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Well, Volk-Max 3 in March is off as Max has an old injury flare up. Apparently Volk doesn't want to wait after the past 2 years, so we might actually get some movement in that division. We have Kattar-Chikadze in a week or so, which on it's face seems like a matchup set up for Chikadze to win comfortably (Kattar sucks at checking leg kicks, has struggled with long kickboxers before, questions about the damage taken from Max fight), so maybe he can step in if he's not too badly banged up. They king of cringe Cejudo is asking for Dana to throw him in, which could be something. Zombie is hanging around doing nothing...interesting times.

Oh, and Yan-Sterling 2 is on that card as well, so that's going to be worth a watch.

Edit: Apparently Zombie is the frontrunner for the title shot, and is the one Volk has asked for. It's the one with probably the most name value for the average fan, and it's kinda nice seeing someone from the WEC days still going for a title fight. Think it's a bad matchup for Zombie on the feet. Guy relies on slipping and countering with big shots and isn't great at dealing with feints or low kicks. Both of which Volk is good at doing. Same time, Zombie is good at dealing with shorter guys, and the grappling is something that may be interesting.
 
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immovable object said:
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Fiziev actually went with the "lets see who's the best Raphael in the lightweight division" on twitter and it seemed to fucking work. Amazing.
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Edit: Some switch arounds. So Volk vs Zombie and Sterling vs Yan are to be moved to UFC 273 in April as co-mains (I think - must not be confident in selling a Volk PPV without Max) and Colby vs Masvidal to headline 272 in March, in all likelihood confirming that Masvidal faked an injury (we still don't really know what he allegedly had) to duck out of the Edwards fight. Maybe my timeline is off and that's been enough time off to recover, but it is mighty suspicious that after Colby @s him to duck out of the Edwards fight and fight him, he has an injury.
 
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The arrogant Georgian faggot just got exposed. What a return from Kattar after that beating he took from Holloway a year ago. That was a make or break loss, turns out for Kattar it was "make".

Very rarely do I get autistic enough to intensely dislike a fighter, but Chikadze is definitely one. Between naming the karate roundhouse to the liver (kick with the foot instead of the shin) after himself to completely looking past Kattar when Max dropped out of his trilogy fight to @ the champ and call him a coward for ducking him, to saying he's the best boxer in the division, to openly saying in interviews that he has zero respect for his opponent (Kattar in this case), all behind this weird, Jon Jones styled "niceness". Just...fuck that cockroach.

Ortega-Yair-Kattar, any combination of the 3 is a guaranteed banger. For Chikadze, he can go back to fighting cans for all I care.

Edit: Also Yair > Giga at dealing with pressure fighters. One stands his ground while the other does his best "Barboza/Cody under pressure" impression and runs in circles.
 
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Kattar vs Chikadze made me wince a bit. I don't think I've ever seen a fight where both guys got sloppy real quick (aside from Hooker vs Poirier, now that I remembered, lol).

Chikadze proved that being a kicker in MMA is rough, especially if you're trying to throw power kicks with lots of rotation. In the first round, Giga throws the "Giga" kick, misses, loses balance, and spends the rest of that round on the ground. He also gassed out real quick because of using kicks, which makes his corner's advice to stick to them that much more stupid.

Kattar disappointed me more though, despite his win. After getting beaten by Holloway, it somehow never occurred to him that he probably needed to slip and roll under punches more. Also, it was clear that Chikadze had the speed advantage, and was smart enough to exploit the openings in Kattar's guard. Since Kattar just fought two guys in a row that had faster punches, it should be clear to him that his hands have some catching up to do.

I'll end this by saying that Chikadze still has lots of potential, and I think a fight with Yair is the only logical fight to make. Kattar is likely to have a fight with Zombie next, which I think he'll lose if he fights the way he did against Chikadze. But hey, at least he's comfortable doing spinning elbows now, so maybe that puts a wrench in Zombie's plans...
 
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immovable object said:
Kattar vs Chikadze made me wince a bit. I don't think I've ever seen a fight where both guys got sloppy real quick (aside from Hooker vs Poirier, now that I remembered, lol).

Chikadze proved that being a kicker in MMA is rough, especially if you're trying to throw power kicks with lots of rotation. In the first round, Giga throws the "Giga" kick, misses, loses balance, and spends the rest of that round on the ground. He also gassed out real quick because of using kicks, which makes his corner's advice to stick to them that much more stupid.

Kattar disappointed me more though, despite his win. After getting beaten by Holloway, it somehow never occurred to him that he probably needed to slip and roll under punches more. Also, it was clear that Chikadze had the speed advantage, and was smart enough to exploit the openings in Kattar's guard. Since Kattar just fought two guys in a row that had faster punches, it should be clear to him that his hands have some catching up to do.

