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Media Cédric Doumbé with another knockout win

Is Cédric Doumbé ready to make his UFC-debut?

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Cédric Doumbé is now 4-0 with 4 finishes.
He’s a UFC contracted fighter, but allowed to fight on the regional circuit to gain more experience and rack up some wins, though I think now it’s time to step-up, use that contract and make his UFC-debut.
I’ve heard some rumours about a UFC event in France, to take place in September. Should Doumbé wait to make his debut in his homecountry, or just look for a date as soon as possible?

Doumbé’s finish from last weekend:



 
Here’s the full fight:

Doumbé did a great job and put on a dominant performance. He looked confident in there and even dominated the ground exchanges, he sprawled his opponent several times and finished the fight with hard ground-and-pound.
Doumbé developed a very interesting style under John Kavanagh. Hands low, leaning forward a little bit, super elusive, with devastating power and accuracy in both hands.
I you ask me, for some reason Doumbé looks very rough and wild with his punches, but while doing so he’s accurate as fuck. It looks like he always finds a way to land that big overhand on his opponents. He’s accurately brawling without being a real brawler or something like that hahah, if you get what I mean.
Those jabs to the body were money, and later on when Paweł Klimas lowered his guard he switched high and went for the kill.
I’m impressed

 
September isn't a terribly long wait. If they're going to France then it would be unfortunate to not have Doumbe on the card.

I don't know much about Klimas, but it was pretty encouraging seeing Ced not look terrified of mixing it up on the ground a little bit.
 
ChimRichalds said:
September isn't a terribly long wait. If they're going to France then it would be unfortunate to not have Doumbe on the card.

I don't know much about Klimas, but it was pretty encouraging seeing Ced not look terrified of mixing it up on the ground a little bit.
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I hoped to see him fight in London next week. September is okay, and after all it’ll be in his homecountry with his own fans, so that’ll be insane for Doumbé.
7 months is quite the wait for someone who wants to stay active though..
 
BoxerMaurits said:
I hoped to see him fight in London next week. September is okay, and after all it’ll be in his homecountry with his own fans, so that’ll be insane for Doumbé.
7 months is quite the wait for someone who wants to stay active though..
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It is definitely a hell of a wait. If he could get one more in before that it would be ideal, but it would just be such a shame to not be on a France card.
 
I think what he's doing is great, another year - 18 months of fully working on the grappling side of the sport as well as getting used to striking in the smaller gloves will benefit him massively. He has the potential to be a star.
 
Kenny Powerth said:
Yes he’s ready but quit calling out guys ranked 5-8.

He doesn’t have much hype with casuals so let’s see him fight someone just outside the top 15 and see how it goes…
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Why would he do that? If he thinks he can beat them and wants to fast track career that's what you are supposed to do. Just look at Pereira's career, he leap frogged everyone and went after the ranked fighters right away. Not everyone is trying to do the slow grind and not everyone is scared to step up in competition.
 
Wasnt he suppose to fight in France on the Gane v Tai card but FMMAF wouldnt sanction him cause he had to little pro experience? Dont they require fighters to have the same amount of fights if under 10 total or some bs?
 
WaylonMercy5150 said:
Wasnt he suppose to fight in France on the Gane v Tai card but FMMAF wouldnt sanction him cause he had to little pro experience? Dont they require fighters to have the same amount of fights if under 10 total or some bs?
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Yeah that’s right.
The French commission prevented Doumbé from making his UFC debut in France because he was too inexperienced compared to his opponent (according to the French commission atleast).

MMA only became legal in France last year, but they still have some special rules for the sport.
According to their rules, someone <10 pro MMA bouts can’t fight someone with more than 4 MMA bouts than he got himself. When someone has 10 or more fights he can fight whoever he wants to fight. I will explain to you how it works below:


The originally scheduled Cédric Doumbé - Darian Weeks fight is off because Doumbé is an Elite 2 fighter in France (<10 fights, someone with 10 fights or more is an Elite 1 fighter), which means he can only fight against someone with no more than 6 MMA fights, since Doumbé has a MMA-record of 2-0.
Weeks got 7 fights, so the fight is not allowed to take place.

