Ok, so the Contender Series came to a close with a pretty crappy card IMO
So now we’re done. We had a little hiatus with the Fight Island break, and we’re back to finish the season. Over-all it was a good season. Probably only about 3 bad cards out of 10, I’d call this a bad card. -whatever
Guys that got contracts on this show were: Victoria Leonardo, Tucker Lutz, Gloria de Paula, JP Buys, and Nick Maximov got some kinda Ultimate Fighter deal
Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations.read more
They did a great job of taking the Tuesday out of that Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series, because it wasn’t held on a Tuesday for week 8. I guess that they wanted to get around that pesky presidential garbage. Anyway, there were a lot of mismatches on week 8. On week 9 there were a lot more even contests
Fighters that got contracts were:
Jared Vanderaa, Luis Saldana, Ignacio Bahamondes, Carlos Ulberg, Luana Pinheiro, Nikolas Motta and Natan Levy
Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations.read more
I think the show took a little bit of a dip in week 7. Horrible commentary on the Week 7 show – Maybe yelling is part of calling fights. Fighters have to make their own decisions inside that cage, and I just dont think anybody should disrespect them.
Fighters that got contracts were Jordan Williams, Collin Anglin and Danyelle Wolfe
Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations.read more
So, we have some more Contender Series grades for you. These shows are getting a lot better. When the show first started, there were some real duds, but with real matchmaking and real research “Dana White” was able to put together some great fights this season.
Jimmy Flick, Ronnie Lawrence, William Knight Khizriev, Drako Rodriguez, Phil Hawes and Tafon Nchukwi all got contracts on weeks 5 and 6
Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations.read more
I posted on my Twitter that the Contender Series bridges the gap between UFC fans and MMA fans, and I stand by that statement. It allows the specific, brand driven UFC fans to open up to other organizations.
Great Professional performances on week 3 and 4. Guys that got contracts were: Louis Cosce, Cheyanne Buys, Orion Cosce, Josh Parisian, Jamie Pickett, Rafael Alves, Jeffrey Molina and Collin Huckbody
Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations.read more
Pretty good striking talent on display on this first week of The Contender Series. And good all around talent on the second week. No crowds at the Apex? We dont need no stinking crowds. We’ve been doing it this way since the inception of the show. Medic and Jacoby shined with their striking, and Adrian Yanez gave us one of the Contender Series KOs that we all love
Anyway, here we go again. Here are grades of the talent on the show. These grades are only based on their Contender Series performance, and not their performance before, in other organizations.read more
I saw all the Contender series fights this season, as I did in 2019. I rated everyone on their performance, and this is my top 10 list. Anyway these are based on their show performance, and is not an overall rating of the fighter.
Covid-19 LFA continues in Park City, Kansas for LFA 96. Maycon Mendonca beat Batsumberel Dagvadorj by unanimous decision to capture the vacant LFA Welterweight title. Real time scoring is weird. There was one instance where the Judges all changed their scores from 10-9 to 10-8s. …interesting…
Back at the Apex for some small-cage fighting, some pandemic fighting, some weird crowd-less fighting. I know there are people that hate the crowds and love the silent in fights, I’m not one of them – For 2 reasons: 1. Because the crowd is a character itself, sometimes when I’m watching these UFC cards, I dont know if they’re in Vegas, I dont know if they’re on Fight Island, I dont know if they’re in Florida, and it really doesn’t matter, there is no crowd, so there really isn’t anything thing to differentiate the venues. And yes, crowds boo and all that, but the crowd also cheers and gives the fighters a little motivation sometimes. I wouldn’t want to rob a hometown fighter of an audience singing his name. Reason 2. The 2nd reason is a simple one: An audience at a fight is NATURAL, If you get into a fight ANYWHERE, people are going to gather around and watch. Fighting behind closed doors is like a domestic situation😒 , and with domestic situations, there would be no rules. Fighting crowd-less is so sterile to me. I cant wait till things get back to normal. When can we at least get to 25%?read more
So this was a pretty good card over all. Abu Dhabi, Justin Gaethje, Khabib Nurmagomedov, UFC Light weight title. Khabib Nurmagomedov Beat Justin Gatheje via Triangle-choke in the 2nd round to become the undisputed UFC Lightweight champion. After the fight Khabib Also retired, capping off a 29-0 unbeaten MMA record.
Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Justin Gaethje
I liked the way Justin Gaethje was fighting in the first round, even though he lost that round…well sort of… He won it on the judges score card… but none of that matters. Khabib was able to take Gaethje down in the 2nd round, and had the confidence to hit a triangle from the mounted position, Khabib went to his back to finish the triangle and Gaethje tapped, but the referee must’ve hated him or something… because, the ref totally missed the tap, and Gaethje went unconscious. Speaking of… I haven’t seen Keith Peterson during this whole pandemic. Personally, I think Keith Peterson is the best referee right now. Anyway Khabib won, I guess by technical submission and retired after the fight, stating that he didn’t want to continue fighting without his father. So we move on -This is rough for MMA fans, because we never got to see Tony vs Khabib. I predicted that we would see this fight, because Khabib had said that he wanted to fight two more times before his retirement, SO, I THOUGHT THAT THE LAST FIGHT OF KHABIB’S CAREER WOULD BE TONY. it wasn’t to be. (Hindsight 20/20) Tony should’ve held out and waited for Khabib, he would’ve made more money fighting Khabib, and he always couldve fought Gaethje later. OK what now? So it doesn’t make sense for Ferguson to fight Gaethje again, Michael Chandler is now in the mix, and if Conor McGregor wants another shot at the Lightweight belt he’ll have to do some fighting at 155. Tony, Justin, Conor, Dustin, Michael. There are 5 guys in the mix, one of them will be left out in the coldread more
