UFC 187 (5/23): Weidman/Belfort, Rumble/DC (Jones stripped; is awful person)

REDDzone · Post #1 » by **REDDzone** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:18 am

MAIN CARD
Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET

Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony Johnson for vacant light heavyweight title
Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort for middleweight title
Donald Cerrone vs. John Makdessi
Andrei Arlovski vs. Travis Browne
Joseph Benavidez vs. John Moraga

PRELIMINARY CARD
FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET

John Dodson vs. Zach Makovsky
Josh Burkman vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Uriah Hall vs. Rafael Natal
Nina Ansaroff vs. Rose Namajunas

PRELIMINARY CARD
UFC Fight Night, 6:30 p.m. ET

Colby Covington vs. Mike Pyle
Leo Kuntz vs. Islam Makhachev
Josh Sampo vs. Justin Scoggins

Jasen777 · Post #2 » by **Jasen777** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:51 am

Not bad.

Post #3 » by **CPT** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:29 am

You get the sense they are counting on one of these fights not happening.

Better strategy than we've seen recently though.

Post #4 » by **blkout** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:55 am

Weidman and Belfort will get a busy signal when they both call Dana to pull out of this one

Jasen777 · Post #5 » by **Jasen777** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:15 am

They pull out, the UFC adds José Quiñónez vs. Roman Salazar, it's still a great main card.

cowboyronnie · Post #6 » by **cowboyronnie** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:49 am

blkout wrote:Weidman and Belfort will get a busy signal when they both call Dana to pull out of this one

They both dial at the same time? Like a slapstick sketch? Laughs!

cowboyronnie · Post #7 » by **cowboyronnie** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:51 am

REDDzone wrote:Travis Browne vs. Andrei Arlovski

But why? What has Andrei done to deserve this? Deserve this level of competition or deserve this kind of Old Testament punishment?

Post #8 » by **blkout** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:17 pm

cowboyronnie wrote:
blkout wrote:Weidman and Belfort will get a busy signal when they both call Dana to pull out of this one

They both dial at the same time? Like a slapstick sketch? Laughs!

Lol yeah that's what I'm thinking. Them and the 2-3 other guys who will undoubtedly drop out of this card.

NZB2323 · Post #9 » by **NZB2323** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:38 pm

4 of those fights are fantastic.

Jasen777 · Post #10 » by **Jasen777** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:22 pm

cowboyronnie wrote:But why? What has Andrei done to deserve this? Deserve this level of competition or deserve this kind of Old Testament punishment?

HW is thin. Beating Bigfoot used to get you a title shot, now it's enough to get you what could be a title eliminator if Cain ever fought.

Bernman · Post #11 » by **Bernman** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:43 pm

There is a strong possibility Khabib/Cerrone is not happening one way or another. They were hemming and hawing on it.

10 months since acl surgery is still optimistic for Khabib. I don't think he's been cleared yet.

And what happens "if" Pettis beats RDA? He's going to wait 3 months to schedule another defense? I don't think so. There's a good chance Khabib is yanked from this to face Pettis in June/July, if Khabib doesn't have a Ramadan hang-up. The only other option Pettis would really have is if one of Aldo/Conor fell out of that fight before the end of next month already. Then the other could move up to fight Pettis for the lw title. Edgar is tied up as of right now.

There are also the drug suspicions for both Jones, Rumble, and Vitor, + the tenuous injury situation of Weidman; so that's why I think they juiced this event to the gills.

Bernman · Post #12 » by **Bernman** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:45 pm

Jasen777 wrote:
cowboyronnie wrote:But why? What has Andrei done to deserve this? Deserve this level of competition or deserve this kind of Old Testament punishment?

HW is thin. Beating Bigfoot used to get you a title shot, now it's enough to get you what could be a title eliminator if Cain ever fought.

Yeah, Arlovski beat Big Foot, and Browne's last opponent Big Brown. He deserves this. I'd give Big Browne a moderate advantage, but I could easily envision the Pitbull winning.

cowboyronnie · Post #13 » by **cowboyronnie** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:10 pm

Bernman wrote:
There are also the drug suspicions for both Jones, Rumble, and Vitor, + the tenuous injury situation of Weidman; so that's why I think they juiced this event to the gills.

Is true.

Gus vs Bader will be the main.

Jasen777 · Post #14 » by **Jasen777** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:13 am

And Dodson/Makovsky.

Jasen777 · Post #15 » by **Jasen777** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:56 pm

Jon Jones, Anthony Johnson scare Dana White with fake brawl prank

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG4tfdYytEk[/youtube]

Post #16 » by **CPT** » Sun Mar 1, 2015 3:12 am

Kinda funny, and I get that not every fight has to be a blood feud, but ****, these guys know they are fighting each other, right?

Makes sense that they would like each other I guess, they both seem like pretty terrible people.

NZB2323 · Post #17 » by **NZB2323** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:25 pm

This card is incredibly stacked. I feel like the prelims are better than some cards that we've had. Jon Dodson, Uriah Hall, Stun Gun, and Rose Namajunas.

Jasen777 · Post #18 » by **Jasen777** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:44 pm

Really bad rumors concerning Jones going around...

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #19 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:55 pm

http://www.mmanews.com/jon-jones-involv ... tle-fight/

RalphWiggum · Post #20 » by **RalphWiggum** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:44 pm

If the rumors surrounding the accident are true he's going to jail for this one. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.