Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson, John S. Nash & Stephie Haynes are all back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview for UFC 242 ‘Khabib vs Poirier’; occurring this coming Saturday, Sep. 7, 2019 from Abu Dhabi, Dubai.
It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, 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 newly released ‘Ozy Confidential Podcast’, along with the intriguing man who knows everyone and everything about the history of MMA, and who also happens to be our Bloody Elbow chief financials columnist and one of the co-hosts of our ’Show Money Podcast’, John S. Nash, rounding out the team we have our lovely co-host, Stephie Haynes, of Bloody Elbow’s The Level Change Podcast and The Mookie & Crookie Show.
The format of the show is to announce each fight as they go, commenting on which fights are hot and which fights are not, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two. This week’s topics are as follows:
UFC on ESPN+ 15 – Shenzhen, China REVIEW – 1:04
Weili Zhang DEF. Jessica Andrade – 2:49
Jingliang Li DEF. Elizeu Zaleski – 8:24
Kai Kara-France DEF. Mark De La Rosa – 15:10
Mizuki Inoue DEF. Yanan Wu – 15:26
Kenan Song DEF. Derrick Krantz – 15:35
Su Mudaerji DEF. Andre Soukhamthath – 15:44
UFC 242 PREVIEW – CARE/DON’T CARE PICKS – 19:17
At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our Three Musketeers —Eugene, John & Stephie, go about predicting UFC 242’s entire bout sheet, leading their way up to the Co-Main showcasing Edson Barboza vs Paul Felder, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event World Lightweight Championship Title fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Dustin Poirier. The event will be taking place this Saturday, September 7th, 2019, from the du Arena in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
This card will be a Pay-Per-View (PPV) broadcast through ESPN+ with the main card starting at 1PM CDT, and the Prelims on FX starting at 11AM CDT — and for those of you with Fight Pass, the Early Prelims start at 9AM CDT.
Here’s a look at the fight card for UFC 242, via ESPN.com (bout order subject to change):
UFC 242 ESPN+ PPV MAIN CARD | SAT SEP 7 – 2PM/11AM ETPT
MAIN: 155 lbs – Khabib Nurmagomedov (27-0) vs Dustin Poirier (25-5) – 45:07
CO-MAIN: 155 lbs – Edson Barboza (20-7) vs Paul Felder (16-4) – 39:39
155 lbs – Islam Makhachev (17-1) vs Davi Ramos (10-2) – 37:52
265 lbs – Curtis Blaydes (11-2) vs Shamil Abdurakhimov (20-4) – 35:17
155 lbs – Mairbek Taisumov (27-5) vs Diego Ferreira (15-2) – 33:22
FX PRELIMS | 12PM/9AM ETPT
125 lbs – Joanne Calderwood (13-4) vs Andrea Lee (11-2) – 30:00
145 lbs – Zubaira Tukhugov (18-4) vs Lerone Murphy (8-0) – 26:39
135 lbs – Liana Jojua (7-2) vs Sarah Moras (5-6) – 25:30
155 lbs – Ottman Azaitar (11-0) vs Teemu Packalen (8-2) – 24:21
EARLY PRELIMS UFC FIGHT PASS | 10AM/7AM ETPT
170 lbs – Belal Muhammad (15-3) vs Takashi Sato (15-2) – 22:58
170 lbs – Nordine Taleb (15-6) vs Muslim Salikhov (14-2) – 22:11
185 lbs – Omari Akhmedov (18-4) vs Zak Cummings (23-6) – 20:47
155 lbs – Don Madge (8-3) vs Fares Ziam (10-2) – 20:10
OFF TOPIC – 48:34
- Elon Musk, charlatan or genius?
Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson and on The Show Stomper!, you can follow John on twitter @heynottheface and on The Show Money Podcast, Stephie can also be followed @CrooklynMMA, and on @MookieNCrookie, AND @LevelChangePod.
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