GDT: UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill/PFL 2/PFL 3

[MMC]

Date: April 13, 2024
Venue: T-Mobile Arena
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: PPV

MAIN CARD (PPV)

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Alex Pereira (c) vs. Jamahal Hill
Women's Strawweight Championship bout: Zhang Weili (c) vs. Yan Xiaonan
Lightweight (BMF) bout: Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway
Lightweight bout: Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan
Middleweight bout: Bo Nickal vs. Cody Brundage

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Light Heavyweight bout: Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic
Featherweight bout: Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling
Women's Bantamweight bout: Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison
Featherweight bout: Sodiq Yusuff vs. Diego Lopes

EARLY PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass)

Lightweight bout: Jalin Turner vs. Renato Moicano
Women's Strawweight bout: Jessica Andrade vs. Marina Rodriguez
Lightweight bout: Bobby Green vs. Jim Miller
Bantamweight bout: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Cody Garbrandt​

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[MMC]

Date: April 12, 2024
Venue: The Theater at Virgin Hotels
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN2

MAIN CARD (ESPN2)

Light Heavyweight season bout: Impa Kasanganay vs. Alex Polizzi
Light Heavyweight season bout: Rob Wilkinson vs. Tom Breese
Lightweight season bout: Clay Collard vs. Patricky Pitbull
Lightweight season bout: Mads Burnell vs. Michael Dufort
Light Heavyweight season bout: Sadibou Sy vs. Josh Silveira
Light Heavyweight season bout: Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov vs. Jakob Nedoh
Light Heavyweight season bout: Antonio Carlos Jr. vs. Simon Biyong

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Lightweight season bout: Bruno Miranda vs. Brent Primus
Lightweight season bout: Gadzhi Rabadanov vs. Solomon Renfro
Lightweight season bout: Elvin Espinoza vs. Adam Piccolotti
Heavyweight showcase bout: Marcelo Nunes vs. Jordan Heiderman​

 

[MMC]

 

[CDJ]

Decent PFL card, an all-time UFC card

 

[Moncherry]

Bo Nickal is really on the main card ahead of Jiri? gtfo.

 

[CDJ]

Bo Nickal is really on the main card ahead of Jiri? gtfo.

The real story is Cody Brundage being on the main card of UFC 300

 

[Sheppy]

The real story is Cody Brundage being on the main card of UFC 300

I'm surprised it's on the main card over...

Light Heavyweight bout: Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic
Featherweight bout: Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling
Women's Bantamweight bout: Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison

I guess they're really trying to showcase Bo...

 

[Sheppy]

I'm getting a filthy parlay going. I'm debating picking Holm with the upset...

 

[MMC]

I'm surprised it's on the main card over...

Light Heavyweight bout: Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic
Featherweight bout: Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling
Women's Bantamweight bout: Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison

I guess they're really trying to showcase Bo...

I think they for some reason think that wrestling fans will buy the PPV if they do, but I really don’t know how many sales that translates to. Probably not as much as they think.

I do wonder if PPV sales will crater to a point where ESPN starts to become unhappy. I think the fact that there was no price hike this year shows they might already be

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Aljo looks huge lol

 

[CDJ]

My big boy many unit parlay is

Nickal/Brundage not going distance -1200
Oliveira/Tsarukyan not going distance -280
Jalin Turner by KO -135
Weili ML -485

It doesn’t have the biggest juice at +208 but whatever I like it

 

[I am not exposed]

Bo Nickal is really on the main card ahead of Jiri? gtfo.

At one point his fight was above Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan! There was so much fan backlash that they did change it.

I'm hoping for a Brundage win.. **** this Bo Nickal clown.

 

[Sheppy]

Holm over Harrison +350
Sterling over Kattar -170
Nikckal over Brundage -2000 (lol)
Tsarukyan over Oliveria - 225
Gaethje over Holloway -163
Zhang over Yan - 450
Pereira over Hill -138

$2387 on a $50 bet

 

[Taytro]

My big boy many unit parlay is

Nickal/Brundage not going distance -1200
Oliveira/Tsarukyan not going distance -280
Jalin Turner by KO -135
Weili ML -485

It doesn’t have the biggest juice at +208 but whatever I like it

I'm following ya!

 

[CDJ]

I'm following ya!

we live or die together

 

[Taytro]

we live or die together

It's been exclusively die up until this point but looking forward to changing that.

