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

[I am not exposed]

Great night of fights that delivered, though I think Jiri vs Rakic should have been fight of the night. Tough break for them given the extra large bonuses handed out tonight.

Yeah, I think so as well. It was more back and forth. I thought Rakic was on his way to winning, but the turn around from Jiri was incredible. The leg kicks were bothering Jiri, but not the punches.

Max vs. Justin was a good fight but it had some lulls. And Max was on his was to a pretty obvious 49-46 decision. It just finished with one of the most epic finishes of all time. Max definitely deserved performance of the night. I definitely underestimated him, as did most people. He's such a likeable guy. The only stain was two eye pokes in that fight. Not cool.

Overall, great card. Met the hype for me. The only dud was Sterling vs. Kattar.

Pereira putting his hand out to stop Herb Dean to just go out and knockout Hill was also legendary.

Agree with the poster who said that even though Bo dominated his fight, it was not impressive at all.

What was Turner thinking not finishing off the fight! Guess he thought the (potential) walk off knockout would get him the bonus.

Arman vs, Charles fight was really good and I wish it had been 5 rounds as well. 29-28 Arman was the correct decision. Overall the judges got it right this night. Can't recall any robberies.

I'm glad I'm not a betting man. I only got about 50% of my predictions right. The unpredictability of the sport is one of the reasons why it is so great though.

 

[Neutrinos]

You would think that for big events like 300, every fight on the main card would be a 5 rounder

 

[Avs_19]

Great night of fights that delivered, though I think Jiri vs Rakic should have been fight of the night. Tough break for them given the extra large bonuses handed out tonight.

Yeah, I agree. It kinda got lost in the shuffle with how crazy the card was and with Max stealing the show.

I'd say the same for Bobby Green as well. Not FOTN considering it was all Green after the first round but hopefully they took care of him too. Miller is old but he was game and Green put it on him in the worst way but no one is talking about that today.

 

[MMC]

 

[Killahpunk]

You would think that for big events like 300, every fight on the main card would be a 5 rounder

I thought having three 5 rounders was alittle too much. I couldn't imagine doing it for the whole main card. Living in Eastern Canada this card ended very late. However I do agree that a 5 rounder between Oliveira and Arman would of been worthy.

 

[MMC]

Conor Max 2 for BMF after his fight with Chandler?

 

[16Skippy]

Dana did say during the press conference afterwards that he is going to take care of Figgy, Kayla, Moicano and Lopes also.

$50 gift certificate for the Venum online store

 

[16Skippy]

I don't have a tonne to add to what's already been said and I agree with most of it, so I'll just add this.

Poaton's the man, would like to see him stay and LWH for a while just so we can have some kind of order. But if he's moves up I'll be as excited as anyone. Also didn't notice the commentators or anyone else mention this yet but I'm pretty sure he used a fake right straight to set up the hook. Double sneaky since it seemed like he was using the low job to set up the hook up until then.

Holloway looked great as a LW. Honestly would rather see him stay at this weight. And frankly after that performance he's way more deserving of a title shot here than Poririer.

Same with Tsarukyan. But I would have rather that fight been 5 rounds on another card. I think Oliveira was in it the whole time and could have pulled something off. Or maybe I'm salty because I lost money lol.

Harrison looked good but I'm still not sure what we have with her given Holm's dumb decision making. Or maybe I'm salty again because I lost money lol.

Oh and Lopes. MF is a grappling coach knocking people out

 

[CDJ]

The second that video of Jiri staring down the TMobile arena for hours by himself late at night came out I knew it was curtains for Rakic

I don’t see how Jiri can maintain that style as he ages but he’s gonna be a motherf***er until that chin gives out

 

[VanillaCoke]

Thats was the best almost eight hours of mma I've ever spent, watched every fight and they delivered.

Turner cost me a nice parlay, but doubled and tripled down on max and alex and came out with a grip.
I'm pumped they all got 300k and Max 600k, that fight was sofa king good, incredible. Gatheje is one of my fav fighters but Max is him. If i have another son Max seriously just rocketed up the name list.

 

[KapG]

That Topuria guy looked so shook after thet Holloway win lmao

Conor Max 2 for BMF after his fight with Chandler?

