Official UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi & Bellator 123: Curran vs Pitbull II Thread [Fri. Sep 5]

[The Infamous]

MAIN CARD
(FOX Sports 1, 10 p.m. ET)
Ronaldo Souza vs. Gegard Mousasi
Alistair Overeem vs. Ben Rothwell
Derrick Lewis vs. Matt Mitrione
Michael Chiesa vs. Joe Lauzon

PRELIMINARY CARD
(FOX Sports 1, 7 p.m. ET)
Nik Lentz vs. Charles Oliveira
John Moraga vs. Justin Scoggins
Rodrigo Damm vs. Al Iaquinta
Chris Camozzi vs. Rafael Natal
Chris Beal vs. Tateki Matsuda
Chas Skelly vs. Sean Soriano

MAIN CARD
(Spike TV, 8 p.m. ET)
Pat Curran vs. Patricio Freire
Dustin Jacoby vs. Muhammed Lawal
Cheick Kongo vs. Lavar Johnson
Josh Burns vs. Bobby Lashley

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A solid night of fights.

Thoughts? Predictions?

 

[The G.O.D II]

Outside that pitbull/curran fight that bellator main card is ass. Lashley? He will gas withing 2 mins as always. Never excited to see Kongo fight and he know doubt will cage stall Lavar. King Mo

 

[The Infamous]

Outside that pitbull/curran fight that bellator main card is ass. Lashley? He will gas withing 2 mins as always. Never excited to see Kongo fight and he know doubt will cage stall Lavar. King Mo

Kongo/Lavar can either be a devastating KO or a boring ass Kongo cage stall. I'm hoping Lavar unloads on Kongo.

Curran/Pitbull II is arguably the best fight on either card, so I thought it deserved a thread.

 

[joeychizzle]

It annoys the fukk outta me how Kongo was a good kickboxer and now he just wall n stalls. Like once he enters the octagon he forgets to strike like he's trained to. Lavar absolutely cannot wrestle or grapple (from what I remember of his shytty UFC run) so it looks like Kongo by UD.
King Mo.. ever since I saw Newton backfist him I'm like meh you second tier. Foh with that gold plated crown breh
I've never really even paid much attention to bellator anyways, but I need to start catching main cards

 

[The Infamous]

Just an update:

the UFC card is now starting at 10:00 pm EST. The main cards will now not overlap.

Nik Lentz vs. Charles Oliveira & John Moraga vs. Justin Scoggins have been moved to the undercard.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Just an update:

the UFC card is now starting at 10:00 pm EST. The main cards will now not overlap.

Nik Lentz vs. Charles Oliveira & John Moraga vs. Justin Scoggins have been moved to the undercard.

Interesting. Scared?

 

[The Infamous]

Interesting. Scared?

Maybe Dana & Coker are

But, everything is pretty much the same though. Before the change, Lentz/Oliveira & Scoggins/Moraga would the overlap with the Bellator main card, that's still going to happen after the change. It's just now those fights are part of the prelims instead of main card.

 

[The Infamous]

MAIN CARD

• Ronaldo Souza (185) vs. Gegard Mousasi (186)
• Alistair Overeem (248) vs. Ben Rothwell (264)
• Derrick Lewis (264) vs. Matt Mitrione (255)
• Michael Chiesa (156) vs. Joe Lauzon (155)

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Nik Lentz (146) vs. Charles Oliveira (150)*
• John Moraga (126) vs. Justin Scoggins (126)
• Rodrigo Damm (156) vs. Al Iaquinta (155)
• Chris Camozzi (186) vs. Rafael Natal (185)
• Chris Beal (135) vs. Tateki Matsuda (135)
• Chas Skelly (145) vs. Sean Soriano (145)

* – Oliveira has three hours to lose an additional four pounds

 

[Change]

I can't call that main event at all.

 

[The Infamous]

I can't call that main event at all.

The whole main card is pretty even. Except for Overeem/Rothwell imo and even then, it wouldn't surprise me to see Rothwell win.

 

[Change]

The whole main card is pretty even. Except for Overeem/Rothwell imo and even then, it wouldn't surprise me to see Rothwell win.

I'm a die hard Reem fan but this fight has me

Huge fan of both guy in the main event. So i hate to see either lose. Jacare's layoff is the only thing i'm worried about right now.

Charles Oliveira is the shyt imo. Love watching him fight. Not sure why he missed weight. I hope he looks good tomorrow. I'd love for him to get into title contention.

 

[The Infamous]

I'm a die hard Reem fan but this fight has me

Huge fan of both guy in the main event. So i hate to see either lose. Jacare's layoff is the only thing i'm worried about right now.

Charles Oliveira is the shyt imo. Love watching him fight. Not sure why he missed weight. I hope he looks good tomorrow. I'd love for him to get into title contention.

Yep, I'm surprised that Jacare is almost a 3-1 favorite, I could see that fight going either way. I'm a fan of both guys as well.

Do Bronx is always exciting, win or lose. He has the potential to make some noise in the division.

 

[Strapped]

will we finally see what jacare is made of

 

[WhodatWhoadi]

Gegard can hold his own grappling..Jacare for awhile might try to strike with Mousasi and end up catching a headkick.

Overeem by submission IF he takes big ben seriously and doest act like a cocky a$$hole only to get KOed.

lauzon submission.

lewis tko

Pitbull is going to come focused and get the decision. I hope...Curran is tough fight.

Mo ground and pound stoppage. but it would be funny if dustin knocked his ass out.

Kongo aint striking with lavar boring decision.

 

[jackswstd]

I'm kinda leaning towards Mousasi but I love both guys and hate to see either lose.
Reem should win this one but you never know with him anymore.