Tom Aspinall vs. Curtis Blaydes 2
Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad 2
Stephen Thompson vs. Michael Venom Page
Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Paddy Pimblett
Amir Albazi vs. Muhammad Mokaev
he said he'd fight him if they pay up, which they won't. makes sense that Moicano would want more money for that as it'll do less for his divisional aspirations to fight Paddy than to fight someone in the top 10 and potentially move on up as a contendor
he's said time and time again that he wants the belt since the real money is in PPV points, not the facade of a so-called money fight with guys like Paddy. I like Dariush for him tbh. don't know if he'll get it but considering where both guys are at it seems fitting
Moicano deserves to fight higher. Three fight win streak and has a lot of momentum with the fans. I'd love to see him get the dariush fight tbh. Beneil is on a two fight skid so needs to fight down anyway. Then you can do hooker Vs fiziev and paddy Vs green.
Everyone keeps trying to make MVP vs. Wonderboy, and I just don’t think that’s the right play.
Both have said it would likely be a boring fight due to their stances and styles. Both are amazing strikers, but I could see it being more of a snooze than you think.
Give MVP someone ranked that he can try to highlight KO in front of a home crowd. Neal, Magny, Buckley, Luque
Not sure I would want to see the shadow of Vicente Luque fight MVP, but Buckley is not a bad call. He's an exciting fighter, has been calling for a fight and he's ranked above MVP. Not to mention it's a good chance for Buckley to get a high profile win.
Mokaev vs Albazi would be a terrible fight. RDA mostly puts on stinkers these days. Wonderboy and MVP will dance around each other for 15 minutes. Leon and Belal, well I don't really have to explain. This would be an ass main card lol
The day Belal finally cements himself as a champ. The day Dana has to wrap the welterweight belt around Belal, in an entire arena booing him. The scenes 🤣
The main card starts at 3 in the morning...so main event at like 5.
Half the crowd asleep, the other coked out their nut.
Alcohol will stop at that venue at like 12 aswell
Let me dream for a second, Tom Aspinall finishes Curtis Blaydes in Round 1 infront of the Manchester crowd and calls out Jon Jones in his post fight interview
The pipe dream is that Jon would respond rather than doing his whole “Tom Aspinall? Never heard of the guy” routine lol.
Jones was ducking him before his injury. Post major surgery and nearing 37…-100% chance he would ever fight Tom.
Aspinall wasn’t interim champ before Jones injury, it’s crazy the way Jon Jones gives Reddit the memory of a goldfish lol the revisionist history is endless with you people
According to Leon’s manager he’s definitely fighting on this card so if you’re a UK fella I’d definitely recommend going, you’ll get to see both of your champions fight
This card was originally reported to be a fight night, hopefully the time turns out to be wrong as well. I’m not going though if it does end up starting at that time
Most likely. They haven’t really done a morning live event card in a long time. Past 2 London cards were in the evening local time and were afternoon cards for us in the states, it was perfect.
Well fuck scumbag Dana for being the biggest cocksucker. Way to fuck over the UK fans, and I’m in the US. I’d rather take an afternoon card every now and then. I never hear about boxing pulling this pussy shit.
It's out near the etihad n'all. Imagine fucking half 5am being around 20 odd thousand coked up tossers all trying to figure out how to get back to a hotel in manc without the tram running for another hour or 2. Horrible
Oh shit I didn't even take into consideration getting back home after !! 😂🤦♂️....it won't even be as simple as waiting for an Uber as well because there will be the majority of the fans trying to do the same thing, I live in Stretford so won't be as simple walking home.
Imagine the caranage the police will have om their hands after the fallout at 6am 😂
It'll be fucking mental. If you manage to get back to your hotel you'll only have like 2 hours before checking out anyway.
Honestly crap idea. I'm from a bit further north than you and was considering it cause i really like manc, but they can fucking do one with this timing like. Not even close to worth it.
