

9:30am - (Fightpass) - UFC Fight Night, Hunt vs. Oleinik

This is a card that is at night local time with pretty much every Russian fighter not named Nurmagomedov. So yeah, it is pretty bad, but the main event should be good!

Werdum got popped by the USADA. :(

2 year suspension as of now.

I really don't understand why these guys think they can get away with this anymore. Yeah, I know that cage fighters aren't exactly rocket scientists, but man, it is just not worth it.

Well.... boxing had a bad weekend.

We're going to Brazil this weekend for a card thats better than most Brazil cards (which are usually garbage)

Wednesday

11pm - (Fightpass) - AFL 141

Those wacky Alaskans are at it again with a Wednesday card. The card itself is terrible, like a lot worse than Pancrase levels of bad, but its on a Wednesday night, so thats the only thing on.

Friday

5pm - (Fightpass) - TKO 44

Based on tapology rankings, its not bad at all for a local promotion. Its one of the better promotions in Canada.

8pm - (Paramount) - Bellator 205, McKee vs Macapa

This is slightly below average for Bellator but they have done a lot worse than this before.

Saturday

7:30pm - (5:30pm Fightpass/7:30pm FS2/9:30pm FS1) - UFC Fight Night, Santos vs Anders

The UFC web site as of Monday afternoon still lists this as Manuwa vs Santos, but Manuwa is out, and Eryk Anders is replacing him on 6 days notice. That would be a tremendous win for him if he can pull it off, but 6 days in Brazil? That'll be tough, but I gotta see that fight.

The rest of the main card is..... eh. But for a Brazil card its pretty good because Brazil cards have usually been trash. The prelims are OK.

USADA has announced that Jon Jones is suspended for 15 months, and will be eligible to fight in November. USADA did not decide the punishment, they presumably wanted something longer and they want to arbitration.

The arbitrator ruled that Jones did not knowingly cheat. The arbitrator then took the 48 month punishment recommended by the guidelines, reduced it by 30 months because Jones turned in 1 or more fighters, coaches, and/or suppliers to USADA, and got another 3 month reduction for.... something thats unclear.

So, snitches get riches.

****ing gross.

Nobody is going to respect him.

What a ****ing waste of talent.

I guess I'm interested in hearing about who Jon Jones rolled on. If we get some crazy news about tons of fighters and/or coaches suspended by USADA because of Jones, then the 30 month reduction might make more sense.

The extra 3 months to me just literally reads as "it would be more convenient to let him fight in MSG than in February"

Anything good this weekend? I kinda of quit following during football season.

LMAO The UFC and USADA both killed pretty much all credibility they had left with how they handled McGregor and Jones respectively. You've effectively set the precedent that no matter how much of a headcase or habitual **** up you are, we'll bend over backwards for you as long as you can make us tons of money.

You gotta grade it on a curve.

Lets get real, everyone in the NFL is on steroids. All of them, if they aren't, then they are stupid. Everyone in boxing is juicing, and smart enough to avoid the windows when they know they'll be tested. I'll give some credit to MLB, they seem to be at least somewhat serious, some big important players have been busted and suspended.

OK, now look at the UFC. A shitton of fighters have been popped and suspended, a lot of fighters who were going to headline main events got yanked because of tests, including fighters who were going to headline gigantic fights that were going to bring in mega-dollars. (UFC 200!!!)

In this case, USADA and/or the arbitrator decided that the guys Jon Jones snitched on, who we do not yet know, was worth a very big reduction in his punishment. Maybe we don't agree, but come on, look at what everyone else in the sports and combat entertainment industry is (not) doing.

Oh, hell yes.

I don't care what you think about women's MMA, THAT is going to be a very good fight.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Per <a href="https://twitter.com/danawhite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@danawhite</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/SportsCentre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SportsCentre</a>, matchup between <a href="https://twitter.com/joannamma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joannamma</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/BulletValentina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BulletValentina</a> for the vacant women&#39;s flyweight championship added to UFC 231 in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena on December 8.</p>&mdash; Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1042954783831646208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Thats the longest deal I ever heard of. 8 fights, and the UFC has to promote Conor's whiskey during his fight cards.

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All of that was before the UFC was sold. They did seem serious about fixing this sport for a while, but Jon Jones being allowed a reduction of 33 months with his track record is a ****ing joke. Just admit you don't give a shit when your biggest stars get popped or assault your other fighters because they're the only ones that bring in big money and move on.

McGregor is either going insane or he's getting into Tony Montana's supply.

No, it wasn't. Werdum JUST got popped, like this week. That is a HUGE blow to the UFC's plans. They would have loved to feature Werdum in a main event.

Again, you have to grade it on a curve, everyone in the NFL is on steroids, and if you just ignore all of that and cheer on Sundays (like I do), then don't grade the UFC on a much stricter, harsher standard than the NFL.

Dana backtracked on that. Says he was wrong and it's only a 6 fight deal

I think it's funny how so many of these guys are held to such high levels of cleaness..meanwhile the NFL is obviously on a bunch of roids.

Unless you're a box office draw and then you can take whatever you want.

Yeah, Werdum is a nice draw and all, but he isn't Jon Jones. Also, when a Denver Broncos player runs up to our team bus and chucks a dolly at the glass, injuring 4 or 5 of our players, and gets a slap on the wrist and continues to play, let me know.

So, even with just 6 fights it will take Conor a decade or more to finish the contract at his current rate.

It's pretty obvious Dana is hoping for a McGregor win, so I hope more than anything that Khabib drags Conor to the ground and embarrasses him.

