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http://www.ufc.com/news/davey-grant...-ready-for-return-fight-night-london-feb-2016

Grant was close to making his post-TUF debut the last time the UFC took up residence at the O2 Arena, making weight for a preliminary card bout with Roland Delorme. But he did so with a torn up knee, leading to the bout being scrapped and the “Team Rousey” fighter being forced to the sidelines. Another major injury followed, pushing his return back even more and the next thing you know, two years had passed.

“It’s not as if it has just been two years off wallowing; I’ve been constantly trying to improve myself as a professional athlete,” “Even when I could do anything after surgery, I sat squeezing hand-grips on the couch, trying to improve my grip; that’s how focused I’ve been.”

The injuries are just a minor bump in the road – things I’ve got to overcome – and I’ve always been focused on getting healthy and getting back into the Octagon,” I’ve got my family to support and I tried so hard to get to the UFC and this is just the beginning.

“It’s been like a two-year fight camp to constantly sharpen the tools and get up to where I knew I needed to be. The sport is constantly evolving and can change a lot in two years and I’ve been evolving with it – rolling with the plans, working on new material – and I know for a certain fact that I’m the best fighter I’ve ever been in all my life.”

I feel like everything is coming together now and this is just the beginning for me. I’m going to take it one step at a time and try to put on the best performance of my life.”
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/Scott-Askham-hoping-for-hometown-boost-fight-night-london-feb-2016

“The UFC had fights in his hometown just one week before this fight,” he says of Dempsey. “If I got dragged out here to fight the hometown guy a week after a show in my own country, I would feel a disadvantage. The crowd in London is going to be out of this world and I seriously can't wait for this one. My fans will be dressed as Knights to show their support.”

“He's looking to come in and stall the fight and hold me down,” he said. “I am better than him on the ground and standing. I am going in there to finish this fight and make a statement of where I belong in the division. I am not looking past Chris, but this means too much to me. I will go out there with my heart on my sleeve in front of my home crowd.”
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/David-Teymur-fighting-a-friend-in-debut-fight-night-london-feb-2016

“Me and my brother came from K-1, so I’ve been fighting a lot of guys who came to the UFC and made their debuts,” the Stockholm resident said. “I’ve already fought in front of 20,000 people and big crowds like that and I’ve been in this game a long time. I’m 26 years old and I have the style that people want to see. (UFC President) Dana White watched my fight and he loved my way of fighting. I have what you need to sell tickets – I know that. I have the fighting character, compared to a lot of other guys. It’s not this classic wrestling style. I have this background with flying knees, flying kicks, and I come with different things. People love to watch that.”

They do, and if the fans love him, the southpaw promises that they’ll be getting even more of the Teymur family in the future in the form of his brother Daniel.
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/Jotko-prepared-to-keep-his-winning-streak-alive

“Bradley has really heavy hands and he likes to catch the guillotine,” Jotko said. “I have to be careful. One time I made a mistake and paid for it, and losing like this again, I will not do. Super Saiyan do not make the same mistake two times.”

“Of course, I want a victory in my next fight, a contract extension, another fight with a fighter in the top 10, and at the end of the year, a fight for the belt.”
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/short-notice-not-a-problem-for-Rivera-in-London

“Once the fight happened, I got sucked into the brawl,” Rivera said. “We’re both the type of fighters who really like to bang and put on a show. And sometimes, game plans fly out the window and you say, ‘To hell with it!’ And you just start swinging until one of us knocks the other out. My game plan went out the window. If there’s a chance where I can let my hands go and just catch him - that’s what I was trying to do.”

“Unfortunately, it didn’t go my way that night,” Rivera said. “It happened so fast. Looking back at the video, I was really upset because if I had followed the aspects of my game plan, I knew I could have beat that guy. After watching it, seeing how many times I hit him, he can take a punch. I was definitely surprised he didn’t go down. That was my mistake. I should have used my range and my height against him. I could have won that fight.

“We were waiting for a fight to happen and waiting for [UFC matchmaker] Sean Shelby to call us soon, so we didn’t know the opponent, but we were expecting a fight soon,” Rivera said. “I had already jumped into camp a little before Henry Briones (Pickett’s original foe) had gotten hurt, so it was perfect timing.

