GDT: UFC on ABC: Emmett vs. Topuria/PFL 6

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Date: June 24, 2023
Venue: VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
City: Jacksonville, Florida
Time: 3 pm ET/12 pm PT
Viewing: ABC, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ABC, TSN 5)

Featherweight bout: Josh Emmett vs. Ilia Topuria
Women's Flyweight bout: Amanda Ribas vs. Maycee Barber
Heavyweight bout: Austen Lane vs. Justin Tafa
Featherweight bout: David Onama vs. Gabriel Santos
Middleweight bout: Brendan Allen vs. Bruno Silva

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Welterweight bout: Neil Magny vs. Phil Rowe
Welterweight bout: Randy Brown vs. Wellington Turman
Lightweight bout: Mateusz Rebecki vs. Loik Radzhabov
Women's Strawweight bout: Tabatha Ricci vs. Gillian Robertson
Flyweight bout: Zhalgas Zhumagulov vs. Joshua Van
Lightweight bout: Trevor Peek vs. Jose Mariscal
Featherweight bout: Jamall Emmers vs. Jack Jenkins
Middleweight bout: Cody Brundage vs. Sedriques Dumas​

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[MMC]

Date: June 23, 2023
Venue: Overtime Elite Arena
City: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN

MAIN CARD (ESPN)

Lightweight season bout: Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Anthony Romero
Welterweight season bout: Sadibou Sy vs. Shane Mitchell
Lightweight season bout: Shane Burgos vs. Yamato Nishikawa
Welterweight season bout: Magomed Magomedkerimov vs. David Zawada
Welterweight season bout: Magomed Umalatov vs. Nayib Lopez
Welterweight season bout: Clay Collard vs. Stevie Ray

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Welterweight season bout: Carlos Leal vs. Dilano Taylor
Lightweight season bout: Natan Schulte vs. Raush Manfio
Lightweight season bout: Alexander Martinez vs. Bruno Miranda
Welterweight season bout: Jarrah Al Silawi vs. Solomon Renfro
Featherweight showcase bout: Brahyan Zurcher vs. Mike Bardsley
Featherweight showcase bout: Abdullah Al Qahtani vs. Lamar Brown​

 

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[m9]

This should be a pretty fun UFC card this week, filled with action fights. Afternoon card as well, which is a nice bonus.

Emmett v Topuria is great. I really like Topuria to win but Emmett's power will really test him and Topuria has been caught in the past.

Cool story with Austen Lane. Former Jaguars' draft pick getting a featured slot here in Jacksonville and you can bet someone is getting knocked out in that one.

Some legit prospects buried as well - Trevor Peek should be on the main card and Taira is a really good prospect as well.

I know there isn't a fight other than the main event that looks awesome on paper but my bold prediction is this will end up being this year's "London" card of the year, at least for an ESPN card. Some intrigue in almost every fight, looking forward to it.

 

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[CDJ]

Trevor Peek is one of the more fun guys in the sport, he has no idea what to do other than move forward and throw overhand bombs

 

[16Skippy]

I'm a big believer in Topuria, I wouldn't be surprised if he earns a title shot with a big win here. And the rest of the card on paper could be really good for a Fight Night.

And if my name was Wellington Turman I'd troll everyone and walk out with a monocle and top hat.

 

[Taytro]

I'm a big believer in Topuria, I wouldn't be surprised if he earns a title shot with a big win here. And the rest of the card on paper could be really good for a Fight Night.

And if my name was Wellington Turman I'd troll everyone and walk out with a monocle and top hat.

I think Topuria wins here but the odds are giving absolutely no shot to Emmett which is weird considering his only loss in 5 years is Yair for the interim belt. If Topuria wins this then he creeps into the top 5. He has to be next in line since Volk has already beat everyone else in the top 5, unless Arnold Allen can get a quick win to put him back in the conversation.

