GDT: UFC on ESPN: Blaydes vs. Lewis

[Avs_19]

Date: November 28, 2020
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Heavyweight bout: Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis
Light Heavyweight bout: Anthony Smith vs. Devin Clark
Heavyweight bout: Josh Parisian vs. Parker Porter
Welterweight bout: Miguel Baeza vs. Takashi Sato
Featherweight bout: Spike Carlyle vs. Bill Algeo

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, TSN 5)

Women's Bantamweight bout: Ashlee Evans-Smith vs. Norma Dumont Viana
Bantamweight bout: Martin Day vs. Anderson dos Santos
Women's Flyweight bout: Gina Mazany vs. Rachael Ostovich
Featherweight bout: Jonathan Pearce vs. Kai Kamaka III
Flyweight bout: Su Mudaerji vs. Malcolm Gordon
Catchweight (140 lb) bout: Luke Sanders vs. Nathan Maness​

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[Avs_19]

On paper this is about as bad as it gets. The main event has some name value but even that could be a rough one because we know what Blaydes wants to do.

 

[m9]

Anderson dos Santos still sounds like a video game name to me.

Derrick Lewis, Anthony Smith and Curtis Blaydes are three legit top-tier fighters.. yet somehow this card still really sucks.

 

[MD thaivuN]

Curtis Blaydes is clearly the better fighter against Lewis almost everywhere . So i'm picking Lewis.

 

[CDJ]

Baeza-Sato and Spike-Algeo should be good


Spike is a f***ing lunatic. Believes some crazy ass shit lol

 

[Avs_19]

Time for an Anthony Smith vs. Devin Clark main event. They should just postpone the entire event but won't.

 

[m9]

Time for an Anthony Smith vs. Devin Clark main event. They should just postpone the entire event but won't.

Why would you postpone it? I'd rather all the fighters fight and get paid. Obviously the card sucks and will have awful viewing numbers, but there's no reason to cancel it.

 

[Avs_19]

Why would you postpone it? I'd rather all the fighters fight and get paid. Obviously the card sucks and will have awful viewing numbers, but there's no reason to cancel it.

Oh entirely for selfish reasons. This card sucks but I know I'm going to end up watching anyways. Before at least there was the hope of something good happening at the end of it with Blaydes/Lewis but now that's gone. It makes no sense for them to actually push it back both financially and logistically. One positive is that one of the upcoming cards could get better if they add this fight.

 

[CDJ]

Yeah like I said before cherish whatever fights we get because we lay lose all of them again for a bit

 

[m9]

Yeah like I said before cherish whatever fights we get because we lay lose all of them again for a bit

I doubt it. I've said from the beginning the UFC has a structure that is by far the easiest to get through a pandemic due to their athletes only fighting a few times a year. There will be big fights lost along the way but the show will go on.

 

[CDJ]

I doubt it. I've said from the beginning the UFC has a structure that is by far the easiest to get through a pandemic due to their athletes fighting a few times a year. There will be big fights lost along the way but the show will go on.

doesn’t matter when the state gets involved, Nevada can shut down

Maybe they could just do exclusively fight island for a bit but the logistics would be a motherf***er

 

[CDJ]

Kamaka and Parisian are my fanduel MVP’s

 

[MD thaivuN]

of course, the main event gets cancelled. no fun allowed in 2020

 

[Peter Griffin]

doesn’t matter when the state gets involved, Nevada can shut down

Maybe they could just do exclusively fight island for a bit but the logistics would be a motherf***er

Or go back to Florida. But really they have 4 events to get through in the next 3 weeks in Vegas, then they take a much needed month break and start backup on Fight Island. By the time they’re back in North America it could be well
over 2 months from now.

 

[CDJ]

We are blessed, just remember this when we are watching Dumont vs Evans-Smith

 

[Mantis]

Main event cancelled. Anyone gonna watch Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr.?

 

[CDJ]

Maness-Sanders was awesome

great finish from Maness


Smith headlining his 7th card or whatever at this point is pretty incredible for a guy who started off on the regional scene 5-6

 

[member 51464]

Bringing the pain at 125.

 

[CDJ]

Ok Tibetan McGregor

 

[CDJ]

I like that the ufc is taking care of Walt Harris and has him in an analyst role with Chiesa, haven’t seen him there before

Side note Chiesa is incredibly well-spoken, he’s a natural on TV

 

[m9]

Ready for some high-quality woman's mma between two fighters a combined 10-9.

 

[CDJ]

Ostovich isn’t good but she just had the craziest back take I’ve ever seen

 

[Avs_19]

Ostovich isn’t good but she just had the craziest back take I’ve ever seen

That was actually impressive. The rest of her performance? Not so much.

 

[CDJ]

Honestly that fight could have been a lot worse!

 

[Avs_19]

Has Smith gone from underrated and a good story to a little overrated now? Or is he properly rated but just fighting some higher level competition recently?