GDT: UFC on ESPN: Thompson vs. Holland/ONE on Prime Video 5/164: de Ridder vs. Malykhin

[MMC]

Date: December 3, 2022
Venue: Amway Center
City: Orlando, Florida
Time: 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Welterweight bout: Stephen Thompson vs. Kevin Holland
Welterweight bout: Bryan Barberena vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Flyweight bout: Matheus Nicolau vs. Matt Schnell
Heavyweight bout: Tai Tuivasa vs. Sergei Pavlovich
Middleweight bout: Jack Hermansson vs. Roman Dolidze
Middleweight bout: Eryk Anders vs. Kyle Daukaus

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Welterweight bout: Niko Price vs. Phil Rowe
Women's Strawweight bout: Angela Hill vs. Emily Ducote
Lightweight bout: Clay Guida vs. Scott Holtzman
Lightweight bout: Michael Johnson vs. Marc Diakiese
Featherweight bout: Darren Elkins vs. Jonathan Pierce
Lightweight bout: Natan Levy vs. Genaro Valdez
Featherweight bout: Marcelo Rojo vs. Francis Marshall
Women's Strawweight bout: Yazmin Jauregui vs. Istela Nunes​

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Date: December 3, 2022
Venue: Amway Center
City: Orlando, Florida
Time: 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Welterweight bout: Stephen Thompson vs. Kevin Holland
Welterweight bout: Bryan Barberena vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Flyweight bout: Matheus Nicolau vs. Matt Schnell
Heavyweight bout: Tai Tuivasa vs. Sergei Pavlovich
Middleweight bout: Jack Hermansson vs. Roman Dolidze
Middleweight bout: Eryk Anders vs. Kyle Daukaus

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Welterweight bout: Niko Price vs. Phil Rowe
Women's Strawweight bout: Angela Hill vs. Emily Ducote
Lightweight bout: Clay Guida vs. Scott Holtzman
Lightweight bout: Michael Johnson vs. Marc Diakiese
Featherweight bout: Darren Elkins vs. Jonathan Pierce
Women's Flyweight bout: Tracy Cortez vs. Amanda Ribas
Lightweight bout: Natan Levy vs. Genaro Valdez
Featherweight bout: Marcelo Rojo vs. Francis Marshall
Women's Strawweight bout: Yazmin Jauregui vs. Istela Nunes​

15 fights is.. a ton. This is a really deep card though with maybe 12 of these fights being at least somewhat interesting. Looking forward to it.

 

[pistolpete11]

Not sure how meaningful they really are, but the UFC card should be fun. A ton of recognizable names throughout.

 

[Taytro]

I don't understand the massive fluctuation in how UFC puts on these fight nights. Some are absolute dud cards and then they sprinkle this in, which has more depth and name recognition than some of the PPV cards, just without the stacked too end.

Not gonna argue though because this looks great!

 

[m9]

I don't understand the massive fluctuation in how UFC puts on these fight nights. Some are absolute dud cards and then they sprinkle this in, which has more depth and name recognition than some of the PPV cards, just without the stacked too end.

Not gonna argue though because this looks great!

A good portion of it is just tied to whether or not they have to sell tickets vs the Apex. This one is in Orlando so it was going to be a bit deeper.

But yeah.. this one is really deep.

 

[CDJ]

They put together deep cards for events where they need to sell out a building

Forgot that Soldic is with ONE. He’s legit. Jarred Brooks is good too

 

[MMC]

Very interested in RDR vs Malykhin. Malykhin is ONE's interim Heavyweight champion, who has never fought below HW.

 

[Scorcho]

Im hyped to see thompson finally get another w

 

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[pistolpete11]

I don't understand the massive fluctuation in how UFC puts on these fight nights. Some are absolute dud cards and then they sprinkle this in, which has more depth and name recognition than some of the PPV cards, just without the stacked too end.

Not gonna argue though because this looks great!

As @m9 said, it is on the road and not at the Apex, but also, it's a big ESPN card, not ESPN+.

 

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[MMC]

Also Rowe missed weight.

 

[CDJ]

Main event can go either way imo. I would like Holland to go to the clinch he is pretty effective with and to keep this fight in close quarters. The problem is I think he’ll try to use his reach advantage but staying out in space against wonderboy isnt the easiest path to victory


RDA is too much for Barberena

Pavlovich will be able to keep Tai at range and find the finish imo

 

[MMC]

Cool, another highly anticipated ONE fight ends due to an illegal groin strike

 

[CDJ]

Turns out RDR has zero striking

Malykhin double champ

 

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[CDJ]

That was one way traffic

I now have my eyes on Malykhin

 

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[CDJ]

I don’t want to see wonderboy or Kevin lose

 

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[pistolpete11]

Ah shit. I thought the main card started at 7, but that's the prelims.

It seems like people have written off Wonderboy some. I get he's almost 40, but I've still yet to see a striker convincing beat him. Belal and Burns used a lot of grappling. He beat Neal and Luque. He was kicking the shit out of Pettis until he got KO'ed. Till fight was incredibly boring, but also razor close. Holland's got all the tools to beat him, but if he plays Wonderboy's game, I like Wonderboy to win.

RDA should wipe up Barbarena. Edit: Although at +410, Barbarena isn't a bad bet IMO. RDA is getting up there, is the naturally smaller guy, and Barbarena makes everyone go through hell to beat him. Maybe RDA's not willing or able to do that at this point in his career.

Don't know what to expect in the flyweight fight.

Somebody is going out in the heavyweight fight. That's just the way it goes with Tuivasa. I doubted Pavlovich against Lewis and I'm kind of doing it again against Tuivasa. If he can put Tai's lights out too, damn. Those are 2 of the more durable guys in the division.

 

[MMC]

See that Brooks beat Pacio by UD. I originally set an alarm for about when that one would start, but I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep so I put this card on and ended up falling asleep right after the Superlek fight.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Marshall looked good that right didn't even look like it had power behind it. Have to rewatch it but ref looked pretty out position cause Rojo took a few solid shots while on the ground.