 

[I am not exposed]

Predictions in bold for each fight:

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Alex Pereira (c) vs. Jamahal Hill (I think Hill is a better all round fighter. But I actually predict he will knockout Pereira)
Women's Strawweight Championship bout: Zhang Weili (c) vs. Yan Xiaonan (Weili has looked so dominant)
Lightweight (BMF) bout: Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway (Similar to the Max vs. Dustin fight where the power discrepancy will be too much).
Lightweight bout: Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan (Really tough one to choose. Going for Charles).
Middleweight bout: Bo Nickal vs. Cody Brundage (Bo should win this comfortably. Joke this is on the main card)

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Light Heavyweight bout: Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic (I think Rakic is a better overall fighter and has been somewhat unlucky in his UFC career)
Featherweight bout: Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling (Tough one to call. I think Kattar will just be too big for Sterling to handle)
Women's Bantamweight bout: Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison (Not sure about this one either. Holly is very up and down recerntly. She won her last one, so going for her to lose against Kayla.)
Featherweight bout: Sodiq Yusuff vs. Diego Lopes (Can't recall too much about Lopes, but Sodiq normally looks pretty good when I see him fight. He was beating Barboza and as I recall if it had only been 3 rounds, he would have got the victory. So 3 rounds should be good for him here)

EARLY PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass)

Lightweight bout: Jalin Turner vs. Renato Moicano (Turner by knockout)
Women's Strawweight bout: Jessica Andrade vs. Marina Rodriguez (Andrade because she owes me for not becoming champion last year as per my prediction!)
Lightweight bout: Bobby Green vs. Jim Miller (Green will be too much for Miller)
Bantamweight bout: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Cody Garbrandt (Overall I haven't been that impressed with Cody recently. Going for Fig. Crazy this is opening the prelims!)

 

[MMC]

Love how many fighters are getting custom shorts. Hope that’s not just a one off

 

[MMC]

Wasn’t sure how Sy moving up 2 weight classes to LHW was going to be but he looks absolutely massive. Hard to believe he fought at 170 5 months ago

 

[CDJ]

Harrison made 135

 

[VanillaCoke]

I'm surprised it's on the main card over...

Light Heavyweight bout: Jiri Prochazka vs. Aleksandar Rakic
Featherweight bout: Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling
Women's Bantamweight bout: Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison

I guess they're really trying to showcase Bo...

Bo is their number one prospect, steamrolling everyone, young, confident exciting, and successfully riding the hype train rn.
And from what I've gathered is very popular with the younger generation.

Jiri, aljo both coming off losses, nobody cares about rakic or kattar and they're coming off losses/injuries too. Holm is like forty something and idk how much draw Kayla has right now before her first ufc fight.

Bo on the main card makes all the sense, Brundage not so much but he's more of a stepping stone than anything else, if things go as planned.

 

[Moncherry]

Bo is their number one prospect, steamrolling everyone, young, confident exciting, and successfully riding the hype train rn.
And from what I've gathered is very popular with the younger generation.

Jiri, aljo both coming off losses, nobody cares about rakic or kattar and they're coming off losses/injuries too. Holm is like forty something and idk how much draw Kayla has right now before her first ufc fight.

Bo on the main card makes all the sense, Brundage not so much but he's more of a stepping stone than anything else, if things go as planned.

Yeah we get it, you're a fanboy.

They obviously want to give him the spotlight, but don't try to argue he currently deserves to be on the main card over those guys in terms of merit. They're all far higher level fights. Nickal is 2-0 in the UFC and has beaten nobodies, only one of the wins on his record even has a Wikipedia page and this next fight isn't much better. When Alex Pereira got fast tracked, he was at least fighting Strickland in his third UFC fight.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Yeah we get it, you're a fanboy.

They obviously want to give him the spotlight, but don't try to argue he currently deserves to be on the main card over those guys in terms of merit. They're all far higher level fights. Nickal is 2-0 in the UFC and has beaten nobodies, only one of the wins on his record even has a Wikipedia page and this next fight isn't much better. When Alex Pereira got fast tracked, he was at least fighting Strickland in his third UFC fight.

Actually tho, I'm not even a fan of bo, horvat, jackson, bichette yes, nickal no not yet.

Objectively it just makes sense, business wise it makes sense, and merit wise there's an argument too.

For the reasons mentioned as well as plenty of ppl dont love aljo, he won the belt controversially, won a few split decisions and got demolished by the ufc other young star.

Who has jiri beat thats so impressive, then also got demolished by alex.

Bo although he's beaten nobodies, he's winning, and in exciting fashion, just not that surprising Bo nickal is on the main card over those three fights mentioned tbh.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Harrison made 135

She looked verrrrrry skinny but she didn't seem out of it like it was a bad cut.

 

[16Skippy]

Some interesting odds, I'm surprised Olives and Holm are such big underdogs. But now that I've said that watch them both get finished