GDT: UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami

[Avs_19]

Date: September 22, 2017
Venue: Saitama Super Arena
City: Saitama, Japan
Time: 10pm ET/7pm PT
Viewing: FXX, TSN 2

MAIN CARD (FXX, TSN 2)

Light Heavyweight bout: Ovince Saint Preux vs. Yushin Okami
Women's Strawweight bout: Claudia Gadelha vs. Jessica Andrade
Lightweight bout: Takanori Gomi vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Light Heavyweight bout: Gokhan Saki vs. Henrique da Silva
Featherweight bout: Teruto Ishihara vs. Rolando Dy
Featherweight bout: Mizuto Hirota vs. Charles Rosa

PRELIMINARY CARD (FXX, Fight Network/UFC Fight Pass)

Welterweight bout: Keita Nakamura vs. Alex Morono
Flyweight bout: Jussier Formiga vs. Ulka Sasaki
Women's Strawweight bout: Syuri Kondo vs. Chan-Mi Jeon
Welterweight bout: Shinsho Anzai vs. Luke Jumeau

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass)

Welterweight bout: Daichi Abe vs. Hyun Gyu Lim

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[Avs_19]

Tough to get excited for these cards as of late. I don't really care for this main event and it was the same even when Shogun was on the card.

Gadelha/Andrade might be the best fight on this card on paper. I also want to see how Saki looks in his UFC debut.

 

[Sheppy]

Okami... in a main event... in 2017

Pass.

 

[kurt]

lots of fun fights, but sorely lacking at the top end

 

[m9]

Gadelha v Andrade is fun. I'll watch the main card, but obviously not much going on here overall.

 

[MD thaivuN]

Not much going in that card.

Claudia Gadelha vs. Jessica Andrade is the only high level fight.

Gokhan Saki is an interesting experiment

Keita Nakamura vs. Alex Morono looks fun

Okami was looking pretty done in his WSOF run. Still hoping he beats OSP though.

it just feels like this card has very low fun-factor and has high chances of being sad (with Gomi and Okami).

 

[LSCII]

http://mmajunkie.com/2017/09/mizuto-hirota-pulled-ufc-japan-scary-weigh-in-incident

Because of this, Saki's fight was elevated to the main event card.

Fighter pulled over a botched weight cut. In other news, water is still wet...

 

[dss97]

Flyweight with a 71 inch reach wow haha

 

[MD thaivuN]

Formiga is the flyweight equivalent of a Mousasi/Masvidal as the guy who's a tough fight for anyone. He's a very good fighter who gets untimely losses to very good fighters that derails him of a title shot. I feel he matches interestingly with DJ with his countering style to at least make a fun fight.

 

[td_ice]

Wow, Ishihara dropped him.


Looks like DY survived that knockdown, but still down.

 

[Avs_19]

How is this guy even arguing the point being deducted? The ref will let you get away with a few groin shots but that's too many.

 

[td_ice]

DY with his 3rd groin kick gets a point deducted. Has the nerve to complain and say, "that was the first time", haha. Come on dude.

 

[Ouroboros]

Hopefully Saki has his takedown defense on point.

 

[Avs_19]

Excited for this next one.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Saki has thunder

 

[td_ice]

Oh my!!


What a fight, Saki with the heavy, heavy hands.

 

[Avs_19]

That was fun.

Saki's fights should be pretty good if they keep giving him guys who are going to stand in front of him. To his credit, he did look decent defending a couple of takedowns.

 

[MD thaivuN]

please retire Gomi

 

[Avs_19]

Gomi has been done for a long time. It's tough to watch.

 

[td_ice]

Gadelha, throwing hands, landing early and often.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Pretty good fight so far. Andrade can take a hit.

 

[td_ice]

Gadelha is in big trouble.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Andrade is an absolute savage!

 

[td_ice]

Great fight so far.

 

[td_ice]

Pretty good fight so far. Andrade can take a hit.

Yeah, she's a freakin tank.