Weeks ‘only’ has 7 pro bouts (his amateur MMA-career not included). Doumbé got 2 MMA fights, but is a very experienced kickboxer.
Imo there should be no issues sanctioning this fight, unfortunately I’m not the French sanctioning body…

I agree that it’s a good rule to prevent guys from padding their records, but there should be exceptions for guys like Doumbé, Pereira, etc. who are very experienced/accomplished in other combat sports.
For example:
5-1 Alex Pereira KO’d 25-3 Sean Strickland inside 3 minutes despite a huge gap in ‘MMA’ experience.
 
BoxerMaurits said:
Yeah that’s right.
The French commission prevented Doumbé from making his UFC debut in France because he was too inexperienced compared to his opponent (according to the French commission atleast).

MMA only became legal in France last year, but they still have some special rules for the sport.
According to their rules, someone <10 pro MMA bouts can’t fight someone with more than 4 MMA bouts than he got himself. When someone has 10 or more fights he can fight whoever he wants to fight. I will explain to you how it works below:


The originally scheduled Cédric Doumbé - Darian Weeks fight is off because Doumbé is an Elite 2 fighter in France (<10 fights, someone with 10 fights or more is an Elite 1 fighter), which means he can only fight against someone with no more than 6 MMA fights, since Doumbé has a MMA-record of 2-0.
Weeks got 7 fights, so the fight is not allowed to take place.

Weeks ‘only’ has 7 pro bouts (his amateur MMA-career not included). Doumbé got 2 MMA fights, but is a very experienced kickboxer.
Imo there should be no issues sanctioning this fight, unfortunately I’m not the French sanctioning body…

I agree that it’s a good rule to prevent guys from padding their records, but there should be exceptions for guys like Doumbé, Pereira, etc. who are very experienced/accomplished in other combat sports.
For example:
5-1 Alex Pereira KO’d 25-3 Sean Strickland inside 3 minutes despite a huge gap in ‘MMA’ experience.
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Would this be an issue for him fighting in France still? I dunno a lot of UFC WW's with 4 or less fights.
 
Yeah the French reasoning is a bit off. Can't fight a 7-0 MMA fighter when you have 60 kickboxing fights. Let's him fight a 2-0 MMA fighter instead.

Now you got a 60 fight kickboxing champ wrecking some newbie MMA blue belt with amateur kickboxing credentials haha.
 
BoxerMaurits said:
I hoped to see him fight in London next week. September is okay, and after all it’ll be in his homecountry with his own fans, so that’ll be insane for Doumbé.
7 months is quite the wait for someone who wants to stay active though..
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He could realistically do both barring some sort of injury. I'd love to see him get in there. He's a gamer for sure.
 
BoxerMaurits said:
I hoped to see him fight in London next week. September is okay, and after all it’ll be in his homecountry with his own fans, so that’ll be insane for Doumbé.
7 months is quite the wait for someone who wants to stay active though..
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He can still have one more fight around June in MMAGP. That would give a better choice of opponents for UFC in France with that stupid number of fights rule.
That is, if he goes to the UFC he is not fully decided yet.
 
He did a french interview a few days ago where he said he's happy that he didn't go to the UFC directly in the end because he only started training MMA seriously (understand wrestling and BJJ) since last September, and after his first training at Atch Academy (his camp, which is the same as salahedine parnasse, KZW champ) he realized that he wasn't ready for UFC level competition.

He said that he's improving leaps and bounds and that every new version of him knows way more than two weeks prior because he's working very hard on becoming well rounded.

I think he's taking another fight this summer and probably fight in the next UFC France card if it happens in September.

Here's the interview I referenced:
 
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