 

[CDJ]

Emmett by KO +450 is appealing to me

1) he has huge power and Topuria does get hit

2) we don’t know Topuria’s gas tank

 

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[m9]

I think Topuria wins here but the odds are giving absolutely no shot to Emmett which is weird considering his only loss in 5 years is Yair for the interim belt. If Topuria wins this then he creeps into the top 5. He has to be next in line since Volk has already beat everyone else in the top 5, unless Arnold Allen can get a quick win to put him back in the conversation.

Emmett did "lose" to Kattar, but agreed he's too big of an underdog here. Emmett has insane power and Topuria puts himself in trouble on the feet and it's likely Emmett cracks him at some point.

I would still pick Topuria to win but there's an obvoius path that leads to Emmett.

 

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[CDJ]

Well that sucks, I was looking forward to that one

PFL main card tonight is pretty solid

 

[pistolpete11]

I never know what to make of Emmett's "huge power". In 12 UFC fights, he has only 3 (T)KO wins. He has twice as many decision wins. I know there's some knockdowns in those decision wins, but I think his power gets overrated because of the walk off KO's he has. Credit to him for those, but I don't think his power is some insanely unique thing the division has never seen before.

 

[m9]

I never know what to make of Emmett's "huge power". In 12 UFC fights, he has only 3 (T)KO wins. He has twice as many decision wins. I know there's some knockdowns in those decision wins, but I think his power gets overrated because of the walk off KO's he has. Credit to him for those, but I don't think his power is some insanely unique thing the division has never seen before.

He's fought some pretty durable guys though in recent fights. Not many guys are knocking out Kattar or Ige and even Burgos is a tough one.

 

[bov]

Normally I'd lean towards the much younger, surging undefeated prospect.

Emmett has been in there with some killers and I think he'll take over if he gets past round 2 without taking serious damage. I'll go with the veteran experience and say a 3rd/4th/5th round finish.

 

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[CDJ]

I love watching Collard fight

 

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[CDJ]

Schulte, Leal, Collard, Umalatov, Magomedkerimov, Burgos, Sy, OAM 8 way parlay hit. And it never was really all that dicey

 

[pistolpete11]

He's fought some pretty durable guys though in recent fights. Not many guys are knocking out Kattar or Ige and even Burgos is a tough one.

Fair point on Kattar and Ige. Burgos is tough, but he's been KO'ed a few times. I don't know. If Emmett had this unique power, then I'd expect him to be putting more guys away with it. I'll stand by my point. His power is overrated because of the walk off KO's.

This fight specifically, Topuria doesn't strike me as a guy that is going to be easy to put away either. He hasn't been tested in that regard so much in the UFC. The only fight he's been in any danger on the feet is Herbert. He did get dropped in that fight, but it was with a head kick on the chin, he also ate some other big punches, and it was up a weight class. Oh, and he got a walk off KO of his own. Herbert is no world beater by any means, but still.

Of course anything can happen in a fight and the odds do seem a little off. But IMO, the odds seem off because Emmett has been tested far more than Topuria.

 

[CDJ]

3rd rate promotion, idk what Ray Sefo is sniffing


Here’s a novel idea- maybe don’t match them up! It wasn’t like we are in the tournament portion of the season!

In reality this was done to get their big investment Burgos in after a couple performances from him

 

[m9]

Been saying this for awhile but PFL's management is a complete joke and fighters need to start taking notice. Last year they had the tournament semis in places where some of the fighters couldn't even get visas, now this. You're taking potentially life-changing money out of the hands of some of these guys.

And all of this is happening to keep this dumb seasonal format in place.

This whole year for PFL other than Ngannou signing has been completely embarrassing.

Also if PFL buys Bellator they better be grabbing Coker and whoever else has a brain over there to run things and kick their current group to the curb.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I didn't catch that fight but seeing that it got one of their big signings in Burgos into the playoffs it looks a little odd....

I'm seeing a trend amongst people here and Twitter that these odds on Emmett are very tempting. Seems like they're undervaluing him a bit.