**** man, it looks like Cain is past it

This weekend isn't as busy as last weekend, but we still have UFC and Bellator cards in Europe.

Friday

5:30am - (Fightpass) - World Lethwei Championship

MMA on the other side of the world on a work day? Hard pass. I don't even know what this is.

9pm - (Fightpass) - Combat Jiu-Jitsu: Absolute Championship

Submission-Only jiu-jitsu tournament under Eddie Bravo rules that also allows open hand strikes. (Technically you can get a finish by KO, but that is rare in this ruleset) This should be cool to watch.

Saturday

10am - (10am ESPN2/1pm ESPN+) - UFC Fight Night, Blachowicz vs. Santos

This card is below average for the UFC, maybe 3 interesting fights on the whole card, and after this card is over you can switch to Bellator for another "meh" card if you have DAZN. (why do you have DAZN?)

3pm - (DAZN) - Bellator 217, Gallagher vs. Graham

This is well below average by Bellator's standards.

Sunday

1pm - (Fightpass) - Muay Thai Grand Prix

Muay Thai

oh, hell yeah. Israel Adesanya will fight Gastelum for the interim MW title in April.

ESPN is really ****ing up UFC with these dumbass fight times

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Georges St-Pierre will officially announce his retirement from MMA tomorrow morning at a press conference in Montreal, multiple sources told ESPN. GSP had hoped to secure a super-fight w/ Khabib. Once that didn’t materialize, he decided it was time to walk away. More shortly.</p>&mdash; Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href="https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1098252439868841984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Khabib would have owned his old ass. Now GSP in his prime vs Khabib would have been a sweet fight.

The PFL will be on ESPN2 and ESPN+ next season. 2 year deal, 10 events per year including regular season, playoffs, and championship fights.

Please don't let any ****ery happen this week...
Please don't let any ****ery happen this week...
Please don't let any ****ery happen this week...
Please don't let any ****ery happen this week...
Please don't let any ****ery happen this week...

As of Tuesday evening, we have a very good UFC PPV scheduled this weekend. So, we're about 3 days away from 3 or 4 fighters having to go to the hospital during a bad weight cut, failing drug tests, or inexplicably getting hurt after walking out of their shower.

Wednesday

7pm - (Fightpass) - WXC, Warrior Wednesday 1

It finally happened. Some B-League promotion looked at what those wacky Alaskans were doing and thought "hey, maybe we should try that." On paper, this card is awful even by local promotion standards, but there's no other MMA cards that night.

Thursday

9pm - (Fightpass) - Boxing

Friday

9pm - (Fightpass) - Friday Night Fights

I have no idea how good this card is, there's not much info available.

Saturday

3pm - (Fightpass) - Cage Warriors 102

Top European B-League promotion, this card is decent by local promotion standards.

7pm TV - (5:15pm Fightpass/7pm ESPN/9pm PPV) - UFC 235, Jones vs. Smith

Your first thought might be "why the hell is this Anthony Smith dude getting the title shot?" I had that thought too, then I looked at the rankings and remembered: the LHW division is a trash fire. OK, fine.

Don't let that put you off though, this is on paper a fantastic PPV card, if it holds together. The early prelims are nothing special but after that, the prelims on ESPN are very good, and the PPV is great. The main event is probably going to be anticlimactic, but before that all of the fights on the PPV are very good, that welterweight title fight is highly anticipated, hell I'm even interested in that strawweight bout.

I wonder what competitors this fine company beat to win this coveted endorsement?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UFC just issued a press release announcing Devour is now the “Official Frozen Meal of UFC&quot;</p>&mdash; Jason Floyd (@Jason_Floyd) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jason_Floyd/status/1101186228899205120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Well.... I fractured my arm again. So there’s that.</p>&mdash; Paige VanZant (@paigevanzant) <a href="https://twitter.com/paigevanzant/status/1101330320085770240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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****in Diego Sanchez needs to hang it up

I am soooooo stoked for the card this weekend. I didn't even realize Cody Garbrandt was on the card until yesterday... Also, super stoked for Stephens vs Magomedsheripov ... pumped to see Askren compete... YES

as long as those sexy new tittahs are still in place... :D