Adesanya vs. Imavov PBP/Discussion

[PuertoRican]

Main Card (ESPN+)​
Middleweight	Israel Adesanya	Nassourdine Imavov
Middleweight	Sharabutdin Magomedov	Michael Page
Heavyweight	Sergei Pavlovich	Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Bantamweight	Said Nurmagomedov	Vinicius Oliveira
Lightweight	Farès Ziam	Mike Davis
Preliminary Card (ESPN+)​
Featherweight	Muhammad Naimov	Kaan Ofli
Heavyweight	Shamil Gaziev	Thomas Petersen
Lightweight	Terrance McKinney	Damir Hadžović
Women's Flyweight	Jasmine Jasudavicius	Mayra Bueno Silva
Catchweight (148.5 lb)	Bogdan Grad	Lucas Alexander
Heavyweight	Hamdy Abdelwahab	Jamal Pogues

 

[B.Goetz]

Hamdy -118
MVP most ss + dec +500.

 

[PuertoRican]

 

[B.Goetz]

Totally empty arena for the first prelim.

 

[mkess101]

Hamdy rd 1 I guess, but close. Hamdy either doesn't trust his gas tank to wrestle the whole time, or has horrible fight IQ. He can control Pogues easily with grappling.

 

[mkess101]

Pogues rd 2 imo.

Hamdy just refusing to take him down. Guess winning isn't a big priority for him.

 

[Trupsi]

What an awful fight... Hopefully that's the worst we'll see today.

 

[mkess101]

Boring, shitty fight. Rd 2 was the only clear rd imo. I'd have it 29-28 Pogues but 1 and 3 could go either way. Pogues clear rd 2.

 

[mkess101]

Disagree, but Pogues didn't exactly go out and take it either.

 

[PuertoRican]

Close fight, but I had it 2-1 Pogues. He lost the fight because he didn't do nearly enough to beat a Muslim fighter in Saudi Arabia.

Of course it was Sal D'Amato who had it for Hamdy.

 

[Thesnake101]

o1.5 and Lucas ML here, hoping he outpoints Bogdan using his length.

 

[Trupsi]

Disagree, but Pogues didn't exactly go out and take it either.

At least he's honest on his performance lol.

 

[mkess101]

Have Grad over 54.5 sig strikes on PP here.

 

[Monster Meat]

There was no way the handjob was losing that fight

 

[Guld]

Ham bet cashes.
I got nothing on this next one.

 

[Guld]

Added a small on Alexander prior to the fight. Glad I did. He seems to be comfortably in the driver's seat.

 

[mkess101]

Rd 1 easy Alexander. Grad needs to stop trying to grapple and make it a brawl. He's just a step behind Alexander in all the grappling exchanges. And Alexander is the better striker at range. Grad's only chance is to make it a brawl in close quarters.

 

[Guld]

Alexander was looking kinda gassed at the end of the first, and this round probably took even more out of him.

 

[Guld]

Alexander was looking kinda gassed at the end of the first, and this round probably took even more out of him.

Very much so lol.

 

[mkess101]

Or...Alexander could gas and look horrible on the mat in rd 2 LOL.