I'll end this by saying that Chikadze still has lots of potential, and I think a fight with Yair is the only logical fight to make. Kattar is likely to have a fight with Zombie next, which I think he'll lose if he fights the way he did against Chikadze. But hey, at least he's comfortable doing spinning elbows now, so maybe that puts a wrench in Zombie's plans...
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Kattar's defence needs work for sure, but I think he should get credit for not only the rebound, but coming in with a fight that is completely against type. He is not a volume pressure fighter who does a Holloway and throws 400+ strikes like he does here. He had half that amount against Ige, another 5 rounder he won. I think he's hit his ceiling as the final gatekeeper to a title shot/the top 5, which isn't too bad of a place to be.

Chikadze (my irrational dislike for him aside) basically had a "Barboza under pressure" performance, which is about the worse thing you can do as a kicker, made all the more weird by the fact that he trains with Cordeiro at Kings MMA (Dariush, Gastelum, Vettori), they are forward pressure and grit personified as a team. You would think that as the kicker who trains with these pressure wrestle-boxers, he would know what to do, but apparently not.

What he probably should have done is take an approach like Yair did, stand his ground and return with the hands, throwing kicks when open. He kinda did before falling and then getting taken down. After that he basically went full Barboza, running and trying to make space to kick instead of making the opponent reset and move back to do it. Some feints would have helped there, but apparently they don't really do that at Kings. His boxing also needs work imo, because outside of his 1-2, he didn't really have much else, and having better boxing would help keep people off of him to give him space to kick.

As for potential fights. Zombie's fighting Volkanovski since Max is out with an injury and he's the only guy who is coming off a win and isn't beaten to shit. Kattar vs Yair or Ortega could be fun. Chikadze shouldn't be able to fall upwards and fight a guy even higher ranked than Kattar after that performance imo, he should get someone lower and build himself back. An easy one should be Ige, if not then Emmett or Allen. He's got potential, but he has some holes to cover up, otherwise he's just going to end up being another Barboza, running himself ragged until he either gets some meme KO or folds.
 
I still think Chikadze belongs at the top of FW, but Kattar is a very bad matchup for him. He crumbles against constant forward pressure like Barboza does, which would also make it easy for Max to bludgeon his face for 5 rounds too. So many cutbabys at FW that should go up to LW honestly. Why are 6ft guys with 74in reaches fighting at 145lbs? They're not even that skinny. Giga, Burgos, Max and Zabit are all guilty of this. Just lmao at this welterweight fighting real manlets like Ige
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I still think Chikadze belongs at the top of FW, but Kattar is a very bad matchup for him. He crumbles against constant forward pressure like Barboza does, which would also make it easy for Max to bludgeon his face for 5 rounds too. So many cutbabys at FW that should go up to LW honestly. Why are 6ft guys with 74in reaches fighting at 145lbs? They're not even that skinny. Giga, Burgos, Max and Zabit are all guilty of this. Just lmao at this welterweight fighting real manlets like Ige
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Dude's will do anything for some kind of physical advantage but you had guys like Sakuraba and KID fighting 30 pounds outside of their actual weight classes.

It's gay as fuck and I really wish to see more people eventually fight around their walking weight instead of doing 2009 Rumble Johnson impersonations.
 
Goyaanisqatsi said:
Dude's will do anything for some kind of physical advantage but you had guys like Sakuraba and KID fighting 30 pounds outside of their actual weight classes.

It's gay as fuck and I really wish to see more people eventually fight around their walking weight instead of doing 2009 Rumble Johnson impersonations.
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It's a competition where people's livelyhoods are on the like of course they're gonna cut as much weight as possible to get any advantage possible. Unless weight cutting is actually made against the rules and is enforced it's always going to happen.
 
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It's a competition where people's livelyhoods are on the like of course they're gonna cut as much weight as possible to get any advantage possible. Unless weight cutting is actually made against the rules and is enforced it's always going to happen.
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That originally worked, but nowadays it's more commonly a bunch of huge, massively dehydrated and depleted guys fighting eachother. They'd honestly have better fights without any of this because of it
 
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That originally worked, but nowadays it's more commonly a bunch of huge, massively dehydrated and depleted guys fighting eachother. They'd honestly have better fights without any of this because of it
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I think it depends. Some of them like Chikadze are sticks. The guy has always fought at featherweight, in kickboxing or MMA (and kickboxing it's even lower). His chin holds up as well so it's probably the right weight class for him.

Guys like Oliveira, who used to cut to featherweight, it really wasn't his weight class. He didn't have the right frame to be a big featherweight, and it showed with how many times he missed weight and his subpar performance at the weight class.
 
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Glad that dyke Nunez finally lost.
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And it was in the funniest, good-bad fight kinda way.
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was all that was needed to beat Nunes at 135. If that isn't an indictment on how trash women's 135 is, idk what else can be used as proof of that.
 
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