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Fight night of the year? (UFC Paris review)
By Durinho_
Fight night of the year? (UFC Paris review)
What a f*cking card man and to think that we lost a couple fights before it all kicked off with Keita vs Pitbull being cancelled and Fares Ziam pulling out its mental how this card could have been even better. The Main Event Imavov just out does Caio 🇫🇷 This was a pretty high level and technical fight from both men and its one of those fights where I can see the argument for a 50-45 Imavov but also see an argument for 48-47 Caio which is wild. The only definitive round was round 4 as Imavov tuned Caio up in that round for sure. Round 1 was close Caio landed some nice kicks but Imavov landed the more impactful boxing shots and that was the story for most of the fight to be honest. I only edge round 3 to Caio as it was probably his best round of the fight but I feel that the lack of strikes to the head definitely didn’t help him win over the judges. I’m not as mad at the 50-45 as most seem to be to be honest, it was a very competitive fight however and 4 rounds were all pretty close. You can have a competitive 50-45 that does happen sometimes like Petr Yan vs Figgy was competitive every round but Yan won 50-45. It wasn’t a domination by Imavov is what I’m tryna say as those saying it was are genuinely brain dead. Both get 50-45d or choked out by Khamzat realistically, neither match up that well stylistically against him. Decent main event. Co-main event Benoit Saint Denis taps out Mauricio Ruffy 🇫🇷 Well for me that was a surprise, I know some people believed in BSD but all I saw was a blockhead with genuinely 0 head movement about to throw down with a very accurate and powerful striker… nope Benoit turns it on straight away pressuring with the grappling immediately and mixing up his sh*tty slow body kick with a big ol headkick that was super effective on Ruffy. Ruffy just completely froze up on the fence and BSD was able to get his grappling off very nicely. However Mauricio Ruffy I dunno if the kids f*cking r*tard*d or what but why the actual f*ck was he letting BSD up every time he reversed position? Land some f*cking ground and pound ffs stop aura farming Benoit is not Paul Craig you can go to the ground with him lmao. BSD forces the tap in round 2 with a face crank, honestly didn’t look thaaaaat bad but I could see that Ruffy was fading hard and in my head I remember saying “oh he is quiting” when he was shelled up getting smashed while BSD had his back and near flattened out. I don’t think Mauricio Ruffy is a jobber by any means but he definitely isn’t the level of Islam Machakchev like he was chatting lol. Benoit Saint Denis fair play mate I owe you an apology you are actually top 15 worthy. Featured Fight Paul Craig retires 🥲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I mean he wasn’t doing that bad to be fair his striking looked a little better than usual to be fair but yeah pulls guard way to late in the round and Modestas Bukauskas slimes me out with a brutal elbow. It honestly felt like watching my dad get colded this one hurt more than the usual as I had a feeling Paul was gonna hang them up and yep I was in-fact correct. Nice retirement and at-least he got to say his piece, really wish we got one last crazy triangle upset on some -1000 prospect but it wasn’t meant to be. Well done to Bukauskas great win for him get him a top 15 fight. Enjoy your retirement Paul 🍻 hope he takes part in some BJJ events as that could be fun for him. Mason Jones and Bojali Oki put on a show! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 What a scrap! Mason Jones survives the early adversity as he gets stung bad by Oki who sits Jones down and I’m seeing my parlay crumble before my eyes but thankfully Jones locks the f*ck in and sits Oki down himself once he starts timing his jab. He really wanted that Kimura but Oki was strong and survived it somehow but round 2 Oki clearly gassed out, Jones landed a nasty hip toss and then gets full mount relatively easily and smashes Oki till the ref stops him. Another great win for Mason Jones, this 2nd UFC run for him has been a lot of fun excited to see him continue this run. Axel Sola + Rhys Mckee have a low level scrap 🇫🇷 Genuinely both guys looked mid asf I dunno if that was just me but they both looked slow and just kind of shit especially Axel Sola being undefeated he just did not look that good at all and I think a better man than Mckee will fraud check him for sure. The stoppage honestly who gaf Sola was up 2-0 anyways. Entertaining fight but not much to say about it to be honest. William