Weekend MMA (22nd - 24th Apr) - Vote for the 5 Best Fights

[mattandbenny]

UFC 197 (Sat 23rd Apr, 10:00 PM, USA, PPV)
Jon Jones (22-0) vs. Ovince Saint-Preux (19-7) - Light Heavyweight Title
Demetrious Johnson (23-2) vs. Henry Cejudo (10-0)
Anthony Pettis (18-4) vs. Edson Barboza (16-4)
Robert Whittaker (15-4) vs. Rafael Natal (21-6)
Yair Rodrigues (6-1) vs. Andre Fili (15-3)
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Sergio Pettis (13-2) vs. Chris Kelades (9-2)
Daniel Roberts (12-1) vs. Dominique Steele (14-6)
Carla Esparza (10-3) vs. Juliana Lima (8-2)
James Vick (8-0) vs. Glaico Franca (13-3)
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Walt Harris (7-4) vs. Cody East (12-1)
Clint Hester (11-5) vs. Marcos De Lima (13-3)
Efrain Escudero (24-10) vs. Kevin Lee (11-2)


Bellator 153 (Fri 22nd Apr, 8:00 PM, USA, Spike TV)
Andrey Koreshkov (18-1) vs. Benson Henderson (23-5) - Welterweight Title
Patricio Freire (24-3) vs. Henry Corrales (12-2)
Michael Page (9-0) vs. Jeremie Holloway (7-1)
Brennan Ward (13-3) vs. Cyborg Santos (20-16)
Gleristone Santos (27-5) vs. Brent Primus (6-0)
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Chris Honeycutt (6-1) vs. Matt Secor (7-2)
Matt Bessette (17-7) vs. Keith Richardson (14-6)
Djamil Chan (12-2) vs. Richard Patishnock (6-3)
Felipe Levandoski (5-0) vs. Chris Foster (8-4)
TJ Hepburn (4-2) vs. Jay Bakanowski (3-2)
Tim Caron (3-0) vs. Justin Sumter (0-0)


Legacy FC 54 (Fri 22nd Apr, 10:00 PM, USA, AXS.tv)
Marcelo Nunes (5-0) vs. Rafael Lovato Jr (2-0) - Middleweight Title
Andrew Todhunter (7-0) vs. Evan Thompson (5-2)
Trey Hosuton (11-3) vs. Charles Byrd (6-4)
Justin Rader (3-2) vs. Aaron Robinson (0-1)
Derrick Adkins (6-2) vs. Daryl Wilson (2-0)
Ed Cline Jr (8-5) vs. Bilal Williams (4-2)
Logan Cunningham (4-0) vs. Kyle Driscoll (0-0)


PRIDE Show (Sat 23rd Apr, 10:00 AM, Russia)
Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (27-4) vs. Shannon Ritch (55-80)
Jeff Monson (59-25) vs. Maxim Kiselev (0-0)
Amirkhan Adaev (9-2) vs. Vadim Shagin (2-1)
Maxim Futin (6-2) vs. Tomasz Czerwinski (8-13)


URCC 27 (Sat 23rd Apr, 12:00 AM, Philippines)
Will Chope (30-9) vs. Richie Redman (2-4) - Lightweight Title
Hideo Morikawa (8-3) vs. Carls de Tomas (5-0) - Flyweight Title
Caloy Baduria (9-4) vs. Chris Hofmann (3-1) - Light Heavyweight Title
Reydon Romero (9-5) vs. Do Gyeom Lee (1-1) - Featherweight Title
Drex Zamboanga (4-2) vs. Andrew Benibe (6-8)
Eddie Estrada (2-0) vs. Fritz Biagtan (2-0)


Shooto (Sat 23rd Apr, 12:00 AM, Japan, UFC Fight Pass)
Hiromasa Ogikubo (14-3) vs. Masaaki Sugawara (18-10) - Flyweight Title
Yuki Kawana (10-0) vs. Koshi Matsumoto (15-6) - Lightweight Title
Caol Uno (32-18) vs. Jason Childers (0-2)
Yoshiro Maeda (33-15) vs. Kosuke Suzuki (11-5)
Yutaka Saito (11-1) vs. Bill Algeo (8-2)
Taison Naito (7-1) vs. Ryogo Takahashi (7-3)
Wataru Miki (21-14) vs. Jin Aoi (2-0)
Taiki Tsuchiya (12-6) vs. Kosuke Terashi (13-9)
Tadaaki Yamamoto (11-8) vs. Kazuki Fujita (4-3)


