GDT: UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann/Bellator 266: Davis vs Romero

[CDJ]

That might have been the longest continuous bleeping out of an answer in a post fight interview I've ever seen lol. Smith was yelling for like a minute with no words coming through on the broadcast.

idk why they bother censoring, it’s on ESPN+ so it’s not on cable and it’s gratuitous violence already

 

[Taytro]

Looks like Smith v Rakic. Should be a good one.

Last time it wasn't. Rakic is just bigger, faster, and stronger. Smith couldn't match his explosiveness. Love Smith so I really would prefer him to go after Reyes or something instead of Rakic.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Yoel up now.

 

[MMC]

Davis probably grinds out a boring decision win unfortunately

 

[I am not exposed]

Davis probably grinds out a boring decision win unfortunately

Yeah that would be the sensible bet.

 

[MMC]

Hope these 2 build on the momentum for an exciting 3rd round. Davis is definitely up though

 

[member 51464]

Romero definitely looking his age tonight. The guys you are fighting get stronger too 20 pounds up.

 

[CDJ]

Easy win for Phil Davis

the guy is pretty great at not taking damage

 

[MMC]

Davis easily won, was a bit more entertaining than I thought though. Don't know what's next for Yoel.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Omg yoel saying he thought he had five rounds, this can't be real

 

[MMC]

Yoel seriously saying he didn't know it was 3 rounds?????

 

[MMC]

How tf did someone have the first 2 rounds for Yoel lmao

 

[member 51464]

How tf did someone have the first 2 rounds for Yoel lmao

At least credit to Romero for his reaction to that.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Someone had this 29-28 for Romero? And Yoel thought it was a five round fight? This is just embarrassing lol.

 

[CDJ]

Whoever gave Romero that fight needs to be sent to Guantanamo

 

[CDJ]

Smith, Tsarukyan, Maness, and Buckley all got POTN

thought Carlston Harris deserved one over Buckley imo

 

[Avs_19]

Davis looked solid and did what he needed to do. Romero also fought in a very frustrating way once again.

Pretending you don’t know how many rounds a fight is supposed to be is a pretty creative excuse when you lose. Then again, it’s Romero so he may not be pretending.

 

[CDJ]

Yeah I think it’s just an excuse myself

 

[Avs_19]

One thing I’ll give Romero credit for is eating those knees to the body on the ground. He just stayed there and didn’t move or even try to cover up. GSP had Serra tapping in a similar position but Romero acted like it was nothing.

 

[pistolpete11]

ESPN is usually terrible for the bleeps so they probably just over corrected now. Would love to know what he said.

I think you can fill in the bleeps yourself this time

 

[pistolpete11]

Smith looked great. It might end up being that he's just a step down from championship caliber, but dude's a fighter. I realized recently he's been in 52 MMA fights now. Only 5 of those have gone to the scorecard. That's f***ing nuts. As game as they come.

I'm not sure if it was the weight class or his age is starting to catch up to him, but Yoel looked terrible. As everyone said going into the fight, Davis is tough to look good against so certainly at least partial credit to him, but Yoel looked old.

 

[Chaels Arms]

John McCarthy said on his pod he thinks Yoel really thought it was a 5 round fight. Blamed his team for not telling him.

 

[CDJ]

I’m loving this Big Tuna fella who got the big upset over a Christian Edwards on the bellator card

 

[pistolpete11]

They keep asking "Why did Bellator match Romero up with Davis?" on MK because they both thought Bellator should have seen that coming.

I wonder if they knew that was coming and that's why they did it. Romero has fought for a UFC belt in 4 of his previous 5 fights and comes over to Bellator and gets beaten cleanly by a guy that got bounced in the first round of their tournament. I know there's a bunch of qualifiers (weight, age, layoff, etc.), but it still boils down to "Perrenial UFC title challenger loses in his Bellator debut."

 

[Avs_19]

They keep asking "Why did Bellator match Romero up with Davis?" on MK because they both thought Bellator should have seen that coming.

I wonder if they knew that was coming and that's why they did it. Romero has fought for a UFC belt in 4 of his previous 5 fights and comes over to Bellator and gets beaten cleanly by a guy that got bounced in the first round of their tournament. I know there's a bunch of qualifiers (weight, age, layoff, etc.), but it still boils down to "Perrenial UFC title challenger loses in his Bellator debut."

I don’t think they operate that way. I could see it if it was the other way around with someone going to the UFC but not here. Bellator likely paid quite a bit for Romero to sign and remember they originally put him against Rumble in a fight they were hyping up quite a bit. Davis was probably just the next biggest name at LHW so they went with it.

They should just go back to that Rumble vs. Romero fight now since neither guy is in the tournament.