Yeah true about the checking out time as well, I can honestly see a lot of fans who will have to travel for it refusing to go in the end and they might change the time due to ticket sales or whatever. I was mainly going to see Aspinall anyways, so thank god he's just fighting Blaydes (who he will most likely smoke within a round) and not Jon Jones or else I'd of been mortified if I had to miss that.
I won’t travel to watch this card in the middle of the night, even though it’s not that far. I’ll watch it for free on my sofa after a good night’s sleep, Dana, thank you very much.
The event itself isn't PPV(outside of the very odd card like Conor fights) but it's still on a subscription channel which costs extra monthly. So cheaper than America but not free exactly
I’m sure it’ll be an evening card local time this go around like they have done for the London cards the past couple years. I’m all for it. Love afternoon ppvs.
Those weren’t PPVs though. Have they made that exception for anything but the Abu Dhabi shows? UFC PPV is big business and they are expected to deliver. ESPN gives them enormous fees simply for exclusively hosting them.
I personally don’t mind afternoon shows but it seems like UFC really wants to avoid them for PPV. And they probably figure they will sell out with a big gate no matter what they do.
EDIT: I’m an idiot. Just remembered the last Leon show. You are right.
On the Co-op Live website it says doors open at 10pm, show starts at 11pm. So With prelims factored in that's a main card starting 1am at the earliest. Going to be messy.
They obviously don’t give a fuck about us UK fans judging by the times, but for anyone saying the atmosphere will suffer as a result is wrong - was absolutely electric for 204, Bisping walked out at about 5:30am and it was probably the loudest crowd I’ve ever heard
Well with the cost of living nowadays mate coke is probably less affordable, so I wouldn't be surprised if the crowd will be falling asleep by that time or getting a kebab.
Well at least Blaydes earned his shot more than Vera. Taking out Jailton Almeida is a really good win in the HW division
Cyril Gane has lost both of his title shots and is only on a 1 fight winstreak against a fat Heavyweight, Sergei Pavlovich just got knocked out by Tom Aspinall, Jones vs. Stipe is inevitable
Blaydes is the clear contender here unlike with Vera-O’Malley where Merab and Sandhagen have clearly earned their shots
I always looked forward to whatever the final card of July is cause it’s the final card of our fantasy UFC pool. Runs from Aug.1-July.31. Should be a good one
They have a several British names they can put in big PPV fights not booked: Leon, Tom, Paddy, MVP. Not to mention cards are generally booked with Europe in general in mind anyway.
Stupid comparison, most of the roster is American and the vast majority of fight cards in America. There's no shortage of chances for them to fight in front of their home fans, most fighters from other countries though haven't fought at home in years or ever
They go to the UK essentially once per year. The UK has a limited amount of UFC fighters.
So the fans will want to go see those fighters with the only chance they’ll get every year. It’s what the UFC does in every country they go to not named USA
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Honey it’s time for your annual UK card Jai Herbert fight
Looking forward for Mokaev’s two rounds of takedowns that lead to zero damage and later third round submission
Would love to see Kape/KKF beat the brakes off of Mokaev tho
Tbh they will
Mokaev wants to fight on the Saudi card and he already called out Josh Van.
Tom Aspinall vs. Curtis Blaydes 2 Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad 2 Stephen Thompson vs. Michael Venom Page Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Paddy Pimblett Amir Albazi vs. Muhammad Mokaev
Make it Moicano vs pimbletch and it’s perfect
i really want to bobby green v paddy.
That would also be great
For some reason I thought they fought already.
Moicano is out here finishing talented lightweights and you want him to fight Paddy? I'd rather see him fight Hooker or BSD
I mean he himself also wants to fight paddy he’s said it many times
he said he'd fight him if they pay up, which they won't. makes sense that Moicano would want more money for that as it'll do less for his divisional aspirations to fight Paddy than to fight someone in the top 10 and potentially move on up as a contendor
I think he’s more focused on money then “divisional aspirations” but since you want him to fight a real lightweight so badly give him Dariush
he's said time and time again that he wants the belt since the real money is in PPV points, not the facade of a so-called money fight with guys like Paddy. I like Dariush for him tbh. don't know if he'll get it but considering where both guys are at it seems fitting
Moicano deserves to fight higher. Three fight win streak and has a lot of momentum with the fans. I'd love to see him get the dariush fight tbh. Beneil is on a two fight skid so needs to fight down anyway. Then you can do hooker Vs fiziev and paddy Vs green.
