UFC 259: Let's get this thread started already

**Schnitzl** · 03-01-2021, 01:01 AM

One of the best cards I've seen

Main card

Light Heavyweight Jan Błachowicz (c) vs. Israel Adesanya
Women’s Featherweight Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Megan Anderson
Bantamweight Petr Yan (c) vs. Aljamain Sterling
Lightweight Islam Makhachev vs. Drew Dober
Light Heavyweight Thiago Santos vs. Aleksandar Rakić

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)

Bantamweight Dominick Cruz vs. Casey Kenney
Bantamweight Song Yadong vs. Kyler Phillips
Flyweight Joseph Benavidez vs. Askar Askarov
Flyweight Rogério Bontorin vs. Kai Kara-France
Women’s Strawweight Lívia Renata Souza vs. Amanda Lemos

Early preliminary card (ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)

Flyweight Tim Elliott vs. Jordan Espinosa
Light Heavyweight Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Carlos Ulberg
Welterweight Sean Brady vs. Jake Matthews
Lightweight Uroš Medić vs. Aalon Cruz
Bantamweight Mario Bautista vs. Trevin Jones

Uros coming from DWCS, gonna be a banger.
Carlos Ulberg will steal all yo gf's and wives vs an absolute tank
Brady vs Matthews gonna be a slugfest
Benavides gonna make Megan cry again
Song Yadong the thunderwang outta nowhere with a KO
Dominic Cruz always fun to see
Rakic & Santos FOTN
Islam chokes out Dober
Sterling coming in with an upset
Anderson already prepaid her 3 month hospital stay
Blachowicz with a fourth round comeback upset

My balls are already peppered, will order the largest hawaiian pizza for the day

**sooby** · 03-01-2021, 06:01 AM

man this is such a stacked card

seriously want Blachowicz to beat the brakes off Adesanya. Honestly don't know how this would end up but Adesanya could easily pick him apart from the outside provided he doesn't take too many hits, he's so good with distance management.

Petr Yan vs Sterling should be a good fight, still got Yan though.

Rakic vs Santos might be potentially the best fight on the card. Two yuge LHWs with big power going at it

plenty of other good fights too, lol at Cruz on the undercard haha but I guess that's where he belongs nowadays.

**ninetynine8** · 03-01-2021, 06:55 AM

I think izzy vs jan will be closer than people think. I predict izzy by sub

**JMath** · 03-01-2021, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by ninetynine8

I think izzy vs jan will be closer than people think. I predict izzy by sub

Who are most people expecting to win?

Personally, I would take Izzy and not think twice about it. Jan has more power, and... what else? Izzy has more ways he can win the fight and Jan has to catch him with a big shot (definitely possible) and finish him. Jan is a lot more hype than the UFC wants to admit. They act like he has already beaten the who's who and that he has a hall of fame worthy resume.

inb4 Jan win's in the first minute by flying triangle choke and shuts me right up

**ninetynine8** · 03-01-2021, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by JMath

Who are most people expecting to win?

Personally, I would take Izzy and not think twice about it. Jan has more power, and... what else? Izzy has more ways he can win the fight and Jan has to catch him with a big shot (definitely possible) and finish him. Jan is a lot more hype than the UFC wants to admit. They act like he has already beaten the who's who and that he has a hall of fame worthy resume.

inb4 Jan win's in the first minute by flying triangle choke and shuts me right up

Most people are expecting Izzy to win without a doubt. I think he'll win but it will be close.

Jan has a similar reach to izzy and is very strong, he won't get bullied like costa.

**q0c0p** · 03-01-2021, 09:00 AM

This card is good from top to bottom. One of those cards where I'm watching every fight. Praying to the fighting gods no one pulls out

**dingler** · 03-01-2021, 09:06 AM

Stoked for Islam, I'm hoping he lives up to his potential. Best card in a long time.

**Gainzzz** · 03-01-2021, 09:58 AM

Izzy has to be extremely careful for the first two rounds. He should use mostly kicks and movement. Izzy's conditioning is his most underrated asset, imo. He needs to use it.

I think he either wins and makes it look easy or Jan finishes him. I know this is fairly obvious.

I'm picking:

Izzy
Yan
Islam
Santos (could be washed tho)

Is this card even THAT good? Maybe I'm just retarded because people are calling it one of the best cards ever and chit. I don't think it's overly impressive.

**scooterbrah** · 03-01-2021, 10:39 AM

Jan crew checking in. Would love to see Jan finish that ******* but I expect him to lose

**Harry362** · 03-01-2021, 11:07 AM

4/5 main card fights are great. Dunno why they continue to push ****ty WMMA on us though

Prelims are ****ing horrendous though, all midgets

**JMath** · 03-01-2021, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Gainzzz

Is this card even THAT good? Maybe I'm just retarded because people are calling it one of the best cards ever and chit. I don't think it's overly impressive.

It's good, but it's not an all time great. I guess in terms of entertaining fights, it definitely has potential. Should be Izzy fighting Jon Jones... Instead you have:

Jan: Champion because the real champion left
Izzy: Only moving up because the champion left
Yan: Champion because the real champion left and the former champion cheats
Sterling: Good contender
Nunes: GOAT WMMA
Anderson: Likely fodder for the GOAT, because Nunes probably has no real competition

It's a lot of good fighters, but I don't think 2/3 of the champs are champs if the original champs didn't move on. Probably would be a top tier card if it was:

Jones - Izzy
Cejudo - Yan
Dillashaw - Sterling
Nunes - Anderson

**OttomanEmpire** · 03-01-2021, 10:15 PM

Can't root against either Jan or Israel, like them both. Wonder how Jan's power will translate if he hits Izzy. He tkoed Latifi with one liver shot, who Lewis went decision with. I saw interview that said Izzy is around 200-205, guess he's favoring speed/accuracy over power while Jan has at least 25 lbs on him. Either Izzy embarrasses him like Costa or gets caught himself?

