Limelight My big stupid hype trains thread.

careto said:
He is 1-1 in the UFC, though and those POTN are not guaranteed. So, chances are he is going home with 12k or 24k minus taxes for his next fight.

Why would he get a bigger contract next? He is not a name fighter, and a victory over Stephens doesnt hold that much value nowadays. Plus, he is easily replaceable with young bangers for 12k/12k.
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He's 2-1, he beat Scott Holtzman too. He's already moved up to 24/24 from what I can tell, usually as you keep winning they keep moving the wage up. They're usually pretty consistent with doing that to be fair, if you perform you go up the pay scale.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
He's 2-1, he beat Scott Holtzman too. He's already moved up to 24/24 from what I can tell, usually as you keep winning they keep moving the wage up. They're usually pretty consistent with doing that to be fair, if you perform you go up the pay scale.
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Shit, I forgot abourlt the Holtzman fight. I guess he has 1 fight left on the contract or do you think he is already on a new 24k/24k contract?
 
careto said:
Shit, I forgot abourlt the Holtzman fight. I guess he has 1 fight left on the contract or do you think he is already on a new 24k/24k contract?
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Yeah I think so, I think they review it every couple of fights if you're doing well.
 

Tofiq will be a free agent after NYE. He is an instant contender in any organization, not named UFC. This is the guy Bellator needs to fill their LW ranks. He had followed the money before, instead of the "UFC Dream", so it is a possibilitybhe signs with another promotion. Plus, he already has a W over Patricky and they could easily sell the fight. Tofiq vs Shabliy, Patricky, Primus, and Goiti would be fun AF. This is the free agents Bellator should be going after.

PFL for the $1 million dollar prize would be another option. He would be an instant favorite to win the whole thing.

At ONE, there would be some fun, fun matches like Eddie, Aoki, Ok, and of course Lee.
 
careto said:

Tofiq will be a free agent after NYE. He is an instant contender in any organization, not named UFC. This is the guy Bellator needs to fill their LW ranks. He had followed the money before, instead of the "UFC Dream", so it is a possibilitybhe signs with another promotion. Plus, he already has a W over Patricky and they could easily sell the fight.

PFL for the $1 million dollar prize would be another option. He would be an instant favorite to win the whole thing.

At ONE, there would be some fun, fun matches like Eddie, Aoki, Ok, and of course Lee.
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He said "If RIZIN is a good contract, it will stay at RIZIN." so he is following the money, so I don't imagine the UFC will outbid anyone for his services since they are in the cheap Contender Series contract realm. They didn't even doll out money for Gamrot or guys on his level

I honestly feel like ONE is broke. They aren't signing any big names and the guys who they do have, they aren't booking them often or at all, ala Moraes, Yuri Simoes, Bhullar, etc.
 
TorontoTO said:
He said "If RIZIN is a good contract, it will stay at RIZIN." so he is following the money, so I don't imagine the UFC will outbid anyone for his services since they are in the cheap Contender Series contract realm. They didn't even doll out money for Gamrot or guys on his level

I honestly feel like ONE is broke. They aren't signing any big names and the guys who they do have, they aren't booking them often or at all, ala Moraes, Yuri Simoes, Bhullar, etc.
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Last time the UFC offered him 12k/12k, I dont think his stock has risen since last year, given that he has fought only once, and he lost. I dont see the UFC making a big financial effort to sign him, tbh. Neither do I see RIZIN having enough funds to keep him again, given that they couldnt keep Horiguchi either. So, Im assuming ONE, PFL, and Bellator will be the ones who could make a financial effort to sign him.
 
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Jesse Urholin

Country - Finland
Weight Class - Welterweight
Age : 32
Promotion - Cage Warriors
Record - 8-0

Another impressive performance from the man with the most magnificent mullet in the fight game. Urholin has hugely impressive grappling, positional sense and top control and once he's on top of someone he doesn't really seem to give them a chance to get back into the fight, just casually riding from position to position constantly throwing shots. I think a fight for the CW WW title that Garry vacated has to be next really. It'll be interesting to see how his stand up holds up against someone he finds hard to take down, but so far so good.

