GDT: UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo

[MMC]

Date: May 3, 2025
Venue: Wells Fargo Center
City: Des Moines, Iowa
Time: 10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN, Sportsnet

MAIN CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Bantamweight bout: Cory Sandhagen vs. Deiveson Figueiredo
Middleweight bout: Reinier de Ridder vs. Bo Nickal
Welterweight bout: Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Daniel Rodriguez
Bantamweight bout: Montel Jackson vs. Daniel Marcos
Bantamweight bout: Cameron Smotherman vs. Serhiy Sidey
Lightweight bout: Jeremy Stephens vs. Mason Jones

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, Sportsnet)

Women's Bantamweight bout: Yana Santos vs. Miesha Tate
Middleweight bout: Ryan Loder vs. Azamat Bekoev
Women's Strawweight bout: Marina Rodriguez vs. Gillian Robertson
Bantamweight bout: Gaston Bolanos vs. Quang Le
Heavyweight bout: Thomas Petersen vs. Don'Tale Mayes
Women's Flyweight bout: Juliana Miller vs. Ivana Petrovic​

 

[CDJ]

Montel Jackson is my parlay anchor

Got in on Smotherman and Le early on when the lines were better

Nickal by decision I think is a likely outcome

Sandhagen I think wins easy, either by KO or runaway decision

 

[Chaels Arms]

I would love to see a big finish here by Nickal and some good post-fight mic work.

 

[Taytro]

First two rounds of Stephens vs Mason were great. Stephens looked like he has a lot of fight left, and didn't look like a guy who has been out of the sport for 3 years, and went 1-8-1 in his last 10 (don't look at opponents).

 

[Chaels Arms]

Boring card so far. I don't blame the fans for booing.

 

[Chaels Arms]

UFC needs more D Rods. Less athletes, more brawlers.

 

[MMC]

Nothing more my drunk ass wants than to see this bum lose his 0 to some Dutch guy

 

[MMC]

 

[weems]

Nickal got smoked

 

[Taytro]

RDR looking great and stopped the Nickel train. Those knees to the body were brutal, might have broke something with how Bo was reacting.

 

[Ouroboros]

Nickal got fraud checked bigly.

 

[Chaels Arms]

That last knee was rough.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Nice win by Sandhagen. Figuereido looked horrible.

 

[MMC]

Low IQ performance

 

[Chaels Arms]

Merab would dominate Sandhagen.

 

[CDJ]

Pretty satisfying to see Nickal get humbled like that, he was getting pretty delusional

Sandhagen looked awesome and was COLD in that post fight

 

[I am not exposed]

Really sad I missed Bo getting humbled.

 

[bov]

Merab would dominate Sandhagen.

I think Sandhagen is the worst possible matchup for Merab. Long, aggressive, great cardio and BJJ. Seems to be in his prime. I don't see anyone else having a good chance at beating Merab unless Umar gets a rematch.

Figueredo didn't look great but nobody has ever beaten him as decisively as Sandhagen just did.

 

[CDJ]

Really sad I missed Bo getting humbled.

I’m only upset I missed out on the Nickal fade, figured it would be coming in his next fight

 

[CDJ]

First two rounds of Stephens vs Mason were great. Stephens looked like he has a lot of fight left, and didn't look like a guy who has been out of the sport for 3 years, and went 1-8-1 in his last 10 (don't look at opponents).

That win was going life and death with an 11-10 Myles Price too

To think he was on that Doo Ho Choi-Josh Emmett violent KO streak when I started watching full time

 

[Taytro]

That win was going life and death with an 11-10 Myles Price too

To think he was on that Doo Ho Choi-Josh Emmett violent KO streak when I started watching full time

And for that violent KO steak he got rewarded with matchups against Aldo, Zabit, Yair (2x), Kattar, Gamrot, and Collard once he left. There's champions that haven't fought that quality of competition.