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dc actually looks a little thinner than normal there

UFC 319: DU PLESSIS vs CHIMAEV
Saturday, August 16 at United Center
main card at 10 p.m. ET/7 pm PT on ESPN+ PPV.
prelims will be available on ESPN (joined in progress at 7pm ET), ESPN Deportes and Disney+, as well as simulcast in English and Spanish on ESPN+, at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT.
The early prelims will kick off at 6 pm ET/3 pm PT on ESPN+ and UFC Fight Pass.


Main Event - Middleweight Title Bout: Dricus Du Plessis (185) vs Khamzat Chimaev (183)
Co-Main Event - Featherweight Bout: Lerone Murphy (146) vs Aaron Pico (145)

Welterweight Bout: Geoff Neal (171) vs Carlos Prates (170)
Middleweight Bout: Jared Cannonier (186) vs Michael “Venom” Page (186)
Flyweight Bout: Tim Elliott (126) vs Kai Asakura (126)

PRELIMS
Middleweight Bout: Baisangur Susurkaev (186) vs Eric Nolan (183)
Middleweight Bout: Gerald Meerschaert (185) vs Michal Oleksiejczuk (186)
Women’s Strawweight Bout: Jéssica Andrade (116) vs Loopy Godinez (115)
Lightweight Bout: Chase Hooper (155) vs Alexander Hernandez (156)
Lightweight Bout: Edson Barboza (155.5) vs Drakkar Klose (156)
Middleweight Bout: Bryan Battle (190)* vs Nursulton Ruziboev (186)
EARLY PRELIMS
Women’s Flyweight Bout: Karine Silva (125) vs Dione Barbosa (125.5)

TUF Flyweight Finale Bout: Alibi Idiris (126) vs Joseph Morales (126)

*Battle weighed in above the middleweight limit of 186. He forfeits 30% of his purse to his opponent. Fight proceeds as scheduled.

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Spinning KO was wild lets goo

These Russians are ruining the UFC. Wrestle raping snore-fests.

"I SMESH ERRYONE!! I KILL ERRYONE!!!"

proceeds to a boring arse 5 round wrestlefuck decision. the energy in the pub at the end was dead. the crowd in the arena sounded pretty dead. the twitter cope was already on screen before the end of khamzats speech "you may not like it but this is what dominance looks like" etc. etc.

no, i am not entertained. reckon khamzat lost a lot of fan support today.

529 "strikes"

But wait there's more... Poatan vs Ankalaev is booked UFC 320 instead of pushing Poatan to Heavyweight.

Burning up exciting fighters left and right with poor matchmaking. Nobody asked for the rematch. I get DDP needing to fight top contenders.

But when it comes to forced fights against Russian wrestlers, give the fans a break. Why the fuck isn't Pereira at HW already?? Why do we need another headliner of an exciting champ/former champ being pressed against the cage. The Paramount deal sucks because UFC has no incentive now, whereas the ESPN deal had PPV incentive at least to sell fights. You can't tell me Poatan doesn't sell more at HW than a rematch against Ankalaev.

Fight said:

These Russians are ruining the UFC. Wrestle raping snore-fests.

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The Era of GSP is back

Homsar said:

The Era of GSP is back

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GSP stood and beat Hendricks on the feet for 5 rounds. He technically lost, but he stood and banged.

You can't really compare that to the current crop of bearfuckers.

GSP would have outjabbed a farmer-style brawler like DDP.

He doesn't necessarily need to take DDP down to win. He knew how to score points on the feet if he needed to outpoint someone standing. GSP's jab game was world class.

I always felt like if you don't want a guy to teabag you for 25 minutes, maybe you should get good enough to do something about it.

That was hard to fucking watch I'll tell ya. DDP is just fight stupid -- guy got taken down repeatedly and at no point decides to risk it all and put his best knee forward, nope never does this. Just sprawl defense and hopes to get back up...

Captain Suave said:

I always felt like if you don't want a guy to teabag you for 25 minutes, maybe you should get good enough to do something about it.

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They said Poatan is PFP contender. Surely he will do something about it.

I still like Poatan at 205. I think that is the right weight for him to be at. Plenty of competition in the division. Folks will watch him at whatever weight and I'd be just fine with him getting a HW title shot or fighting one of the top guys there. I'd also love to see him fight Khamzat. He is 38 so I think whatever he does next against Ankalaev requires a win in order to slide to one of the other divisions, but I think it just might trap him at 205.

Also, about 3 weeks away from Gable Steveson's debut: Gable Steveson to make MMA debut at LFA 217

UFC Shanghai
will air in its entirety on ESPN+ on Saturday.
Prelims begin at 3 a.m. ET/midnight PT, while the main card starts at 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT.

Johnny Walker (206) vs Mingyang Zhang (205)
Brian Ortega (153) vs Aljamain Sterling (153)*
Sergei Pavlovich (255.5) vs Waldo Cortes-Acosta (262)
Su Mudaerji (125.5) vs Kevin Borjas (126)
Nueraji Taiyilake (170) vs Kiefer Crosbie (170.5)

Maheshate Hayisaer (155) vs Gauge Young (155.5)
Charles Johnson (126) vs Lone'er Kavanagh (126)
Zhu Rong (155.5) vs Austin Hubbard (155.5)
Michel Pereira (186) vs Kyle Daukaus (185)
Zha Yi (145) vs Westin Wilson (146)
Long Xiao (136) vs Su Young You (135.5)
Uran Satybaldiev (204) vs Diyar Nurgozhay (205.5)

* Sterling vs. Ortega was originally booked at 145 pounds, changed to 153-pound catchweight.