Sorry cry babies! It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the illustrious Eugene S. Robinson, the indubitable John S. Nash and our lovely & knowledgable co-host, 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 fights are hot and which fights are not.
It’s time for another 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 indubitable John S. Nash, our chief financials columnist and co-host of our ‘Show Money Podcast’, along with 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 review the prior weeks picks & then to announce each fight on the upcoming card, commenting on which fights are hot and which fights are not, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two when there’s time. This week’s topics are as follows…
UFC NORFOLK REVIEW – AT 1:08
Here’s a look at the UFC on ESPN+ 27 RESULTS & new fight records:
UFC NORFOLK MAIN CARD | SAT. FEB. 29 – 8PM/5PM ETPT
- At 7:02: 125lbs – Deiveson Figueiredo (17-1) DEF. Joseph Benavidez (28-5), KO/TKO-Punches at 1:54 of Rd 2, Total 6:54 – NO BELT AWARDED SINCE FIGUEIREDO MISSED WEIGHT
- At 15:19: 145lbs – Felicia Spencer (8-1) DEF. Zarah Fairn (6-4), KO/TKO-G & P at 3:37 of Rd 1
- At 3:13: 205lbs – Magomed Ankalaev (13-1) DEF. Ion Cutelaba (15-5), KO-Punches at 0:38 of Rd 1
- At 15:19: 145lbs – Megan Anderson (10-4) DEF. Norma Dumont (4-1), KO/TKO-Right Cross at 3:31 of Rd 1
- 145lbs – Grant Dawson (15-1) DEF. Darrick Minner (24-11), SUB-Rear Naked Choke at 1:38 of Rd 2, Total 6:38
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: ($50K ea.) Gabriel Silva vs. Kyler Phillips
PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT: ($50k ea.) 1. Megan Anderson 2. Jordan Griffin
ATTENDANCE: 7,098
GATE: $ $402,958 (USD)
ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM/2PM ET/PT
135lbs – Kyler Phillips (7-1) DEF. Gabriel Silva (8-2), DEC-Unanimous
185lbs – Brendan Allen (14-3) DEF. Tom Breese (11-2), KO/TKO-G & P at 4:47 of Rd 1
265lbs – Marcin Tybura (18-6) DEF. Sergey Spivak (10-2), DEC – Unanimous
155lbs – Luis Pena (8-2) DEF. Steve Garcia Jr. (11-4), DEC-Unanimous
145lbs – Jordan Griffin (18-7) DEF. TJ Brown (14-7), KO/TKO-SUB, Guillotine Choke at 3:38 of Rd 2, Total 8:38
145lbs – Spike Carlyle (9-1) DEF. Aalon Cruz (8-3), KO/TKO-Elbows to G & P at 1:25 of Rd 1
170lbs – Sean Brady (12-0) DEF. Ismail Naurdiev (19-4), DEC-Unanimous
UFC 248 PREVIEW – AT 22:12
At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our trio will go about predicting UFC 248’s entire bout sheet, leading their way up to the Co-Main Event showcasing a Title Fight between Women’s Strawweights, Joanna J?drzejczyk vs. Weili ‘Magnum’ Zhang, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event Title Fight featuring a highly-anticipated Middleweight bout between Israel ‘The Last Stylebender’ Adesanya and Yoel ‘Soldier of God’ Romero. The event will be taking place this Saturday, March 7, 2020, from the T-Mobile Arena out of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Bout order is subject to change:
UFC 248 PPV MAIN CARD | SAT. MAR. 7 – 10PM/7PM ETPT
- 185lbs – Israel Adesanya (18-0) vs. Yoel Romero (13-4) – At 49:04
- 115lbs – Weili Zhang (20-1) vs. Joanna J?drzejczyk (16-3) – At 40:58
- 155lbs – Beneil Dariush (17-4) vs. Drakkar Klose (11-1) – At 39:47
- 170lbs – Neil Magny (21-7) vs. Jingliang Li (17-5) – At 38:28
- 170lbs – Alex Oliveira (20-8) vs. Max Griffin (15-7) – At 32:41
ESPN PRELIMS | 8PM/5PM ETPT
135lbs – Jose Alberto Quiñones (8-3) vs. Sean O’Malley (10-0) – At 30:32
185lbs – Rodolfo Vieira (6-0) vs. Saparbeg Safarov (9-2) – At 26:40
155lbs – Mark O. Madsen (9-0) vs. Austin Hubbard (11-3) – At 25:56
ESPN+/Fight Pass EARLY PRELIMS | 6:15PM/3:15PM ETPT
115lbs – Emily Whitmire (4-3) vs. Polyana Viana (10-4) – At 24:55
135lbs – Guido Cannetti (8-4) vs. Danaa Batgerel (6-2) – At 24:08
145lbs – Jamall Emmers (17-4) vs. Giga Chikadze (8-2) – At 23:30
185lbs – Deron Winn (6-1) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (30-12) – At 23:07
Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson, catch John on twitter @Heynottheface and on The Show Money Podcast, and of course you can catch Stephie @CrooklynMMA, and twice a week she’s on @MookieNCrookie AND @LevelChangePod.
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