Pancrase (Sun 24th Apr, 2:00 AM, Japan, UFC Fight Pass)
Issei Tamura (9-7) vs. Juntaro Ami (9-8) - Featherweight Title
Kazuki Tokodume (15-6) vs. Akbarh Arreola (23-10)
Yusuke Yachi (14-5) vs. Kleber Koike Erbst (18-4)
Victor Henry (11-2) vs. Alan Yoshihiro Yamaniha (13-4)
Mamoru Yamaguchi (28-10) vs. Senzo Ikeda (8-5)
Takasuke Kume (17-5) vs. Eiji Ishikawa (28-21)
Atsushi Yamamoto (18-10) vs. Yusuke Ogikubo (8-3)
Yuki Yamasaki (9-3) vs. Toshikazu Suzuki (8-5)
Bob Armstrong (6-2) vs. Yuki Nimura (8-3)


EFC Africa (Fri 22nd Apr, 9:00 AM, South Africa)
Irshaad Sayed (10-2) vs. Cedric Doyle (8-2) - Bantamweight Title
Brendon Groenewald (6-3) vs. Danie Van Heerden (9-8) - Heavyweight Title
Francois Groenewald (9-6) vs. Boney Bukaka (1-4)
Keleka Kabanda (3-0) vs. Mark Hulme (3-2)
Lyle Karam (3-0) vs. Okosso Mweniemali (0-1)
Sibusiso Mdoko (5-3) vs. Hanru Botha (5-3)
Don Madge (4-3) vs. Tyson Chelin (3-5)
Stefan Pretorius (2-1) vs. Bruno Mukulu (2-5)


California Extreme Fighting (Fri 22nd Apr, 9:30 PM, USA)
Cody Bollinger (17-6) vs. Jay Bogan (6-5) - Featherweight Title
Karen Darabedyan (11-5) vs. Joe Condon (12-9) - Lightweight Title
Alfred Khashakyan (5-2) vs. Andrew Natvidad (6-6) - Bantamweight Title
Matt Spencer (4-1) vs. Moses Murray (2-0) - Middleweight Title
Terrion Ware (13-5) vs. Rob Gooch (4-2)


Fight Time 30 (Fri 22nd Apr, 7:00 PM, USA, CBS Sports Network)
Niko Price (6-0) vs. Jose Caceres (11-6) - Welterweight Title
Yoislandy Izquierdo (9-2) vs. Rafael Alves (13-7)
Vagner Rocha (11-4) vs. Gabriel Miranda (9-3)
Anderson Melo (11-9) vs. Walber de Barros (6-6)


Triumph FC 1 (Fri 22nd Apr, 8:00 PM, Canada, GFL.tv)
Tom Gallicchio (19-8) vs. Andrew McInnes (6-1) - Lightweight Title
Tyson Nam (14-8) vs. Yoni Sherbatov (5-0)
Alex Ricci (9-3) vs. Jose Rodriguez (7-5)
Sabah Fadai (11-4) vs. Tito Jones (11-8)
Kevin Croom (16-6) vs. Lenny Wheeler (9-3)
Mark Drummond (7-3) vs. Nicolae Cury (7-6)


Fight Nights (Fri 22nd Apr, 10:00 AM, Russia, UFC Fight Pass)
Ivan Jorge (26-5) vs. Akhmet Aliev (11-4)
David Khachatryan (21-3) vs. Vener Galiev (26-8)
Viktor Kichigin (9-3) vs. Zaur Kasumov (7-1)
Akhmed Balkizov (4-0) vs. Ruslan Yamanbaev (2-1)
Mikhail Ragozin (4-1) vs. Luis Brito (1-1)
Asu Almabaev (2-0) vs. Galamirza Aivazov (0-0)