London is a great place and I always wanted to go there and now, I get to take my team there and get to fight for all the fans out there.”

I know we’re already contender for Fight of the Night, and he’s going to come forward every round or every chance he gets. I’m looking forward to putting on a show again and getting this win. Everybody knows me for my hands, so I’m always looking for the knockout and I’m always looking to let my hands go. And I’m ready to do it again against Brad Pickett.”
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/Brad-Picket...vation-in-octagon-fight-night-london-feb-2016

when you have a kid, it's not about you anymore, it's about your kid. “Now, I need to provide for my family and my son, and now I'm thinking about winning more than anything, because you get paid double. So winning, to me, is of more importance. I won't say it's put pressure on me, but it's given me a different type of focus. It's given me a new lease on life in my training.”

Before I always used to fight for the fans and hope that I put on a good fight. Now I still fight for the fans, but I fight for my son as well. I need to put food on the table now. So it's a little bit different mindset.”

when I get into the heat of battle, it all goes (out the window) basically,” he laughs. “In my mindset in that fight (against Almeida), my game plan was to take him down and out grapple him. And I ended up just beating him on his feet and I never expected that. I love fighting on my feet anyway, I like being in wars, but then I let the kid get a chance and he came back and hit me with a great shot and that was it. So I need to be a bit more sensible now and stay away from danger when I can and not just brawl it out. I had never been knocked out in my entire life, so that was an eye opener. I had never been knocked out before, now I can get knocked out, so now I need to be a bit more careful. Before I'm like 'you can punch me because I'm going to hit you back harder.' That's always been my mindset.”
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/Makwan-Amir...nish-to-ufc-fight-fight-night-london-feb-2016

“This fight won’t take too long,” he answers, quick like a shot. “Every night (when) he’s going to sleep, he’s thinking ‘what am I going to say to my family when I come home and I got my ass beat in front of my own family?’ That’s what he’s thinking. Every. (Expletive). Night.”

“Yes, they’re scared,” he states, matter-of-factly. “They’re like dogs, they don’t know what to do. All they can do is bark. I see it from Mike Wilkinson. He’s afraid of my confidence.

But there’s nothing that he can do. We’re going to do some boxing – I’m gonna beat his ass. I’m gonna drop him. I’m gonna knock him out.”

“If he wants to wrestle with me, it’ll be like me teaching wrestling to him, it’ll just be a really happy day for me if we do wrestling. It’ll be like training. When we’re grappling, it’s like me being a black belt with some white belt guy. So, whatever he wants to do, I’m ready and I’m always one step ahead.”

“See you at the press conference,” Amirkhani says.
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/Martin-Sven...elongs-in-octagon-fight-night-london-feb-2016

“Teymur is an extremely good striker but I feel my advantage is my overall experience in the MMA game. That is what will make me victorious. I will be coming forward to apply the pressure and it’s going to be a back and forth fight. It will be a mess and a real scrap.”

“I’m going to embrace it,” he added about fighting in the famed London venue. “I think the whole experience is going to be absolutely great and the crowd is going to give me power. I have had big fights before and I’m kind of used to the pressure. But nothing will compare to this. I will be focused and it’s going to be a great night.”
 
http://www.ufc.com/news/Keita-Nakam...d-ufc-opportunity-fight-night-london-feb-2016

“I admit that I was merely a grappler back in 2008,” he said. “However, I came back now as a well-rounded fighter.”

“Based on Tom Breese’s fight record and the bout order for this event, I understand that he is one of the most promising fighters from the UFC’s point of view,” he said. “However, if I defeat such a fighter, I think my expected value from the UFC will rise. Therefore, this is an important bout for me to shape my future.”

“Tom Breese is a big guy and his striking is strong and heavy, so I think he will take advantage of these things and constantly put a lot of pressure on me,” he said. “But the important thing in this fight is that I keep fighting at my own pace, not his.”

“I think other than the size and power that he possesses, I am superior to Tom Breese in any area.” “They (the fans) can expect me to be on a win streak made possible by my rear naked choke.”
 
Thanks @Card . Your contributions are always appreciated, I think I follow a lot of media til you post all of this stuff lol and a lot of it is very helpful.