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Paul Hughes

Country - Northern Ireland
Weight Class - Featherweight
Age : 24
Promotion - Cage Warriors
Record - 8-1

Another impressive from Hughes in a fight he had to really dig deep in to defeat fellow prospect Morgan Charriere in winning the interim FW title. Hughes has an impressive all round game and is good everywhere. Can strike, wrestle and grapple to a high standard, looking to finish and do damage in all positions. Can be a little reckless with his willingness to throw down and it almost cost him in the 5th round here, but going through a war like that and emerging victorious will do wonders for his learning curve. He now gets to try and avenge his only career defeat and try to unify the belts against champion Jordan Vucenic (even if I thought Hughes won their first fight anyway).

Also shout outs (but not hype trains) to...

Dominique Wooding (25/England/BW/8-4) who outlasted Nathan Fletcher in sacrificing getting dominated early to taking over and getting the finish when his opponent started to tire. I still think Fletcher will go further in the sport once he fixes that stand up hole in his game a bit, but credit where it's due Wooding had a game plan, stuck to it perfectly and walked away a champion.

Oban Elliott (23/Wales/WW/4-1) who had a really impressive bounce back from his first career loss against Mike Figlak with a great win over George McManus. Dominated the fight and scored an absolutely flatlining highlight reel KO.

 
Oban is a weird name for a Welshman, I bet his mother is Turkish - Im sure it's a Turkish or Kurdish name and Wales has both communities.
 
careto said:
Agreed, I wonder why throw him to the deep end so soonn
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I don't think they put too much thought into it initially, they had a spot on the card, Zaleski wanted on it and Benoit must have been on their list of people to call for a fight. If he loses then he's on the roster and will get another one, if he wins then he starts in the top half of the division. Not a terrible situation for him really.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
Forgot to do the rankings

#4 LW Daniel Zellhuber made the UFC this week so congrats to him.

