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    This is kinda crazy considering that Materla is one of KSW's biggest stars.
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    Also, who wouldn't love to see Cam Newton dressed up as a Victorian era chimney sweeper?
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    Junior dos Santos vs. Stefan Struve II will headline the Fight Night card in Halifax on 2/19. Firas Zahabi's brother Aiemann Zahabi is also making his debut on that card against Reginaldo Veira.
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    Holly Holm vs. Germaine de Randamie for the first ever UFC featherweight title will happened at UFC 208.
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    Would Yair and Swanson fight each other with the Jackson-Wink connection? I mean Yair trains in Chicago and it's not like Jackson-Wink is not replete with coaches, but I dunno if that might be an issue. If Cub is fighting Yair, Greg Jackson isn't the dude to take sides unless it's like the Overeem-Arlovski situation. I think if Yair underperforms against Penn (anything that's not a clear blowout as expected), they may pull back and reassess the situation. In the old days, the UFC would say fuck it and give him a legit, tough opponent anyway. I'm not sure about now. I wish Mendes wasn't suspended because I think Yair fighting someone like Mendes would give a better assessment of where he is at rather than fighting Swanson (even though that's a potential Fight of the Night easily). I think this comes down to the UFC deciding if they want Swanson to capitalize on the win or do the UFC want to capitalize on Cub having that win by giving him to someone they want to build up. I mean you can put Swanson in against a Brian Ortega and that might accomplish both. However, putting him against Mirsad Bektic definitely falls in the latter. I doubt anyone is tearing down the door to fight Bektic because that can turn into a one sided ass whooping easy. However, a win over Swanson puts Bektic on the map. There are some featherweight prospects who need a marquee win and a very credible one at that to establish themselves.
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    I suggest anyone who missed the Showtime Championship Boxing fights from this weekend check out Jermall Charlo vs. Julian Williams. One of the best uppercuts I've seen in boxing is in that fight.
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    I think Superboy, because of this fight, shows up as a Fight Night headliner next time he fights. Making a rematch with Swanson inside of the next 18 months or so would be stupid as they need Choi to be intact since they don't have a ton of Asian talent available headline potential shows in Asia. They have Horiguchi as a top fighter, but Superboy is clearly bigger name than Horiguchi. There are plenty of vulnerable fighters are 145 for him to smoke in a round. I think a fight with him and Jason Knight would be damn fun. I think a win over someone like Renan Barao would help his starpower more, and you can put that on FS1 and get 900k to a 1m viewers. Worst case scenario, you put him as the headliner on Fight Pass (or on a Fight Pass only event) against a lesser name like Myles Jury or Godofredo Pepey and get him a quick win.
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    Masvidal has never been the guy to get the spoiler win though. He has had opportunities to do that, but he hasn't won those fights. There is the infamous Shark Fights bout with Paul Daley where he had a bad brainfart, the fight with Melendez where he didn't put on a good performance, the Khabilov fight, the Iaquinta fight where he got robbed, and the Benson Henderson fight. Very few times (if any) where he got the final, deciding third scorecard in his favor. Masvidal has a style where he feels he needs to fight lackadaisical to throw his opponent off, which definitely has hindered his ability to be a contender. I think he can win an all out war even against someone like Cerrone, but you always feel that may come up once again versus another top fighter.
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    UFC on Fox 22: VanZant vs. Waterson December 17, 2016 Sacramento, CA (Golden 1 Center) Paige VanZant (116) vs. Michelle Waterson (115) - Waterson, SUB (rear naked choke), R1 (3:21) Sage Northcutt (170) vs. Mickey Gall (171) - Gall, SUB (rear naked choke), R2 (1:40) Urijah Faber (136) vs. Brad Pickett (136) - Faber, DEC (unanimous) Alan Jouban (170.5) vs. Mike Perry (171) - Jouban, DEC (unanimous) Fox Sports 1 Preliminary Card: Luis Henrique da Silva (206) vs. Paul Craig (204) - Craig, SUB (armbar), R2 (1:59) Cole Miller (146) vs. Mizuto Hirota (146) - Hirota, DEC (unanimous) Bryan Barberena (171) vs. Colby Covington (170.5) - Covington, DEC (unanimous) James Moontasri (171) vs. Alex Morono (170.5) - Morono, DEC (unanimous) Josh Emmett (156) vs. Scott Holtzman (156) - Emmett, DEC (unanimous) Leslie Smith (135.5) vs. Irene Aldana (136) - Smith, DEC (unanimous) Fight Pass Preliminary Card: Eddie Wineland (135) vs. Takeya Mizugaki (136) - Wineland, TKO (punches), R1 (3:04) Hector Sandoval (125.5) vs. Fredy Serrano (126) - Sandoval, DEC (unanimous) Bojan Veličković (170) vs. Sultan Aliev (171) - Aliev, DEC (split) Event Bonuses ($50,000): Performance of the Night: Eddie Wineland Performance of the Night: Paul Craig Fight of the Night: Leslie Smith vs. Irene Aldana Attendance: 13,136 Gate: $1,238,992 Rating: 3.18 million viewers Cancelled Fights: None
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    Jon is getting the same suspension length (retroactive to the date he was originally suspended) he got from USADA. So he will still be eligible to come back in July.