Connor doesn’t deserve that

 

[Neutrinos]

Until Saturday, arguably the most iconic 1-punch KO in UFC history was Henderson sleeping Bisping

Interestingly, it was the 3rd last fight of UFC 100

 

[1specter]

Max looked better than ever, and seemed to have some power behind his shots too. My heart sank for a brief moment when Gaethje knocked him down but thankfully he recovered well from that and fought smart to avoid any follow-up damage.

The only stain was two eye pokes in that fight. Not cool.

I'll give Max the benefit of the doubt as he's not a dirty or cheap fighter, it looked like really unfortunate timing on both. In general I don't understand why the UFC refuses to address this issue when there's been multiple glove designs presented that prevent the eyepoke issue and are used by other organizations. UFC is so ass backwards sometimes.

 

[CDJ]

Gaethje winning that 4th round was pretty amazing in hindsight. It wasn’t his night but he was certainly a deserving BMF belt holder

I still can’t get over what we saw in that fights finish. Definitely still holding up as a possible top 5 moment in ufc history for me

 

[I am not exposed]

No big surprise, but hyperbolic Rogan is calling Max's knockout the greatest in UFC history.

Well, until the next knockout happens....

 

[Taytro]

No big surprise, but hyperbolic Rogan is calling Max's knockout the greatest in UFC history.

Well, until the next knockout happens....

I don't think he's the only one who is doing that, plenty of people are praising it. I personally think it was one of the best too. The context around the fight/KO make it special. The BMF title on the line, UFC300 - one or the best cards they've put together, the underdog leading the whole fight, the pointing to the center and both guys standing and trading, and then the last second clean faceplant KO. Maybe one or two of those pieces dont make it special but all of them combined really made it feel like it was different.

It wasn't the cleanest one shot KO we've seen, it wasn't a technical marvel, it wasn't the fastest, there's a lot of KOs that are ahead of it in a lot of categories but this one was very special and if you didn't feel that or can't see that, then I feel bad for you.

 

[I am not exposed]

I don't think he's the only one who is doing that, plenty of people are praising it. I personally think it was one of the best too. The context around the fight/KO make it special. The BMF title on the line, UFC300 - one or the best cards they've put together, the underdog leading the whole fight, the pointing to the center and both guys standing and trading, and then the last second clean faceplant KO. Maybe one or two of those pieces dont make it special but all of them combined really made it feel like it was different.

It wasn't the cleanest one shot KO we've seen, it wasn't a technical marvel, it wasn't the fastest, there's a lot of KOs that are ahead of it in a lot of categories but this one was very special and if you didn't feel that or can't see that, then I feel bad for you.

Oh I loved it.

I'm just criticising Rogan because he makes those type of statements regularly.

 

[Taytro]

Oh I loved it.

I'm just criticising Rogan because he makes those type of statements regularly.

He does, so does Dana, but this may be the one time where it's less of an exaggeration than the others. Everyone who was lucky enough to watch that fight live experienced something special, I'm very grateful for seeing it.

 

[MMC]

Date: April 19, 2024
Venue: Wintrust Arena
City: Chicago, Illinois
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN2

MAIN CARD (ESPN)

Welterweight season bout: Magomed Umalatov vs. Andrey Koreshkov
Featherweight season bout: Brendan Loughnane vs. Pedro Carvalho
Welterweight season bout: Logan Storley vs. Shamil Musaev
Featherweight season bout: Gabriel Braga vs. Justin Gonzales
Welterweight season bout: Goiti Yamauchi vs. Neiman Gracie
Featherweight season bout: Bubba Jenkins vs. Kai Kamaka

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Featherweight season bout: Adam Borics vs. Enrique Barzola
Featherweight season bout: Timur Khizriev vs. Brett Johns
Welterweight season bout: Laureano Staropoli vs. Murad Ramazanov
Welterweight season bout: Don Madge vs. Brennan Ward
Featherweight alternate bout: Tyler Diamond vs. Otto Rodrigues
Welterweight showcase bout: Romain Debienne vs. Thad Jean​

 

[MMC]

Still don't get why the UFC cut Madge

 

[CDJ]

Barzola-Borics was great

I got 29-28 Barzola

 

[MMC]