GDT: UFC Fight Night: de Randamie vs. Ladd

[Avs_19]

Date: July 13, 2019
Venue: Golden 1 Center
City: Sacramento, California
Time: 8pm ET/5pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Women's Bantamweight bout: Germaine de Randamie vs. Aspen Ladd
Bantamweight bout: Urijah Faber vs. Ricky Simon
Featherweight bout: Josh Emmett vs. Mirsad Bektić
Middleweight bout: Karl Roberson vs. Wellington Turman
Middleweight bout: Marvin Vettori vs. Cezar Ferreira

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Light Heavyweight bout: Mike Rodriguez vs. John Allan
Featherweight bout: Andre Fili vs. Sheymon Moraes
Women's Bantamweight bout: Julianna Peña vs. Nicco Montaño
Featherweight bout: Darren Elkins vs. Ryan Hall
Women's Strawweight bout: Lívia Renata Souza vs. Brianna Van Buren
Bantamweight bout: Pingyuan Liu vs. Jonathan Martinez
Bantamweight bout: Benito Lopez vs. Vince Morales​

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[Avs_19]

This card is so bad. They brought a 40 year old Faber out of retirement so people would show up in Sacramento.

Tough fight for Ladd but they're probably trying to showcase her in the main event. However, I'm not sure how much a big win will matter overall if no one watches.

 

[m9]

Bad card, but Ladd, Bektic, and Simon are awesome young talents.

Couple interesting undercard fights. Hall/Elkins, Montano/Pena..

 

[Neutrinos]

I've never heard of either of the fighters in the main event

 

[member 51464]

Ladd is probabaly most recognizable for having a voice that functions as cancer for your ears.

 

[m9]

Two former UFC champs on this card. Wonder what percentage of fans know which two?

 

[Rocko604]

Two former UFC champs on this card. Wonder what percentage of fans know which two?

Three former champions.

 

[m9]

Three former champions.

?

 

[macleod50]

Three former champions.

de Randamie, Montano, and...?

 

[m9]

de Randamie, Montano, and...?

That's the weird part of the card. Most would assume Faber was a champ while GDR and Montano are two of the least memorable champs of all time.

 

[Avs_19]

That's the weird part of the card. Most would assume Faber was a champ while GDR and Montano are two of the least memorable champs of all time.

At least with GDR people know who she is and she was involved in a pretty big fight with Holm that resulted in controversy. Then there was the Cyborg situation that made news and got even more people to dislike GDR. Montano has to be the strangest run as champ and probably the least memorable. She becomes champ out of TUF and then just disappears for two years. The only fight of hers I've seen is the one with Roxanne and I have no idea if she's any good or not.

 

[Gains]

This is ridiculous, she shouldn't be allowed to fight.

 

[Rocko604]

Once again I have forgotten that Faber lost his WEC belt before crossing over to the UFC.

I’ll show myself out.

 

[pistolpete11]

How the mighty have fallen, Nicco Montano . From winning the UFC belt to 3rd deep on the prelims of a bad Fight Night in her very next fight .

Really shitty card. I'm not sure I'd even watch if I had nothing else going on. There was a time I'd have felt nostalgic and wanted to see Faber, but the whole TAM vs. TJ thing was so obnoxious and now he still takes shots at TJ in every interview for months after he got busted. Like, we get it dude.

 

[pistolpete11]

This is ridiculous, she shouldn't be allowed to fight.

The more videos you see like this and the more fighters you see that have success moving up, why is weight cutting still a thing?

 

[m9]

The more videos you see like this and the more fighters you see that have success moving up, why is weight cutting still a thing?

It's so, so dumb.

 

[member 51464]

I wonder if Ladd isn't very long for the MMA game. She seemed not really invested in her last fight. Now what is clearly a hard weight cut. She has talent, but you really need to be aligned emotionally and everything as well for something like this.

 

[GuthrieGovan]

That Vetorri fight was good. Good performance from him.

 

[Avs_19]

Not a whole lot going on with this card so far. Fili had a noteworthy performance but that's really about it.

Hall dropping Elkins three times was surprising and impressive but the third round of that fight really sucked.

Hopefully Bektic and Emmett can get this going.

 

[Avs_19]

Emmett looked great. Good stoppage by the ref as well.

 

[m9]

Wasn't expecting Faber to win that one, Simon looked great in his last fight. Cool moment.

 

[GuthrieGovan]

What a KO for Faber.

 

[Avs_19]

Seeing Faber get that finish in Sacramento was cool. Still one of the best walkouts in MMA too. Chill with that Cejudo talk though.

 

[zombie kopitar]

Damn I missed a Faber ko?? What year is this anyway....

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Bad stoppage