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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

Not bad.

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

Better strategy than we've seen recently though.

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

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

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!

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?

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.

4 of those fights are fantastic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And Dodson/Makovsky.

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

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

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.

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.

Really bad rumors concerning Jones going around...

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