Unpopular opinion - We’re never seeing Shavkat back in the UFC - Multiple knee injuries - Wife and kids involved in car crash - Divorced wife few months ago - Father passed away in recent days (according to reports) All these in the last year is enough to retire a fighter, but considering how the UFC already removed him from the rankings, I don’t think he’s gonna get much of their support

Fights to make after fight night ?? 🇦🇺 Quillan Salkilld vs Max Holloway 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Diego Ferreira vs Jim Miller 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 Yadier Del Valle vs Daniel Santos 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Alexia Thainara vs Rose Namajunas 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Ty Miller vs Chris Curtis 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Steven Asplund vs Marcin Tybura 🇵🇱 🇰🇿 Diyar Nurgozhay vs Julius Walker 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Jose Montanho vs Tanner Boser 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Juliana Miller vs Anna Melisano 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Manoel Sousa vs Jai Herbert 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 Miles Johns vs Bezkat Almakhan 🇰🇿 🇧🇷 Carol Foro vs Loma Lookboonmee 🇹🇭

Let’s Debate Verdict! - Gamrot was never championship material. He was just really good at beating guys who weren’t championship material either. - Diego Ferreira is the type of veteran nobody wants to fight because he’s still good enough to ruin your career trajectory. - Ty Miller is going to beat somebody ranked way higher than him within the next year. - Lemos is basically the female Tony Ferguson now, dangerous reputation, but the elite wins aren’t coming anymore. - Del Valle is either the next big thing or the UFC just fed us the easiest prospect hype job imaginable. No in-between. - This card proved that UFC rankings are basically historical achievement awards. - Elkins’ retirement was 5 years overdue. - Stop calling Salkilld a prospect. Prospects don’t submit Gamrot. Salkilld is the first lightweight in a while who looks like he actually wants to fight the grapplers instead of just surviving them.

HYPOTHETICAL UFC SYDNEY VOLK Retirement 2027 Main 🇦🇺 Alexander Volkanovski vs Justin Gaethje 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Quillan Salkilld vs Benoit St. Denis 🇫🇷 🇳🇬 Israel Adesanya vs Shara Bullet 🇷🇺 🇦🇺 Jack Della Maddalena vs Gabriel Bonfim 🇧🇷 🇦🇺 Robert Whittaker vs Khalil Rountree 🇺🇸 Prelims 🇳🇿 Dan Hooker vs King Green 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Jake Matthews vs Randy Brown 🇯🇲 🇦🇺 Tai Tuivasa vs Denzel Freeman 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 Kai Kara France vs Alessandro Costa 🇧🇷 🇦🇺 Tom Nolan vs Beneil Dariush 🇺🇸 Early Prelims 🇳🇿 Michelle Montague vs Macy Chiasson 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Colby Thicknesse vs Jafel Filho 🇧🇷

My FTM after Gamrot vs. Salkilld 🇦🇺 Quillan Salkilld vs. Paddy Pimblett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 Mateusz Gamrot vs. Rafael Fiziev 🇦🇿 II 🇧🇷 Diego Ferreira vs. Chris Duncan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸 Billy Quarantillo vs. Michael Johnson 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 Yadier Del Valle vs. Marcio Barbosa 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 Darren Elkins - Happy retirement! 🇧🇷 Alexia Thainara vs. Tatiana Suarez 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Amanda Lemos vs. Angela Hill 🇺🇸 II 🇺🇸 Ty Miller vs. Khaos Williams 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Billy Goff vs. Nikolay Veretennikov 🇰🇿 🇺🇸 Steven Asplund vs. Tallison Teixeira 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Guilherme Pat vs. Tanner Boser 🇨🇦 🇰🇿 Diyar Nurgozhay vs. Magomed Tuchalov 🇦🇪 🇧🇷 Bruno Lopes vs. Ibo Aslan 🇹🇷 🇧🇷 Jose Montanha vs. Gokhan Saricam 🇹🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Louie Sutherland vs. Denzel Freeman 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Manoel Sousa vs. Nazim Sadykhov 🇦🇿 🇺🇸 Richie Miranda vs. Charlie Campbell 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Miles Johns vs. Santiago Luna 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 Gianni Vazquez vs. Lawrence Lui 🇳🇿 🇺🇸 Juliana Miller vs. Gabriella Fernandes 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Carol Foro vs. Ming Shi 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 Gigi Canuto vs. Rayanne Dos Santos 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Ravena Oliveira - Cut.

FTM - Gamrot v Salkilld WINNERS: 🇧🇷 Foro v Souza 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 Miller v Horth 🇨🇦 🇺🇸Johns v Gantt 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Sousa v Zellhuber 🇧🇷 Montanha v Ellison 🇺🇸 🇰🇿 Nurgozhay v Harris 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Asplund v Tybura 🇵🇱 🇺🇸 Miller v Ko 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 Thainara v Godinez 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 YDV v Montes 🇻🇪 🇧🇷 Ferreira v Davis 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Salkilld v BSD 🇫🇷 LOSERS: 🇧🇷 Canuto v Spasic 🇷🇸 🇧🇷 Oliveira - CUT 🇲🇽 Vazquez v D. Anderson 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Miranda v Figlak 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sutherland - CUT 🇧🇷 Lopes v (winner of Lorenz v Aly) *CS* 🇧🇷 Pat v Tafa 🇳🇿 🇺🇸 Goff - CUT 🇧🇷 Lemos v Andrade 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 Damage - RETIRE 🇺🇸 Quarantillo v I. Bonfim 🇧🇷 🇵🇱 Gamrot v Nolan 🇦🇺

I’m getting fed up with people saying “gotcha, the card ended up being good and you said it was bad!” whenever people criticise a UFC card is genuinely bizarre. The point of saying a card is bad isn’t that we’re predicting every fight will be boring. It’s about the lack of good matchmaking, name value and the lack of incentive to actually care about the fights going on. Yes, UFC Serbia and last nights card were good. You know what else is usually good? Cage Warriors. LFA. Regional MMA shows. But I care about the UFC more, because I care about the fighters more, and the overall skill level is higher. Serbia for example, felt like a regional show card. It was very entertaining, but I wasn’t particularly invested in it. It was filled with mismatches and low-skill MMA talent. A card can be bad on paper and great in reality. But that doesn’t remove the critique from the card entirely. If UFC 330 ends up being amazing (which is definitely a possibility) and we not do these crappy “I told you so!!!” Posts?