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GDT: UFC on ESPN: Whittaker vs. Gastelum

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Date: April 17, 2021
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: Robert Whittaker vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Lightweight bout: Jeremy Stephens vs. Drakkar Klose
Heavyweight bout: Andrei Arlovski vs. Chase Sherman
Middleweight bout: Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Jacob Malkoun
Lightweight bout: Luis Peña vs. Alexander Munoz

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Women’s Flyweight bout: Tracy Cortez vs. Justine Kish
Heavyweight bout: Alexander Romanov vs. Juan Espino
Women’s Strawweight bout: Jessica Penne vs. Lupita Godinez
Middleweight bout: Gerald Meerschaert vs. Bartosz Fabiński
Women’s Bantamweight bout: Zarah Fairn Dos Santos vs. Josiane Nunes
Bantamweight bout: Tony Gravely vs. Anthony Birchak
Lightweight bout: Austin Hubbard vs. Dakota Bush​
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Espino vs Romanov is going to be extremely my shit


Dakota’s nickname is hairy lol

If Klose fights like he did against Dariush the co-main will be fun. It will be as fun as he allows it to be

main is obvs sweet, should be some great boxing


Vanilla Gorilla vs Arlovski is a thing. Sherman has looked good since being cut from his first stint in the ufc. His fight against Coulter a few years back is why I watch early prelims lol. I don’t think he gets past the gatekeeper though. I hope he does though, seems like a funny dude
 
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m9 said:
How the f*** is Romanov on the undercard?

Get your shit together UFC.

Couple of good woman's prospects on the undercard on this one.
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I’ve been waiting for the forearm choke vs scarfhold since the second they made the fight and they put it on the undercard. The disrespect!
 
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Weak card for ESPN. There's enough there I will probably check in before the main event, but nothing of real consequence to any division outside of the main event.

Maybe they didn't think it was worth going up against the classic in the making Askren-Paul :laugh:
 
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So we are all hoping Askren has no intention of boxing and dumps him on his head, right?

I feel like he can be convinced if we do a GoFundMe that pays him in crypto
 
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Do they cut bait with Stephens if he loses? Would make 5 in a row, though 4 were against killers at featherweight
 
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CDJ said:
So we are all hoping Askren has no intention of boxing and dumps him on his head, right?

I feel like he can be convinced if we do a GoFundMe that pays him in crypto
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I'm not...

If Askren wanted to MMA, he shouldn't have agreed to a boxing match
 
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This is one of those cards that doesn't have a ton of name value but has depth and should be pretty good. I feel like we've been saying that quite a bit recently, which probably shouldn't be the case for PPV/ABC/ESPN cards, but I can't complain too much when we get good fights pretty much every week on TV.

Whittaker is a much better fighter than Gastelum so he should win. I hope he looks impressive doing it though so there's no doubt about the next title shot. There aren't a ton of exciting matchups for Adesanya but I'd be down for a rematch because I think Whittaker has a lot more to offer than he showed in the first fight.
 
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I agree, not a great card here. Can we use this as our GDT for Askren v. Paul? lol
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I think it might turn out to be a banger honestly. Could see a lot of finishes on this one. Askren duped Paul in to this fight. Thompson has a good take on what it takes to feel constant pressure here.

 
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I think it might turn out to be a banger honestly. Could see a lot of finishes on this one. Askren duped Paul in to this fight. Thompson has a good take on what it takes to feel constant pressure here.

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There will definitely be some finishes. Mir is getting flattened for sure, as is that singer or whoever he is with one name. I also think Paul smashes Askren but less confident there. Kind of looking forward to it.
 
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m9 said:
Yeah injured apparently. Lame.
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he apparently suffered it when Stephens pushed him at weigh ins- I just rewatched it and he doesn’t look right after getting pushed, looks like he pulled something
 
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I'm not going to bother looking for a stream for the Askren thing but I am curious enough to catch highlights of it afterwards. It doesn't seem like Askren is taking this serious at all based on the kind of shape he's in and I'm not sure how much it'd even matter if he did. His best bet might be what I saw Aaron Bronsteter suggesting, which is a lot of clinching early on and then trying to land his shots later. Making Paul carry some of his weight and sorta grappling without actually grappling. Then again, it might be Askren's conditioning that's a worry after how he looks on the scale.
 
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