GDT: UFC on ESPN: Vettori vs. Cannonier/Bellator 297: Nemkov vs. Romero/PFL 5

[MMC]

Date: June 17, 2023
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Middleweight bout: Marvin Vettori vs. Jared Cannonier
Lightweight bout: Arman Tsarukyan vs. Joaquim Silva
Middleweight bout: Armen Petrosyan vs. Christian Leroy Duncan
Featherweight bout: Pat Sabatini vs. Lucas Almeida
Lightweight bout: Manuel Torres vs. Nikolas Motta
Welterweight bout: Nicolas Dalby vs. Muslim Salikhov

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Flyweight bout: Jimmy Flick vs. Alessandro Costa
Bantamweight bout: Kyung-ho Kang vs. Cristian Quinonez
Flyweight bout: Carlos Hernandez vs. Denys Bondar
Women's Flyweight bout: Tereza Bleda vs. Gabriella Fernandes
Bantamweight bout: Dan Argueta vs. Ronnie Lawrence
Light Heavyweight bout: Zac Pauga vs. Modestas Bukauskas​

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[MMC]

Date: June 16, 2023
Venue: Wintrust Arena
City: Chicago, Illinois
Time: 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
Viewing: Showtime, Bellator Youtube

MAIN CARD (Showtime)

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Vadim Nemkov (c) vs. Yoel Romero
Bantamweight Championship bout: Sergio Pettis (c) vs. Patricio Pitbull
Light Heavyweight bout: Corey Anderson vs. Phil Davis
Heavyweight bout: Daniel James vs. Gokhan Saricam

PRELIMINARY CARD (Bellator Youtube)

Heavyweight bout: Wladmir Gouvea vs. Gabriel Sayeg
Welterweight bout: Kyle Crutchmer vs. Bobby Nash
Lightweight bout: Gadzhi Rabadanov vs. Peter Biust
Welterweight bout: Jaleel Willis vs. Ramazan Kuramagomedov
Lightweight bout: Mike Hamel vs. Shamil Nikaev
Middleweight bout: Norbert Novenyi Jr. vs. Jamil Oniszczuk
Lightweight bout: Archie Colgan vs. Emmanuel Sanchez
Light Heavyweight bout: Alex Polizzi vs. Karl Moore
Featherweight bout: Timur Khizriev vs. Richie Smullen
Middleweight bout: Jordan Newman vs. Matthew Perry
Featherweight bout: Cody Law vs. Edwin Chavez​

 

[MMC]

Date: June 5, 2023
Venue: Overtime Elite Arena
City: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, TSN

MAIN CARD (ESPN)

Heavyweight season bout: Ante Delija vs. Maurice Greene
Women's Featherweight season bout: Larissa Pacheco vs. Amber Leibrock
Lightweight amateur bout: Biaggio Ali Walsh vs. Travell Miller
Women's Featherweight season bout: Aspen Ladd vs. Karolina Sobek
Heavyweight season bout: Renan Ferreira vs. Matheus Scheffel

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Heavyweight season bout: Denis Goltsov vs. Yorgan De Castro
Women's Featherweight season bout: Marina Mokhnatkina vs. Evelyn Martins
Heavyweight season bout: Danilo Marques vs. Marcelo Nunes
Women's Featherweight season bout: Julia Budd vs. Martina Jindrova
Women's Featherweight season bout: Olena Kolesnyk vs. Yoko Higashi
Heavyweight season bout: Patrick Brady vs. Jordan Heiderman
Heavyweight showcase bout: Isaiah Pinson vs. Denzel Freeman​

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I didn't realize that was the card for bellator this week. It's honestly probably has better talent than the UFC's lol.

 

[m9]

That UFC card is really bad. Vettori v Cannonier is just such a low-stakes fight with both guys basically being high-end gatekeepers right now as neither guy is ever getting another shot v Adesanya. Interested to watch Tsarukyan but that's a big step down for him. Don't think anyone wants to fight him. The rest of the card is trash.

Top three fights on Bellator are good, hoping to be home Friday to catch that one.

I know I said it before, but PFL's awful structure makes some of their fights so bad. Pacheco goes from beating Harrison to fighting a complete tomato can. Embarrassing stuff. I like underdogs getting opportunities but not like this.

 

[MMC]

Where does Pitbull rank among fighters all time for you guys if he becomes the first triple champ?

 

[m9]

Where does Pitbull rank among fighters all time for you guys if he becomes the first triple champ?

He's just always going to be so underrated because he did it all in Bellator. Just an amazing resume.

The part that's tough is that do I think he would beat Volk? No. Or beaten Max during his run? No. Aldo? No. So he's at least the 4th best featherweight to me.

I haven't done all-time rankings in a long time. My guess is he would come in somewhere in the 20-30 range, but it's just a guess.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Pitbull looking drainnnned

 

[CDJ]

Head to body ratio is preposterous

 

[MMC]

 

[pistolpete11]

Where does Pitbull rank among fighters all time for you guys if he becomes the first triple champ?

Not very high. It's a nice feather in his cap, but the fact of the matter is it is against Tier 2 level competition. I think he's a good fighter. I think he'd do well in the UFC, but with Volk and Max around, I don't think he'd ever have been champ. I also think he'd be win-some-lose-some against the rest of the top end guys. Kind of like Eddie Alvarez/Chandler were/are in the UFC. Eddie just got lucky to be there at a time where there wasn't an all time great in his division, so he was able to make a quick, short lived run at the title.

I know he's got a win over Chandler, but I think he has a reeeeeeeal hard time against the UFC LW Top 10. We'll see how he looks at BW, but probably the same against the Top 10 UFC BW.

Head to body ratio is preposterous

Frankly...looks photoshopped.

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Oh, and the UFC card sucks.

 

[MMC]

 

[MMC]

Maybe Zhalgas and Barcelos can fight each other now?

 

[MMC]

 

[CDJ]

Zhalgas is basically new Lobov

 

[CDJ]

Nice win from Pettis

Classic Romero

 

[CDJ]

Looking at Delija’s back he’s gonna pop next in the PFL

 

[Taytro]

Didn't watch Bellator but 5 straight decisions to end the card seems rough. We're they at least good fights?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Jones and Ngannou face off

 

[CDJ]

Didn't watch Bellator but 5 straight decisions to end the card seems rough. We're they at least good fights?

Pettis-Pitbull was ok

The others were not

 

[m9]

PFL's handling of Pacheco is so bad and their format is awful. They have the most exciting fighter in wmma and it's a complete waste.

 

[Magic Man]

Didn't watch Bellator but 5 straight decisions to end the card seems rough. We're they at least good fights?

I watched the big 3. They all sucked. Bit of a let down. I liked Nemkov-Romero the best of the 3.

Hopefully the card tonight is alright.

 

[CDJ]

Cruz is gonna have a field day with Booze and Cigarettes f***ing this up

Awful stuff from Peterson. Saying a guy tapped twice WHEN HE DIDNT EVEN TAP ONCE

 

[CDJ]

Argueta got f***ed. The tap *was* gonna come. But since Keith was premature it’s a no contest.


And yup Dom is going in on keith

 

[CDJ]

Ref just let Bondar die