Media Bragging Rights: Ortega vs Lopes *FIGHT OFF*

[svmr_db]

Predict the co-main event for bragging rights! Who wins and by what method of victory? Lock in your pick before it the poll closes!

 

[Luthien]

Ortega by decision

 

[Gamer2k4]

Ortega by submission. People forget how good he is because of his recent 2-3 run with losses due to injury, Volkanovski, and Holloway. But he avenged the first loss, and EVERYONE loses to the other two.

 

[TITS]

I hope Ortega breaks his personal best striking record by punching Lopes' face in a few hundred times. Something about his face and his Adolf Hitler/Mullet hybrid haircut pisses me off.

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Lopes via decision or accumulation of damage stoppage.

 

[markg171]

Ortega by submission. People forget how good he is because of his recent 2-3 run with losses due to injury, Volkanovski, and Holloway. But he avenged the first loss, and EVERYONE loses to the other two.

This is what I'm thinking. People are a little too high on Lopes simply because he's active and exciting but this is a massive step up for him.

Also I think on short notice like this is it's more likely Ortega catches a submission than gets KO'd. Diego hasn't had time to prep his submission defence like he'd need to for this kind of step up in grappling abilities while Ortega has struck with better strikers than this before.

 

[Duke Kensington]

Lopes rips the body and finishes Ortega in the 2nd

 

[Rorschachxx]

I'm leaning Ortega by Dec or late Sub on this one.

 

[gentel]

Hmm I previously picked Lopes but this late-notice move of the fight to 155 by Ortega might complicate things - we saw how that worked out for Fatstelum

 

[JBJ was here]

Given how Ortega's looking and otherwise struggling, Lopes by corner stoppage.

 

[TempleoftheDog]

That clown has had his ranking artificially high for WAY too long. Now he didn’t even try to make weight. But they didn’t tell Lopes’ team until a few hours out that he was 151, and wasn’t going any lower.

Accept a CW fight which is unbelievably advantageous for Ortega. Or cancel the fight.

Props to Lopes. I don’t care how. I just want him to win.

 

[JoeRowe]

Lopes power will be too much. Yusuff's chin was able to withstand Mike Davis best shots as well as Barboza's patented spinning-wheel-kick, while Lopes made his chin look like paper mache.

Maybe with the fight being at 155 will help Ortegas chin, which Yair of all people cracked with punches, but a bad weight-cut likely doesn't help.

After this people will yearn for Lopes vs Volk on the same card as Ilia/Max.

 

[FreedomCricket]

Ortega can take a lot of abuse/damage.

I think Lopes wins by bloody decision.

 

[fortheo]

Voted for Ortega via sub. Probably late in the fight after getting his ass kicked if he does get it.

Won't be suprised if Lopes manages to crack that chin early, though

 

[Fergelmince]

Lopes has a lot of potential, but Ortega has too much experience. I think he catches Lopes late with a submission.

 

[rjmbrd]

I think Lopes is a world class fighter just coming into his own. Ortega rarely fights so its hard to contextualize where he is in the division and his career. I do think he is in the back half, and Diego is still on the way up.

 

[legcramp]

Diego by decision.

 

[Simple Southerner]

• Brian Ortega by Decision

 

[Bork Neslar]

Ortega by submission (strikes).

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Lopes beats the shit out of Low T-City.

I got Lopes via decision. Hopefully we wins via career ending KO.