GDT: UFC on ESPN: Emmett vs. Murphy/PFL 2025 World Tournament: First Round 1

[MMC]

Date: April 5, 2025
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, Sportsnet

MAIN CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Featherweight bout: Josh Emmett vs. Lerone Murphy
Featherweight bout: Pat Sabatini vs. Joanderson Brito
Bantamweight bout: Cortavious Romious vs. Chang-ho Lee
Middleweight bout: Brad Tavares vs. Gerald Meerschaert
Flyweight bout: Ode Osbourne vs. Luis Gurule
Middleweight bout: Torrez Finney vs. Robert Valentin

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Women's Flyweight bout: Diana Belbita vs. Dione Barbosa
Welterweight bout: Rhys McKee vs. Daniel Frunza
Women's Strawweight bout: Loma Lookboonmee vs. Istela Nunes
Bantamweight bout: Victor Henry vs. Pedro Falcao
Heavyweight bout: Martin Buday vs. Uran Satybaldiev
Women's Strawweight bout: Vanessa Demopoulous vs. Talita Alencar​

 

[MMC]

Date: April 3, 2025
Venue: Universal Studios Florida
City: Orlando, Florida
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN2

MAIN CARD (ESPN2)

Welterweight tournament bout: Jason Jackson vs. Andrey Koreshkov
Featherweight tournament bout: Jesus Pinedo vs. Adam Borics
Welterweight tournament bout: Logan Storley vs. Joseph Luciano
Featherweight tournament bout: Jeremy Kennedy vs. Movlid Khaybulaev

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Welterweight tournament bout: Mukhamed Berkhamov vs. Thad Jean
Featherweight tournament bout: Gabriel Braga vs. Frederik Dupras
Welterweight tournament bout: Giannis Bachar vs. Masayuki Kikuiri
Featherweight tournament bout: Nathan Kelly vs. Tae-kyun Kim​

 

[MMC]

Umalatov misses weight, out of the tournament, Luciano filling in against Storley. Sucks because this should've been the year he finally wins it all.

 

[MMC]

PFL has confirmed that these tournaments will set up #1 contenders for the belts. I think this is ultimately the best solution for them to move forward with, no reason for them to have both Bellator and PFL belts and keeps the titles being defended more often than just one title fight a year without the champions having to go through the tournament gauntlet.

 

[CDJ]

Luciano has decent front chokes, he might be live against a wrestler like Storley (I still favor Storley tho)

I like a lot of the underdogs on the ufc card. Only 3 I don’t really like are Belbita/Buday/Ode

Gurule was my favorite prospect coming off the contender series- not super dynamic and could run into some trouble in the first against Osborne but

1) he is pretty good everywhere and is a phenomenal scrambler

2) great cardio, great pressure

3) durable

IMO he’ll be a top 10 flyweight, possible even top 5 eventually. Trains with Royval.

 

[MMC]

Uran is pretty mid and is a LHW (imagine he moves back down after this) but I’m interested in this matchup

 

[MMC]

Thad Jean is that dude

 

[MMC]

Pinedo is so f***ing nasty man

 

[MMC]

 

[CDJ]

Pinedo is so f***ing nasty man

I keep thinking that the run will end but it hasn’t yet, he’s killing ppl

 

[CDJ]

Uran is pretty mid and is a LHW (imagine he moves back down after this) but I’m interested in this matchup

Yeah Uran just went life and death with a cab driver a month ago (sick fight tho).I think I like Buday in this matchup even tho I don’t think he’s any good

 

[MMC]

Yeah Uran just went life and death with a cab driver a month ago (sick fight tho).I think I like Buday in this matchup even tho I don’t think he’s any good

Uran weighed in at 223, California re weigh-in on fight night that happened when Buday fought on the last San Diego card a couple years ago had him at 290, Uran is screwed

 

[MMC]

Romious weighs in at 139.5, fight is still on.

Grant vs Santos is cancelled due to a medical issue for Santos

 

[CDJ]

Santos might get cut at this point, can’t make it to fight night

 

[MMC]

Absolute legend

 

[CDJ]

I did 2 diff lil parlays

Barbosa sub/Gurule @+142
Buday/Brito-Sab doesn’t go the distance +120

These are the safest investments one can make at this current moment in time

 

[Taytro]

As bad as that fight was... Tony Weeks is absolutely mental. How does a judge who does it at the highest level give all 3 rounds to Valentin?

 

[Avs_19]

Send Torrez Finney back to the Contender Series. What a horrendous fight.

 

[torero]

Finnay-Valentin ... what a boring fight ... and Finnay shouldn't have won it.
30-27 for Valentin ... is not good neither ... but at the end ... Finnay had more damage than Valentin.
when you wrestle ... you inflict damage at a point in time ... if you don't do that .. it was useless.

 

[torero]

As bad as that fight was... Tony Weeks is absolutely mental. How does a judge who does it at the highest level give all 3 rounds to Valentin?

Because he inflicted 0 damage to valentin ... !!! while Valentin ... punched something back .. he did more damage.

 

[Avs_19]

 

[bov]

30-27 Valentin is the worst card I have ever seen. Judge should be curbstomped. To even try to justify that , however boring the fight was, is embarrassing.

 

[CDJ]

Well Gurule just got murdered trying to strike with Ode after he has success on the ground in round 1. Shame!

 

[Taytro]

1Well Gurule just got murdered trying to strike with Ode after he has success on the ground in round 1. Shame!

He spent the first 2-2:50 of the first round on the feet before going for his first takedown. Was probably doing the same for the round but the striking advantage was way too much.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Sabatini cruising to victory.