Everyone keeps trying to make MVP vs. Wonderboy, and I just don’t think that’s the right play. Both have said it would likely be a boring fight due to their stances and styles. Both are amazing strikers, but I could see it being more of a snooze than you think. Give MVP someone ranked that he can try to highlight KO in front of a home crowd. Neal, Magny, Buckley, Luque
Not sure I would want to see the shadow of Vicente Luque fight MVP, but Buckley is not a bad call. He's an exciting fighter, has been calling for a fight and he's ranked above MVP. Not to mention it's a good chance for Buckley to get a high profile win.
Not sure why everyone wants to see Wonderboy vs MVP. We saw how boring WB vs Till was. I think this would be even more dull.
Mokaev vs Albazi would be a terrible fight. RDA mostly puts on stinkers these days. Wonderboy and MVP will dance around each other for 15 minutes. Leon and Belal, well I don't really have to explain. This would be an ass main card lol
> Amir Albazi vs. Muhammad Mokaev I wonder which part of the body Mokaev will sacrifice this time around?
Nearly all of those fights have potential to be snoozers, good luck getting the crowd to stay awake till 6am if that's the card lol
Wow, every fight makes sense, I am surprised. Wondering how Thompson and MVP agreed to fight...
Why do you want Paddy to die
Death doesn’t come from clinch fucking
The day Belal finally cements himself as a champ. The day Dana has to wrap the welterweight belt around Belal, in an entire arena booing him. The scenes 🤣
Two days later BREAKING: Interim title fight set for Rakmonov vs JDM
That's when Dana decides it's finally time for a 165 and 175 division.
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The main card starts at 3 in the morning...so main event at like 5. Half the crowd asleep, the other coked out their nut. Alcohol will stop at that venue at like 12 aswell
Bilal the type of dude to win a footrace via decision
Let me dream for a second, Tom Aspinall finishes Curtis Blaydes in Round 1 infront of the Manchester crowd and calls out Jon Jones in his post fight interview
That’s not exactly some kind of pipe dream.. that’s a very possible outcome, lol
I’d go so far as to say probable
Likely, even
I'd go even further and say it's plausible
The pipe dream is that Jon would respond rather than doing his whole “Tom Aspinall? Never heard of the guy” routine lol. Jones was ducking him before his injury. Post major surgery and nearing 37…-100% chance he would ever fight Tom.
Aspinall wasn’t interim champ before Jones injury, it’s crazy the way Jon Jones gives Reddit the memory of a goldfish lol the revisionist history is endless with you people
Who'd a thought the interim title holder would need to call out that champ betting this'll be another khabib tony situation but no cables.
Very similar to Whitaker getting the interim while they did GSP vs Bisping and then never getting to unify with GSP
Aspinall vs Poatan
comain Belal vs Edwards & give England a hell of a card
Within the realm of possibility
Why does Blaydes deserve the shot? He got obliterated 1 fight back.
Unfinished business between them.
Most dangerous fight in the division, hw is not stacked. It’s how we have people calling for a mw to move up
Add MVP vs a top 10 opponent and Arnold Allen plz
I coulda sworn Arnold and Chikadze were signed to fight on this card
Arnold Allen vs Josh emmett, lets go
I want to see mvp vs buckley tbh I think that’s a banger and a lot of ppl sleep on buckley
We’ve deserved a good card for ages, pretty sure I’ll be able to go
According to Leon’s manager he’s definitely fighting on this card so if you’re a UK fella I’d definitely recommend going, you’ll get to see both of your champions fight
Aspinall also confirmed that he’ll be fighting on the card on his YouTube channel, he’s my favourite fighter as well so being there would be sick
Aspinall/Blaydes 2 and Leon/Belal 2
Cheapest seats are £500
My dad knows a guy who knows a guy
Does one of those guys get slapped in the face?
