Sorry cry babies! It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: Eugene S. Robinson, John S. Nash and Stephie Haynes. The format of the show is to review the prior weeks picks & then to announce each fight on the upcoming card, commenting on which upcoming fights are hot and which fights are not – for UFC VEGAS 31: MAKHACHEV VS MOISES!
It’s time for another one of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the ‘Ozy Confidential’ Podcast, the ‘Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper!’ Podcast, and co-host of the ‘If The Shoes Fit’ Podcast, along with the lovely Stephie Haynes, of Bloody Elbow’s ‘The Level Change’ Podcast and ’The Mookie & Crookie Show’ Podcast.
The format of the show is to review the prior weeks’ picks & then to announce each fight on the upcoming card, quickly commenting on which fights are hot, and which fights are not, based on relevancy to the sport as a whole.
UFC 264 REACTIONS – 1:28
Overall, this 12-bout card saw five exhilarating first round finishes, six impressive KO/TKO’s (one stoppage-our main event), one sweet submission, and five decisions, one split. Rounding things out, bonuses for putting forth POTN efforts went to Tai Tuivasa & Dricus Du Plessis (Irene Aldana will also get a bonus per Dana White at presser); FOTN honors went to O’Malley vs. Moutinho. What a night of fights we have to share with you, join us to discuss all the action…
Here’s a look at the UFC 264: ‘POIRIER VS MCGREGOR 3 RESULTS & UPDATED FIGHT RECORDS:
ESPN+ MAIN PPV CARD | SAT. JULY 10
At 1:53, 28:27 – 12. Dustin Poirier (28-6) DEF. Conor McGregor (22-6) – KO/TKO, 1st Rd Dr. Stoppage – Broken Ankle
At 6:15 – 11. Gilbert Burns (20-4) vs. Stephen Thompson (16-4) – DEC, Unanimous
At 22:59 – 10. Tai Tuivasa (13-3) DEF. Greg Hardy (7-4) – KO/TKO, Counter Hook to G&P at 1:07 of Rd 1
At 21:02 – 9. Irene Aldana (13-6) DEF. Yana Kunitskaya (14-6) – KO/TKO, G&P at 4:35 of Rd 1
At 14:28 – 8. Sean O’Malley (14-1) DEF. Kris Moutinho (9-5) – KO/TKO, Punches (Standing TKO) at 4:33 of Rd 3, Total 14:33
ESPN/ESPN+ PRELIMS
At 17:48 – 7. Max Griffin (18-8) DEF. Carlos Condit (32-14) – DEC, Unanimous
At 12:01 – 6. Michel Pereira (26-11) DEF. Niko Price (14-5) – DEC, Unanimous
At 10:31 – 5. Ilia Topuria (11-0) DEF. Ryan Hall (8-2) – KO/TKO, G&P at 4:47 of Rd 1
At 10:11 – 4. Dricus Du Plessis (16-2) DEF. Trevin Giles (14-3) – KO/TKO, Right Cross to G&P at 1:41 of Rd 2, Total 6:41
UFC Fight Pass/ESPN+ EARLY PRELIMS
At 9:47 – 3. Jennifer Maia (19-7) DEF. Jessica Eye (15-10) – DEC, Unanimous
At 4:45 – 2. Brad Tavares (19-6) DEF. Omari Akhmedov (21-6) – DEC, SPLIT
At 3:45 – 1. Zhalgas Zhumagulov (14-5) DEF. Jerome Rivera (10-6) – SUB, Standing Guillotine Choke at 2:02 of Rd 1
1. Alan Amedovski (8-2) vs. Yaozong Hu (3-2) – Cancelled due to COVID-19 Protocols
UFC VEGAS 31 PICKS – 34:30
At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our trio will go about predicting the UFC Vegas 31 bout sheet, leading their way up to our Co-Main Event, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks portion of the show with the Main Event. This UFC on ESPN+ Fight Night event will take place from the UFC APEX Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada, this Saturday, July 17th., 2021.
Here’s a look at the fight card & records for the upcoming event via tapology.com (bout order subject to change, it has already changed since the show was recorded):
UFC VEGAS 31: ‘ISLAM MAKHACHEV VS THIAGO MOISES’ (7 Cares)
ESPN+ MAIN CARD | SAT. JULY 17 – 10PM/7PM ETPT (7 Cares)
11. 155lbs: Islam Makhachev (19-1) vs. Thiago Moises (15-4) – At 45:42, 2 Cares
10. 135lbs: Marion Reneau (9-7) vs. Meisha Tate (18-7) – At 42:03, 2 Cares
9. 155lbs: Mateusz Gamrot (18-1) vs. Jeremy Stephens (28-18) – At 40:08, 2 Cares
8. 185lbs: Rodolfo Viera (15-3) vs. Dustin Stolzfus (13-2) – At 39:50
7. 145lbs: Billy Quarantillo (15-3) vs. Gabriel Benitez (22-8) – At 38:54, 1 Care
ESPN+ PRELIMS | 7PM/4PM ETPT (0 Cares)
6. 170lbs: Daniel Rodriguez (14-2) vs. Preston Parsons (9-2) – At 38:27
5. 115lbs: Amanda Lemos (9-1) vs. Montserrat Ruiz (10-1) – At 37:19
4. 135lbs: Khalid Taha (13-3) vs. Sergey Morozov (16-4) – At 37:00
3. 135lbs: Anderson dos Santos (21-8) vs. Miles Johns (11-1) – At 36:34
2. 125lbs: Francisco Figueiredo (12-3) vs. Malcolm Gordon (12-5) – At 35:58
1. 265lbs: Rodrigo Nascimento (8-1) vs. Alan Baudot (8-2) – At 35:27
Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson, and of course you can catch Stephie @CrooklynMMA, and twice a week she’s on @MookieNCrookie AND @LevelChangePod.
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