UFC 299 - Suga Chito / Poirier BSD / Holland MVP / and more

Clav · Post #1 » by **Clav** » Tue Mar 5, 2024 10:30 pm

March 09 in Miami

299 is this weekend fellas, who ya got ?

This card is awesome...

Fight Card

O'Malley/Vera - for Bantamweight championship
BSD/Dustin Poirier - 5 round co-main (Lightweight)
Kevin Holland/Michael Venom Page - MVP's first UFC fight
Burns/Maddalena
Petr Yan/Song Yadong

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Blaydes/Almeida
Cerminara (neé Chookagian)/Barber
Gamrot/RDA
Pedro Munhoz/Kyler Phillips
Michel Pereira/Michal Oleksiejczuk
Philipe Lins/Ion Cutelaba
Robelise Despaigne/Josh Parisian
CJ Vergara/Asu Almabaev
Joanne Wood/Maryna Moroz

jc23 · Post #2 » by **jc23** » Wed Mar 6, 2024 7:54 am

299 probably ends up a better card then 300

Clav · Post #3 » by **Clav** » Wed Mar 6, 2024 7:42 pm

I think you have a point, but I'm still pretty happy with the 300 card, I think it will impress.

Making some picks for this weekend's card...

Spoiler:

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #4 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:25 am

Good early prelims so far! Fairly Exciting!

Sweet Serenity · Post #5 » by **Sweet Serenity** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:47 am

Almeida needs to understand winning this type of way is pointless & does not further his career. It doesn’t matter how big of a winning streak he goes on, Dana will just give him the Belal treatment.

Sweet Serenity · Post #6 » by **Sweet Serenity** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:49 am

Sweet Serenity wrote:Almeida needs to understand winning this type of way is pointless & does not further his career. It doesn’t matter how big of a winning streak he goes on, Dana will just give him the Belal treatment.

& as I say that he instantly gets finished :lol:

Only himself to blame for such a boring game plan.

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #7 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:10 am

Good Prelims fights as well! This main card should be exciting & amazing!

Clav · Post #8 » by **Clav** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:22 am

We're in the home stretch. I've had a great time watching these fights tn. great card so far even if there were some decisions, they were battles for sure.

Despaigne KO was nuts. Pereira sub was mega. Just now, JDM over Burns with a TKO, sublime (and he called out Shavkat wtf loll)

MVP Holland, BSD Poirier and Suga Chito to go lets gooooo

GoRapstheoriginal · Post #9 » by **GoRapstheoriginal** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:30 am

OH man this Page Holland fight should be off the hook!

jc23 · Post #10 » by **jc23** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:21 am

cmon Dustin!

jc23 · Post #11 » by **jc23** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:26 am

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clav · Post #12 » by **Clav** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:35 am

YES!!! Dustin!

I picked BSD because I'm a coward I admit

jc23 · Post #13 » by **jc23** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:43 am

Clav wrote:YES!!! Dustin!

I picked BSD because I'm a coward I admit

huge Dustin fan but he didnt look as sharp as he has in his past. hope he doesnt stick around too long and hurt himself.

ItsDanger · Post #14 » by **ItsDanger** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:22 am

DC was right, Vera needed to make the fight ugly but just couldn't or maybe wasn't aggressive enough.

Post #15 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:48 am

Very impressed with MVP. Holland is very long and pretty athletic. His athleticism and timing just looked so many levels up on him. I wanna see him in a title eliminator.

Post #16 » by **Shaazzam** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:26 pm

Great card. Had a blast watching.

Clav · Post #17 » by **Clav** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:58 am

Fun card, good night of fights, 8 of 14 picks correct... 6 others were (moroz, munhoz, vergara, saint-denis, almeida, and holland :\)

FOTN - O'Malley over Vera. Man, Chito took some dmg, wow. Only time Sean looked hurt was the final punch in the final engage, which he didn't even need to entertain but tried to throw in the pocket. Lesson for Chito ? Less point fighting and just go for it because he's tough enough to make it a scrap and win. O'Malley evaded and connected really well all night long, he looked locked in.

top performance - Poirier's KO of BSD. I picked the younger guy, but was thrilled to see the Diamond win. He needed it.

silver star - Yan... he lost R1 for me, and really shaped up his game to negate Song's striking.

big win - MVP over Holland. Page was great, tactical striking, great movement. He made Holland look confused and frustrated which means MVP really made him feel uncomfortable in the matchup. Would love to see MVP in a main event!

HM- Maddalena calling out Shavkat. You're insane, Jack. But big props to winning vs Burns. If that's the fight he wants, he'll get it.

Best KO - Robelis Despaigne throws a kick, stumbles, falls back, Parisian advances throwing windmills punches, Despaigne launches a right hand from basically no foundation or balance and rocks Parsisian to force a TKO. Scary TKO...

Please no more - O'malley said in his post-fight press conference that he's now undefeated because the "loss is erased" (to Chito Vera, his only professional MMA loss...). Uh, yeah, ...no. Your leg got **** up by the opponent, you got taken down and TKO'd, that's a loss.

Get better soon - Joanne Wood retired after a long career, Parisian will be cut, and Vera took a hell of a beating.

HM: Francis Ngannou got KO'd real bad on Friday night vs Anthony Joshua.