News Rinat Fakhretdinov vs. Nursulton Ruziboev is set for UFC308 (Abu Dhabi)

[LoveMyMMA]

 

[Gabe]

Two of the lesser interesting complicated name prospects. I will go with Nursulton? I thought Rinat lost his last two fights.

 

[LoveMyMMA]

Two of the lesser interesting complicated name prospects. I will go with Nursulton? I thought Rinat lost his last two fights.

Both guys are talented but posses poor gas tanks.

Fight should be fun for the first round or two.

 

[kingmob6]

Two of the lesser interesting complicated name prospects. I will go with Nursulton? I thought Rinat lost his last two fights.

he is on a 22 fight unbeaten streak, although Dalby gave him a fight for sure. He definitely has holes.

I don't think a 6'6 dude who is not really skinny should be fighting at 170, that's ridiculous. He can easily be a LHW. I will not root for him simply because he has no business fighting at 170.

 

[markys00]

he is on a 22 fight unbeaten streak, although Dalby gave him a fight for sure. He definitely has holes.

I don't think a 6'6 dude who is not really skinny should be fighting at 170, that's ridiculous. He can easily be a LHW. I will not root for him simply because he has no business fighting at 170.

Are you body shaming?

 

[JoeRowe]

Is it just me ot is the ufc only making mid-to-low tier matchups lately? Other than Gane/Volkov I can't think of 1 other important fight announcement in the last few weeks

 

[Lights Out 101]

Rinat should take this imo. I could very well be underestimating Joaquin Buckley, but losing a decision to him doesn't give me much hope with how high your ceiling is going to be.

 

[Thesnake101]

Two of the lesser interesting complicated name prospects. I will go with Nursulton? I thought Rinat lost his last two fights.

Ruziboev seems to have negative wrestling, and the gas tank you'd expect out of a high finishing rate guy, so I think this is a fight being made for Rinat to get some shine back.

Expecting 3 rounds of Rinat tossing him around, like he did to Battle and Andreas.

 

[Marko Atanasovik]

Ohooo I love it.
Rinat should start wrestle earlier, cause if he stand n bang it will end fatally.

 

[Brigfa2]

Uzbek guy gives me WW James Vick vibes

 

[kingmob6]

Rinat should take this imo. I could very well be underestimating Joaquin Buckley, but losing a decision to him doesn't give me much hope with how high your ceiling is going to be.

you are underestimating buckley, he is fucking good.

 

[Safton]

Ruziboev looked pretty bad in his last outing, no doubt due in large part to a decent step up in competition alongside the mind-boggling decision by himself and his team to cut down to Welterweight despite the fact that he's already a pretty big Middleweight who has historically enjoyed considerable success at 185 whilst having a shaky regional record whenever he tried to make the cut to 170.

Rinat looked like he was going to be something at 170 with his smothering chain-wrestling, top control, and heavy hands... but he seems to have run into a wall with the Top 20 guys. There's a case to be made for him losing to both Zaleski and Dalby. I still think he's a problem for a lot of dudes in the division with his style, but I don't think he's the terror he initially looked like.

If this was at 185, I'd favor Ruziboev stylistically... he's actually shown a pretty dynamic bottom game at times rolling for submissions and sweeps off his back. And on the feet, I think his larger frame and long-range weapons (straight punches, kicks) would be telling against Rinat who likes to load up on looping punches. However, at 170 it's really hard to trust him. He is there to be taken down, his gas tank suffers, and I suspect his durability does, too. I think Rinat will grind him out on the mat, against the cage, and potentially land some big shots. It'll probably be competitive though.

No idea why Ruziboev insists on doing this to himself. He didn't even lose at 185 before moving down... he was on like a 9-fight win streak at weights above 170 and abruptly decided "Nah, fuck this."

 

[runjay]

Double ko
Double cut

 

[Luckyme]

Ruziboev looked like a monster at 185. Don't know why he's continuing to fight at 170 where he is compromised by the weight cut and has more grapplers to deal with.

 

[PEDRO IVO RUSSO MIRANDA]

Lol, This guys insists in cut to 170... A shame, he looks Very good at 185

 

[Urluberluu]

Two of the lesser interesting complicated name prospects. I will go with Nursulton? I thought Rinat lost his last two fights.

Rusiboev got fraudhceck by Buckley
Rinat is legit , not top 5 level but really good

 

[sonhow]

you are underestimating buckley, he is fucking good.

Id pick Buckley big vs Rinat. Might be a max bet honestly.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Rinat lays on him for 15mins, don't see this being an interesting fight.

 

[Cobra 03]

Oh good, two more fighters that nobody knows and nobody but their mothers can pronounce their names! I can't wait!

 

[Kourtland]

I like this fight.