Heavyweight
  1. Sergey Bilostenniy - 25 (Russia) 8-2
  2. Mukhamed Vakhaev - 31 (Russia) 10-4-1
  3. Alikhan Vakhaev - 28 (Russia) 11-2
  4. Hugo Cunha - 28 (Brazil) 6-0 Vs Martin Buday (DWCS) 12th October
  5. Anatoly Malykhin - 33 (Russia) 10-0 (Up 7 places)
  6. Denis Goltsov - 31 (Russia) 27-7
  7. Kang Ji Won - 25 (South Korea) 5-0
  8. Kirill Kornilov - 30 (Russia) 10-0 Vs Guto Inocente (RCC) 16th October
  9. Thomas Petersen - 25 (USA) 5-0
  10. Bruno Cappelozza - 32 (Brazil) 13-5 Vs Ante Delija (PFL) 27th October
  11. Ante Delija - 31 (Croatia) 19-4 Vs Bruno Cappelozza (PFL) 27th October
  12. Renan Ferreira - 31 (Brazil) 8-2
  13. Oleg Popov - 29 (Russia) - 12-1
  14. Marcus Buchecha - 31 (Brazil) 1-0 (New entry)
  15. Jesus Navarrete - 24 (Mexico) 7-0
Light Heavyweight
  1. Murtaza Talha - 23 (Bahrain) 3-0
  2. Anton Turkalj - 25 (Sweden) 7-0 Vs Kaloyan Kolev (DWCS) 12th October
  3. Vitor Petrino - 24 (Brazil) 6-0
  4. Tomasz Narkun - 31 (Poland) 18-4
  5. Muslim Magomedov - 26 (Russia) 10-0
  6. Joshua Silveira - 28 (USA) 6-0 (Up 3 places)
  7. Narsudin Nasrudinov - 29 (Russia) 9-1
  8. Emiliano Sordi - 30 (Argentina) 23-9-1
  9. Rodolfo Bellato - 25 (Brazil) 7-1
  10. Shamil Akhmedov - 30 (Russia) 7-0
  11. Ivan Erslan - 29 (Croatia) 10-1
  12. Marthin Hamlet Nielsen - 29 (Norway) 8-2 Vs Antonio Carlos Jr (PFL) 27th October
  13. Amirkhan Guliev - 29 (Russia) 11-1
  14. Jamal Pogues - 25 (USA) 8-3
  15. Mikhail Ragozin - 29 (Russia) 17-5
Middleweight
  1. Vladimir Mineev - 31 (Russia) 15-1-1 Vs Magomed Ismailov (FNG) 16th October
  2. Salamu Abdurakhmanov - 27 (Russia) 12-1
  3. Ikram Aliaskerov - 28 (Russia) 11-1
  4. Magomedrasul Gasanov - 26 (Russia) 16-2
  5. Reinier De Ridder - 31 (Netherlands) 14-0
  6. Caio Borralho - 28 (Brazil) 9-1
  7. Josh Fremd - 27 (USA) 7-2 Vs Renato Valente (LFA) 22nd October
  8. Aaron Jeffery - 28 (Canada) 10-3
  9. Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz - 31 (Canada) 8-1
  10. Hunter Colvin - 26 (USA) 3-0
  11. Mario Sousa - 24 (Brazil) 12-2
  12. Vladimir Vasilyev - 22 (Russia) 8-1-1
  13. Azamat Bekovev - 25 (Russia) 12-3
  14. Abdul Rakman Dzhanaev - 31 (Russia) 15-2
  15. Artem Frolov - 29 (Russia) 15-4
Welterweight
  1. Roberto Soldic - 26 (Croatia) 19-3
  2. Ray Cooper III - 28 (USA) 23-7-1 Vs Magomed Magomedkerimov (PFL) 27th October
  3. Magomed Magomedkerimov - 31 (Russia) 29-4 Vs Ray Cooper III (PFL) 27th October
  4. Solomon Renfro - 24 (USA) - 8-1 Vs Jonny Parsons (DWCS) 19th October
  5. Kiamran Abbasov - 28 (Kyrgyzstan) 23-4
  6. Nikolay Aleksakhin - 30 (Russia) 26-6
  7. Gabriel Bonfim - 24 (Brazil) 11-0
  8. Shamil Musaev - 27 (Russia) 15-0 Vs Michael Pietrzak (KSW) 23rd October
  9. Abdoul Abdouragimov - 26 (France) 12-1
  10. Daniel Skibinski - 31 (Poland) 18-5
  11. Ramazan Kuramagomedov - 24 (Russia) 9-0
  12. Andrej Grzebyk - 30 (Poland) 18-4
  13. Jarrah Hussein Al-Silawi - 28 (Jordan) 16-3
  14. Benoit Saint-Denis - 25 (France) 8-0
  15. Magomed Umalatov - 29 (Russia) 11-0
Lightweight
  1. Christian Lee - 23 (USA) 15-4
  2. Manoel Sousa - 24 (Brazil) 8-0
  3. Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov - 32 (Russia) 18-2 Vs Hacran Dias (ACA) 5th November
  4. Natan Schulte - 29 (Brazil) 21-4-1
  5. Eduard Vartanyan - 30 (Russia) 23-4
  6. Cristian Perez - 22 (Mexico) 6-0
  7. Roberto Satoshi Souza - 31 (Brazil) 12-1
  8. Milson Castro - 31 (Brazil) 14-3
  9. Rae Yoon Ok - 30 (South Korea) - 16-3 (Re-entry)
  10. Yusuf Raisov - 26 (Russia) 18-2
  11. Tofiq Musaev - 31 (Azerbaijan) 18-4
  12. Mansour Barnaoui - 28 (France) 19-4
  13. Vasily Takhtay - 25 (Kazakhstan) 9-0
  14. Adam Masaev - 21 (Russia) 7-0
  15. Lucas Almeida - 30 (Brazil) 12-1 (new entry)
Featherweight
  1. Islam Omarov - 24 (Russia) 10-0 Vs Dzhihad Yunusov (ACA) 4th October
  2. Timur Khizriev - 25 (Russia) 11-0
  3. Saladhine Parnasse - 23 (France) 15-1-1
  4. Bibert Tumenov - 24 (Russia) 10-2
  5. Tae Kyun Kim - 27 (South Korea) 9-0
  6. Diego Lopes - 26 (Brazil) 19-4 Vs Nate Richardson (FFC) 17th October
  7. Gabriel Santos - 24 (Brazil) 8-0
  8. Jung Young Lee - 25 (South Korea) 7-1
  9. Canaan Kawaihae - 24 (USA) 6-1 Vs Jonas Bilheirino (DWCS) 2nd November
  10. Movlid Khaybulaev - 30 (Russia) 18-0 Vs Chris Wade (PFL) 27th October
  11. Edwin Cooper Jr - 28 (USA) 5-1 (new entry)
  12. Kleber Koike - 31 (Brazil) 28-5-1
  13. Felipe Froes - 29 (Brazil) 20-5-1 Vs Nurbergen Sharipov (ACA) 4th October
  14. Apti Bimazaev - 29 (Belarus) 17-3
  15. Daniel Torres - 27 (Austria/Brazil) 12-4

