GDT: UFC on ESPN: Reyes vs. Procházka

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Date: May 1, 2021
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN 2, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN 2, TSN 5)

Light Heavyweight bout: Dominick Reyes vs. Jiří Procházka
Featherweight bout: Cub Swanson vs. Giga Chikadze
Light Heavyweight bout: Ion Cuțelaba vs. Dustin Jacoby
Middleweight bout: Sean Strickland vs. Krzysztof Jotko
Bantamweight bout: Merab Dvalishvili vs. Cody Stamann
Women’s Flyweight bout: Poliana Botelho vs. Luana Carolina

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN 2, TSN 5)

Women’s Strawweight bout: Randa Markos vs. Luana Pinheiro
Featherweight bout: Gabriel Benítez vs. Jonathan Pearce
Featherweight bout: Kai Kamaka III vs. T.J. Brown
Women’s Strawweight bout: Loma Lookboonmee vs. Sam Hughes
Featherweight bout: Luke Sanders vs. Felipe Colares
Middleweight bout: Andreas Michailidis vs. KB Bhullar​

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[CDJ]

Seems like a money maker to me

 

[m9]

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Seems like a money maker to me

I don't like Jacoby to win and if I did I would need better odds than that.

 

[CDJ]

I don't like Jacoby to win and if I did I would need better odds than that.

it will come down to him surviving the first 3-4 minutes or so, if he does that I think he’s gonna chew Cutelaba up and you’ll see Cutelaba chasing

he’ll have to be a matador though

 

[m9]

Really looking forward to the main event here. I like both guys. I would probably lean towards Reyes as I think he's a bit more technical on the feet, but if Prochazka KO'd him that wouldn't be overly surprising.

I like watching Chikadze but I'm a bit surprised he's already in a co-main. Tough fight vs Swanson, well-made matchup.

Overall a pretty solid main card though also not much to get excited about other than the main event.

 

[pistolpete11]

It's been a long time since I had no interest in a UFC main event.

I don't know what to make of Jiri yet. Dude is massive for the weight class and has good wins over Volkan and Nemkov, but just not much of a track record there yet. Still, I don't care who you are fighting, 24 of 27 wins by KO, you've got some power.

Important fight for Reyes, too. I thought he beat Jones, but he looked bad against Jan IMO. He looked really tentative. He needs to be cautious against a guy with the power of Jiri, but he can't let him dictate the fight either.

 

[CDJ]

Cutelaba did his usual hardo schtick at the stare-offs, I respect it at this point

 

[Chaels Arms]

Dana chews out Shelby for not stopping Stephens pushing Klose meanwhile he lets Cuteloba grab a hold of Jacoby's neck and yank him forward.

 

[CDJ]

Moggly missed weight bad enough for Pearce to decline the fight (4.5 lbs)

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Moggly missed weight bad enough for Pearce to decline the fight (4.5 lbs)

Does he still get paid at all even with declining?

don’t see that too often.

 

[CDJ]

Does he still get paid at all even with declining?

don’t see that too often.

That’s a good question, I’m sure it’s a case by case basis. Imo he should get his show money

 

[ZDH]

That's some dogshit cardio.

Gtfo of here, this is supposed to be the big leagues that was sad.

 

[CDJ]

I mean I’m pretty sure Sanders landed like 8 sig strikes per minute, I’m not gonna get on him too much

 

[Chaels Arms]

I'd give that fight to Brown just for being super active in his guard.

 

[Chaels Arms]

30-27 Kamaka is just insane. They got it right ultimately but that judge doesn't have me feeling good for the main card.

 

[bov]

Awesome fight but I thought Kamaka took that one. Honesly don't think 30-27 is a bad scorecard. All 3 rounds were up for debate imo, I gave Kamaka the 1st but thought 2 and 3 were too close to call. Can see a case for both guys, great fight though, not a bad decision by any means.

 

[Chaels Arms]

So tired of the eyepokes. Need to just start automatically taking points every time it happens.

 

[member 51464]

Hmm, she seemed to be playing it up, I thought. Either she really committed to not being called a faker or I am a bad judge of this, lol.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Mark Smith has had some tough calls to deal with last few months.

 

[bov]

Embellishment, sorry to say it. It landed clean, but 100% sold it. She looked right at Markos before falling back and playing dead.

Disagree with the DQ but it was blatantly illegal.

 

[Byron Bitz]

And the Oscar goes to...

 

[dss97]

It didn’t look like much but she looks like she’s tripping so she’s a pretty good actor if she wasn’t out.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Felder and Bisping are phenomenal lol

 

[16Skippy]

It definitely looked sus but on the other hand she was clearly winning the round. But on the other other hand she also fouled Randa pretty badly too with the eye poke.

 

[Byron Bitz]

I thought it looked like she wasn’t hurt immediately after the shot then it clicked in her head that she could get the DQ and flopped to the mat and started acting dazed.