BJ Penn Forever - So in total if the UFC official was being straight with Mazzulli... December has lost Cruz, Edgar, Cyborg vs Holm and Conor vs Tony.
And all in the space of less than one week. Fucks sake.
half of those were hopeful expectations straight from the baldfathers brain, never actual fights that fell through.
Conor vs Tony was never happening in December. Fuck it may never happen period. And Holy vs Cybrog was never signed because they were both locked in a competition of who asks for more money like they are Mayweathers, when their fight would barely reach 200k PPVs.
Yeah I don’t think Conor was planning on fighting in Dec. That is why I said “if” the UFC official was being straight.
UFC was clearly just in damage control mode with Mazzulli.
They want Conor fighting for them as soon as possible, I’m sure they have been advocating for Feb/March and hoping they can get 3 fights out of him next year while his celebrity is at its peak.
This is one of those weekends were great fights fly under the radar because of the amount of huge fights like Overeem vs Ngannou.
Those three Bellator fights I listed are really interesting to me.
Nobody talking about Njokuani vs Kato or Oliveira vs Felder but they are interesting. Njokuani is explosive and athletic with awesome kickboxing and Kato has that interesting karate style that finished Joe Shilling twice, not an easy thing to do.
Oliveira has such awesome and fun BJJ and Felder is never in a boring fight.
Bellator officially announces debut fights for Michael McDonald against Peter Ligier and Valerie Letourneau against Kate Jackson at Bellator 191 in England on Dec. 15
Rizin is not what Pride was but I love watching a big JMMA show around NYE.
Happy to see Fight Nights and KSW doing shows in the second half of the month as well because they have good production value and put on fun shows. Like Pride/Rizin, Fight Nights and KSW’s big shows have a theatrical/artistic component.
Unlike Rizin/UFC/Fight Nights, Bellator’s last show of the year is one of their weaker cards. Weird. I would think Coker would want to do a big year end show given he is a big JMMA fan.