Moderators neil Posted February 5, 2023 Moderators Posted February 5, 2023 Dana channeling his eskimo brother Brayden Schorb with that "Don't even know your name B". I'm a huge fan of Big Volk, so this actually captures my interest which is a first in a while. I think Volk is well placed to handle Islam's wrestling, especially as he has been working with Craig Jones who has a "just stand up" style of anti-wrestling jiu-jitsu. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 6, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 6, 2023 Sodiq is back... Quote
Paid Members WeeAl Posted February 7, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) Bastard UFC scheduling. I was off last weekend when there was that poor effort of an Apex card. This week is my seven day stretch, get home on Sunday evening but the Superbowl is on that night and I'm away on Monday. Bollocks. Not sure when I'll fit this one in. Maybe up very early Sunday morning to catch the two title fights? Edited February 7, 2023 by WeeAl Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 9, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 9, 2023 I suppose it's true, but it feels like a bit of a trumped-up claim, partly because this is only Makhachev's first defence. In a way, it feels like a bit of a waste of time making it a championship match, because there's more value in it being a P4P dream match than a champ superfight. But you can't have this match without it being for the belt, so it's kind of inevitable, I suppose. Quote
thevestofdeanambrose Posted February 9, 2023 Posted February 9, 2023 8/1 for Volk to win by KO. A tempting flutter. Quote
Kfogg1991 Posted February 9, 2023 Posted February 9, 2023 I really am going in with high hopes and confidence for volkanovski in this one. I think he has leveled up so much in his last 2/3 fights that he truly is a huge test for anyone right now. Quote
Dai Posted February 9, 2023 Posted February 9, 2023 4 hours ago, thevestofdeanambrose said: 8/1 for Volk to win by KO. A tempting flutter. Not so sure. In his seven fights against the top tier guys in the UFC, hes TKO'd in two of them. Hes fighting a guy who hasnt lost since 2015, and hes going up in weight. 8/1 doesnt seem enough for me. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 9, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 9, 2023 3/1 to win might be worth a stab though Quote
Kfogg1991 Posted February 9, 2023 Posted February 9, 2023 Who's everyone going with for the main event then and abit more of a push....what way are you saying it will finish? I'm going with volkanovski by knock out Quote
thevestofdeanambrose Posted February 10, 2023 Posted February 10, 2023 11 hours ago, Kfogg1991 said: Who's everyone going with for the main event then and abit more of a push....what way are you saying it will finish? I'm going with volkanovski by knock out Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 10, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 10, 2023 fired the hell up Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 10, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 10, 2023 I’d love to see Volk win and he’s too good for me to count him out. But I’d be very surprised if he wins by knockout. Probably the only thing he doesn’t seem to have is that big fight ending punching power. He hasn’t been knocking people out at the top levels of Featherweight so then you factor in he’s going up in weight against a guy who’s probably not gonna want to stand in front of him for extended periods of time to where Volk can rack up the points/accumulative damage and a knockout seems highly unlikely. All that said, much weirder things have happened in MMA and it’s probably worth chucking a bit of coin on it just in case. I’m favouring Makhachev but the closer it’s getting and the more I’m seeing and reading from Volk, the more he’s convincing me he might pull it off. I’ve massively neglected the buildup (such as it’s been) for this. Just had other shit going on. Every time I’ve seen Dana White the last few weeks he’s just been shilling this rancid Power Slap shite and the times he has actually talked about this fight, he’s forgot Makhachev’s name. I get that the world tour of press conferences Makhachev was on about wasn’t gonna happen and I get that the real promotion of any card doesn’t fully kick in until fight week. But Jesus Christ. Nobody can tell me they couldn’t have done a better job of making this feel a bit more special. Even with Makhachev having just won the title, it’s such a fascinating matchup and probably the highest level champion vs champion fight the promotion has put on. At least since Jones vs Cormier anyway. I see the press conference was last night so I’ll give that a look in a bit. I might even watch the Countdown and Embedded this time. I’m well up for this fight but the fact it feels like just another card is madness. Quote
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 10, 2023 Paid Members Posted February 10, 2023 let the games begin: Quote
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 10, 2023 Author Paid Members Posted February 10, 2023 Fuck sake. This’ll be me refreshing Twitter for updates most of the day now. Quote
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