DEEP (Sat 23rd Apr, 2:00 AM, Japan)
Masakazu Imanari (32-15) vs. Nam Phan (21-15)
Naoto Miyazaki (12-4) vs. Tamotsu Hayashi (5-3)
Rio Date (5-0) vs. Yasuaki Miura (6-7)
Takahiro Okoshi (5-0) vs. Kazuhide Shirota (4-3)
Naoki Inoue (5-0) vs. Iyori Akiba (2-1)
Luiz Andrade (18-16) vs. Shigetoshi Iwase (14-18)
Juri Ohara (17-11) vs. Tae Ho Jin (2-2)
Yusaku Tsukumo (13-6) vs. Nao Yoneda (5-2)
Tatsunao Nagakura (11-5) vs. Hiroto Uesako (9-5)
Isamu Odagiri (7-2) vs. Kota Ishibashi (6-8)
Yuki Ohara (6-2) vs. Yoshihiko Shinzato (3-1)
Yuma Horiuchi (4-1) vs. Yasutaka Ishigami (4-4)


Aspera FC 35 (Sat 23rd Apr, 1:00 PM, Brazil)
Iliarde Santos (30-11) vs. Bruno Viana (9-1)
Alexandre Ramos (9-3) vs. Rafael Moreira (10-3)
Juliano Wandalen (9-3) vs. Welington Almeida (9-5)
Marcone Muniz (7-2) vs. Fernando Leitao (1-2)


Combate Americas 4 (Mon 25th Apr, 10:00 PM, USA, UFC Fight Pass)
Tony Lopez (40-21) vs. Dominick Reyes (3-0)
John Castaneda (9-2) vs. Gabriel Solorio (13-11)
Oliver Vazquez (6-1) vs. Adin Duenas (3-1)
Erick Gonzalez (4-1) vs. Victor Martinez (6-3)
Jenny Silverio (4-1) vs. Kyra Batara (4-3)
Heinrich Wassmer (3-0) vs. Ramos Cruz (2-2)


WLF Epic (Sat 23rd Apr, 8:00 AM, China)
Paata Robikidze (20-8) vs. Jumayi Ayideng (10-3)
Artak Nazaryan (16-7) vs. Jai Cai Zhang (1-1)
Grigory Popov (7-1) vs. Ze Wu (5-4)
Tetsuya Fusano (9-4) vs. Jingjia Wang (0-1)
Lige Teng (8-4) vs. Andrey Lezhnev (7-6)
Sergei Sokol (7-5) vs. Sen Yang (2-1)
Zhu Dan (4-1) vs. Arthur Aslanyan (0-2)
Rae Yoon Ok (4-1) vs. Pu Zhang (0-0)


West Fight 20 (Fri 22nd Apr, 11:00 AM, Ukraine)
Taras Grytskiv (9-4) vs. Ivan Andrushchenko (6-3) - Bantamweight Title
Stepan Poshyvak (10-4) vs. Maksim Sergeev (4-5)
Anton Radko (4-0) vs. Andrey Podnebesniy (1-2)
Igor Grysdkiv (5-2) vs. Bogdan Kablyuk (1-0)
Vadim Russul (8-5) vs. Sultan Kalamahunov (10-23)
Aleksandr Gorshechnik (3-10 vs. Erik Arakelyan (0-0)


AFL 8 (Sat 23rd Apr, 1:00 PM, Spain)
Daniel Requeijo (6-2) vs. Jesus Montero (5-6) - Featherweight Title
Jean Manuel Suarez (16-8) vs. Deyvison Santos (6-4)
Jonay Lopez (6-1) vs. Cicero Coutinho (7-6)
Gerardo Nunez (6-1) vs. Gabriel Macario (4-0)
Bruno Borges (5-2) vs. Ivan Rivero (6-3)


Elite 1 (Sat 23rd Apr, 6:30 PM, Canada)
Shawn Wallace (6-0) vs. Mandel Nallo (4-0) - Lightweight Title
Kyle Nelson (6-1) vs. Justin Bourgeois (7-5) - Featherweight Title
Adam Hunter (5-1) vs. Bruno Lurette (2-1) - Middleweight Title