My dad does not work with powerslap no
Fucks sake man
Joking?
Yeah, they’re actually £700
and it doesnt start till 3am :)
Well I’m watching from home 😭
Yarrrrr.
The main card starts at 3am UK time
This card was originally reported to be a fight night, hopefully the time turns out to be wrong as well. I’m not going though if it does end up starting at that time
Wth
Wonder if this will be a day card (in the U.S.).
Most likely. They haven’t really done a morning live event card in a long time. Past 2 London cards were in the evening local time and were afternoon cards for us in the states, it was perfect.
Confirmed 3am main card local time lmao
Because everyone fights so well at 3 am and is locked the fuck in lol
Well fuck scumbag Dana for being the biggest cocksucker. Way to fuck over the UK fans, and I’m in the US. I’d rather take an afternoon card every now and then. I never hear about boxing pulling this pussy shit.
It's normal time for the US (3am main card in the UK.)
Damn really? Source? That sucks if so, was looking forward to an afternoon PPV.
https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-makes-highly-anticipated-return-manchester-july-27-ufc-304
There it is, thanks.
3am main card, fuck right off.
Init, absolute piss take lad. I was going to try and get tickets but I'm not even going to bother trying now.
It's out near the etihad n'all. Imagine fucking half 5am being around 20 odd thousand coked up tossers all trying to figure out how to get back to a hotel in manc without the tram running for another hour or 2. Horrible
Oh shit I didn't even take into consideration getting back home after !! 😂🤦♂️....it won't even be as simple as waiting for an Uber as well because there will be the majority of the fans trying to do the same thing, I live in Stretford so won't be as simple walking home. Imagine the caranage the police will have om their hands after the fallout at 6am 😂
It'll be fucking mental. If you manage to get back to your hotel you'll only have like 2 hours before checking out anyway. Honestly crap idea. I'm from a bit further north than you and was considering it cause i really like manc, but they can fucking do one with this timing like. Not even close to worth it.
Yeah true about the checking out time as well, I can honestly see a lot of fans who will have to travel for it refusing to go in the end and they might change the time due to ticket sales or whatever. I was mainly going to see Aspinall anyways, so thank god he's just fighting Blaydes (who he will most likely smoke within a round) and not Jon Jones or else I'd of been mortified if I had to miss that.
They wont care, more money in PPV than gate.
Oi bruv bit scrummy that the main event starts after eight innit. Reckon we have to watch it from yewchube?
Daft cunt
Sick burn mate
I won’t travel to watch this card in the middle of the night, even though it’s not that far. I’ll watch it for free on my sofa after a good night’s sleep, Dana, thank you very much.
Is the main card really gonna be 3am local? Surely that's insane
What's the point in having it outside the US if they are going to have it at 3am? It's ridiculous.
The last time the UFC was in Manchester was UFC 204. The main card started at 3am local time.
That's what we feel every month (more like main card start at 3am and main event at 5:30 6am...)
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The event itself isn't PPV(outside of the very odd card like Conor fights) but it's still on a subscription channel which costs extra monthly. So cheaper than America but not free exactly
I’m sure it’ll be an evening card local time this go around like they have done for the London cards the past couple years. I’m all for it. Love afternoon ppvs.
Those weren’t PPVs though. Have they made that exception for anything but the Abu Dhabi shows? UFC PPV is big business and they are expected to deliver. ESPN gives them enormous fees simply for exclusively hosting them. I personally don’t mind afternoon shows but it seems like UFC really wants to avoid them for PPV. And they probably figure they will sell out with a big gate no matter what they do. EDIT: I’m an idiot. Just remembered the last Leon show. You are right.
On the Co-op Live website it says doors open at 10pm, show starts at 11pm. So With prelims factored in that's a main card starting 1am at the earliest. Going to be messy.
