UFC Fight Night 120: Poirier vs. Pettis (11/11/2017) - Norfolk, VA (Ted Constant Convocation Center)

[Elsalvajeloco]

Raphael Assuncao, still a top bantamweight

[Jiji]

Good on him for stopping the hammer fist with only inches to spare. Fantastic performance.

[Elsalvajeloco]

I like Mutante and he is way better than he was at the beginning of his UFC career, but I don't like the Borrachinha fight for him. Cezar doesn't have enough firepower to keep him away.

[Curt McGirt]

Is anyone else laughing at this Albini guy's pants? They look like diapers and the more he sweats they look like he's pissing himself. 

[Jiji]

Well, he is appropriately nicknamed "Baby".

[Elsalvajeloco]

I'm not sure why you would roll up the board shorts if you're not going to throw kicks. I think that might be why Pat Barry use to do it when he was fighting. Otherwise, you probably should just get the vale tudo/compression ones.

[Jiji]

Man, the heavyweight division is sad. I wonder if UFC could attract some legit heavyweight athletes if they didn't pay such ridiculously low purses.

[Elsalvajeloco]

11 minutes ago, Oyaji said:

Man, the heavyweight division is sad. I wonder if UFC could attract some legit heavyweight athletes if they didn't pay such ridiculously low purses.

Heavyweight boxing has dudes like Dominic Breazeale and other heavyweights who late starts who came from football. Hasn't really caused a resurgence in the division. I mean Jarrell Miller and Dillian Whyte are ex kickboxers and top 20 heavyweights. The pay ain't the issue. 

[Curt McGirt]

19 minutes ago, Oyaji said:

Well, he is appropriately nicknamed "Baby".

His posture reminded me of Paul Varelans so that's pretty accurate

[Curt McGirt]

Diego rushes in like Matt Brown slapped his mother but gets trucked... and a technical glitch screws it up. Jeez

Now THAT was an elbow!

[Craig H]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Fuck Diego Sanchez. Fuckin' dork.

[Curt McGirt]

You gotta love how he facepalmed him to measure the elbow and then *crunk* Diego's on his face. And then aside from pointing to his elbow he sells a potential final fight like "ah well, we'll talk about it, gotta get to the showers"

 

[Elsalvajeloco]

I salute anyone who comes out to anything from the Black Caesar soundtrack. I'm surprised no one came out to Down and Out in New York City last week TBH.

[Craig H]

Aw man. What a fucking fight. Feel bad for Pettis with that finish.

[Jiji]

Anticlimactic end to an otherwise great fight. Poirier has grown into such a complete fighter. I like his odds against Alvarez or Gaethje. 

[Curt McGirt]

That was fuckin great. Whatever happened to Pettis has to be nasty. Even nastier than the fight itself

[Curt McGirt]

Dustin throwing some serious shade too

[Elsalvajeloco]

Round 2 was fucking incredible.  

I'm surprised Keith Peterson did the cut check while Pettis was basically starting to secure a triangle choke on Poirier. But anyway, I guess we're off to the second part of this unofficial Lightweight contender tournament on 12/2. 

[Hail Sabin]

Round 2 was INSANITY! I so look forward to Gaethje vs. Poirier. 

[Elsalvajeloco]

Oh and as Oyaji mentioned, Felder did a very good job on commentary. Considering the Duke Roufus connection, he did a great job being unbiased in the main event.

[The Natural]

1 hour ago, Craig H said:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Fuck Diego Sanchez. Fuckin' dork.

This. Great fucking elbow.

[TheVileOne]

The FS1 analysts trashing Dustin Poirier's win sort of make me angry.  They make it sound like Justin Gaethje is some great technical performer.  Gaethje is a freaking brawler.  

[Jiji]

Gaethje is a less athletic, sloppier, and more dinged up version of Poirier. He has heart and superhuman recovery abilities, I'll give him that.

UFC's run of good shows will likely come to a screeching halt either next week or the week following. Not a whole lot of appealing fights from what I can see. Brooks/Lentz is hidden on the prelims for some reason next week. I am unfamiliar with 90% of the fighters on the Shanghai card. I hope I'm just ignint and there are some pleasantly surprising quality fights.

[Elsalvajeloco]

Sydney:

Means vs. Muhammad, Brooks vs. Lentz, Shelton vs. Lausa, & Matthews vs. Velickovic

Shanghai:

Magomedsharipov vs. Sheymon Moraes and maybe Li vs. Ottow, Curran vs. Xiaonan plus Chase Sherman will probably do something insane.

Sydney should be a very decent to good card. Shanghai...you probably should get some sleep and then tune into the main card and catch the fights I listed later if they aren't on the main card.

[Elsalvajeloco]

Keep the Bisping talk in the other thread. Don't drag that here.