Best of the Rest
Johnny Bedford (20-12) vs. Taylor Moore (2-0) - WXC 63
Darrick Minner (15-5) vs. Bill Kamery (13-4) - DCS 25
Zak Ottow (11-3) vs. Frank Schuman (7-1) - KOTC
Declan Dalton (6-0) vs. Gary Morris (7-9) - Clan Wars 24
Ian Heinisch (5-0) vs. Jeremy Spelts (3-2) - SCL
Istela Nunes (4-0) vs. Karoline Martins (3-0) - FLC 2
Louei Sanoudaki (4-0) vs. Owen Carr (6-3) - Hard Knocks
Devin Powell (5-1) vs. Jesse Erickson (7-4) - NEF 22


Top Mismatches of the Week (Total Mismatch Record since 30/01/16 - W64-L7)
Francois Groenewald (9-6) vs. Boney Bukaka (1-4) - EFC Africa
Will Chope (30-9) vs. Richie Redman (2-4) - URCC
Tetsuya Fusano (9-4) vs. Jingjia Wang (0-1) - WLF Epic
Marcone Muniz (7-2) vs. Fernando Leitao (1-2) - Aspera FC


Eddie Bravo Invitational (Sun 24th Apr, UFC Fight Pass)
No-Gi BJJ - 16-man Openweight Tournament
The Bracket:
Garry Tonon vs. Felipe Fogolin
Yuri Simoes vs. Evandro Nunes
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Eddie Cummings vs. Jacen Lynn
Marcello Bergo vs. Fabian Bolanos
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Matheus Diniz vs. Lucas Rocha
Abraham Marte vs. Richie Martinez
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Bruno Bastos vs. DJ Jackson
Rustam Chsiev vs. Amir Allam


Boxing
Gennadiy Golovkin (34-0) vs. Dominic Wade (18-0) - WBA & IBF Middleweight Title
Erik Skoglund (24-0) vs. Ryno Liebenberg (17-2)

 

[Asurah]

On the Pancrase card it's Juntaro Ushiku fighting for the title, not Ami.

Pretty great week of MMA. Good Fight Pass offerings with Shooto's debut, Pancrase, and Fight Nights

 

[qw3rty]

Damn, these weekend was hard to choose

 

[Meathead Jock]

Would have liked to have had about 8 choices this week!

 

[Kinger85]

thanks as always.

Much appreciated.

 

[mattandbenny]

Voters card of the weekend

Jon Jones (22-0) vs. Ovince Saint-Preux (19-7) - Main Event - 28 Votes
Demetrious Johnson (23-2) vs. Henry Cejudo (10-0) - Co-Main - 27 Votes
Andrey Koreshkov (18-1) vs. Benson Henderson (23-5) - 27 Votes
Anthony Pettis (18-4) vs. Edson Barboza (16-4) - 28 Votes
Gennadiy Golovkin (34-0) vs. Dominic Wade (18-0) - 12 Votes
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Yair Rodrigues (6-1) vs. Andre Fili (15-3) - 9 Votes
Patricio Freire (24-3) vs. Henry Corrales (12-2) - 7 Votes
Michael Page (9-0) vs. Jeremie Holloway (7-1) - 6 Votes
Brennan Ward (13-3) vs. Cyborg Santos (20-16) - 5 Votes
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Robert Whittaker (15-4) vs. Rafael Natal (21-6) - UFC - 3 Votes
Cody East (12-1) vs. Walt Harris (7-4) - 3 Votes
Marcelo Nunes (5-0) vs. Rafael Lovato Jr (2-0) - Legacy (MW Title) - 3 Votes

 

[CC27]

Good fights this weekend, top 5 are really easy, top 3 UFC fights, Bendo/Koreshkov and GGG.

 

[Rogerdraven]

I picked 5 but it was hard as I only really care about two of those fights. The rest, eh. Jones vs OSP and Benson Henderson vs Koreshkov. And those two are mostly just to see if there is an upset.

 

[Necrocrawler]

U forgot about the greatest mismatch of the weekend:

Jeff Monson (59-25) vs. Maxim Kiselev (0-0)

 

[Nathanli]

Huge weekend for MMA. Lots of interesting fights all over the place. Thanks for this. Always looks like such a pain putting it together.

I'm excited for a fight happening local to me too. Johnny Bedford vs. Taylor Moore. If you look at records, Bedford seems like the obvious favorite but Moore was (17-1) as an amateur and is (2-0) as a pro and looks ready to take on top competition. I think theres a solid chance for an upset.