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    I am so pissed they didn't let him try to win out.
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    You can gameplan around Romero because it's not like there aren't strategies to avoid flying knees. Keep in mind, Bisping isn't the type of dude to just duck down for takedowns or go for takedowns when Romero is clearly the better wrestler and athletic enough to reverse position. I think with Romero, if Bisping can make him fight even more tenative and force his counters to miss their target more and more, Bisping would run away with a point scoring affair on the scorecards. Romero is the type of fighter where you can get him frustrated and bitching about their opponent running away when in fact, he is losing a fight he shouldn't have been fighting. If Romero really wanted to beat Bisping, he would just try to clinch him against the fence, get him tired, and then start ragdolling him in late round 2/early part of round 3 before pounding him out. However, Romero has never been like even though he can do that easily. He is so focused on knocking people out or stopping them with standing strikes that it makes him be inefficient for long periods of time in a fight. He can do what Jon Jones has done to several opponents, but he decides not to do that. I think that's what could cost him the title. This is why I don't want to see people complaining if he loses a title fight with Bisping that way. It's easy to not second guess someone when he or she is winning in devastating fashion everytime out. However, when they had other avenues to victory that were (and are) constantly ignored and it finally caught up to them, that's when people get upset irrationally. As capable as Romero has shown himself to win in a certain way, we can't forget that there is a tremendous flaw in that particular method.
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    Whoever wins Cruz/Garbrandt is a legit contender because Garbrandt had a pretty good year leading up to 207.
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    I don't think that's the case because I can see a scenario where Romero doesn't do a whole lot. I watched this man do diddly shit against Derek Brunson and almost lose that fight. He relies so much on having a great eraser that I don't know if that's the worst for Michael Bisping. Hendo had that factor, and Bisping still pulled that one out of his ass. The same with the Anderson fight back in February. I'm more worried about someone who can swamp Bisping with activity just like he is trying to do as well. If Romero is going to concede Bisping three rounds, all Mike has to do run away for 8-10 minutes and survive some scary moments. Bisping has shown himself capable of doing that.
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    I think Gastelum would actually be a bad style matchup for Bisping moreso than the people you would typically think of as a bad matchup for Bisping. I don't know if Gastelum is the guy you want to have a long, extended kickboxing match with. I don't see Bisping having a clinch war with Gastelum on the cage because Gastelum was able to get out of that easily even before Kennedy's arms blew up. I think the only way Bisping would really be effective is if Gastelum just followed him around the cage and let Bisping edge out rounds. Unless Gastelum was just really out of shape, I don't see that happening. I think since getting with Parillo, Bisping has fared well against fighters who tend to lay back, wait for Bisping to make a mistake, and just put activity on them while they wait. Not only can Gastelum create his own offense, but he's pretty damn good at keeping you off balance. That's something Bisping has really struggled with his entire career, and that's when he goes off gameplan (see the first Rockhold fight as an example).
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    Jon Jones easily beat Dan Henderson by arm triangle choke at 6:39 at Submission Underground. Jon challenged Chael to a grappling match for 1/29, and Chael accepted.
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    Mauro and Stann would be pretty good. Mauro and Rogan together? I dunno. It would be great until something crazy happened. Mauro and Al Bernstein works well because Bernstein stays at a certain level even when you have an all out brawl. That's the exact opposite of Joe Rogan.
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    Sean Wheelock maybe?
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    The Bucs should be destroying the Saints right now, but TB is finding creative ways to make that not happen.
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