Bantamweight
  1. Rustam Kerimov - 29 (Russia) 14-0 Vs Daniel Almeida (ACA) 4th October
  2. Herberth Sousa - 27 (Brazil) 15-1
  3. Kai Asakura - 27 (Japan) 18-3
  4. Mo Miller - 29 (USA) 6-0
  5. Denis Lavrentyev - 33 (Russia) 11-2 Vs Jesse Arnett (Parus) 6th November
  6. Jack Cartwright - 27 (England) 10-0
  7. Nathan Fletcher - 23 (England) 6-0 Vs Dominique Wooding (Cage Warriors) 30th September
  8. Mateus Mendonca - 22 (Brazil) 9-0
  9. Abdul-Rahman Dudaev - 29 (Russia) 26-6 Vs Rodrigo Praia (ACA) 4th October
  10. Alberto Montes - 27 (Venezuela) 5-0
  11. Zviad Lazishvili - 29 (Georgia) 12-0
  12. Vinicius De Oliveira - 25 (Brazil) 16-2 Vs Ray Borg (UAE Warriors) 29th October
  13. Magomedgadzhi Sirazhudinov - 25 (Russia) 9-1
  14. Marcos Breno - 23 (Brazil) 14-2
  15. Ruslan Sariev - 24 (Kazahkstan) 12-1
Flyweight
  1. Jake Hadley - 25 (England) 7-0 Vs Mitch Raposo (DWCS) 12th October
  2. Tatsuro Taira - 21 (Japan) 9-0
  3. Adriano Moraes - 32 (Brazil) 19-3
  4. Rafael Ramos - 24 (Brazil) 10-0
  5. Azamat Kerefov - 30 (Russia) 15-0
  6. Yuya Wakamatsu - 26 (Japan) 14-4
  7. Kurban Gadzhiev - 29 (Russia) 17-4
  8. Murad Magomedov - 25 (Russia) 11-0
  9. Muhammad Mokaev - 21 (England) 6-0
  10. Azat Maksum - 26 (Kazakhstan) 13-0
  11. Phumi Nkuta - 25 (USA) 3-0
  12. Santo Curatolo - 26 (USA) 6-2
  13. Alden Coria - 23 (USA) 5-0
  14. Aren Akopyan - 27 (Russia) 12-2-1
  15. Luke Shanks - 26 (England) 8-2 Vs Sam Creasy (Cage Warriors) 2nd October
Womens Batamweight +
  1. Kayla Harrison - 31 (USA) 11-0 Vs Taylor Guardado (PFL) 27th October
  2. Chelsea Chandler - 29 (USA) 3-1
  3. Evelyn Martins - 19 (Brazil) 2-0
  4. Lucia Szabova - 23 (Slovakia) 6-0
  5. Karine Silva - 27 (Brazil) 13-4
  6. Daria Zheleznyakova - 25 (Russia) 5-0 Vs Mariza Loch (OPEN) 4th November
  7. Taneisha Tennant - 32 (USA) 4-1
  8. Genah Fabian - 31 (New Zealand) 4-2
  9. Dakota Ditcheva - 22 (England) 2-0
  10. Lisa Verzosa - 25 (USA) 6-2
  11. Paula Cristina - 26 (Brazil) 5-0
  12. Melissa Croden - 29 (Canada) 2-1
  13. Hope Chase - 22 (USA) 3-1
  14. Ekaterina Shakalova - 24 (Ukraine) 6-1
  15. Luana Santos - 21 (Brazil) 1-0
Womens Flyweight
  1. Tereza Bleda - 19 (Czech Republic) 4-0
  2. Jingnan Xiong - 33 (China) 16-2
  3. Stephanie Geltmacher - 31 (USA) 5-1
  4. Julia Polastri - 22 (Brazil) 8-3
  5. Brogan Sanchez - 32 (USA) 7-2
  6. Jamey-Lyn Horth Wessels - 31 (Canada) 4-0
  7. Laura Fontoura -20 (Brazil) 6-0
  8. Lucrezia Ria - 29 (Italy) 8-3
  9. Colbey Northcutt - 28 (USA) 2-1
Strawweight
  1. Angela Lee - 25 (USA) 10-2
  2. Melissa Martinez - 23 (Mexico) 7-0
  3. Valesca Machado - 26 (Brazil) 8-2 Vs Piera Rodrigues (DWCS) 19th October
  4. Piera Rodrigues - 28 (Venezuela) 6-0 Vs Valesca Machado (DWCS) 19th October
  5. Viktoriya Dudakova - 22 (Russia) 4-0
  6. Yasmine Juaregui - 22 (Mexico) 8-0
  7. Josefine Knutsson - 25 (Sweden) 2-0
  8. Jaqueline Amorim - 26 (Brazil) 4-0
  9. Ewelina Wozniak - 28 (Poland) 6-0
  10. Svetlana Gotysk - 24 (Ukraine) 13-4
  11. Yasmin Castanho - 24 (Brazil) 5-0
  12. Emily Ducote - 27 (USA) 10-6
  13. Stephanie Luciano - 21 (Brazil) 3-0
  14. Rena Kubota - 30 (Japan) 11-3
  15. Dayane Cardoso - 25 (Brazil) 8-1-1
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Nice to see that u finally added Lucia Szabova and Ewelina Wozniak. U should also prepare some space for Penaz and Brichta. They both have very attractive fight style and are very complexed, mainly Penaz is doing suprising progress in ground game as Glory fighter. And is also enormous for MW
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(Sad that OKTAGON cant search legit high level opponent for Penaz....He needs stepup in competition, he is smashing these guys like nothing.)



