GDT: UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer

[Avs_19]

Date: June 6, 2020
Venue: UFC APEX
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10pm ET/7pm PT
Viewing: PPV

MAIN CARD (PPV)

Women's Featherweight Championship bout: Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Felicia Spencer
Bantamweight bout: Raphael Assunção vs. Cody Garbrandt
Bantamweight bout: Aljamain Sterling vs. Cory Sandhagen
Welterweight bout: Neil Magny vs. Anthony Rocco Martin
Bantamweight bout: Eddie Wineland vs. Sean O'Malley

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, TSN)

Featherweight bout: Alex Caceres vs. Chase Hooper
Middleweight bout: Ian Heinisch vs. Gerald Meerschaert
Featherweight bout: Cody Stamann vs. Brian Kelleher
Middleweight bout: Charles Byrd vs. Maki Pitolo

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass)

Flyweight bout: Alex Perez vs. Jussier Formiga
Light Heavyweight bout: Alonzo Menifield vs. Devin Clark
Catchweight (150 lbs) bout: Evan Dunham vs. Herbert Burns​

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[Tobias Kahun]

Looking forward to Sean O'Malley and Chase Hooper.

 

[CDJ]

Honestly I like every fight on the card

The one I’m least interested in is Byrd vs Pitolo but even then Byrd usually has entertaining fights and Pitolo’s nickname is “Coconut Bombz” which is A+

if Hooper beats Caceres that will be a good sign of things to come, he’s only 20 and while Bruce Leroy has a bunch of losses most of his competition has been in the ufc. He’s a legit tested vet. He’s sneakily been around forever

 

[pistolpete11]

It's definitely lacking in top end quality, but there's a lot of decent fights here.

I'm not sure what Spencer really has to challenge Nunes. Should be just another night at the office for her.

I don't particularly like Garbrandt, but I'm kind of rooting for him to win. He's more entertaining and throwing him back into the mix could be fun down the line.

I have no idea about Sterling-Sandhagen, but that's the one I'm most looking forward to. Hopefully it really is the title eliminator.

Good to see Magny active after his BS USADA issues.

Good winnable, vet tests for O'Malley and Hooper.

 

[CDJ]

 

[m9]

The top prospect that really is getting lost in the shuffle on this card is Alonzo Menifield. He's looked great and is now a bit buried on the early prelims.

Main event is a big zero for me. I haven't seen anything at all from Spencer to think she can hang in this fight and I think Nunes is just going to kill her. Nunes has finishing ability in the first round maybe Spencer is tough enough to hang in there through the first 5 minutes but it's not lasting much longer than that.

Garbrandt v Assuncao is a really well-made fight, though obviously completely out of place as a co-main event. I would like to see Garbrandt bounce back here but I have no idea which way this one goes.

O'Malley, Hooper, and Menifield are the three prospects here who interest me of course and hopefully we see all 3 take a step forward.

Anthony Martin has looked very, very good since moving to 170lbs. I don't know if he beats Magny but it's a perfect test to see whether or not he can be a ranked guy in this division.

I like Sandhagen to beat Sterling, I just think he's much more dynamic as a striker. I like that he's been healthy recently and keeps improving while it seems Sterling has battled injuries a bit.

 

[CDJ]

Menifield throws bombs only, I like watching him fight. Paul Craig tried some submission stuff and got sledge hammered to the land of wind and ghosts

 

[VanillaCoke]

Not the most exciting name value card but should be solid entertaining fights. So far I probably will go with:

Nunes by a mile
Assuncao
Sandhagen
Magny
O'Malley

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Can't wait to see Kelleher again!!

 

[CDJ]

Not the most exciting name value card but should be solid entertaining fights. So far I probably will go with:

Nunes by a mile
Assuncao
Sandhagen
Magny
O'Malley

i keep found back and forth on the assuncao/Cody fight but I think I’m leaning Assuncao at the moment

I have the same picks

 

[member 51464]

Cody has the fight IQ of a bag of Doritos, so I find it hard to trust him to do anything but get lucky or be knocked out when he abandons any gameplan and just starts swinging.

 

[CDJ]

Plus it’s tough to trust him coming off of 3 brutal KO’s. Some people don’t come back from that...I think I want to see him win again first before I put money on him

Assuncao can still go- he’s not what he once was but he’s still very dangerous. He beat Masvidal 15 years ago, ppl forget that

 

[Avs_19]

A lot of good fights on this card and others have covered most of it.

For the main event I just hope Spencer can keep it somewhat competitive. I don't think it'll happen because Nunes is so far ahead with her striking and has improved in other areas where someone like Spencer might've given her some issues a few years back.

My favourite fight on the card is Sterling vs. Sandhagen. Sandhagen is a more advanced and better technical striker so this might be a fight where Sterling has to rely on his grappling more. Sterling has gotten better with his striking so he's probably not going to get lit up but I don't think he can stand with Sandhagen and win a technical fight. I could still see one of them getting jumped in line by Cejudo, Moraes, or Frankie but it'll be hard to deny a title shot with an impressive performance from either one.

 

[member 157595]

Cody has the fight IQ of a bag of Doritos, so I find it hard to trust him to do anything but get lucky or be knocked out when he abandons any gameplan and just starts swinging.

If the bag is greasy it fights you with a vengeance.

 

[Avs_19]

 

[CDJ]

He had just switched teams to Tiger Muay Thai in Thailand too

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Cody has the fight IQ of a bag of Doritos, so I find it hard to trust him to do anything but get lucky or be knocked out when he abandons any gameplan and just starts swinging.

Dont disrespect my doritos like that.

 

[VanillaCoke]

i keep found back and forth on the assuncao/Cody fight but I think I’m leaning Assuncao at the moment

I have the same picks

Its the 3 straight KOs for CG for me too, if it stays standing he's got a good chance of catching RA too, but I would hope that is obvious and RAs game plan is adjusted accordingly

Going to put a parlay in and a separate small chunk on NUNES by 1st round KO

 

[vladdy16]

Could be pretty serious news if the undisclosed coach is a factoryX guy that's been around for each of the last few events.

 

[ZDH]

got 1.5k on Hooper @ 1.69 and he's now 1.53

also have a bunch on Perez

Get a dog if you scurred.

 

[ZDH]

 

[bov]

It's hard to be confident in Caceres but Hooper has some big time holes in his game from what I've seen. If Bruce Leroy wasn't so awful at defending submissions, I'd be tempted to bet on him. From a standup/athletic standpoint I don't think it's even competitive.

 

[CDJ]

I’ve got Caceres +155. If Hooper gets through a funk, battle-tested striker like him at age 20 then he’s got big things in his future


Herbert Burns/Nunes/O’Malley parlay pays out at almost 1 to 1.....I kinda like that

the other dogs I have are Assuncao/Formiga. Sandhagen is technically a dog too.

 

[BGDDYKWL]

I'm surprised Nunes is only -600 here. Spencer's claim to fame is being on the receiving end of a 15 minute beating from a woman Nunes disposed of in under a minute. This should be more like -1600.

 

[Peter Griffin]

This fight is back on now, turns out it was a false positive.