Tony Ferguson Vs Max Holloway Beef
As we set up for this UFC main event on Saturday between ... between ... concord up. Am I seeing this correct? No UFC this weekend?
For the start time since April 2, the UFC does not have an event this week. That won't be the example over again for a while, as events are scheduled for every week of June and July.
But fifty-fifty with no event to talk virtually this weekend, at that place's all the same enough to hash out in and around the sport every bit nosotros close out the calendar month of May and await ahead to a packed summertime schedule. UFC 275 and UFC 276 volition accept a combined 4 title fights, and the UFC makes stops in Texas and England during the upcoming months.
Will champions, such as Alexander Volkanovski, be able to retain their belts? Can former contenders, like Joanna Jedrzejczyk, notice their way back toward title contention? What does the future hold for longtime veterans Tony Ferguson and Donald Cerrone?
We'll answer those questions and more in the latest edition of Five Rounds.
1. Tony Ferguson is ready to team up
Since his loss to Michael Chandler on May 7, Ferguson has been on something of a media bout, and I've got to say I love what I'm hearing. "El Cucuy" looked dandy in that fight at UFC 274, only Chandler sits at the fringes of the title picture, correct at the tiptop of the sport. The fact that Ferguson dropped him and took the first round means something -- even if, at the same time, we tin admit Ferguson is no longer in his prime number.
Discussion is out that Ferguson wants to join an MMA camp once more, which I love. I've believed he could benefit from this for a while. Later on Beneil Dariush beat him last year, I asked Dariush if he would consider extending an invitation to Ferguson to join him at Kings MMA. Ferguson believes in his own approach and that he knows best. That belief has carried him well, but having a sounding lath around yous and some management can exist salubrious. I'll be curious to encounter where he goes and who is in his corner for his next fight.
2. Here is the Merely fashion nosotros will ever 'fix' judging in MMA
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Holly Holm stunned past Ketlen Vieira via split up determination
Ketlen Vieira stuns Holly Holm in a close split-decision win at UFC Fight Night.
I don't peculiarly bask talking near judging in MMA anymore, only it was a hot-button issue over again after a very close primary event betwixt Ketlen Vieira and Holly Holm last weekend.
It's more than or less the same chat every fourth dimension -- and I have held the same opinion on it for years. We take a broken system. We are using a rudimentary x-betoken-must organisation adopted from boxing to score a very complex sport.
There are far more factors to score in MMA than in boxing, requiring a more sophisticated system. There are likewise fewer rounds, meaning we're using i option (a score of 10-nine) for an extensive range of outcomes, and so nosotros're placing more value on each round. Information technology's a recipe for disaster.
How many times afterward a shut fight practice you hear people say, "Well, I recollect this person won, merely I'll exist good with any outcome"? And information technology'southward true. There are a lot of fights in which that can be said. How are we OK with that?
If a scoring system lends itself to us arguing over scorecards every weekend, that's non skillful. The possible outcomes of a round are exceptionally various, but we are using 1 score for it all. It would be like scoring a basketball a necktie when a team lost the first half by 2 points and won the 2d half by fifteen.
We need a new, decimal-based scoring system for MMA -- and no one can convince me otherwise. Merely we're nowhere close to that happening. We'll have this same conversation a calendar month from now. See you lot and then.
3. Volkanovski vs. Holloway three is must lookout
This is the biggest fight of the summer. Truly. I don't know if we're sleeping on information technology a little right at present, but past the fourth dimension this ane comes effectually, I hope it receives the attention information technology deserves. Considering information technology is massive. The first two fights were too close to telephone call (again, meet my frustrations over MMA judging earlier). Had Holloway won the second fight, we're talking nigh a completely unlike narrative at 145 pounds. The effect of this fight volition accept a lasting impact on what happens at featherweight -- and lightweight. Because whether it's Volkanovski or Holloway holding the belt, they each will have a future involvement in moving up to 155 pounds.
This is a rare fight in that information technology's two of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the earth squaring off. How oftentimes has that happened? This is a Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier level of excellence.
In that location are some fantastic fights this summer, simply this is the ane for me. And it's not particularly close.
4. Cowboy Cerrone's journeying to fifty
What else is at that place to say most what happened at UFC 274 other than it was just regrettable? I was excited to see Cowboy walk in front of fans again, especially after the emotional way he spoke almost fighting in front of his son, who is now quondam plenty to somewhat comprehend the moment. Getting his fight against Joe Lauzon quickly rebooked in Austin Texas, on June eighteen is good for all parties involved.
Meanwhile, Cowboy has said on social media he wants to fight two more times to attain the number of 50 bouts between his WEC and UFC careers. Perhaps keep an eye on that topic during his fight week in Austin considering he has 47 fights between the WEC and UFC, not 48. He should be the ane to explain what happened there with the mixup on the number of fights, just I know that the number "50" does mean something to him. Depending on how things go, I believe he will attempt to get in that location to wrap up one of my favorite careers in the sport's history.
v. Could Zhang Weili vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk 2 repeat as Fight of the Year?
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Flashback: Weili, Joanna flake in fight for the ages
Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk trade blows throughout their championship bout at UFC 248.
I call up about this rematch for obvious and non-obvious reasons.
The obvious: I believe the starting time fight was ane of the greatest of all time. Every Saturday, we see a Fight of the Night in the UFC, correct? And what makes a fight stand up out on any night is action, excitement, etc. But what makes a fight stand out forever is when ii athletes button each other to a point where 1 of them probably should break.
Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson I. Shogun Rua vs. Dan Henderson I. Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum. Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald Ii (even though there was a belatedly terminate in that 1). Those were bouts in which we saw both fighters button by a limit we would have never guessed they could. The aforementioned tin can be said almost that first fight between Zhang and Jedrzejczyk.
I've talked to both women ahead of this rematch, and they know what they're in for -- that the other one won't quit. They know how difficult of a fight it will exist, and they've made peace with the fact that anything can happen. It will exist a smashing rematch, and the event should produce the side by side championship challenger.
The non-obvious: If Jedrzejczyk comes upwardly curt once again, I wonder what happens with the residual of her career. She has accomplished so much, and she'due south very content with where her career is. She has reached a indicate where but the biggest fights volition get her to stay in the sport. I won't go so far equally to say I think she'll retire with a loss, merely it's in the realm of possibility.
Source: https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/33978271/tony-ferguson-potential-team-cowboy-cerrone-quest-50-fix-mma-judging
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