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We're starting early again today, 30 minutes from when this was posted.
IT’S KOREAN ZOMBIE FIGHT WEEK
 
Main Card (ESPN2/ESPN+)
 Featheweight Chan Sung Jung vs Dan Ige
First-rate fight. The most handsome and brave of all fighters in the UFC looks to bounce back from his lopsided decision loss to the cowardly cheater Brian Ortega. I can either write 22 words or 1000 words about TKZ: He is one of the most exciting and skilled fighters in MMA history. He’s super cool. Go watch all of his fights. Ige is a Hawaiian banger, and I mean that in a good way. He’s a pretty sharp, accurate boxer, and he has that hard-to-crack Hawaiian dome, and he has shown some pretty good wrestling. Could we call him a meat-and-potatoes fighter? He has an 8-fight stretch where he only came up short to Calvin Kattar, though he also had a dubious split decision win over Barboza. Last time out he caught fellow prospect Gavin Tucker cold in 22 seconds. I’m not sure what to expect out of this fight. 2013 TKZ would have ended up in a brawl for the ages here, but 2021 TKZ is more measured and technical. It will be good.
 Heavyweight Aleksi Oleinik vs Sergey Spivak
This fight is going to be dumb and we’re going to love it. At least neither of these guys is slovenly and fat (scroll down for that). Measuring from results, Oleinik is among the top three grapplers in heavyweight history. He’s a strong Ukrainian/Russian dad built like an orangutan. He has submitted UFC opponents from places like bottom mount with chokes that we tell white belts to stop loving around with and wasting time. He also flails his arms around and sometimes KOs people. He’s on a 2-fight TKO skid. Spivak is a young Moldovan with a Hapsburg jaw who also flails around. He is 3-2 in the UFC, but his losses are to 2019 Walt Harris on short notice, and then Marcin Tybura, so not too bad, especially for a 26 year old which is basically a toddler in UFC Heavyweight terms. He is sloppy but fun. He’s mostly a wrestler/grappler. This fight hinges on how much Oleinik has faded with age.
Featherweight Julian Erosa vs Seung Woo Choi
Erosa might have a future. A DWCS guy, he started in the UFC with a 3-fight losing streak, and then got back in via Covid fights and now has consecutive stoppage wins over solid opposition. He’s one of those skinny guys who kicks and grapples. Seung Woo Choi is Korean with a 2-2 record, but those losses are to Gavin Tucker and Mosvar Evloev. I don’t have much to say about him sadly. He’s not a bad fighter, and he fights hard.
Bantamweight Marlon Vera vs Davey Grant
Ayy. Chito is back. He’s the Ecuadorian guy who beat Sean O’Malley and then went 3 hard rounds with Jose Aldo. His fighting style is “hard as nails” and “hits hard.” He’s primarily on the striker end of the spectrum. This is actually a rematch: British grappler Grant won a decision from Vera in 2016. Since then Vera has had 13 UFC fights, and Grant 5. Grant comes to us via being the runner up from the season of TUF coached by Rousey and Tate. Right now he’s on a 3 fight streak including two lovely come from behind “god he’s dead” left hook KOs. Vera is much better than the dudes Grant KOed, but Grant was an underdog for those, too.
Middleweight Wellington Turman vs Bruno Silva
Turman is one of those Brazilians who comes in as a bit of a hyped prospect and then gets finished and everyone forgets about them a bit. He’s now 1-2, most recently getting KOed by Andrew Sahcnez. Bruno Silva is a Brazilian making his UFC debut. His most noteworthy achievement is KOing Alexander Shlemenko in Russia. He got KOed on one of the TUF Brazil seasons a while back. He was supposed to fight Derron Winn in the UFC in 2019 but Silva failed a drug test, too.
 Welterweight Matt Brown vs Dhiego Lima
Brown is back. He holds, or has held, some records for most stoppages and consecutive KOs in UFC history. He is a self-described brawler. Some of his UFC fights (esp. vs Erik Silva) are among the best ever. He retired for a while and has come back to fight more because he likes it, with less than inspiring results. Lima the lesser has been holding onto the bottom of the division. His fighting style is tall and low urgency. He was on a three-fight streak against weak opposition before losing a decision to Belal Muhammad.
Prelims (ESPN+? Dunno)
Light Heavyweight Aleksa Camur vs Nicolae Negumereanu
? Nick Negumereanu is a Romanian who went lost his UFC debut in 2019 to Safarov. Camur is a 6-1 Bosnian-American Contender Series product with a 1-1 UFC record, most recently losing a decision to William Knight.