Gomis point fights as usual 🇫🇷 Good win for Gomis he fought pretty well, the fight was reasonably entertaining to be fair especially round 3 I was super hyped when Ruchala landed that headkick. Decent little scrap I like Ruchala he fought well, Gomis needs to lock in because on his best day he is probably top 15 level. These Prelims healed me thank you UFC Paris Oumar Sy smashes Brenson Riberio 🪦 Riberio is a jobber… Oumar Sy absolutely smashes Riberio takes him down and hits some brutal ground and pound. Can’t really tell but the ref may have had a stinker, Riberio was out cold I think l. Good win for Sy but I mean cmon its f*cking Riberio. Ante Delija slimes out Marcin Tybura 🇭🇷 Thank goodness we finally have an interesting heavyweight beat someone in the top 10, Tybura retire you looked horrific man like really really bad but hey fair play to Ante Delija great win for him and clearly it means a lot to him. I’m just happy to see a heavyweight break through to the top 10 and it was a great KO. Kaue Fernandes breaks my heart 💔 We got wheeled off in a wheelchair after Kaue leg kick TKO’d us… genuinely a gut wrenching watch and I knew Harry wasn’t gonna win but like cmon man that was a painful watch. Harry ain’t a lightweight thats for sure but to be fair Kaue Fernandes is pretty darn good so its not the worst loss in the world. Harry Hardwick hopefully can get a fight at featherweight and make a run. Time shall tell I guess. Painful watch. Sam Patterson mogs Trey Waters 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oh my days bro Sam Patterson… great f*cking win thats 4 round 1 finishes in a row Sam is on a run right now. Real prospect love to see it. Complete out did Trey Waters and puts him out on his feet, great stoppage by the ref as well thats how you do a standing KO stoppage. Robert Bryczek gives up and don’t believe in yourself. 🇵🇱 Wtf was that post fight speech lmao great message and really motivating lol. Great performance by Bryczek his boxing in round 1 especially looked really f*cking crisp he absolutely tuned up Tavares nearly finished him in the 1st round then took the 2nd round off pretty much as Brad Tavares simulates a sparring match… genuinely what tf is it with Eric Nicksick and turning fighters into sparring partners. Joke sh*t Bryczek then pours in on in round 3 and finishes Brad with a flurry of punches. Brad Tavares days as a good gatekeeper seem to be over unfortunately I mean Bryczek literally lost to Ihor Poteira for f*cking sake man… Brad hang them up bro. Rinat slays the “Viking” 🇷🇺 Might be time to learn some technique Gustaffson… depressing watch to see him get finished quicker than Kevin Lee did but oh well maybe this will help him get better but that was a sh*t showing from Bane. Feed Rinat someone in the rankings so he can finally lose this bullsh*t unbeaten streak. Bane I dunno maybe pay Cejudo for a training course. Shauna Bannon loses wow mental scenes Great card, loads of finishes very good night and it was all at UK time. Definitely best fight night of the year and maybe 3rd in events this year. I think UFC314 and UFC317 were defo better and maybe 315 and 319 also. Fights to make Just give Imavov his title shot 🥱 Caio vs MVP? Why not or maybe Whittaker Benoit Saint Denis vs The Gamer Gamrot 🇵🇱 Mauricio Ruffy vs Muslim Sadykhov 🇦🇿 (f*ck it) Enjoy retirement Paul 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Modestas Baukaukas vs Nikita Krylov 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇷🇺 Mason Jones vs Elves Brenner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇷 Bolaji Oki vs Jordan Leavitt 🇧🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Axel Sola vs Nicholas Dalby 🇫🇷🇩🇰 Rhys Mckee vs Jared Gooden 🇮🇪🇺🇸 William Gomis vs JeongYeong Lee 🇫🇷🇰🇷 Robert Ruchala vs Harry Hardwick 🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oumar Sy vs Dustin Jacoby 🇫🇷🇺🇸 Brenson Riberio vs Tuco Tukkos 🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Marcin Tybura vs Sergei Spivak 3 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ante Delija vs Curtis Blaydes 🇭🇷🇺🇸 Harry Hardwick vs Robert Ruchala 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱 Kaue Fernandes vs Drakker Klose 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Sam Patterson vs Carlos Leall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇧🇷 Trey Waters vs Danny Barlow 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brad Tavares vs Karen at the drive thru 🍔🍟 Robert Bryczek vs Sedrique Dumas 🇵🇱🇺🇸 Rinat Fahkretdinhov vs Geoff Neal 🇷🇺🇺🇸 Andreas Gustaffson vs Song Kenan 🇸🇪🇨🇳 9/10 Card
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