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 and our lovely 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’, 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 BRASILIA REVIEW – at 1:49
Here’s a look at the UFC BRASILIA RESULTS & new fight records:
#UFConESPN+28 MAIN CARD | SAT. MAR. 14 – 6PM/3PM ETPT
- At 7:22 – 155lbs – Charles Oliveira (29-8) DEF. Kevin Lee (18-6), SUB-Guillotine at 0:28 of Rd 3, Total 10:28
- At 16:28 – 170lbs – Gilbert Burns (18-3) DEF. Demian Maia (28-10), KO/TKO-Left Hook to G & P at 2:34 of Rd 1
- At 21:05 – 155lbs – Renato Moicano (14-3) DEF. Damir Hadžovi? (13-6), SUB-Rear Naked Choke at 0:44 of Rd 1
- 205lbs – Nikita Krylov (27-7) DEF. Johnny Walker (17-5), DEC-Unanimous
- 155lbs – Francisco Trinaldo (25-7) DEF. Sean Makdessi (17-7), DEC-Unanimous
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: ($50K ea.) Mayra Bueno vs. Maryna Moroz
PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT: ($50k ea.) 1. Charles Oliveira 2. Gilbert Burns
ATTENDANCE: Government Banned Attendance due to Coronavirus Precautions
ESPN PRELIMS | 3PM/12PM ETPT
At 26:04 – 125lbs – Brandon Moreno (17-5) DEF. Jussier Formiga (23-7), DEC-Unanimous
At 28:12 – 115lbs – Amanda Ribas (9-1) DEF. Randa Markos (10-8), DEC-Unanimous
At 31:00 – 170lbs – Elizeu Zaleski (22-6) DEF. Alexey Kunchenko (20-2), DEC-Unanimous
At 31:50 – 135lbs – Rani Yahya (26-10-1) vs. Enrique Barzola (16-5-2), ENDS IN A MAJORITY DRAW
At 34:40 – 125lbs – Maryna Moroz (10-3) DEF. Mayra Buena Silva (6-1), DEC-Unanimous
125lbs – David Dvo?ák (18-3) DEF. Bruno Silva (10-5), DEC-Unanimous
135lbs – Bea Malecki (2-0) DEF. Veronica Macedo (6-4), DEC-Unanimous
UFC Fight Night LONDON/UFC on ESPN+ 29 PREVIEW
Discussion of the implications of the UFC not shutting down for a couple weeks out of safety concerns & Dana digging in his heels, stating “the show is going forward until it gets shut down by the government” – 35:26
At this point in the show we typically offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our duo would go about predicting UFC on ESPN+ 29’s entire bout sheet, leading their way up to the Co-Main Event showcasing Welterweights, Danny ‘Hot Chocolate’ Roberts vs. Nicolas ‘Lokomotivo’ Dalby, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event featuring a Welterweight bout between Tyron ‘The Chosen One’ Woodley and Leon ‘Rocky’ Edwards. The event will be taking place this Saturday, March 21, 2020, from the an unknown, yet to be determined locale in the United States – due to the Global Coronavirus Pandemic Precautions and Nationwide European Travel Ban. Since the location and the fight card itself is all up in the air as of the date of recording (Sunday, March 15, 2020), we will spend the remainder of our time this week discussing the implications of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the UFC…
Here is the latest fight card for this Saturday night that was published on tapology.com, with all fights affected by the move now indicated with an asterisk/strikethrough, per wikipedia.com…
UFC LONDON/UFC on ESPN+ 29 MAIN CARD | SAT. MAR. 21 – AIRTIME TBD
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170lbs – Tyron Woodley (19-4) vs. Leon Edwards (18-3)* -
170lbs – Danny Roberts (17-5) vs. Nicolas Dalby (18-3)* -
185lbs – Kevin Holland (16-5) vs. Jack Marshman (23-9)* - 185lbs – Darren Stewart (16-5) vs. Marvin Vettori (14-3) – status unknown
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135lbs – Jack Shore (12-0) vs. Geraldo de Freitas (12-5)* -
155lbs – Marc Diakiese (14-3) vs. Jai Herbert (10-1)* - 205lbs – Paul Craig (12-4) vs. Ryan Spann (17-5) – status unknown
ESPN+ PRELIMS | AIRTIME TBD145lbs – Lerone Murphy (8-0) vs. Gabriel Benitez (21-7)*125lbs – Ashlee Evans-Smith (6-4) vs. Molly McCann (10-2)* 145lbs – Makwan Amirkhani (15-4) vs. Mike Grundy (12-1)*185lbs – John Phillips (22-9) vs. Duško Todorovi? (9-0)*265lbs – Jake Collier (11-4) vs. Tom Aspinall (7-2)*
* Canceled due to the move of the event.
Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson, on Ozy.com and on the Show Stomper Podcast; catch Stephie @CrooklynMMA, and twice a week she’s on @MookieNCrookie AND @LevelChangePod.
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