The Natural Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Didn't think Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko 3 would be so one sided. It's now one win for Grasso, a draw and Shevchenko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Still no finish on the main card with the main event to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Merab Dvalishvili beats Sean O'Malley in a one sided main event, new UFC Bantamweight Champion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 1 hour ago, The Natural said: Still no finish on the main card with the main event to come. All five main card fights go to decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Merab has finally been crowned. It went pretty close to how I imagined it to go. I don't know what the fuck Herb Dean was getting at in those last two rounds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waffle Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Shev stopped doing awful arm and head throw... and she dominantly won like she'd been doing for years. Shocker. O'Malley had nothing for Merab. The title fights were nothing spectacular. The event as a whole had a bunch of fun fights, and looked cool. Kinda odd they didn't wait for a card full of bigger names for such a spectacle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 ugh. so sick of fucking shevchenko. Too bad Alexa isn't going to get a rematch and another rematch and one more rematch to make sure she's champion again. Hate this show 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 3 hours ago, DreamBroken said: ugh. so sick of fucking shevchenko. Too bad Alexa isn't going to get a rematch and another rematch and one more rematch to make sure she's champion again. Hate this show I was wanting Grasso to win as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 not sure how excited I am that the pendulum was swung back towards wrestlers over strikers but I guess for every Belal and Merab (and to a certain extent Valentina) we're still lucky to have Alex Pereira. That Zellhuber / Ribovics was absolutely batshit. Zellhuber was out there doing the inflatable man dance for like a minute straight, full on turning his back and running, tripping on the octagon and falling on his face and still not getting knocked out. Incredible. Same with the Rodriguez Osbourne fight, although on a much less technical-skill level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waffle Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Will we ever get a striker with Aldo level takedown defense again? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Meltzer: - Last night’s UFC show had two title changes: Merab Dvalishvili over Sean O’Malley for the welterweight title and Valentina Shevchenko over Alexa Grasso to win the women’s flyweight title. Both matches were complete domination even if the Dvalishvii-O’Malley scorecards don’t indicate it. In each case it was five rounds of mostly takedown and control. Each were so dominant I don’t think there should be a rematch but O’Malley is a big enough star where there could be. – However, there were two match-of-the-year candidates on the show. the Edgar Chairez vs. Joshua Van fight was topped by Daniel Zellhuber vs. Esteban Ribovics. Joe Rogan when the latter fight was over talked of it as one of the greatest fights of all time and that round three may have been the greatest round of all time. I thought the 4/13 Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway fight had the match of the year clinched, and it was higher profile so it gives it the edge. But this was amazing and would win fight of the year in most years, and I can see it having a real shot at winning this year. – The other story is The Sphere. It was unlike any UFC show to date. It was an amazing production and it led to a much longer-than-usual PPV show, topping four hours for just five fights. The look was amazing and while watching my thought was that WWE and AEW should run the building, but the reality is with the cost it really doesn’t make sense. Maybe WWE could do it for a Mania, but then you can only get 15,000 fans in. But I can’t see spending $20 million for Smackdown or Raw in Vegas next year sandwiched around Mania. AEW I don’t think could financially make it work. – The gate ended up at $22 million, the largest in MMA history and bigger than any gate in pro wrestling history as well. – The show did 1 million Google searches, beating out the 500,000 for the Canelo Alvarez win over Edgar Berlanga in the battle of two PPV events head-to-head and both from Las Vegas. We will have an estimate on Alvarez buys later this week but UFC buys are only known to Dana White and ESPN. – Rey and Dominik Mysterio, seated separately, were shown on the UFC show last night as part of the cross-promotional efforts. They did not sit together for pro wrestling storyline reasons. Dominik didn’t get much of a reaction but Rey got a very big reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 8 minutes ago, The Natural said: Meltzer: – However, there were two match-of-the-year candidates on the show. the Edgar Chairez vs. Joshua Van fight was topped by Daniel Zellhuber vs. Esteban Ribovics. Joe Rogan when the latter fight was over talked of it as one of the greatest fights of all time and that round three may have been the greatest round of all time. I thought the 4/13 Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway fight had the match of the year clinched, and it was higher profile so it gives it the edge. But this was amazing and would win fight of the year in most years, and I can see it having a real shot at winning this year. I think FOTY is between Dricus Du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland, Max Holloway vs. Justin Gaethje, Jiří Procházka vs. Aleksandar Rakić, Islam Makhachev vs. Dustin Poirier, Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zellhuber and Edgar Chairez vs. Joshua Van. The front runners are Holloway vs. Gaethje and Ribovics vs. Zellhuber. I'd still give it to Holloway vs. Gaethje. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Irene Aldana with one of the worst cuts I've ever seen gets tended to backstage. Very NSFW: Spoiler https://twitter.com/LaSueur_off/status/1835238868922110153 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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