I also agree with the Rakic and Santos fight probably being the FOTN.

**sooby** · 03-02-2021, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by OttomanEmpire

Can't root against either Jan or Israel, like them both. Wonder how Jan's power will translate if he hits Izzy. He tkoed Latifi with one liver shot, who Lewis went decision with. I saw interview that said Izzy is around 200-205, guess he's favoring speed/accuracy over power while Jan has at least 25 lbs on him. Either Izzy embarrasses him like Costa or gets caught himself?

I also agree with the Rakic and Santos fight probably being the FOTN.

was gonna say lol, I don't even think Izzy walks around at 205, which is crazy because you have featherweights/lightweights that weigh as much as him in the offseason

**bfdehewdbyywhn** · 03-02-2021, 07:36 AM

stacked card

Israel will win though

**Kmotty11** · 03-02-2021, 11:07 AM

I can see Izzy taking his foot off the gas for one of these fights before the next big one. Jan is serious tho, could walk in to one.

**neondevil** · 03-02-2021, 11:17 AM

We all want Jan to win, if he can take the fight to the pocket like Kelvin Gastelum did there's a big chance there along with it being a small octagon. If he keeps out of the pocket this fight is already over and that kills me, I doubt we'll see a lot of wrestling.

I feel like Yan has those crispy hands.

I also feel like Nunez would have to break both ankles walking into the octagon and have Bruce Buffer accidentally concuss her with the mic before the fight actually happens for Anderson to approach a split decision loss.

**Mark1T** · 03-02-2021, 02:28 PM

Biggest challenge for Izzy so far. Jan is one dangerous dude.

**Barteh** · 03-02-2021, 04:39 PM

I'm gonna go with the guy who doesn't jerk off his own dog and posts videos about it on instagram. War Blachowicz. The Polish power will finish the anime weirdo. Too bad there's the WMMA fight on the main card, 40-50mins break between two fights is a lot. Still easily 5-6 fights on this card that interest me so I might catch most of this one live.

Predictions:
Light Heavyweight Jan Błachowicz (c) vs. Israel Adesanya
Bantamweight Petr Yan (c) vs. Aljamain Sterling
Lightweight Islam Makhachev vs. Drew Dober
Light Heavyweight Thiago Santos vs. Aleksandar Rakić

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)

Bantamweight Dominick Cruz vs. Casey Kenney
Bantamweight Song Yadong vs. Kyler Phillips

**jfindon** · 03-02-2021, 05:12 PM

Hope Izzy and Nunez both lose because they're ugly as **** and I hate looking at them.

**CaliSuperSport** · 03-02-2021, 05:32 PM

Body is ready. Going to see if the bars are showing. Feels like forever since I went out to watch a fight.

**Meatie** · 03-02-2021, 05:44 PM

I like izzy and his PED gyno and all, but his feminine chin wont stand up against pure, 100% POLISH POWER.

Also in to fap to megan anderson

**nomnom1989** · 03-02-2021, 07:22 PM

will be ordering this one on ppv

hoping to see thiago santos do good and win he was my fav fighter up until the loss to glover

**Schnitzl** · 03-02-2021, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by nomnom1989

will be ordering this one on ppv

hoping to see thiago santos do good and win he was my fav fighter up until the loss to glover

Rakic is a bit wild in leaving his chin out there but dude has serious fawken power. Saw him doing 300lbs jump deadlifts IIRC on insta a year ago

**kentnguyen** · 03-04-2021, 10:27 AM

I'm taking Anderson +700 on this one

**iwant2beswole** · 03-04-2021, 10:38 AM

Can’t wait for this card ... IN boyos

**CanardMedic** · 03-04-2021, 10:52 AM

Stacked!
Dom Cruz on the prelim?! How the mighty has fallen..
I got Jan winning, I doubted him twice and he proved me wrong twice.
Got Petr Yan winning and Nunes.

**sooby** · 03-04-2021, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Schnitzl

Rakic is a bit wild in leaving his chin out there but dude has serious fawken power. Saw him doing 300lbs jump deadlifts IIRC on insta a year ago

yeah the dude is a hell of an athlete

**zhengterry** · 03-05-2021, 09:24 AM

Interesting how the odds are for Izzy/Jan.

I think Izzy can cruise to a decision win all day long just by point fighting from long range and Jan won't take him down.

It's just Izzy's time right now, he can draw huge ppv numbers

**q0c0p** · 03-05-2021, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by nomnom1989

will be ordering this one on ppv

hoping to see thiago santos do good and win he was my fav fighter up until the loss to glover

This is a pivotal fight for santos. Honestly he might never return to form after that knee injury. Just realized this is at the apec. Smaller cage, hell yeah buddy. Gonna be a lot of action.

**Carbonfibre** · 03-05-2021, 03:22 PM

Cannot wait for this card tmmrw.

Crazy that card is fully intact.

My prediction.

Light Heavyweight Jan Błachowicz (c) vs. Israel Adesanya
Featherweight Amanda Nunes vs Megan Anderson
Bantamweight Petr Yan (c) vs. Aljamain Sterling
Lightweight Islam Makhachev vs. Drew Dober
Light Heavyweight Thiago Santos vs. Aleksandar Rakić

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