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[Chesskid1]

Main Card (PPV) 10pm ET / 7pm PT / 3am UK
265lbs- Cain Velasquez (13-1) vs. Fabricio Werdum (19-5-1)
155lbs- Eddie Alvarez (25-4) vs. Gilbert Melendez (22-4)
185lbs- Nate Marquardt (33-14-2) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (10-1)
145lbs- Charles Rosa (10-1) vs. Yair Rodriguez (4-1)
115lbs- Tecia Torres (5-0) vs. Angela Hill (2-0)

Preliminary Bouts (FX) 8pm ET / 5pm PT/ 1am UK
125lbs- Henry Cejudo (8-0) vs. Chico Camus (14-5)
155lbs- Drew Dober (15-6) vs. Efrain Escudero (23-9)
135lbs- Alejandro Perez (15-5) vs. Patrick Williams (7-4)
155lbs- Johnny Case (20-4) vs. Francisco Trevino (12-0)

Early Prelims (UFC Fight Pass) 7pm ET/ 4pm PT/ 12am UK
170lbs- Cathal Pendred (16-2-1) vs. Augusto Montano (15-1)
145lbs- Gabriel Benitez (17-4) vs. Clay Collard (14-5)

UFC 188 Embedded
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make sure to check out prelims to see henry cejudo. olympic gold medalist, seems really awesome in interviews and still undefeated. huge potential.

 

[Dysun]

Pretty good card by modern standards.

Too bad Cain is the most boring person on the planet

 

[Banglish]

I hope Werdum wins just to stifle Dana White's mexican movement, not that I have anything against Mexico, I just think it would make for fun.

 

[rtcn63]

Fake Blacks and now fake Mexicans. Interesting week. Waiting for the FX prelims yo.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Faker than Conor McGregor's persona?

 

[VASPER]

Pretty good card by modern standards.

Too bad Cain is the most boring person on the planet

Hey now, don't lie. Tell me how you really feel.

 

[TheChits]

War Werdum

 

[Frank Serpico]

Why are they both champions?

 

[v1lla21]

My boy Cain gonna take it in the first.

 

[SubScorpianZero]

Why are they both champions?

Cain has been out for like two years due to injuries. So they created an interim belt, which was between Mark Hunt and Fabricio Werdum.

 

[Delta Assault]

Why are they both champions?

Werdum is interim champion.

 

[BeatnikGunsoo]

Man I did not know this was coming on tonight, like at all, this is my first time hearing about this card lol.

 

[Banglish]

 

[alr1ght]

Cain still has time to get hurt.

 

[Delta Assault]

Seems way less credible now that Stipe gassed him out in one round and laid 500+ strikes on him.

 

[TheKaeptain]

I am offended by this title.


Ninja you with me?

 

[Lashley]

Should be good.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I am offended by this title.


Ninja you with me?

No hablo ingles.

 

[twozerotwo]

Seems way less credible now that Stipe gassed him out in one round and laid 500+ strikes on him.

It's way less credible that VearDOOM TKO'd a man with a chin that VERY few people have rocked in his long career, counting kickboxing, because he was dominated over the course of 5 rounds and his chin never wavered?

 

[VoxPop]

Seems way less credible now that Stipe gassed him out in one round and laid 500+ strikes on him.

or that he got absolutely clowned by JDS.

or he got subbed in a minute by Sean McCorkle

or he got subbed by Fedor who has never subbed any legit grappler besides maybe Ogawa

or that his last 5 wins are over guys who have no business being in the UFC

Werdum is legit though and see him actually beating a long layoff version of Cain. Can't say the same for Hunt.

 

[ldcommando]

Vai Cavalo!

 

[bone_and_sinew]

Only a three fight card but I'll still go catch it at BWW. Alvarez vs Gil should be a bloodbath, holy shit I can't wait for that scrap. That's my main event.

