GDT: UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo

[MMC]

Date: October 15, 2022
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Women's Flyweight bout: Alexa Grasso vs. Viviane Araujo
Bantamweight bout: Cub Swanson vs. Jonathan Martinez
Middleweight bout: Dusko Todorovic vs. Jordan Wright
Bantamweight bout: Raphael Assuncao vs. Victor Henry
Light Heavyweight bout: Misha Cirkunov vs. Alonzo Menifield

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Bantamweight bout: Leomana Martinez vs. Brandon Davis
Middleweight bout: Nick Maximov vs. Jacob Malkoun
Featherweight bout: Joanderson Brito vs. Lucas Alexander
Women's Strawweight bout: Piera Rodriguez vs. Sam Hughes
Flyweight bout: Tatsuro Taira vs. C.J. Vergara
Welterweight bout: Mike Jackson vs. Pete Rodriguez​

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[m9]

Askarov/Royval and Martinez/Cub should be fun. Henry/Assuncao is interesting. I like Menifield/Cirkunov.

But uh, yeah. This card is bad.

 

[MMC]

How do you guys think the move down to BW will go for Cub?

 

[m9]

How do you guys think the move down to BW will go for Cub?

I think Martinez tunes him up, unfortunately. Too fast and too much volume.

 

[Chaels Arms]

I think Cub can win that fight if he's able to avoid letting his legs get destroyed early. I think he'll have a slight power advantage moving down and against Martinez. Would love to see Cub get another W and keep father time at bay.

 

[Taytro]

How is Mike Jackson still in the UFC? A loss to Mickey Gall, a trash win over CM Punk in one of the worst fights I can recall (turned to NC(, and then an eye poke DQ win. This guy is 37 and awful at the sport, why is he still here?

 

[MMC]

 

[CDJ]

Girtz is probably built for bare knuckle

Askarov vs Royval is the jewel of the weekend

 

[Taytro]

Girtz is probably built for bare knuckle

Askarov vs Royval is the jewel of the weekend

No idea why Askarov vs Royval is under 2 fights that its clearly more interesting than. It's also probably the fight that has the biggest implications in the division as it has the highest ranked fighters on this card. Don't really understand why it's not even the co main but hey, that's okay, do your thang UFC.

 

[m9]

Tatsuro Taira is an interesting guy to watch on the undercard as well. Good prospect but Vergara is pretty tough so this isn't a gimme.

 

[pistolpete11]

Askarov - Royval isn't big enough to bring in more eyeballs, but it's big enough to bring in some eyeballs earlier. That's my theory anyway. I know that if it was the main event, I'd be trying to time it to see that fight. Now, I might stick around for Cub and Grasso.

Even with it, this card sucks.

 

[CDJ]

I have a mild amount of interest in almost all of the fights, which is better than zero interest. Interested in seeing the grappling in Maximov-Malkoun. We’ll get a finish in Dusko-Wright. Assuncao-Henry could be good. I wanna see Joanderson Brito’s shark tattoo again.

Basically I’ll watch since I’m having some withdrawal after no card last week, but it’s not something I would watch live if I had something better to do

 

[16Skippy]

I honestly don't mind the main event, especially for an Apex card.

How is Mike Jackson still in the UFC? A loss to Mickey Gall, a trash win over CM Punk in one of the worst fights I can recall (turned to NC(, and then an eye poke DQ win. This guy is 37 and awful at the sport, why is he still here?

I'm pretty sure Dana even said he would never fight for the UFC again after the Punk fight. Yet here we are again lol

 

[m9]

Ever since they got new ownership the UFC has been pretty good about having guys fight out their contracts vs just cutting them. I assume Jackson signed a standard 4 fight deal and will be gone win or loss after this fight.

 

[Sheppy]

How is Mike Jackson still in the UFC? A loss to Mickey Gall, a trash win over CM Punk in one of the worst fights I can recall (turned to NC(, and then an eye poke DQ win. This guy is 37 and awful at the sport, why is he still here?

Saw him on the card and was like "the f***?" - I thought they axed him a while back.

 

[CDJ]

Ever since they got new ownership the UFC has been pretty good about having guys fight out their contracts vs just cutting them. I assume Jackson signed a standard 4 fight deal and will be gone win or loss after this fight.

Can’t axe a guy on a winning streak

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I just realized Maximov is on this card... Two fights ago him vs Puna is the co-main now he's buried on the prelims of this awful card lol.

 

[CDJ]

SUCKKKKKKKKKS

 

[m9]

Not the first time Askarov missed weight. Time to move up to 135lbs.

 

[Peter Griffin]

Makes a weak card even weaker.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

That makes it 2 of his first 3 UFC fights all over weight after such a good contender series win. Kids gonna end up cut.

 

[MMC]

Cub looks terrible, I worry for him tomorrow

 

[16Skippy]

Screw it, I put something on Jackson. It'll be hilarious if he manages to avoid getting cut again

 

[CDJ]

Screw it, I put something on Jackson. It'll be hilarious if he manages to avoid getting cut again

I put Rodriguez in my parlay only because his nickname is Dead Game

 

[CDJ]

Dead Game may have killed Mike Jackson