Lots of UGers were saying how good Makhachev was long before you came here to troll the UG. Years ago people were calling for him to get big fights and even over a year ago wiggum was on record saying he was the #1 LW on the planet at the moment and myself and others were in agreement as to him being the favorite vs anyone. Its weird you troll so much here instead of talking like a normal person but enjoy that I guess.
Trolling is not telling the truth and accurately predicting the fight outcome, which is what I was doing. I even called the round Islam would win.
The anonymous poll results here for the fight were massively in favor of Oliveira. It was the same with Sherdog. Cherrypicking some people like it proves otherwise is disingenuous.
There was a solid group of us since the early Kahbib days that were proclaiming the Dagistani wave is coming. A new breed of MMA wrestlers always pursuing the finish via GnP and submissions. Fresh models of GSP 2.0s coming right from the factory floor.
Alvarez- former Bellator/UFC champ
Bendo- former WEC/UFC champ
Barnaoui- former ROAD GP champ
Musayev- former RIZIN GP champ
Patricky- current Bellator champ
Usman- maybe reigning Bellator champ
McKee- former Bellator FW champ and GP champ
Bak- former Cage Warriors champ
Primus- former Bellator LW champ
Outlaw, Shabliy, Queally, Rabadanov, Mamedov etc… all possible as well.
I’d like to see them go with a 16 man but I doubt they will as Coker said it will be 8 man.
Covid lockdowns caused the 16 man FW GP to take forever so I assume they want this done quick.
I expect Usman to win the title in a few weeks and I’d love to see him defend the title vs Barnaoui in the first round of the GP because Barnaoui lost a controversial decision to Makhachev when they were young in M-1 and then he KOed Zavurov with a flying knee in the ROAD GP finals so he is 1-1 vs Eagle MMA already so there is a history there.
I’ll save you some time. Usman beats Pitbull, Barnaoui and everyone else Bellator throws at him, and when Islam moves to WW in the UFC, Usman takes the UFC LW title.