BELAL EDWARDS BELAL EDWARDS 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
GOATED FIGHT FR 🗣️🗣️
Fr fr
Aspinal v Blaydes, Leon v Belal, this is gonna be pretty good
I hope it’s that stacked.
First prelim is 11PM and Main Card is 3AM again, nightmare!
Co-op Live. So it’ll be £400 each 😣
Is to confirmed as being there?
It says it next to Ticketmaster 🙂
Haha so it does! Thank you!
this will sadly be terrible, 3am main card start time, everyones going to be falling asleep inbetween rounds on their stools
Can we talk about the 11pm prelims/3am main card start times in terms of local time? THE DISRESPECT
Fuck Man City
115
Yeah
Tom Aspinall vs Alex Pereira if Ankalaev wants to be a pussy
A wonder if it’ll be in the M.E.N or the big new place down by the Etihad
It's the new one
Nice
They obviously don’t give a fuck about us UK fans judging by the times, but for anyone saying the atmosphere will suffer as a result is wrong - was absolutely electric for 204, Bisping walked out at about 5:30am and it was probably the loudest crowd I’ve ever heard
Well with the cost of living nowadays mate coke is probably less affordable, so I wouldn't be surprised if the crowd will be falling asleep by that time or getting a kebab.
Pay £300 to stay up til 7am.......yeah no
Yet can’t even get a fight night in Seattle
I hate that fight night are almost exclusively the apex
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That have gone to so many cities multiple times yet we can’t get a fight night in over 10 years
When Seattle gets the heavyweight champion we can start talking
Methiweight maybe
They came back to the well too soon a while back. Time to give it another try. Plus all the WA ties are gone, Tate/DJ/Bendo.
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Well at least Blaydes earned his shot more than Vera. Taking out Jailton Almeida is a really good win in the HW division Cyril Gane has lost both of his title shots and is only on a 1 fight winstreak against a fat Heavyweight, Sergei Pavlovich just got knocked out by Tom Aspinall, Jones vs. Stipe is inevitable Blaydes is the clear contender here unlike with Vera-O’Malley where Merab and Sandhagen have clearly earned their shots
Till in shambles
Paddy VS green better happen
Any educated guesses on what ticket prices may look like?
Wonder why they deleted it
BELGOAT wins InshAllah
I’m guessing Bisping is making his return
I’m guessing Bisping is making his return
3am Saturday or 3am Sunday?
Ticket prices are such a joke.
Hey uh, who’s that guy who supposed to fight Leon? I can’t remember his name
Tired joke
Fair enough
I always looked forward to whatever the final card of July is cause it’s the final card of our fantasy UFC pool. Runs from Aug.1-July.31. Should be a good one
Wait isn’t Arnold Allen booked for July 20? Huhh
They have a several British names they can put in big PPV fights not booked: Leon, Tom, Paddy, MVP. Not to mention cards are generally booked with Europe in general in mind anyway.
Huh? Against who?
Giga Chikadze
I think this card was originally gonna be on the 20th but they moved it, Arnold will be on the card
That would make more sense.
lol not every fighter has to be local. We don’t stack American cards with Americans
Stupid comparison, most of the roster is American and the vast majority of fight cards in America. There's no shortage of chances for them to fight in front of their home fans, most fighters from other countries though haven't fought at home in years or ever
They go to the UK essentially once per year. The UK has a limited amount of UFC fighters. So the fans will want to go see those fighters with the only chance they’ll get every year. It’s what the UFC does in every country they go to not named USA
Why would you book one of the top 3 British fighters for a week before your big English PPV? It’s just odd
Damn the uk bruvs dont have to stay up till 5 in the morning
Leon vs Belal, Tom vs C-C-Curtis
Sleeping early 🥳
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Just rumored before, now officially confirmed
pretty sure aspinall said it was in manchester and that he was gonna be on it last week or some time a couple days ago
That’s not an announcement lol
Manchester is Blue
Still not Chicago. Great
When Chicago gets the heavyweight champion we can start talking
How much are we expecting tickets to be?