Sorry cry babies! It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson, the indubitable John S. Nash 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’, 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 SINGAPORE REVIEW – 1:48
Here’s a look at the fight card RESULTS & UPDATED FIGHT RECORDS:
ESPN+ 20 MAIN CARD | SATURDAY OCT. 26 8AM/5AM ETPT
- 3:34 – 170 lbs – Demian Maia (28-9) DEF. Ben Askren (19-2), SUB-Rear Naked Choke at 3:54 of Rd 3 of 5, Total 13:54
- 14:10 – 155 lbs – Stevie Ray (23-9) DEF. Michael Johnson (19-15), DEC-Majority
- 18:14 – 155 lbs – Beneil Dariush (17-4) DEF. Frank Camacho (22-8), SUB-Rear Naked Choke at 2:02 of Rd 1
- 12:26 – 265 lbs – Ciryl Gane (5-0) DEF. Dontale Mayes (7-3), SUB-Heel Hook t 4:46 of Rd 3, Total 14:46
- 10:31 – 170 lbs – Muslim Salikhov (16-2) DEF. Laureano Staropoli (9-2), DEC-Unanimous
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: ($50K ea.) Demian Maia vs. Ben Askren – 8:31
PERFORMANCES OF THE NIGHT: ($50K ea.) Cyril Gane, Beneil Dariush – 8:31
ATTENDANCE: 7,155
GATE: The gate was not announced.
ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5AM/2AM ETPT
- 20:32 – 115 lbs – Randa Markos (10-7) DEF. Ashley Yoder (7-5), DEC-Split
- 155 lbs – Rafael Fiziev (7-1) DEF. Alex White (13-6), DEC-Unanimous
- 19:30 – 145 lbs – Movsar Evloev (12-0) DEF. Enrique Barzola (16-5), DEC-Unanimous
- 265 lbs – Sergey Pavlovich (14-1) DEF. Maurice Greene (8-3), KO/TKO-Punches at 2:11 of Rd 1
- 115 lbs – Loma Lookboonmee (4-1) DEF. Aleksandra Albu (3-2), DEC-Split
- 265 lbs – Raphael Pessoa (10-1) DEF. Jeff Hughes (10-3), DEC-Unanimous
UFC 244 PREVIEW – 24:43
At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our trio go about predicting UFC 244’s entire bout sheet, leading their way up to the Co-Main showcasing Middleweights Kelvin Gastelum vs. Darren Till, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event featuring a Welterweight Bout for the #BMF Title between Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal and Nate Diaz. The event will be taking place this Saturday, November 2nd, 2019, from Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.
UFC 244 MAIN CARD | SATURDAY NOV. 2 – 10PM/7PM ETPT
170 lbs – Jorge Masvidal (34-13) vs. Nate Diaz (20-11) – 49:02
185 lbs – Kelvin Gastelum (16-4) vs. Darren Till (17-2) – 47:28
170 lbs – Stephen Thompson (14-4) vs. Vicente Luque (17-6) – 45:25
265 lbs – Derrick Lewis (21-7) vs. Blagoy Ivanov (18-2) – 42:49
205 lbs – Kevin Lee (17-5) vs. Gregor Gillespie (13-0) – 40:12
ESPN2 PRELIMS | 8PM/5PM ETPT
205 lbs – Corey Anderson (12-4) vs. Johnny Walker (17-3) – 36:24
145 lbs – Shane Burgos (12-1) vs. Makwan Amirkhani (15-3) – 34:33
185 lbs – Brad Tavares (17-5) vs. Edmen Shahbazyan (10-0) – 32:50
265 lbs – Andrei Arlovski (28-18) vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (8-0) – 29:34
FIGHTPASS/ESPN+ EARLY PRELIMS | 6:30PM/3:30PM ETPT
125 lbs – Katlyn Chookagian (12-2) vs. Jennifer Maia (17-5) – 27:50
170 lbs – Lyman Good (20-5) vs. Chance Rencountre (14-3) – 27:11
145 lbs – Julio Arce (16-3) vs. Hakeem Dawodu (10-1) – 25:39
Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson and on The Show Stomper!, John at @heynottheface and on The Show Money Podcast, and of course Stephie can also be followed @CrooklynMMA, and twice a week on @MookieNCrookie, AND @LevelChangePod.
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