Jon Jones was pulled right before UFC 200, and that caused the PPV to take a huge hit. This is legit, USADA is not playing around.

Why would USADA give a shit about someone throwing stuff at a bus?

You just want to be contrarian at this point, even though your original point was flawed, you just can't admit you were wrong.

Does USADA make money off of PPV sales, ticket sales or both?

Original post: The UFC and USADA both killed pretty much all credibility they had left with how they handled McGregor and Jones respectively. You've effectively set the precedent that no matter how much of a headcase or habitual **** up you are, we'll bend over backwards for you as long as you can make us tons of money.

But sure, go ahead and act like the UFC isn't embarrasing themselves with McGregor and USADA isnt corrupt by reducing the Jon Jones suspension to conveniently right when he would be ready to fight after his conditioning based solely on "evidence" he turned in and saying "trust me, I didn't do it."

They do not, but the accusation is that USADA is somehow compromised and trying to help the UFC out while only giving them a thin appearance of cleaning up the sport.

That theory is horseshit because of UFC 200, among other things.

lol, for crying out loud, USADA wanted a higher punishment, this was a decision by the arbitrator.

There is a lot going on in fightpass this weekend.

Thursday

6pm - (Fightpass) - Karate Combat

This is very similar to MMA, except grappling on the ground is discouraged and standups are quick.

Saturday

noon - (Fightpass) - Glory 59

Kickboxing

3pm - (Fightpass) - Cage Warriors 97

This card is not bad by local promotion standards.

7pm - (Fightpass) - EBI 17, The middleweights CJJ

9pm - (DAZN) - Bellator 206, Mousasi vs. MacDonald.

This is a pretty decent card as Bellator kicks off their Welterweight Grand Prix

10:30pm - (Fightpass) - XFN 352

This is a small card in Oklahoma, but there's only one reason to care. Greg Hardy will be fighting on this card.

Greg Hardy destroyed another random dude in less than a minute.

The main event for UFC 230 in Madison Square Garden has been announced, AND IT IS!!!! *sad trombone*

Jesus Christ. It is a fight that New York should probably not sanction.

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Shevchenko is 15-3 in MMA, and freaking 84-2 in Muay Thai.

Eubanks (who?) is..... 3-2

I think there might be a fight this weekend

Friday

9pm - (Fightpass) - Quintet 3

This is a pretty cool concept. Teams of 5 grapplers compete in submission-only matches one at a time. If time expires, both fighters are eliminated. Winner stays and fights the next until one team runs out of grapplers.

9pm TV - (NBCSN) - PFL 8

This is the opening round of PFL's playoffs for heavyweights and featherweights. The non-televised prelims are probably going to be on Facebook.

Saturday

7pm TV - (5:30pm Fightpass/7pm FS1/9pm PPV) - UFC 229, Khabib vs. McGregor

Conor finally decides it is time to let us see him fight again, and this time he is the betting underdog against the terrifying Khabib Nurmagomedov. The main card aside from the main event is very good. The prelims are... meh. There are maybe 3 or 4 decent prelim and early prelim fights

UFC 229 weigh-ins (official, not the ceremonial weigh-in) is starting now. If something really bad happens to the card, it will most likely be now.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/10/...weigh-in-video

Khabib was first on the scale right when it opened, 155, championship weight.

edit: So, these fighters are having trouble making weight (or possibly trying to make a show of it):

Conor McGregor
Anthony Pettis
Alexander Volkov
Aspen Ladd

Everyone else on the card has weighed in and made weight.

edit2: Tony Ferguson made championship weight at 155, Conor is probably just making a big late drama show of his weigh-in, but if for some reason he fails to make weight, then Ferguson made sure that he would be eligible for the title fight.

edit3: Conor McGregor just now weighed in, 154.5

So, the main event is now on

do we have a stream?

"My balls was hot"

What a beast Lewis is.

Who doesn't like to see a knockout in the final hail mary flurry from a losing fighter?

That damn punch landed it was like a rock em sock em robot.

He sure waited to the last second to put that poor bastard to sleep.

Anyone got a good stream?

Reddit.com/r/mmastreams

Go into the thread and look for buffstreamz.

Pettis with a flurry. Ferg leaking

Pettis leaking too

Pettis leaking errrrywhere

Fun fight.

Pettis breaks his right hand.

Fight is over. Damn

These two should fight forever.

Damn. 2 good fighters. Here we go........

BAGPIPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonna be a slobberknocker

Watch it end like McGregor-Aldo.

Please no.

LMAO the McMahon strut.

MCGREGGER WITH THE KO sorry if you guys have a lag in your stream. Good night!

Love the headgear

5 rounds of this? Yay...

LMAO

Khabibs style is boring as ****, the lay on top of guys for 5 rounds doesn't do anything to help MMA being exciting.

Khabib putting in work.

Thanks for the stream Turtle.

That was fun for about 15 seconds and now we're back to a guy laying on another guy.

No problem.

Pretty much, the ground guys will never be exciting. there's nothing fun about watching it.

Khabib talking shit while dropping bombs.


You guys are crazy this is great

I just got to the part where he's wrecking McGregors shit. That was pretty funny with him talking shit.

It's over
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2nd has gotta be 10-8

McGregor keeps surviving...

Don't think anyone thinks McGregor wins a decision...

This shit is boring me

Cecil Peoples

Holy duck. Crazy shit

LMAO What the ****?

Oh my god. What an idiot

Uh what is this, WWE eh?