GDT: UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov

[MMC]

Date: January 14, 2023
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Light Heavyweight bout: Sean Strickland vs. Nassourdine Imavov
Featherweight bout: Dan Ige vs. Damon Jackson
Middleweight bout: Punahele Soriano vs. Roman Kopylov
Women's Bantamweight bout: Ketlen Vieira vs. Raquel Pennington
Bantamweight bout: Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Raoni Barcelos

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Middleweight bout: Claudio Ribeiro vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan
Lightweight bout: Mateusz Rebecki vs. Nick Fiore
Bantamweight bout: Javid Basharat vs. Mateus Mendonca
Flyweight bout: Allan Nascimento vs. Carlos Hernandez
Featherweight bout: Nick Aguirre vs. Daniel Argueta
Flyweight bout: Charles Johnson vs. Jimmy Flick​

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[MMC]

There is a ONE on Prime Video card this weekend, but there's not much MMA on it

 

[m9]

Will be good to have fights back, but that's a dog of a card with two NFL playoff games on at the same time.

 

[pistolpete11]

Yeah, kind of feel like the UFC punted on this one which is surprising. The last several years Kattar-Giga, Max-Kattar, Conor-Cowboy, and Cejudo-Dillashaw were the main events for the first card back from the break. Can't say I'd put Imavov-Gastelum even close to any of those in terms of excitement.

Vieira-Pennington is the only other fight where I know both of the fighters and I don't really care.

 

[MMC]

Shavkat-Neal getting pulled hurts a lot

 

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[Taytro]

I mean, say what you want about Strickland but the man is always down to fight. I really like this fight, Strickland has a chance to bounce back after two high level losses to the last two title challengers (and one now champion) in the division. Imavov gets a chance to show what he's got against a real dog who is ranked above him and has some high level experience.

This card got more exciting with this as the headliner IMO. Love Gastelum but I thought he was going to get run through by Imavov. Woulda had a 6inch height and 4 inch reach advantage on him. Definitely tuning in for the main card. Couldn't give a flying fog about the prelims.

 

[m9]

I don't even know what to really think of this. It's different but not better or worse, so ultimately I still don't care much about this card.

What are these guys doing where they get mouth injuries a few days before their fights?

 

[CDJ]

Basharat fight is the one i am most stoked about on the prelims, that’s going to be high level

Excited to see Jimmy Flick back in the sport, he’s fun

 

[CDJ]

Strickland opens as a very slight favorite, I’d agree with that. Imavov’s 3rd round against Buckley was concerning, I think Strickland wins by tko in the later rounds or a decision

 

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[pistolpete11]

I don't like Strickland, but props to him. Being the higher ranked and bigger name fighter, he doesn't have a ton to gain from this fight to be taking it on a few days notice. It's a more intriguing fight than Gastelum for me, but still not that great.

 

[16Skippy]

Lol @ having the first card after the break be some Apex bs.

There might end up being some good fights but it's one of those if I'm not home on Saturday I may or may not bother to record it.

 

[CDJ]

A lot of money was coming in on Dulgarian this week

 

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[CDJ]

That’s a bad stoppage imo

 

[CDJ]

Big NE Cartel guy but Fiore ain’t ready

 

[m9]

Solid performance from Basharat, very slick on the feet.

Caught highlights from the earlier stuff, some pretty good finishes.

 

[m9]

Barcelos was actually looking decent in there but that was a sick combo.

 

[pistolpete11]

Sometimes it's the shots you don't see coming, but it's still crazy to see some guys eat some of these absolute bombs and then that short hook completely puts a dude's lights out.

 

[m9]

Rocky is scrappy as hell but it's crazy that these are two top 5 fighters in their division.

 

[pistolpete11]

Vieira is the striking version of lay-and-pray and it bite her in the ass this time.

 

[Avs_19]

We really might be getting a Pennington title shot next. What a time.