Strawweight Virna Jandiroba vs Kanako Murata
I’m excited for this one anyway. I don’t like the term “Dark Horse” but Jandiroba fits the definition. She’s 2-2 in the UFC, but those losses are to Carla Esparza and Mackenzie Dern in really competitive fights. Her wins are the kind of blowout submissions you’d expect an elite fighter to get over lesser competition. Before that she was the undefeated Invicta champ. She has really lovely jiu jitsu and a cool hat. Murata is a powerful Japanese wrestler who has also come via Invicta. In her UFC debut she dominated Randa Markos who, despite her crappy record, is usually able to take a round from most of her opponents.
Welterweight Khaos Williams vs Matthew Semelsberger
Williams is a “god he’s dead” striker who in his third UFC bout ran into Michel Pereira, failed to put him away within a minute, and then ran out of ideas. He here takes a step back into slightly lower-tier opposition. Semelsberger is 2-0 in the UC, having picked up a 16 second KO in March. That’s right: these fighters have 3 KOs totalling roughly 1:15.
 Heavyweight Josh Parisian vs Roque Martinez
Get your trashweights! Parisian is a scrappy underdog who tried like 4 times via DWCS and TUF to get into the UFC before he finally made it, and then he lost to a fat guy who now has 1 UFC win. Roque Martinez is a spherical fighter from Guam who is 0-2 in the UFC, but he also seems to have a brick for a head, and he has shown a few moments of good punching which I hesitate to call boxing.
Lightweight Joaquim Silva vs Rick Glenn
Rick Glenn is the former WSOF Champ but he has been hot and cold in the UFC. He somehow has a win over Gavin Tucker and a loss to Evan Dunham back to back. He moves back to lightweight after missing weight and losing to Kevin Aguilar. Silva has been floating around the FUC forever: he has a win over Reza Madadi, but is 4-2 overall. His last fight was a KO loss to Haqparast.
Flyweight Casey O’Neill vs Lara Procópio
Procópio is a 6-1 Brazilian with a win over Molly McCann. O’Neill is an undefeated Scott who ran through Shana Dobson in her debut, as one does.
Idk if the Tyson Nam fight is happening – Tapology says it’s off. We also lost a Tim Means fight this week. If those two dudes stay on the card either of them is worth watching, but idk who they’ll be fighting if they are.
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- Digital Jedi
- May 28, 2007
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Fallen Rib
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Trashweight rules
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- Digital Jedi
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Yea that was entertaining. Think Martinez did win that though
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- Nierbo
- Dec 5, 2010
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sup brah?
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Does anyone prefer Dom to Felder?
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Jun 19, 2021 22:35
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- Le Saboteur
- Dec 5, 2007
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I hear you wish to ball, adventurer..
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Ray Borg seems to have hit the juice pretty hard post UFC. https://twitter.com/uae_warriors/status/1406334266158497796?s=20
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Jun 19, 2021 23:11
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- deadkiller615
- Aug 7, 2007
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yea, I kill dead stuff. so what?
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How do you not take a point
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Jun 19, 2021 23:56
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- Nierbo
- Dec 5, 2010
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sup brah?
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Brown vs Lima Is going to be violent. Let's gooo
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- Radical 90s Wizard
- Aug 5, 2008
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~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~
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holy poo poo lol
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- PONEYBOY
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gently caress yeah
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Jun 20, 2021 00:22
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I was just thinking about the Erick Silva fight too. Matt Brown owns
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Jun 20, 2021 00:24
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- Nierbo
- Dec 5, 2010
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sup brah?
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Daaaamn
https://i.imgur.com/O0D9D7y.gifv
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Jun 20, 2021 00:25
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- The Automator
- Jan 16, 2009
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I missed a Matt brown fight?? 😭😭😭😭😭
Can’t tune in for like another half hour
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Jun 20, 2021 00:36
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- MassRafTer
- May 26, 2001
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I was looking away from the Brown fight to watch terrible wrestling but at least got to see all the replays. Now I am paying attention to watch some backpacking.
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Jun 20, 2021 00:39
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- MassRafTer
- May 26, 2001
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BAEST MODE!!!
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Looked away again and missed another finish.
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Jun 20, 2021 00:41
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- Nierbo
- Dec 5, 2010
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sup brah?
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https://i.imgur.com/yxnTH9Y.gifv
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- LobsterMobster
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"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."
"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
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Hell yeah
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Jun 20, 2021 00:58
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- Digital Jedi
- May 28, 2007
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good fights tonight
hot drat!
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Jun 20, 2021 00:59
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- MassRafTer
- May 26, 2001
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BAEST MODE!!!
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At this rate this is gonna be over by 8:30
The NBA isn't just rigging itself it's rigging UFC.
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- Mekchu
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by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Let's go Chito
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- Radical 90s Wizard
- Aug 5, 2008
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Grant is fun to watch but I wonder if Chito gonna start to take over this round
e] gently caress those short elbows own
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Would like to see him throw more o those inside leg-kicks, every one he's thrown has stumbled negu