(Lack of discipline and stupid matchmaking cost him 3 loses.)

edit: forgot to mention Chochlikova, her only one "problem" is that she still compete in Muay-Thai and K1 (she recently won WMC title)


(This fight was after only 2 weeks of MMA training.)
 
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Tokoloko said:
Nice to see that u finally added Lucia Szabova and Ewelina Wozniak. U should also prepare some space for Penaz and Brichta. They both have very attractive fight style and are very complexed, mainly Penaz is doing suprising progress in ground game as Glory fighter. And is also enormous for MW
(photo with Jan)



(Sad that OKTAGON cant give legit high level opponent for Penaz....He needs stepup in competition, he is smashing these guys like nothing.)



(Lack of discipline and stupid matchmaking cost him 3 loses.)

edit: forgot to mention Chochlikova, her only one "problem" is that she still compete in Muay-Thai and K1 (she recently won WMC title)


(This fight was after only 2 weeks of MMA training.)
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Szabova and Wozniak have both been in for months Sherbro. Will check out the others.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
lol, based on how that went for Tumenov, Vakhaev, Goncharov, Kerimov, Vartanyan, Shabliy and Magomedov, good luck.
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There is also Rasulov, one of the first who left ACB/ACA to sign with UFC and then returning. I think also Chuzhigaev, Bilostenniy left ACA (Ibragim I remember was in UAE in 2020 to take a short notice fight for UFC and Bilostenniy was saying that he left to sign with Western promotion) to get signed with UFC/bigger org. I remember reading that Nikaev is with Bellator because UFC wasn't interested in signing him.
 
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