 

[v1oz]

The only fight worth watching is the main event. The UFC cards these days are a snooze fest. I wish the Japanese would get their shit together and bring back Pride FC.

 

[pixelation]

Pretty good card by modern standards.

Too bad Cain is the most boring person on the planet

It's a fight not a personality contest.

 

[VoxPop]

The only fight worth watching is the main event. The UFC cards these days are a snooze fest. I wish the Japanese would get their shit together and bring back Pride FC.

So fun and relevant and important to the HW division

Can crushing has lost its charm

 

[pixelation]

Jar Jar Binks sans ears?.

 

[twozerotwo]

Couldn't help myself.

 

[TrumanBurbank]

Hope Werdum wins. Don't want Cain to hold up the HW division till 2017.

 

[VoxPop]

What a terrible fight. Really don't know how these fighters make it into the UFC. They're just barely TItan FC level. Would love a double future endeavor.

 

[Dysun]

It's a fight not a personality contest.

I personally don't care but the card is going to tank because of it

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Werdum is easily the best fighter Cain has faced, and facing him after such a long layoff we don't really know which Cain we are getting. No outcome will surprise me.

 

[Icewear Vezzo]

Cain is gonna dominate werdum

 

[lupinko]

The only fight worth watching is the main event. The UFC cards these days are a snooze fest. I wish the Japanese would get their shit together and bring back Pride FC.

Kinda hard for them to do that when Uncle Dana and the Ferlita Bros own Pride.

 

[nahlakhai]

They tried to bring it back and it was called DREAM. Its dead too now. UFC PPVs are being spread way too thin the last two or so years.

 

[Archaix]

Werdum is easily the best fighter Cain has faced, and facing him after such a long layoff we don't really know which Cain we are getting. No outcome will surprise me.

This is how I feel. I'm a huge Werdum fan but under normal circumstances I wouldn't pick him. This isn't normal, we've got The Franchise Cain Douglas sitting out for two years with injuries while holding the belt, it's hard to assume he's going to come back as great as he was right out of the gates. He's also never faced anybody who has even nearly the BJJ skill that Werdum does.

 

[Lazyslob]

I hope Werdum wins just to stifle Dana White's mexican movement, not that I have anything against Mexico, I just think it would make for fun.

i dont think it would shit werdum speaks way better spanish than cain. he does a lot of commentary for mexican broadcasts i think

 

[Morphis]

Anyone watching the prelims? Pretty bad eye poke just now.

 

[LaNaranja]

Yo his eye stayed closed.

 

[SIRF]

Hope Cain wins this in the first round.

 

[twozerotwo]

LMAO

What the fuck was that about? Did Diaz get in front of the camera and flip someone off again?

 

[Morphis]

Trevino reminds me of a Mexican Cody McKenzie. Without the signature move.

 

[VoxPop]

Lmao wicked choke.

 

[Chesskid1]

his eyes

 

[pixelation]

Poor Diablito, tough luck... he's better than that.

 

[twozerotwo]

I love the dead silence when someone gets taken out in their home country.

I just texted that to my friend and he called me a nega-mexican. I LOL'd.

 

[pixelation]

I love the dead silence when someone gets taken out in their home country.

I just texted that to my friend and he called me a nega-mexican. I LOL'd.

Well he is the winner of the first Latin America TUF... so there were high expectations for his first proper fight afterwards.

 

[Boogie]

Wow.

Night of the guillotines.

 

[King Cobra]

How are they fake mexicans?

 

[twozerotwo]

Well he is the winner of the first Latin America TUF... so there were high expectations for his first proper fight afterwards.

I completely forgot about that season. Now that I Wiki'd it I've completely forgotten about a lot of seasons.

How are they fake mexicans?

You mean the nega-mexicans comment my friend sent me?

He was calling me that because I'm mexican and I made a comment about a mexican losing in such a dominant fashion.

EDIT: I'm an idiot.

 

[alr1ght]

How are they fake mexicans?

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