ROBBERY or NOT: Part 7
This is a continuation of our series where we'll be discussing whether fights often considered to be robberies are so or not.
As always, if you missed out on the first few parts of the series or the context given in them, please go onto my profile to find them.
This part will cover: Gane vs Volkov II
Clear: 1 Gane, 3 Volkov
Swing Round: 2
In the second round, Gane lands at a relatively consistent rate with his low kick and knee stomps, however Volkov sets up well with his jab and outlands Gane with quite a few solid body kicks and low kicks of his own as well. Volkov lands clean on a spinning backfist that visibly hurts Gane - which was the clearly most impactful strike of the round - and countered Gane's panicked takedown with a hard knee to the body. Volkov partially landed on two head kicks and locked onto a front choke when Gane attempts another takedown, which he transitioned into a tight guillotine choke that Gane was forced to fight out of. Gane landed the takedown and attempts a less close Von Flue choke, though lets go on his own.
Verdict: ROBBERY (2, 3 Volkov)
UFC 336 Concept Card
Apparently It’s January 30th 2027
In Toronto Canada 🍁 🇨🇦
Main Event:
#C Islam Makhachev
Vs #2 Carlos Prates
UFC Welterweight Championship
Co Main Event:
#C Joshua Van Vs
#2 Manel Kape
UFC Flyweight Championship
Featured Bout:
#3 Micheal Morlaes Vs
Shavkat Rahkmanov
(Welterweight Bout)
#8 Aiemann Zahabi
Vs #15 Marcus Mcghee
(Bantamweight Bout)
Rob Font Vs
Charles Jourdain
(Bantamweight Bout)
Ik We Always Get Shit Canada Cards But Hopefully Its Good Since First Card Of Year Usually Is Stacked
UFC 335 | Card Projection
📺 UFC 335: Oliveira vs Lopes
📍 Las Vegas, Nevada
🗓️ December 12th 2026
Main Card:
🇧🇷 Charles Oliveira v Diego Lopes 🇧🇷 🏆
🇷🇺 Sergei Pavlovich v Alex Pereira 🇧🇷
🇺🇸 Joe Pyfer v Bo Nickal 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Steve Garcia v Tommy McMillen 🇺🇸
🇲🇽 Brandon Moreno v Charles Johnson 🇺🇸
Prelims:
🇺🇸 Neil Magny v Sam Patterson 🏴
🇷🇺 Baisangur Susurkaev v Ryan Gandra 🇧🇷
🇺🇸 Chepe Mariscal v Márcio Barbosa 🇧🇷
🇺🇸 Chris Gutierrez v Cody Haddon 🇦🇺
Early Prelims:
🇺🇸 Chris Curtis v Michael Oliveira 🇧🇷
🇺🇸 Quentin Pasley v Junior Tafa 🇳🇿
🇺🇸 Maycee Barber v Carli Judice 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Jaden Ortega v Oban Elliott 🏴
🇺🇸 Gabe Green v Richie Miranda 🇺🇸
Who Yall Got For This Fight Here
I think shara is overrated asf and gets smoked by the top but Izzy’s lost 4 in a row
But I’ll Take Izzy By Unanimous Decision
Ok this whole roster thing has me thinking, so I wanted to break down the difference between DWCS Alumni & everyone else in the UFC. (These are all rough numbers, not 100% accurate):
Roughly 650 fighters on the roster, about 275 (42%) of them are DWCS Alumni.
176 ranked spots available through all weight classes including champions, 30 (17%) of them are DWCS alumni.
So that means only 11% of DWCS alumni are even ranked, yet they take up nearly half the roster.
That also means there are roughly 375 non DWCS fighters, and 146 (39%) of them are ranked.
So, statistically speaking, someone who DIDN'T come from the DWCS is 4x as likely to be ranked. Therefore the skill level of the average DWCS alumni can be assumed to be around 1/4 of the level of the rest of the UFC roster (not actually but you get me)
Now obviously this is not all black & white, especially considering the recent influx of DWCS signings will definitely throw off the numbers a bit, but I still think it paints a very clear picture of the way the roster and UFC management has been moving the past few years.
Thoughts? Do you agree? Am I an idiot who has no idea what Im talking about? Lmk 💪
Interesting thought I had while talking to my boy @ChickenWig.
Is it fair to say that moistcritical in a roundabout way, made slap fighting mainstream and was one of the main people that caused that influx of tik tok and insta videos.That Dana ended up seeing and creating Power Slap, or am I way off base?