TUF S26 finale ended up being quite decent. All the prelim fights ended with a finish (SUB R1, TKO R2, SUB R1, TKO R3, SUB R1). Most were female fights since this season was based around crowning the first female UFC flyweight champ so obviously not too pretty stand-up being displayed (most chicks can't punch for shit) but those subs were nice. The fighters that lost just made stupid mistakes like for example skilled muay thai striker Christina Marks trying to wrestle with a jujutsu specialist. Low fight IQ on these bitches...
I have no fucking clue how they awarded Nicco Montaño vs Roxanne Modafferi as the fight of the night. Sloppy shit. The dudes Ryan Janes and Andrew Sanchez should've gotten it. Ryan said fuck head movement and decided to Ronda Rousey that shit. In other words he blocked all the punches with his head in the 1st round. Dude was out on his feet but survived. Andrew who must be the retarded brother of Luke Rockhold emptied his gas tank in that round and Ryan took over the last two rounds, peppering him with punches going high, low, high... Just pretty to watch. Ended in 3rd round TKO by Ryan.
Gerald Meerschaert got Eric Spicely with a nice liver kick. I felt it through the screen.
Then the real shit UFC 218... Maaaaan, MMA fans got spoiled this weekend! Abdul Razak Alhassan vs Sabah Homasi started promising but the veteran ref Herb (yep, that's his fucking name) Dean made a mistake in thinking Abdul KO'd Sabah cold and stopped the fight but in reality he just tripped and fell under Abdul which made it look like he went limp. Not blaming the ref tho as from his angle it certainly looked like the punch connected clean. It was funny because when Herb returned to referee the next fight, David Teymur vs Drakkar Klose, he was threatening to take a point away from David for stalling even though Drakkar, the hometown boy, wasn't doing shit to make it a fight. I hated Drakkar before that fight and now I hate him even more. Pussy ass bitch whining to the ref about stalling while his leg is getting chewed up. And fuck off to Herb for messing with David's head just to make up for his previous mistake. Yancy Medeiros vs Alex Oliveira was back and forth war with both guys taking turns in doing the stanky leg but eventually Yancy got the TKO in the 3rd round. Nigga has no chin and his defense sucks so he won't get much further in his career but he's been in some exciting fights so I don't mind him being a journey man fighter.
Enough of this shit, fucking Eddie Alvarez vs Justin Gaethje!!! One of the best fights this year and among the most exciting ones I've ever seen. Dudes standing in the middle of the octagon, trading shots in the pocket. Eddie was fucking killing it with his head movement and those nice hooks, going high, low and up from the middle. His left leg was eaten alive but that tough motherfucker just stood there, took it and carried with his own offense. Those hooks to the body were so pretty, I was doing crunches on the sofa each time Justin got hit there haha.
And my boy Alistair Overeem got his head taken clean off... Honestly when Francis Ngannou landed that uppercut and finishing blow on the ground, I was worried that this could be the first death in the UFC.
Video:
http://youtu.be/KSkyxpieUI0I LOVE the current HW champ Stipe Miocic but sadly Francis is going to KO him to win the belt, simple as that.
Holloway TKO's Aldo in R3 but what else is new?
HOW THE FUCK there were no performance of the night bonuses?! Francis certainly deserved it but I think Max did too even though it wasn't that surprising that he'd take out that little Brazilian with ease.
