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UFC Fight Night: Cory Sandhagen vs. Robert Font
UFC Nashville
https://twitter.com/search?q=#UFCNashville&src=typed_query&f=live
Umar Nurmagomedov pulled out
Cory Sandhagen vs Rob Font, 5 round main event at 140 pound catchweight
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/780205-ufc-fight-night-cory-sandhagen-vs-rob-font
https://fightodds.io/odds/4751/ufc-fight-night-sandhagen-vs-font
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101342-ufc-fight-night
https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/73973
August 5, 2023
6:00 PM eastern
Umar Nurmagomedov pulled out
August 5
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101342-ufc-fight-night
https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/73973
Cory Sandhagen says it's been "relayed" to him that his fight against Umar Nurmagomedov is a number 1 contender bout for the 135 bantamweight title
Cory Sandhagen:
"Hey, I know you guys saw the announcement. I am fighting August 5 against Umar Nurmagomedov. I’m getting a lot of haters saying, ‘Why would you fight this far down in the rankings?’ He’s going to beat my ass, blah, blah, blah. Two reasons: One, Umar is a great fighter, and I’m not trying to be world champ if I’m not the actual best in the entire world. So fighting Umar is a great challenge, and I accept it. And No. 2? Because I’m a beast, betch, that’s why. Peace, I’ll see you guys in Nashville. Yippee ki-yay, motherfooker...... Everyone still thinks I suck at wrestling, even though, when you think about it, I can't really think of a time outside of the Aljamain Sterling fight where I was on my back for longer than maybe five or 10 seconds. The time where I think I was on my back for the longest was against TJ Dillashaw and I ripped his knee in half. So everyone still thinks my grappling isn't that good. The Dagestanis kind of have this aura of being these superhuman people still, and that's like, not true. They're just doing different things that people haven't picked up on yet. I have a really good and smart team of coaches to help me navigate that, and then I also have a decent amount of training partners from that type of world that can also help me get really good at it too. When I read comments, I’ll scroll through and really only read the nice ones, and the second I get to a mean one I’m like, ‘Ah I don’t want that dumb stuff in my head,’ so then I stop reading them. I do recall reading a few that were like, ‘Oh you’re going to get outwrestled, blah, blah, blah.’ But at the same time, I don’t think that anyone can really name a time outside of the Sterling fight where I was on my back for long. I also think that what the Dagestani fighters have done better than anyone else isn’t take people down, it’s their ability to hold people down that’s made them different than like American wrestlers or the wrestlers that have been in the UFC before. I think that the Dagestanis just figured out how to hold people down a lot better, which makes them look like a lot better wrestlers, which in MMA does make them a lot better wrestlers. So I think that you just have to know what’s going on in fighting, and I definitely know that I’m a pretty knowledgeable martial artist at this point. I think that I’m a very good fighter, and I think that I’m a very good thinker, and I think I’m definitely coming up with some really good ways to combat everything that I think Umar is going to be able to throw at me.”
UFC Nashville: Cory Sandhagen vs. Umar Nurmagomedov, August 5
Cory +175 vs Umar -205 seems more accurate
UFC Nashville
https://twitter.com/search?q=#UFCNashville&src=typed_query&f=live
Umar Nurmagomedov pulled out
Cory Sandhagen vs Rob Font, 5 round main event at 140 pound catchweight
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/780205-ufc-fight-night-cory-sandhagen-vs-rob-font
https://fightodds.io/odds/4751/ufc-fight-night-sandhagen-vs-font
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101342-ufc-fight-night
https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/73973
August 5, 2023
6:00 PM eastern
Umar Nurmagomedov pulled out
August 5
- Saturday 08.05.2023 at 06:00 PM ET
- U.S. Broadcast: ESPN+
- Promotion: Ultimate Fighting Championship
- Venue: Bridgestone Arena
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Enclosure: Octagon
- MMA Bouts: 13
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/101342-ufc-fight-night
https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/73973
Cory Sandhagen says it's been "relayed" to him that his fight against Umar Nurmagomedov is a number 1 contender bout for the 135 bantamweight title
Cory Sandhagen:
"Hey, I know you guys saw the announcement. I am fighting August 5 against Umar Nurmagomedov. I’m getting a lot of haters saying, ‘Why would you fight this far down in the rankings?’ He’s going to beat my ass, blah, blah, blah. Two reasons: One, Umar is a great fighter, and I’m not trying to be world champ if I’m not the actual best in the entire world. So fighting Umar is a great challenge, and I accept it. And No. 2? Because I’m a beast, betch, that’s why. Peace, I’ll see you guys in Nashville. Yippee ki-yay, motherfooker...... Everyone still thinks I suck at wrestling, even though, when you think about it, I can't really think of a time outside of the Aljamain Sterling fight where I was on my back for longer than maybe five or 10 seconds. The time where I think I was on my back for the longest was against TJ Dillashaw and I ripped his knee in half. So everyone still thinks my grappling isn't that good. The Dagestanis kind of have this aura of being these superhuman people still, and that's like, not true. They're just doing different things that people haven't picked up on yet. I have a really good and smart team of coaches to help me navigate that, and then I also have a decent amount of training partners from that type of world that can also help me get really good at it too. When I read comments, I’ll scroll through and really only read the nice ones, and the second I get to a mean one I’m like, ‘Ah I don’t want that dumb stuff in my head,’ so then I stop reading them. I do recall reading a few that were like, ‘Oh you’re going to get outwrestled, blah, blah, blah.’ But at the same time, I don’t think that anyone can really name a time outside of the Sterling fight where I was on my back for long. I also think that what the Dagestani fighters have done better than anyone else isn’t take people down, it’s their ability to hold people down that’s made them different than like American wrestlers or the wrestlers that have been in the UFC before. I think that the Dagestanis just figured out how to hold people down a lot better, which makes them look like a lot better wrestlers, which in MMA does make them a lot better wrestlers. So I think that you just have to know what’s going on in fighting, and I definitely know that I’m a pretty knowledgeable martial artist at this point. I think that I’m a very good fighter, and I think that I’m a very good thinker, and I think I’m definitely coming up with some really good ways to combat everything that I think Umar is going to be able to throw at me.”
UFC Nashville: Cory Sandhagen vs. Umar Nurmagomedov, August 5
Cory +175 vs Umar -205 seems more accurate
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