My Vera by dec play was the dumbest shit i've done in awhile, and after reading how focused Grant is I will def be on him lol
 
fuck sham i love that breese mouse holm parlay, which books did you blam that on?
 
$100.00 $1,352.88 Pending 6 Team Parlay

Pending 2/27/16 6:00pm UFC Fighting 1102 Gegard Mousasi -325* vs Thales Leites
Pending 2/27/16 3:00pm UFC Fighting 1602 Scott Askham -300* vs Chris Dempsey
Pending 2/27/16 2:30pm UFC Fighting 1701 Yaotzin Meza/Arnold Allen Under 2½ +130*
Pending 2/27/16 2:00pm UFC Fighting 1801 Krzysztof Jotko/Brad Scott Over 2½ -190*
Pending 2/27/16 1:30pm UFC Fighting 1901 Norman Parke/Rustam Khabilov Over 2½ -260*
Pending 2/27/16 4:30pm MMA Props Fighting 1304 Fight won’t go 3 round distance -140* vs Rivera / Pickett goes 3 round distance

I made this play (2u) on impulse last Saturday after hitting a few parlays but this is my first impression of the openers. I wouldn't 'grade' this parlay particularly high, because I had to pay heavy juice on too many fighters but I felt on instinct that these guys would win. Moose has a decent challenge in Leites but I think it'll be dictated by Moose's jab all night and go from there. I expect Pickett/Rivera to throw bombs and if it goes to a decision I would think it's because Pickett worked his wrestling over but I think more often that they do bang and KO.

The only dog bet on this was my expectations of Arnold Allen finishing Meza which I think he will. Meza has fought a bunch of guys who are now 125ers and Allen is a pretty strong kid. He isn't afraid to trade punches and Meza doesn't want to throw heat with the young guy and if he tries to shoot we've seen what Allen can do so he's gotta pick his poison IMO.

2nd wave of props I came up with this. I wish I would've gotten Askham KO at +145. And I don't think Danho is very talented and his punches don't look strong despite being as big as he is. Omie has some good kicks and he can throw. He's a southpaw and I feel like if Danho starts to get tired, he'll have his hands down and a left high kick will be fired at him or a straight punch down the middle.

$50.00 $371.43 Pending 3 Team Parlay
Pending 2/27/16 3:00pm MMA Props Fighting 1633 Askham wins by TKO/KO -105* vs Any other result
Pending 2/27/16 2:30pm MMA Props Fighting 1709 Allen wins inside distance +148*vs Not Allen inside distance
Pending 2/27/16 1:00pm MMA Props Fighting 2040 Omielanczuk (scorecards = no action) -135*vs Danho (scorecards = no action)
Omielanczuk (scorecards = no action) 2/27/2016 1:00 PM - (EST)
Money Line -135 for Game
 
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LEMONZEST said:
I am Canadian so mainly play with BM and 5d. However, I think I actually can sign up for Bet365 and other euro sites so I may look into that when I am ready to start bonus whoring with some of my winnings.
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canadian here and i use 365. prefer that to my previous book (sia).
 
i like allen to finish meza as well but if someone more technically knowledgable than me can break the fight down it would be appreciated
 
piglord said:
i like allen to finish meza as well but if someone more technically knowledgable than me can break the fight down it would be appreciated
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Allen is still a developing fighter but he's got the type of aggression that I think can produce a finish over a journeyman like Meza. He could come out and hit a couple rough patches in this fight if Meza forces some grappling exchanges and it could end up going to the scorecards for it, but I DO expect him to beat Meza. What really impressed me to gun for the ITD is the guillotine choke he put on Omer who was a very respectable fighter. The kid is strong man he's on the upswing against a guy who poses no threat to him anywhere. But I don't endorse this bet highly, if Allen's ML would've been around -220 I'd be more vested into that.

This card opened up everyone with STEEP odds and it's forced me to play him ITD to find any type of value.

I just ante'd up my stakes for the heck of it to give them back some of my money as a tip lol. It's not a correlation to my confidence in any of these plays I just had a good Saturday last week and I was in a position to throw some wacky plays out there (there seems to be a trend of me doing that). On a normal basis I probably would put like 20 bucks on a parlay like this to win a nominal amount.
 
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