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Stipe Miocic vs Andrei Arlovski is a great match-up...!

As much as I love this main event, there just isn't enough good stuff elsewhere on the card to make it worth spending any money on. At least not for me.

Miocic and Arlovski are at least mobile, technical stand-up guys for heavyweights. Although they are cautious, and not that diverse. That fight could be anywhere from solid to boring.

Tumenov-Larkin is a sick stand-up battle. Larkin is going to try a bunch of crazy stuff, and Tumenov will probably catch him with his awesome timing, then put a flurry of punches and kicks in combo all over him. Should be fun.

Ortega is one of the best bjj prospects in MMA. The sheen might have come off a little for you with the positive test, but regardless he's a super technical, creativity, fun fighter who is always trying to finish.

Poirier-Duffy is on FP. Either they're trying to lower Poirier's value in free agency or really trying to sell subscriptions for FP ahead of their move there. Gotta figure they'd just move to ESPN soon after though with mainstreaming the sport thru Ronda, Conor, and the like. That's the relationship that has the most realistic potential since ESPN's normal market is close to UFC's target, and they pull over network #'s from football.

I actually think I'd be more likely to watch the ppv if Poirier/Duffy was on the main card along with the HW fight and the WW fight. Guys like Larkin and Ortega are fun but are definitely more suited to fs1 at this point imo.

Pure intensity, no WWE here folks:

Also, just because I will find any excuse to post probably my favorite mma gif of all time:

Full Card:

MAIN CARD
Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET
Robbie Lawler vs. Carlos Condit for welterweight title
Andrei Arlovski vs. Stipe Miocic
Lorenz Larkin vs. Albert Tumenov
Diego Brandao vs. Brian Ortega
Tony Sims vs. Abel Trujillo

PRELIMINARY CARD
FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET
Masanori Kanehara vs. Michael McDonald
Nina Ansaroff vs. Justine Kish
Drew Dober vs. Scott Holtzman
Alex Morono vs. Kyle Noke

PRELIMINARY CARD
UFC Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m. ET
Joseph Duffy vs. Dustin Poirier
Joe Soto vs. Michinori Tanaka
Edgar Garcia vs. Sheldon Westcott

Wonder how much wrestling will be part of Lawler's game plan.

lol Sotto was clowning Tanaka there, but that was a really good showing. The fight pass and the rest of the undercard looks a lot better than the main card (Lawler-Condit title match aside).

But Sotto won that fight, tough call.

Wow that Duffy Poirier fight was great!(only caught the last 1 minute or so!).

30-27 Kish? All 3 rounds?

That was a decent 1st match/fight. Over a bit more quickly then I anticipated though!

GoRapstheoriginal wrote:Wow that Duffy Poirier fight was great!(only caught the last 1 minute or so!).

I didn't see the fight, but I was surprised when Duffy was a favorite over Poirier the first time. For him to have still been a decent favorite after a recent concussion, just doesn't make any sense.

Wow some slick jitz on display there in that last fight! Amazing submission!

Hope UFC covers dental. sucks all his money will be going back to fix his braces

tumenov is going to be a champion some day. book it.

He still has some glaring holes in his game, but I've been very impressed with his last two showings. I see why he's a highly touted prospect.

That wasn't bad. Decently entertaining! Looking forward to the co-main & Main Event fights!

REDDzone wrote:

GoRapstheoriginal wrote:Wow that Duffy Poirier fight was great!(only caught the last 1 minute or so!).

I didn't see the fight, but I was surprised when Duffy was a favorite over Poirier the first time. For him to have still been a decent favorite after a recent concussion, just doesn't make any sense.

Not only that, but Poirer is much better fighting at 155.

wow Tumenov had a good showing but the Sotto and Larkin robberies makes me lose all confidence in the judges.

Big cheer for Holm.