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UFC's first PPV in '25 is this weekend and should be a really great night of bouts.

full fight card --



From the offset should be some explosive fights, and I think by co-main and main event, it will be more technical. Really looking forward to Makhachev's continued dominance, but Tsarukyan is really good, could go either way but Im picking Islam because he's really met every challenge and won. Co-main is Merab v Umar Nurmagomedov, I don't expect Merab to win this, but his way to victory is to wrestle controll and get lots of takedowns. I dont see his striking being dangerous. I don't see how he's going to control Umar because he's a very sharp sambo wrestler too so ya, picking Umar. Basically I don't pick against Khabib's team they just flat out win.

My fave fighter at the moment Jiri Prochazka could get his lights put out against Jamaal Hill but I'm picking Jiri because he's only looked bad against Poatan. I'm gonna be on pins and needles for this one

Further down the card watch out for these fights for KOs or subs...

Guskov - his opponent is short notice and Guskov is a big MF'er that hits hard
Talbott - great striking prospect
Reese - his opponent is also short notice, could be KO1
Ailin Perez - likes to twerk if she wins. some pan it as low-class but she knows what she's doing
Nakamura - Japanese striker undefeated currently
Ulanbekov - another Khabib coached fighter, and I'm gonna lose my pick here bc I picked the other guy "Carpenter" lol

my picks - I look back now and I picked basically a KO or Sub for nearly every fight, oy vay. im reaching....

Hey fight friends! if you're interested, UFC YT channel is popping off recently and posted a lot of full fights from the past with some of the big names on the card.

Excited/Should be exciting! For some reason I thought this was some weird start time but it's not, thank goodness.
(talking EST)

GoRapstheoriginal wrote:Excited/Should be exciting! For some reason I thought this was some weird start time but it's not, thank goodness.
(talking EST)

Main Event and card change --

Arman is injured, replaced by Moicano. Dariush left without opponent

Islam vs Moicano is ez win for Islam I think

Great fights so far tonight! I am picking Jiri in this fight & both champs to retain.

great fight.

Damn Moicano! Islam should just retire or fight Khabib

Longo cements himself as the goat.


Merab is actually insane though. Down 2-0 and just literally broke Umar. One of the greatest performances I’ve seen.


**** shame about the main event. Could have topped off a great main card.


Dana said Armand not next anymore. Aint any more interesting fights for Islam at 155 bar that one. Lame.

Hard to see anyone getting a shot against Merab/Islam right now.

Maybe Gaethje if he gets past Hooker but Thats going to cause some damage and Justin might be sitting out for another 6/9 months. that means a year?

Merab, Who? Yan maybe but Merab absolutely destroyed him last time, Bautista would be slaughtered as well

There isn’t anymore interestijg fights for Islam like there wasn’t any left for Jones when he fought Gus… you just never know, repeated defenses tends to bring some crazy results from unexpected challengers.