UFC 184 (2/28): Rousey vs. Zingano (Weidman/Belfort Off)

Post #1 » by **CPT** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:28 pm

Seems like this was just announced (updated 1/14)

Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort for middleweight title
Ronda Rousey vs. Cat Zingano for women's bantamweight title
Yoel Romero vs. Ronaldo Souza
Jake Ellenberger vs. Josh Koscheck
Holly Holm vs. Raquel Pennington
Tony Ferguson vs. Yancy Medeiros
Roan Carneiro vs. Mark Munoz
Alan Jouban vs. Richard Walsh
Roman Salazar vs. Norifumi Yamamoto
Derrick Lewis vs. Ruan Potts
James Krause vs. Valmir Lazaro
Masio Fullen vs. Alexander Torres

REDDzone · Post #2 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:44 pm

Will watch no matter who else is on the card, bummed its so far away though.

Jasen777 · Post #3 » by **Jasen777** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:38 pm

Zingano has nothing for Rousey. Maybe no 135 woman does.

And if Belfort if really off everything, I don't see him being that competitive either.

Though I'm not trying to criticize the event.

Jasen777 · Post #4 » by **Jasen777** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:47 pm

As Mehar said in the other thread, Ronaldo Souza vs. Yoel Romero added. And apparently Mir vs. Bigfoot was earlier. Pretty stacked card, so far...

Nemesis21 · Post #5 » by **Nemesis21** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:47 pm

Bigfoot Silva vs Mir, Jacare vs Yoel Romero added to this card,

http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/11869 ... 4-february

REDDzone · Post #6 » by **REDDzone** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 3:15 pm

Vitor passed a random drug test within the last week or two.

In other news, I just bet my life savings on Weidman.

Bernman · Post #7 » by **Bernman** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:13 am

Tony "El Cucuy" Ferguson vs. Yancy Medeiros was just added to the card. That is a stellar fight on a paper. Both guys fight very aggressively, in a way they try to do damage against their opponent, and they are very well-rounded.

I actually like Medeiros in this one. He stops the ascent of El Cucuy I say and starts one of his own. He's got that Diaz swag rubbing off on him, but he's harder to take down than them, has some good sub options off shooters, and on the feet has good power and timing. I thought Medeiros looked brilliant his last couple times out, finishing a decent lw in Proctor, and great prospect in Damon Jackson. While El Cucuy had major troubles against the overrated Trujillo before coming back to win. Medeiros did better against their common opponent in Yves. Ferguson arguably lost, Medeiros ko'ed him. I think Medeiros nullifies the reach, and hits El Cucuy hard, then slaps on a sub. Or we see a war where El Cucuy is more often 2nd best.

Post #8 » by **CPT** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:52 am

Updated card:

Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort for middleweight title
Ronda Rousey vs. Cat Zingano for women's bantamweight title
Yoel Romero vs. Ronaldo Souza
Jake Ellenberger vs. Josh Koscheck
Holly Holm vs. Raquel Pennington
Tony Ferguson vs. Yancy Medeiros
Roan Carneiro vs. Mark Munoz
Alan Jouban vs. Richard Walsh
Roman Salazar vs. Norifumi Yamamoto
Derrick Lewis vs. Ruan Potts
James Krause vs. Valmir Lazaro
Masio Fullen vs. Alexander Torres

Some good stuff on here. Looking forward to seeing Holly Holm; I wonder if that fight will be on PPV.

Ferguson/Medeiros is a good one as mentioned.

Kid Yamamoto sneaking into the prelims there.

Ellenberger vs. Koscheck is kinda bleh. Give me that fight 3-5 years ago.

REDDzone · Post #9 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:34 pm

Bernman wrote:Tony "El Cucuy" Ferguson vs. Yancy Medeiros was just added to the card. That is a stellar fight on a paper. Both guys fight very aggressively, in a way they try to do damage against their opponent, and they are very well-rounded.

I actually like Medeiros in this one. He stops the ascent of El Cucuy I say and starts one of his own. He's got that Diaz swag rubbing off on him, but he's harder to take down than them, has some good sub options off shooters, and on the feet has good power and timing. I thought Medeiros looked brilliant his last couple times out, finishing a decent lw in Proctor, and great prospect in Damon Jackson. While El Cucuy had major troubles against the overrated Trujillo before coming back to win. Medeiros did better against their common opponent in Yves. Ferguson arguably lost, Medeiros ko'ed him. I think Medeiros nullifies the reach, and hits El Cucuy hard, then slaps on a sub. Or we see a war where El Cucuy is more often 2nd best.

I need to watch more Medeiros fights, because I haven't watched alot. I just looked at his fight finder when the fight was announced and thought to myself "Ferguson is going to sub this dude".

Post #10 » by **Headliner** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:49 pm

Kos is back? Wow. I thought he retired. I have to think this is his last fight if he loses though.
Kinda sucks, he was a guy I was always interested in seeing fight.

Post #11 » by **Shaazzam** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:16 pm

Whoa, I had no idea Romero was fighting Jacare. Excited to see Holm fight as well. This is a pretty damn exciting card.

REDDzone · Post #12 » by **REDDzone** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:27 pm

Bernman · Post #13 » by **Bernman** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:32 pm

Jasen777 · Post #14 » by **Jasen777** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:25 am

Souza/Romero taken off card due to Souza's pneumonia, supposed to be rescheduled. Ferguson vs. Medeiros promoted to main card.

Post #15 » by **CPT** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:26 am

Jasen777 wrote:Souza/Romero taken off card due to Souza's pneumonia, supposed to be rescheduled. Ferguson vs. Medeiros promoted to main card.

Bummer.

lol @ Vitor though.

Post #16 » by **Shaazzam** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:05 pm

Jasen777 wrote:Souza/Romero taken off card due to Souza's pneumonia, supposed to be rescheduled. Ferguson vs. Medeiros promoted to main card.

goddammit
i should have kept my trap shut :evil:

REDDzone · Post #17 » by **REDDzone** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:22 pm

Take this with the appropriate amount of salt, but there is a very strong rumor that Weidman/Vitor is off.

outsidehammer, a guy from sherdog, posted it. He also broke the CM Punk news on sherdog before it were made public. Honestly there has been more stuff that he broke but IDK what off the top of my head.

Hope he is wrong this time.

Bernman · Post #18 » by **Bernman** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:51 pm

No, he was right again. It was confirmed by MMAJunkie. Now THAT'S a champion who has a lot of fight delaying injuries. It's a shame because he was on a great ascent, and those injuries will slow it, if not prevent it altogether.

Incidentally, that outsidehammer guy claimed TRT Freetor is also injured. Hopefully that's not true, because otherwise maybe they could have done something like put him in there against Romero, who lost his opponent from the same card. It needs a real co-main at least now. UFC has to scramble and not settle. Cowboy is available we know.

Post #19 » by **CPT** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:57 pm

Ugh. Whenever I see an event thread at the top of the page with a few weeks to go, I get this overwhelming feeling of dread.

Vitor vs. Romero would be one way to salvage this card. Make it for an interim title even.

REDDzone · Post #20 » by **REDDzone** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:58 pm

Cowboy vs Romero to save the card!

(also, enjoyed TRT Freetor).