Ufc 304 Edwards vs Muhammad 2

[MMC]

Date: July 27, 2024
Venue: Co-op Live
City: Manchester, United Kingdom
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: PPV

MAIN CARD (PPV)

Welterweight Championship bout: Leon Edwards (c) vs. Belal Muhammad
Interim Heavyweight Championship bout: Tom Aspinall (ic) vs. Curtis Blaydes
Lightweight bout: King Green vs. Paddy Pimblett
Middleweight bout: Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Gregory Rodrigues
Featherweight bout: Arnold Allen vs. Giga Chikadze

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Flyweight bout: Muhammad Mokaev vs. Manel Kape
Featherweight bout: Nathaniel Wood vs. Daniel Pineda
Women's Strawweight bout: Molly McCann vs. Bruna Brasil
Bantamweight bout: Caolan Loughran vs. Jake Hadley

EARLY PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass)

Heavyweight bout: Mick Parkin vs. Lukas Brzeski
Welterweight bout: Oban Elliott vs. Preston Parsons
Welterweight bout: Sam Patterson vs. Kiefer Crosbie
Women's Strawweight bout: Shauna Bannon vs. Alice Ardelean
Light Heavyweight bout: Modestas Bukauskas vs. Marcin Prachnio​

 

[I am not exposed]

Woohoo finally a great card on paper! Although I am probably a bit biased haha

Predictions in bold for the main card:

Welterweight Championship bout: Leon Edwards (c) vs. Belal Muhammad (I think Belal gets it done, much to the chagrin of the UFC world lol)
Interim Heavyweight Championship bout: Tom Aspinall (ic) vs. Curtis Blaydes (Heavyweight is crazy, but Aspinall gets his revenge) This is the one I'm least certain about, but fingers crossed Tom gets it done.
Lightweight bout: King Green vs. Paddy Pimblett (Green knocks out the scouser)
Middleweight bout: Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Gregory Rodrigues (I'll go for the British fighter in a really good back and forth fight. This one ends in a finish).
Featherweight bout: Arnold Allen vs. Giga Chikadze (Allen gets back to winning ways with a close decision victory. He probably clinches a lot)

 

[CDJ]

Belal is cringe and boring but he also appears to be a genuinely good guy and him winning the title would mean a lot right now

 

[MMC]

Don’t like either Edwards or Belal but either is just holding the belt for Shavkat to take in their next fight so who cares

 

[Tobias Kahun]

I hope belal loses by a vicious knockout

 

[End of Line]

Think it’s nuts that the main card is starting at 0300 local time

 

[16Skippy]

If I want to nitpick Mokaev - Kape should be on the main card over Green-Paddy but other than that my only problem is I'm away on Saturday so hopefully I can avoid spoilers until I get to see it lol.

Edwards is better on paper but we've seen him lose focus in the last round at least twice now.

 

[Avs_19]

Finally. We made it through that last stretch and get a great card here.

I've been one of the people saying to give Belal his shot because he has earned it but man is he ever annoying. I expect every fighter to be very confident and also a bit delusional in their abilities but he's taking it to another level. Please don't let this guy win, Leon. I actually do really like Leon's chances in this one. His takedown D is really good and there's no comparison in the stand up.

Nice to see the HW champ actually defending his belt and it's not in a stat padding fight against a guy who is completely washed. What a concept. Blaydes usually comes up short as more is on the line and I think Aspinall is just flat out better but you never know at HW.

A bunch of good fights all throughout this card.

 

[I am not exposed]

If I want to nitpick Mokaev - Kape should be on the main card over Green-Paddy but other than that my only problem is I'm away on Saturday so hopefully I can avoid spoilers until I get to see it lol.

Edwards is better on paper but we've seen him lose focus in the last round at least twice now.

Paddy is a very popular fighter in the UK. He's probably got more fans than Aspinall and Edwards combined! Completely understand why he's on the main card.

Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Gregory Rodrigues is the questionable fight on the main card imo.

 

[CDJ]

Meatball/CLD/Aspinall/Parsons/Kape is my longshot parlay at +921. I feel like I should’ve gotten more creative though, already not liking it

 

[MMC]

 

[Avs_19]

Kape has had 10 fights scheduled since the start of 2022. One of them is this weekend, two he competed in, and the other seven were cancelled for one reason or another (not all on him). All that to say, that's one guy who should stay clear of outside the cage brawls.

 

[Taytro]

Main card starts at 3am UK time, meaning probably 5am by the time the main event starts. How much do we think this impacts the UK fighters?

 

[Sheppy]

I might toss a little parlay on Belal and Blaydes, then pick two favorites. I don't think Blaydes wins, though but f*** it.

 

[Taytro]

I might toss a little parlay on Belal and Blaydes, then pick two favorites. I don't think Blaydes wins, though but f*** it.

Hard to see a path to victory for Blaydes but I definitely think Belal is live.

 

[Avs_19]

The way he said "he's Belal" is so funny to me.

 

[hockey20000]

wild there not doing this on uk favorited time lol

 

[Taytro]

Meatball/CLD/Aspinall/Parsons/Kape is my longshot parlay at +921. I feel like I should’ve gotten more creative though, already not liking it

Didn't even last long enough to have fun with it.

 

[CDJ]

Didn't even last long enough to have fun with it.

It is ok I hated it the second it left my fingers and submitted on DK

 

[End of Line]

What’s the reasoning to the amount of hatred between these two?

 

[Tobias Kahun]

These 2 don’t like eachother

 

[Tobias Kahun]

It’s a shame they didn’t fight before the fight so we could get to the next fight

 

[Taytro]

What’s the reasoning to the amount of hatred between these two?

Kape is just a nuisance... On the keyboard or on the stage. He's brought a snooze fest in the octagon so far today.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Kape 1-0

 

[End of Line]

Kape is just a nuisance... On the keyboard or on the stage. He's brought a snooze fest in the octagon so far today.

Ah I gotcha. Appreciate the heads up.