Sunday, May 10, 2020

UFC 249 Results & Reactions: Cringe King Retires, Gaethje Interim Champ, Fabricio Falters...

I'm gonna just skip over that Jacare had a family member test positive and he and his cornermen showed up and were around others at the venue....as though he couldn't have gotten tested or the UFC couldn't have made that happen prior to him making the trip to the UFC venue....

Cringe King wins questionable stoppage and retires: Talk about worst case scenario...I think he's angling for more money that Dana doesn't want to pay him because Cejudo has never caught on with mainstream fans of any demographic. He's too cringe, too weird, and not in the bizarre Ferguson way, in the "try hard" bad WWE way that also isn't funny. Cruz was adjusting to the leg heavy attack of Cejudo at range at the close of the 2nd round. At any rate, if Cejudo retires, 2 belts are up for grabs. Cruz vs a returning Dillashaw is the best fight on paper to make, as close as their last fight was, but does the UFC put in a guy who's been proven to have used EPO twice in his career in an immediate title fight coming off of a layoff/suspension/and violent KO loss? Do two guys with losses fight for the now vacant belt?

You can angle Cruz better for the vacant belt fight with the questionable stoppage than you can Dillashaw, and then perhaps have Aljamain and Yan Petr as the title contender fight in the co-main.

Niko Price lost via accumulated damage to the slick counter punching power of Luque, Price did his best work when he would chain together striking exchanges with takedowns but didn't sustain the gameplan success throughout. Ngannou showed why he's the best guy not lined up to fight for the belt next (though I do believe DC takes him down and batters him the way Stipe did) and Oleinik continued his Frankenstein stalk and plod and batter and possibly submit you gameplan winning ways against the returning Fabricio who can't complain as in 2 rounds he had top positiion and the back and various other dominant positions against the crafty Oleinik. Bryce Mitchell put on a masterful MMA grappling clinic on Rosa that was debilitatingly one-sided. Esparza picked up a win over Waterson because when you back up for nearly the entire fight, some judges have a hard time thinking you won.

Greg Hardy picked up a win after Castro stopped fighting and just moved around for 2 rounds following hurting his own foot with a low kick. Alvey and Spann opened up the broadcast with a lukewarm affair but at that point, we were all just glad to be watching a UFC or any sporting event TBH. Kattar and Stephens put on an exciting stand-up fight with Kattar clipping him with a horizontal elbow then followed up with punches and an elbow on the ground. Pettis picked up a close decision over Cowboy in a fight that could've gone either way. 

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