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Foreseeing Khabib-Poirier: Key question is how does he avoids the takedowns ? Also, Can he threat Khabib when he shoots, say, like Masvidal did to Askren ?
 
Luke1995 said:
Got it, but the UFC should have put more effort into promoting that division.
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Its very hard to promote the jockey divisions, especially now that Cejudo has both belts. It was a bit of fun when Dom Cruz, Cody, and TJ were going at it but now that has generally gone. Even FW is increasingly boring with Conor gone and MH is dominating.
 
Luke1995 said:
Foreseeing Khabib-Poirier: Key question is how does he avoids the takedowns ? Also, Can he threat Khabib when he shoots, say, like Masvidal did to Askren ?
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Same coach, so yes, they will probably drill a lot of flying knees.

I remember him catching Alvarez with a few when shooting for takedowns.
 
Raoul said:
Its very hard to promote the jockey divisions, especially now that Cejudo has both belts. It was a bit of fun when Dom Cruz, Cody, and TJ were going at it but now that has generally gone. Even FW is increasingly boring with Conor gone and MH is dominating.
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FW has Volkanovski and Zabit as potential serious threats to MH
 
George Owen said:
Same coach, so yes, they will probably drill a lot of flying knees.

I remember him catching Alvarez with a few when shooting for takedowns.
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I am also interested to see if Khabib will show us anything new in his standup. He could stand and trade with Poirier just to show he is better everywhere. Some fighters have that ego.
 
Luke1995 said:
I am also interested to see if Khabib will show us anything new in his standup. He could stand and trade with Poirier just to show he is better everywhere. Some fighters have that ego.
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I hope so, as that would be the easier path to victory for Dustin, but I doubt so. Khabib is just too focused and professional. (His buddy DC lost the belt for exactly that)

PS. Rewatching the Poirier-Alvarez fight, what I remembered were actually knees to the head, on the clinch. Not defending takedowns.

What Dustin went for to defend takedowns was the guillotine. But I don't know if that would be smart against Khabib. I hope they have worked on the knees more since then.
 
The surprise could be Poirier taking Khabib down and holding him there. We have yet to see Khabib on his back.
 
This Monfils/Svitolina narrative is puke inducing. She just won, and all they’re doing is asking about Monfils. Dafuq
 
Oggmonster said:
Main card is on BT Sport Box Office at 7pm. Prelims is on normal BT Sport at 3pm
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Have they started showing early prelims all the time or just as the main card is PPV? Can't remember recent ones but sure I've never seen them show them.
 
Santos J said:
Have they started showing early prelims all the time or just as the main card is PPV? Can't remember recent ones but sure I've never seen them show them.
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I don't think they ever show the early prelims. The ones on BT will just be the normal prelim fights then the whole main card is on Box Office.
 
Oggmonster said:
I don't think they ever show the early prelims. The ones on BT will just be the normal prelim fights then the whole main card is on Box Office.
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If the programme starts at 3pm on BT then that'd be early prelims as well though is what I meant. The first fight on the early pre's is scheduled to start at 15:15. Prelims start at 17:00.
 
Santos J said:
If the programme starts at 3pm on BT then that'd be early prelims as well though is what I meant. The first fight on the early pre's is scheduled to start at 15:15. Prelims start at 17:00.
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Ah fair play that might be the case, not to sure just noticed when I looked this morning it says it starts at 3pm so you're probably right.
 
Oggmonster said:
Ah fair play that might be the case, not to sure just noticed when I looked this morning it says it starts at 3pm so you're probably right.
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Yeah would be a weird one. Might be a shite attempt to placate the reaction to them going PPV.

RedFish said:
The early prelims are exclusive to UFC FIght Pass usually.
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Yeah thought as much so weird that it looks like they're gonna be showing them.
 
Oggmonster said:
Main card is on BT Sport Box Office at 7pm. Prelims is on normal BT Sport at 3pm
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If Saturdays fight card for UFC 242 starts at 7pm (UK time), what time do you think Khabib fight will be?

Also is it easy to find streams and if so, from where?

Last, does anyone know anywhere a good place to watch in London?
 
Really hope Poirier can find a way to do it, great guy he is. Hard not to see him getting his face smashed in though.
 
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