GDT: UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacaré

[Avs_19]

Date: November 16, 2019
Venue: Ginásio do Ibirapuera
City: São Paulo, Brazil
Time: 8pm ET/5pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Light Heavyweight bout: Jan Blachowicz vs. Ronaldo Souza
Light Heavyweight bout: Maurício Rua vs. Paul Craig
Lightweight bout: Charles Oliveira vs. Jared Gordon
Middleweight bout: Antonio Arroyo vs. Andre Muniz
Middleweight bout: Markus Perez vs. Wellington Turman

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Welterweight bout: Sérgio Moraes vs. James Krause
Featherweight bout: Ricardo Ramos vs. Luiz Eduardo Garagorri
Lightweight bout: Francisco Trinaldo vs. Bobby Green
Welterweight bout: Warlley Alves vs. Randy Brown
Featherweight bout: Douglas Silva de Andrade vs. Renan Barão
Women's Flyweight bout: Ariane Lipski vs. Veronica Macedo
Women's Bantamweight bout: Vanessa Melo vs. Tracy Cortez​

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[CDJ]

I hope Renan Barão gets mollywhopped.


Always glad to see Charles Oliveira fight though

Excited to see Jacare at 205. Had an off night against Hermansson but im willing to attribute that to the late switch of opponent if he goes out there and looks good against Blachowicz. If Blachowicz wins he’s got just as good of a claim at a title shot as anybody else at 205 has. Would be 6 wins in 7 bouts with victories over Rockhold, Souza, Manuwa and Cannonier. Only loss was to the guy that arguably beat Jon Jones on two bad knees. He becomes very interesting

Shogun KO’s Paul Craig and becomes the surprising winner of 5 out of 6. He’s in an interesting spot because if he wins again you could make the argument he could get the Dan Henderson treatment for a retirement fight

 

[m9]

Obviously not the best card, but some fun names all over it.

 

[Avs_19]

It feels like it's too late for Jacare to be making the jump now.

Oliveira's another guy on a surprising win streak. I didn't realize he has won 5 in a row with all of them being finishes.

 

[pistolpete11]

It feels like it's too late for Jacare to be making the jump now.

Oliveira's another guy on a surprising win streak. I didn't realize he has won 5 in a row with all of them being finishes.

Yeah, as long as Oliveira doesn't fight anyone in the top 15, he looks like a world beater.

 

[CDJ]

He’s got a lot of miles on him but it’s important to remember that Oliveira has the UFC subs record and only just turned 30. He has got a lot of time to pad that stat

 

[Avs_19]

Barao got lit up. You have to think that's it for him in the UFC but I thought that might've happened even before this fight so who knows.

 

[CDJ]

Barao got lit up. You have to think that's it for him in the UFC but I thought that might've happened even before this fight so who knows.

He cost me a lot of money in a parlay the time he lost to Andre Ewell. Never forgive, never forget. My hatred may be irrational

But yeah he can’t make weight at bantam and I don’t think he has the power/durability to survive at featherweight in the ufc. Maybe in other promotions, not this one though

 

[ZDH]

what the f***?

trinaldo won that shit? unanimously by all 3 judges????

so f***ing rigged

 

[CDJ]

Can’t let it go to decision in Brazil against a Brazilian

 

[Avs_19]

Oliveira keeps the streak going with another early finish. He looked great.

 

[CDJ]

Figured the judges would give that to shogun with it being in Brazil

 

[member 51464]

Jan is going to want a real challenge in his weight class rather than yet another failed guy at a lower weight coming up.

 

[Avs_19]

Probably 3-0 for Jacare. Good game plan but it has resulted in mostly a terrible fight so far.

 

[h2]

This could be the most boring main event I've ever seen..

 

[m9]

Awful fight.

 

[CDJ]

Jan looks like his foot is broken


This fight is the shits but I have money on Jacare so hopefully it goes the way I think it will on the card

 

[m9]

As bad of a 25 minute fight that you'll see in the UFC. Don't know who won & don't care either.

 

[Jasper]

That was brutal.

 

[Avs_19]

That sucked. I thought Jacare would get the decision but it was terrible either way.

 

[member 51464]

I expected Jacare to be ahead on the scorecards in a bunch of close rounds and then have Jan knock his head off in the 4th or 5th. I actually thought Jacare won the first 3 and lost the last two, but nobody deserves to be proud of that one. Haha.

 

[CDJ]

Everybody lost

 

[CDJ]

Performance Bonuses to Oliveira, Randy Brown, Krause, and Ramos

 

[pistolpete11]

Not much to say about the main event. Super boring. I don't have a problem with the decision. It's not a good strategy to land very little and not get any takedowns. Jan wasn't much better, but he was at least more active in the striking.

Shogun-Craig - I don't have a problem with the decision since I thought they were going to give it to Shogun for the control. But much like Jacare, he didn't do much with it. Landed very little and was basically just fighting off submissions. I thought maybe Craig stole the third round at the end with his takedown, but it was too little too late for 2 of the judges I guess. I don't know why he didn't try to stand up earlier.

Oliveira-whoever - I just don't get it. This guy is setting all these records, is 30, has been in the UFC for 10 years, is ranked #13, and he keeps fighting guys I never heard of or mediocre fighters that are past their prime anyway. Why is he not fighting Barboza? Or Raging Al? Or someone else ranked above him coming off a loss? Or why not young up-and-comers like Hernandez or Islam? Instead, he fights whoever that guy was to do what? Pad his records?

 

[CDJ]

Not much to say about the main event. Super boring. I don't have a problem with the decision. It's not a good strategy to land very little and not get any takedowns. Jan wasn't much better, but he was at least more active in the striking.

Shogun-Craig - I don't have a problem with the decision since I thought they were going to give it to Shogun for the control. But much like Jacare, he didn't do much with it. Landed very little and was basically just fighting off submissions. I thought maybe Craig stole the third round at the end with his takedown, but it was too little too late for 2 of the judges I guess. I don't know why he didn't try to stand up earlier.

Oliveira-whoever - I just don't get it. This guy is setting all these records, is 30, has been in the UFC for 10 years, is ranked #13, and he keeps fighting guys I never heard of or mediocre fighters that are past their prime anyway. Why is he not fighting Barboza? Or Raging Al? Or someone else ranked above him coming off a loss? Or why not young up-and-comers like Hernandez or Islam? Instead, he fights whoever that guy was to do what? Pad his records?

Look at his last 7 losses. Some major talent. Hes almost like a AAAA baseball player in the sense that he feasts on the unranked but does poorly against those who are ranked. He’s more or less a gatekeeper but not in the traditional sense because they can’t feed inexperienced guys who they want to build up to him....he will absolutely finish them. He’s in a weird spot