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 upcoming fights are hot and which fights are not – for UFC FIGHT ISLAND 8: ‘CHIESA VS MAGNY’ & UFC 257: POIRIER VS MCGREGOR 2!
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 indubitable John S. Nash, our chief financials columnist and co-host of our ‘Show Money’ Podcast… he is also one of the co-hosts of the ‘If The Shoes Fit’ Podcast; the trio is moderated by 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 FIGHT ISLAND 7 REACTIONS: 1:05
Here’s a look at the UFC FIGHT ISLAND 7: ‘HOLLOWAY VS KATTAR’
RESULTS & UPDATED FIGHT RECORDS:
ABC/ESPN+ MAIN CARD | SAT. JAN 16
At 4:20 – 10. 145lbs – Max Holloway (22-6) DEF. Calvin Kattar (22-5) – 5 Rds, DEC, Unanimous
At 19:58 – 9. 170lbs – Carlos Condit (32-13) DEF. Matt Brown (22-18) – DEC, Unanimous
At 28:47 – 8. 170lbs – Jingliang Li (18-6) DEF. Santiago Ponzinibbio (27-4) – KO/TKO, Left Hook at 4:25 of Rd 1
At 31:20 – 7. 185lbs – Alessio Di Chirico (13-5) DEF. Joaquin Buckley (12-4) – KO/TKO, Head Kick at 2:12 of Rd 1
At 33:24 – 6. 185lbs – Punahele Soriano (8-0) DEF. Duško Todorovi? (10-1) – KO/TKO, Punches at 4:48 of Rd 1
FOTN: ($50K ea.) Holloway vs. Kattar
POTN: ($50K ea.) 1. Jingliang Li 2. Alessio Di Chirico
ABC/ESPN+ PRELIMS
5. 125lbs – Joselyn Edwards (10-2) DEF. Yanan Wu (11-4) – DEC, Unanimous
4. 265lbs – Carlos Felipe (10-1) DEF. Justin Tafa (4-2) – DEC, SPLIT
3. 170lbs – Ramazan Emeev (20-4) DEF. David Zawada (17-6) – DEC, SPLIT
2. 135lbs – Vanessa Melo (11-8) DEF. Sarah Moras (6-7) – DEC, Unanimous
1. 145lbs – Austin Lingo (8-1) DEF. Jacob Kilburn (8-4) – DEC, Unanimous
UFC FIGHT ISLAND 8 PICKS: 36:13
At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our trio will go about predicting the UFC FIGHT ISLAND 8 & UFC 257 bout sheets, leading their way up to our Co-Main Events, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks portion of the show with the Main Events. These UFC on ESPN+ events will take place from UFC Fight Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emeritus #UFCFIGHTISLAND, this Wednesday & Saturday.
Here’s a look at the upcoming fight card & records for both upcoming events (bout order subject to change) bout order below last accessed 12:31am CST 1/18/21, show recorded on the afternoon of 1/17/21:
UFC FIGHT ISLAND 8: ‘CHIESA VS MAGNY’ (17 Cares)
ESPN/ESPN+ MAIN CARD | WED. JAN 20 – 12PM/9AM ETPT (13 Cares)
14. 170lbs – Michael Chiesa (16-4) vs. Neil Magny (24-7) – At 52:07, 3 Cares
13. 170lbs – Warlley Alves (13-4) vs. Mounir Lazzez (10-1) – At 50:15, 1 Cares
12. 205lbs – Ike Villanueva (16-11) vs. Vinicius Moreira (9-4) – At 49:49
11. 125lbs – Roxanne Modafferi (25-17) vs. Viviane Araujo (9-2) – At 47:32, 3 Cares
10. 125lbs – Tyson Nam (20-11) vs. Matt Schnell (14-5) – At 46:07, 3 Cares
9. 145lbs – Lerone Murphy (9-0) vs. Douglas Andrade (26-3) – At 44:29, 3 Cares
ESPN/ESPN+ PRELIMS | 9AM/6AM ETPT (4 Cares)
8. 185lbs – Omari Akhmedov (20-5) vs. Tom Breese (12-2) – At 43:47, 3 Care
7. 135lbs – Ricky Simón (16-3) vs. Gaetano Pirrello (15-5) – At 42:36
6. 125lbs – Su Mudaerji (13-4) vs. Zarrukh Adashev (3-2) – At 42:01
5. 205lbs – Dalcha Lungiambula (10-2) vs. Markus Perez (12-4) – At 41:45
4. 135lbs – Jerome Rivera (10-3) vs. Francisco Figueiredo (11-3) – At 40:11, 1 Care
3. 155lbs – Mike Davis (8-2) vs. Mason Jones (10-0) – At 39:51
2. 135lbs – Umar Nurmagomedov (12-0) vs. Sergey Morozov (16-3) – At 37:58
1. 125lbs – Victoria Leonardo (8-2) vs. Manon Florot (5-1) – At 37:36
PPV PICKS: 55:51
UFC 257: ‘POIRIER VS MCGREGOR 2’ (16 Cares)
ESPN+ MAIN CARD | SAT. JAN 23 – 10PM/7PM ETPT (12 Cares)
12. 155lbs – Dustin Poirier (26-6) vs. Conor McGregor (22-4) – At 1:08:25, 3 Cares
11. 155lbs – Dan Hooker (20-9) vs. Michael Chandler (21-5) – At 1:05:15, 3 Cares
10. 125lbs – Jessica Eye (15-8) vs. Joanne Calderwood (14-5) – At 1:04:29, 3 Cares
9. 155lbs – Ottman Azaitar (13-0) vs. Matt Frevola (8-1) – At 1:03:23, 3 Cares
8. 115lbs – Marina Rodriguez (21-2) vs. Amanda Ribas (10-1) – At 1:02:46, 3 Cares
ESPN+ PRELIMS | 8PM/5PM ETPT (4 Cares)
7. 155lbs – Arman Tsarukyan (15-2) vs. Nasrat Haqparast (12-3) – At 1:01:56, 3 Cares
6. 185lbs – Brad Tavares (17-6) vs. Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-4) – At 1:01:15
5. 135lbs – Sara McMann (12-5) vs. Julianna Peña (9-4) – At 1:00:49, 2 Cares
4. 205lbs – Khalil Rountree (8-4) vs. Marcin Prachnio (13-5) – At 1:00:30
UFC Fight Pass EARLY PRELIMS | 6:15PM/3:15PM ETPT (0 Cares)
3. 185lbs – Andrew Sanchez (12-5) vs. Makhmud Muradov (24-6) – At 57:24
2. 145lbs – Nik Lentz (30-11) vs. Movsar Evloev (13-0) – At 56:30
1. 125lbs – Amir Albazi (13-1) vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov (13-4) – At 56:06
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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