Rate The Card: UFC 310

JoeRowe

Red Belt
Joined
Feb 17, 2017
Messages
8,670
Reaction score
15,398
Pantoja vs Asukura
Shavkat vs Garry
Gane vs Volkov 2
Diaz vs Luque (for now)
Evloev vs Aljo

Reyes vs Smith
Landwher vs Choi
Brown vs Battle
Hooper vs Guida

Chiesa vs Griffin
Van vs Durden
Buddy vs Kuniev
Brzeski vs Teixiera

8.5 out of 10 imo. Decent main event, excellent main-card and depth. No WMMA.

Thoughts?
 
5/10. Prelims are a little bit better than usual but the main card is very overrated. There are "names" on the main card but none of the match-ups are particularly appealing.

Diaz is a decade over the hill, Gane vs Volkov is a completely pointless rematch, and Shavkat will just blanket so it won't be an exciting fight. The average UFC Fight Night is a 1/10 card though so this isn't bad by today's oversaturated standards
 
This is a 5 disguised as a 7.

Very familiar names, champs, contenders to give it a glance.

But I'm only interested in the Shavkat-Garry fight.

I'll watch most of the Card, but expectations are low.
 
6.5/10. Top two fights are solid but not insane, the rest has name fighters but not necessarily in the most compelling match ups. Prelims have some good scraps but nothing mind blowing.
 
I'll go with 8.25/10.15
 
Pretty solid. Not all that interested in Pantoja, but it's a title fight. Shakhvat and Evloev important fights for their division, and Gane vs Volkov an almost certain title eliminator.
Some recognisable names on the undercard doesn't hurt.
 
This Asakura guy is supposed to be pretty exciting, right?
He's legit. Very heavy hands. Has some losses, but has also beaten almost all of the guys he's lost to. Split fights with Horiguchi, but in the fight he won, he knocked Kyoji's block off with relative ease. This will be his first fight at 125, he's been a career BW, so not sure how the extra weight cutting will affect him. Despite fighting most of his career in RIZIN, does have cage experience. A lot of variables as far as Kai goes. I'm not completely sold that he will go in and show out, Pantoja is legit, and I feel had been underrated for a long time around here before he won the belt. Should be a very action packed fight.
 
7.5/10, would be 8/10 but the Nick Diaz fight is -0.5, outright worse than if there were just one less fight on the card
That's the right general idea, but objectively too kind to the Diaz fight. They'd be better off showing a replay of Paul vs Tyson than putting on the Diaz fight.
 
He's legit. Very heavy hands. Has some losses, but has also beaten almost all of the guys he's lost to. Split fights with Horiguchi, but in the fight he won, he knocked Kyoji's block off with relative ease. This will be his first fight at 125, he's been a career BW, so not sure how the extra weight cutting will affect him. Despite fighting most of his career in RIZIN, does have cage experience. A lot of variables as far as Kai goes. I'm not completely sold that he will go in and show out, Pantoja is legit, and I feel had been underrated for a long time around here before he won the belt. Should be a very action packed fight.

<mma4>

Hope he wins. JMMA can use a good representative in the UFC and this guys seems he could fill that role perfectly.

But throwing him in a title fight right off the bat doesn't do much for the drawing power in already a less popular division. Maybe one tune up fight would have been a bit better promotion-wise. It's the main event after all, even though it was probablyvthe co-main before Belal dropped out.
 
Back
Top