Egg Shen

Interested to see that Prochazka is a sizeable underdog against Volkan, ive eyed that up for the betslip.

John Morgan is doing a blog about his time on Fight Island, good insight to whats going on there (with pics!): https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2020/07/ufc-fight-island-updates-behind-the-scenes-from-abu-dhabi/amp?taid=5f01969017654f00015ac21c&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A Trending Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true

I aint so sure, if Masvidal knows he can command the money he wanted plus perhaps more, i think he'd go in there and roll the dice.

oh aye, good spot Kfogg. As much as it'll be good to see, it still isnt ideal, Masvidal stepping in on a weeks notice to fight Usman is probably not a wise move. Id assume Masvidal is in decent nick because he was negotiated to fight him originally, but i wouldnt favour many people against Usman unless fully prepared.

We may have been wrong, barring any positive Covid tests, it really looks like we may get Masvidal/Burns next weekend 😲

yeh if the UFC wasnt willing to pay Masvidal before they aint gonna pay him now after a spat. The show still has 2 title fights, it aint like they are desperate.

im pretty sure theres no chance of them bringing in a replacement, especially seeings as Usman didn't make the flight over. Internet speculation has gone mental though.

Usman didnt travel to the Island, dont think there's any chance of salvaging it.

With Boxing being moved to the MMA thread ive thought about how we would keep the discussion rolling, especially with the death of megathreads. I was thinking a random fight discussion thread alongside the news thread to talk about random small shows, then get a single thread going for the bigger shows when they return. However, i thought Matchroom's Fight Camp series deserved its own thread. This sucker will kick off at the beginning of August and run for 5 weeks, 3 shows on Sky Sports before the finale being a Sky Box Office show. I cant wait for this. Here's how it stacks up: Saturday August 1st: Friday August 7th: Friday August 14th: Saturday August 22nd: I waa gonna list the fights but the posters already does that for. The lineups are almost complete, the Box Office card has a couple of fights left to be added though, including an opponent for Katie Taylor. Roll on August!

the outpouring of condolences supportive messages has been crazy in the wake of this, i can't recall anything else like it in MMA.

well, Fight Island is turning out to be a bit of a disaster.

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29406128/max-holloway-heads-ufc-251-challenging-no-sparring-training-camp?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true Theres an ESPN article about it ^ I dont think this ends well for Holloway 😔

dropping like flies...

ahh that sucks, if not entirely surprising. Glory seems to have been barely getting by for years. Hoping they can salvage the promotion.