GDT: UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot/Bellator 299: Eblen vs. Edwards

[MMC]

Date: September 23, 2023
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass

MAIN CARD (ESPN+)

Lightweight bout: Rafael Fiziev vs. Mateusz Gamrot
Featherweight bout: Bryce Mitchell vs. Dan Ige
Women's Strawweight bout: Marina Rodriguez vs. Michelle Waterson
Welterweight bout: Bryan Battle vs. AJ Fletcher
Featherweight bout: Ricardo Ramos vs. Charles Jourdain

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Bantamweight bout: Miles Johns vs. Dan Argueta
Welterweight bout: Tim Means vs. Andre Fialho
Middleweight bout: Jacob Malkoun vs. Cody Brundage
Heavyweight bout: Mohammed Usman vs. Jake Collier
Women's Strawweight bout: Mizuki Inoue vs. Hannah Goldy
Women's Bantamweight bout: Montserrat Rendon vs. Tamires Vidal​

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[MMC]

Date: September 23, 2023
Venue: 3Arena
City: Dublin, Ireland
Time: 4 pm ET/1 pm PT
Viewing: Showtime, Bellator Youtube

MAIN CARD (Showtime)

Middleweight Championship bout: Johnny Eblen (c) vs. Fabian Edwards
Featherweight bout: Aaron Pico vs. Pedro Carvalho
Women's Featherweight bout: Sinead Kavanagh vs. Sara Collins
Featherweight bout: Mads Burnell vs. Daniel Weichel
Welterweight bout: Sabah Homasi vs. Levan Chokheli

PRELIMINARY CARD (Bellator Youtube)

Welterweight bout: Peter Queally vs. Daniele Miceli
Lightweight bout: Mansour Barnaoui vs. Jay Jay Wilson
Middleweight bout: Gregory Babene vs. Charlie Ward
Catchweight (140 lb) bout: Ciaran Clarke vs. Przemyslaw Gorny
Welterweight bout: Luca Poclit vs. Roman Faraldo
Featherweight bout: Khasan Magomedsharipov vs. Piotr Niedzelski
Featherweight bout: Darragh Kelly vs. Jelle Zeegers
Featherweight bout: Brian Moore vs. Otto Rodrigues
Lightweight bout: Davy Gallon vs. Attila Korkmaz
Featherweight bout: Asael Adjoudj vs. Ibrahim Al-Faqih Hassan
Featherweight bout: Kenny Mokhonoana vs. Josh O'Connor
Welterweight bout: Nicolo Solli vs. Romain Debienne
Heavyweight bout: Sergei Bilostenniy vs. Kasim Aras
Lightweight bout: Mark Ewen vs. Noah Gugnon
Women's Strawweight bout: Chiara Penco vs. Mackenzie Stiller​

 

[m9]

Unfortunately going to miss this one, but I think it will be a fun action card aside from the Rodriguez/Waterson fight which will likely be quite boring.

 

[pistolpete11]

I will also be missing this one, and the next one.

I think Fiziev is too well rounded for Gamrot. I expect him to win...not easily, but convincingly.

Ige doesn't have the best TDD which could be a problem against Mitchell. Ige's a tough out, though, and has never been finished in the UFC. I'd take Mitchell to grind out a decision.

I would have sworn that Waterson retired. Rodriguez is somehow only a year younger than Waterson, but it just feels like she's more relevant. I'd take Rodriguez by decision, but wouldn't totally surprise me for Waterson to our grapple her.

Rest of the card is OK for a Fight Night, but I don't really care.



And next week's card, a bunch of meaningless, but probably fun fights as far as I'm concerned.

 

[m9]

I will also be missing this one, and the next one.

I think Fiziev is too well rounded for Gamrot. I expect him to win...not easily, but convincingly.

Ige doesn't have the best TDD which could be a problem against Mitchell. Ige's a tough out, though, and has never been finished in the UFC. I'd take Mitchell to grind out a decision.

I would have sworn that Waterson retired. Rodriguez is somehow only a year younger than Waterson, but it just feels like she's more relevant. I'd take Rodriguez by decision, but wouldn't totally surprise me for Waterson to our grapple her.

Rest of the card is OK for a Fight Night, but I don't really care.



And next week's card, a bunch of meaningless, but probably fun fights as far as I'm concerned.

They actually have next week off, next one is Oct 7th.

 

[pistolpete11]

They actually have next week off, next one is Oct 7th.

Oh good, then I can y'all my uneducated takes the following week

 

[CDJ]

Final Bellator/Ireland show? Terrific crowds over there

 

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[Bunk Moreland]

20 years old... youngest jungle fight champion... with hands like that this kid Igor da Silva has a bright future

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Dana with his head up his ass again... passes on Allen who banged it out and looked good as an underdog yet signs a girl who won one round 10-8 to make the fight a draw... what the hell.

 

[CDJ]

Gaziev looks like a guy you don’t want on top of ya

 

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[Bunk Moreland]

Watching BKFC... The main guys are good and you get some decent fights. Outside of them it's the usual guys who washed out of regional MMA scene trying to make a buck beating the piss out of each other lol.

Maybe it's the MMA fan in me but I'd love for them to expand title fights to 7 rounds. I know this style of fighting is so prone to cuts and damage but I just feel they need to differentiate the importance of the fights for the belts.

 

[MMC]

Watching BKFC... The main guys are good and you get some decent fights. Outside of them it's the usual guys who washed out of regional MMA scene trying to make a buck beating the piss out of each other lol.

Maybe it's the MMA fan in me but I'd love for them to expand title fights to 7 rounds. I know this style of fighting is so prone to cuts and damage but I just feel they need to differentiate the importance of the fights for the belts.

Agree that I'd like to see BKFC title fights/main events be longer, as you said no clue how feasible it is with the damage these guys take though. The prelims can be pretty hilarious, some of these dudes look like they were pulled straight out of the beer line at the venues lmao, has a solid rate of being an entertaining product though.

Close main event, was hoping Camozzi would be able to pull it off because I hate Lorenzo Hunt but didn't quite do enough

 

[MMC]

Barnaoui is a fraud

 

[MMC]

Peak Bellator moment right there

 

[deleted user]

One of those rare occasions where I won't be watching the UFC event. So you just know there's going to be highlight reel after highlight reel. Oi, lol.

Seriously though, I really only hope "The Karate Hottie" gets a knockout. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠✧⁠*⁠。

 

[MMC]

Can't wait until the era of these annoying ass Mortal Kombat commercials is over

 

[CDJ]

Malkoun murdering my parlay with an illegal elbow, unreal how I find ways to lose these

 

[CDJ]

Tim Means stays being one of the most underrated viewing experiences in the sport

 

[MMC]

Eblen is such a beast. Would love to see him in the UFC

 

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[Tobias Kahun]

Is there a back story on why he's acting like a classless loser there?