GDT: UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Tsarukyan 2

[MMC]

Date: January 18, 2024
Venue: Intuit Dome
City: Inglewood, California
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: PPV

MAIN CARD (PPV)

Lightweight Championship bout: Islam Makhachev (c) vs. Arman Tsarukyan
Bantamweight Championship bout: bout: Merab Dvalishvili vs. Umar Nurmagomedov
Light Heavyweight bout: Jiri Prochazka vs. Jamahal Hill
Lightweight bout: Beneil Dariush vs. Renato Moicano
Middleweight bout: Kevin Holland vs. Reinier de Ridder

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPNews, Sportsnet)

Light Heavyweight bout: Bogdan Guskov vs. Billy Elekana
Bantamweight bout: Payton Talbott vs. Raoni Barcelos
Heavyweight bout: Jailton Almeida vs. Serghei Spivac
Middleweight bout: Zachary Reese vs. Azamat Bekoev

EARLY PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass)

Lightweight bout: Grant Dawson vs. Diego Ferreira
Women's Bantamweight bout: Karol Rosa vs. Ailin Perez
Bantamweight bout: Rinya Nakamura vs. Muin Gafurov
Bantamweight bout: Ricky Turcios vs. Benardo Sopaj
Flyweight bout: Tagir Ulanbekov vs. Clayton Carpenter​

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[bov]

What a card. I'm torn on picks but I could see Tsarukyan pulling this one off. Coin flip main event for me, but I'll pick the challenger just for fun.

I have a feeling Umar will win impressively but I'm rooting for Merab, I find him very fun to watch unlike some people and he's just so relentless and tough. I like Umar too and he's destined to be champion, just wouldn't mind seeing an upset here. I could see Umar really messing him up in the early rounds and Merab surviving enough to turn it into a fight late. I just hope it's competitive.

Going with Jiri by vicious KO, even though it's one of the worst possible stylistic matchups for him. Hill looks to be in horrible shape all the time these days and his only cage time in the past 2 years was getting slumped in 3 minutes. Plus, he had some pretty significant injuries in that span.

Dariush is a live dog, I actually favor him to win but just not sure how much he has left in the tank at this stage. Moicano puts himself in line for a big fight with a win and I like what he has done to take his career to the next level even though it's goofy.

Picking Holland to style all over RDR who looked horrible in his debut, but it's still Kevin Holland so I don't trust that one bit. He finds ways to lose.

I'll save the undercard for another time but that's stacked too, would love to see Perez get wrecked.

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

I can't f***ing wait for this.

 

[MMC]

Islam and Umar both by KO