GDT: UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Borralho/PFL 9

[MMC]

Date: August 24, 2024
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, Sportsnet

MAIN CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Middleweight bout: Jared Cannonier vs. Caio Borralho
Women's Strawweight bout: Angela Hill vs. Tabatha Ricci
Middleweight bout (TUF Finale): Ryan Loder vs. Robert Valentin
Featherweight bout (TUF Finale): Kaan Olfi vs. Mairon Santos
Welterweight bout: Neil Magny vs. Michael Morales
Middleweight bout: Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Gerald Meerschaert

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, Sportsnet)

Lightweight bout: Dennis Buzukja vs. Francis Marshall
Middleweight bout: Zachary Reese vs. Jose Daniel Medina
Lightweight bout: Viacheslav Borshchev vs. James Llontop
Women's Bantamweight bout: Jacqueline Cavalcanti vs. Josiane Nunes
Women's Flyweight bout: Wang Cong vs. Victoria Leonardo​

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[MMC]

Date: August 23, 2024
Venue: The Anthem
City: Washington D.C., USA
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN

MAIN CARD (ESPN)

Featherweight semi-final bout: Brendan Loughnane vs. Kai Kamaka III
Welterweight semi-final bout: Magomedov Umalatov vs. Neiman Gracie
Featherweight semi-final bout: Gabriel Braga vs. Timur Khizriev
Welterweight semi-final bout: Shamil Musaev vs. Murad Ramazanov

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Welterweight bout: Ray Cooper III vs. Mukhamed Berkhamov
Featherweight alternate bout: Enrique Barzola vs. Tyler Diamond
Featherweight bout: Jose Perez vs. Jesse Stirn
Heavyweight bout: Maxwell Djantou Nana vs. Kent Mafileo
Welterweight bout: Shido Borics Esperanca vs. Tyler Hill​

 

[Taytro]

Couple fights I'm looking forward to in this one. Shahbazyan is still only 26 and has a chance to start turning his career into what we were promised like 5 years ago.

Magny playing gate keeper once again vs an undefeated fighter (his 3rd undefeated fighter in his last 6 fights).

 

[CDJ]

Everybody on weight in the ufc. Professional!

Musaev by KO/Khizriev/Umalatov at like +107 tonight

I think Diamond upsets Barzola. I could see Kamaka giving Loughnane some problems though I’m not as bullish.

 

[CDJ]

I HATE Dave Tirelli. I genuinely want the worst things in life to happen to him and only him. 1000 people’s lifetimes of personal tragedies all dumped upon him

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Anybody watching the PFL tonight? The horn at the end of the round sounds so bad lol

 

[Tobias Kahun]

I HATE Dave Tirelli. I genuinely want the worst things in life to happen to him and only him. 1000 people’s lifetimes of personal tragedies all dumped upon him

Which fight did he screw up.

 

[CDJ]

Which fight did he screw up.

He gave Ramazanov a round in a fight against Musaev where he landed 4 strikes total and 0 effective takedowns

He scored the Khizriev-Braga fight 29-28 for Braga, he was the dissenting scorecard. Should have been 30-27 Khizriev (somebody else went 29-28 Khizriev which is also wrong but at least has the right guy winning)

He scored Kamaka-Loughnane 29-28 for Kamaka, which is quasi-reasonable (not really) but he was the dissenting scorecard


I was screaming in fury after they announced the 29-28 Braga card

 

[MMC]

So this year's title fights:

Ditcheva vs Santos
Loughnane vs Khizriev
Primus vs Rabadanov
Umalatov vs Musaev
Kasanganay vs Yagshimuradov
Goltsov vs Popov

All of these are interesting to a degree, particularly excited for Ditcheva/Santos and Umalatov/Musaev

 

[CDJ]

Primus would be a good story

He’s looked really solid too, better than ever tbh. Probably not picking him tho lol

 

[MMC]

Wang Cong is a future star

 

[MMC]

Lol

 

[MMC]

Take a point asshat

 

[CDJ]

Tognoni YOU RAT f***

 

[MMC]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1827482591123140877

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Buzukja vs Marshall turned into a scrap after a boring first round

 

[MMC]

WTF is with so many weird splits this weekend? First on PFL yesterday and now 3 already today

 

[CDJ]

The judging is atrocious tonight

Giving Buzukja that fight is insane. Yeah he did well at the end of round 2, doesn’t change that he almost got finished that round.

 

[CDJ]

Lmaoooo 2 judges gave Buzukja round 2, this sport is getting cooked by judges and refs

I don’t think there’s been a decision without a shitty scorecard yet

Right guy won in Marshall at least

 

[MMC]

Edmen should be cut for that

 

[Taytro]

Shahbazyan is such a disappointment. He looked like a much more mature fighter here, was doing well and then mindlessly initiated grappling after standing up (at his coaches advice). Very clearly gassed after all that ground and pound. Just always missing the toolbox.

 

[CDJ]

Classic Shahbazyan

Live bet GM3 +800 after the flurry didn’t get him out of there

 

[Taytro]

Quality of competition doesn't get much worse than Gerald Meerschaert. If Edmen can't beat him, who can he beat? No one that would make him any money.

 

[CDJ]

Quality of competition doesn't get much worse than Gerald Meerschaert. If Edmen can't beat him, who can he beat? No one that would make him any money.

Thats the middleweight finish king GM3 thank you very much

 

[Taytro]

Thats the middleweight finish king GM3 thank you very much

All those wins over UFC veterans like... Deron Winn and Bartosz Babinski.