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Anyone know where you can watch this?
flograppling.com is gonna have it. I'm sure there are other methods available
Anyone know where you can watch this?
@Stixx and @Dirge are still celebrating Tito getting sweet revenge on Chuck. A win is a win, right boys?
Also, Melendez fought Henderson for the title and got cheated out of a split decision in his UFC debut. So there's that.
Also, Dan Henderson:
First 2 UFC fights: Allan Goes, Carlos Newton
First 2 PRIDE fights: Wanderlei Silva, Renzo Gracie
First 2 UFC fights upon 1st return: Rampage Jackson, Anderson Silva
First 2 Strikeforce fights: Jake Shields, Babalu Sobral
First 2 UFC fights upon 2nd return: Shogun Rua, Lyoto Machida
Khabib was relatively unknown coming into the UFC. Askren was involved in the lone "Trade" between 2 major MMA promotions, comes in with good record and has been a champion in the multiple orgs he's been in outside of the UFC.
You're trying to make Askren look extra good by discrediting other fighters, that's not necessary.
I think, as was also said earlier, this is revisionist history. Or you just didn't follow live and are looking up their present records.
Brimage for Conor and Johnson for Gaethje were not "feeder fights" at the time.
Alvarez also got Cowboy in his first fight over from Bellator. But clearly we can go on.
Khabib was relatively unknown coming into the UFC. Askren was involved in the lone "Trade" between 2 major MMA promotions, comes in with good record and has been a champion in the multiple orgs he's been in outside of the UFC.
You're trying to make Askren look extra good by discrediting other fighters, that's not necessary.
I am doing nothing of the sort... Askren accepted a far more dangerous first fight than Khabib or Conor. That's simply a fact. However given his rocky past with Dana & Co. it was probably by design. They were hoping he would get smashed and fade back into obscurity.
There is nothing wrong with new entrants to the UFC getting feeder fights. If history has shown us anything there are no certainties in fighting. Hell Pettis was coming off his best performance ever via showtime kick and came into the UFC with huge hype. Guida has always been seen as a tough fight, a good fighter but not a great one and the expectation was that Pettis would wipe out Guida and then fight for the UFC LW strap. Except he got dry humped to death.
Just because Askren got a tougher first fight than the guys I mentioned isn't a knock on them, Askren should have gotten a couple of easier fights to build up his brand before fighting a monster like Lawler.
After the first two Fall offs Dana is probably calling the charity telling them to cancel the event.Askren is going to tear his MCL getting double legged off the stage
Match 12 is going to be sick. Diakimohalis vs. Punia will be crazy. Punia got a silver at last year's worlds, gold at the Ali Aliev memorial and Asian championships, and Yianni is coming into his own, but Bajrang will be a good test.