UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou

Date: Saturday, January 20th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 01:00 LP.net / 4pm PST / 7pm EST
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1): 2:00 LP.net / 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (PPV): 4:00 LP.net / 7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: http://www.fìrstrow.eu/




Main Card (PPV)

Stipe Miocic (17-2) vs. Francis Ngannou (11-1) (Heavyweight Championship)
Daniel Cormier (19-1) vs. Volkan Oezdemir (15-1) (Light Heavyweight Championship)
Calvin Kattar (17-2) vs. Shane Burgos (10-0) (Featherweight)
Gian Villante (15-9) vs. Francimar Barroso (19-6) (Light Heavyweight)
Thomas Almeida (21-2) vs. Rob Font (14-3) (Bantamweight)

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

Kyle Bochniak (7-2) vs. Brandon Davis (8-2) (Featherweight)
Abdul Razak Alhassan (8-1) vs. Sabah Homasi (11-7) (Welterweight)
Dustin Ortiz (17-7) vs. Alexandre Pantoja (18-2) (Flyweight)
Dan Ige (8-1) vs. Julio Arce (13-2) (Featherweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Enrique Barzola (13-3-1) vs. Matt Bessette (22-7) (Featherweight)
Islam Makhachev (14-1) vs. Gleison Tibau (33-12) (Lightweight)

Other

- Charles Rosa was expected to face promotional newcomer Dan Ige at the event. However on December 22, Rosa pulled out due to a neck injury. On January 3, Julio Arce stepped in on short notice and will face Ige.
- Arnold Allen was expected to face Enrique Barzola at the event. However, Allen was pulled from the fight on January 11 due to alleged visa issues which restricted his ability to travel. He was replaced by promotional newcomer Matt Bessette on January 11.
- Jamie Moyle was expected to face Maryna Moroz at the event. However, Moyle pulled out of the fight during the week leading up to the event citing an undisclosed injury. In turn, Promotion officials indicated that Moroz would be rescheduled for a future event.

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First impression of the match-ups:

• Ngannou > Miocic
• Cormier > Oezdemir
• Kattar > Burgos
• Barroso > Villante
• Font > Almeida
• Bochniak vs. Davis (dunno)
• Homasi > Alhassan
• Pantoja > Ortiz
• Ige vs. Arce (dunno)
• Barzola > Bessette
• Moroz > Moyle
• Makhachev > Tibau

What you think about Rory vs Lima?

On January 17 2018 01:17 impact69 wrote: What you think about Rory vs Lima?

Lima will beat Rory's ass if it stays on the feet.

Rory will attempt take downs and use his jab a lot, but once Lima starts touching Rory's nose, it will be Lima's fight.

I predict that Ngannou wont be able to land on Miocic and will slowdown and gets picked apart

i predict the same outcome as when stipe won vs. werdum. a short hook to the jaw while backing off.

On January 20 2018 09:40 Baalim wrote: I predict that Ngannou wont be able to land on Miocic and will slowdown and gets picked apart

Ngannou has better foot movement and he punches faster than Miocic. It is possible for him to slow down and get picked apart, but Miocic will have to do a good job wrestling in R1, and I don't rate his wrestling as highly as other people do.

On January 20 2018 11:11 lucky331 wrote: i predict the same outcome as when stipe won vs. werdum. a short hook to the jaw while backing off.

That only worked because Werdum was literally running after Stipe the entire round. Werdum got countered and a little rocked by the same hook earlier in the round, and then he kept doing the same thing and got hit again by the same hook and knocked out.

Ngannou doesn't run forward. He walks forward and explodes when he sees an opening.

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Final picks:

• Ngannou > Miocic
• Cormier > Oezdemir
• Burgos > Kattar
• Barroso > Villante
• Almeida > Font
• Davis > Bochniak
• Alhassan > Homasi
• Pantoja > Ortiz
• Ige > Arce
• Barzola > Bessette
• Makhachev > Tibau

Stipe needs to pitch a nearly perfect round a half or two to drag Ngannou in deep. I think he's going to somewhat surprise and get it done. Will be exciting having Ngannou as champ though

Like Barroso, Font, and Pantoja elsewhere

GG Tibau...

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Barzola with the clear win, but he didn't look as good as usual. I wonder if he had the flu that's going around.

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Homasi just went to sleep, and will have a headache tomorrow morning.

man talk about a train being derailed: thomas almeida. He looked like a very good prospect before fighting cody garbrandt and now he is 1-3 in his last 4 fights.

also barroso is so bad. unreal how easily he gets walked down to the fence.

On January 21 2018 04:07 Raidern wrote: Barroso is so bad. unreal how easily he gets walked down to the fence.

Yep.

Sick Round 1 in the Burgos vs. Kattar fight!

Sick fight between Burgos and Kattar!

Volkan looked good early, but he gassed out trying to go hard and wasn't able to get the finish. Once DC was able to get him down one time, the fight was over.

i think those crucifix stoppages are bullshit, sure he cant defend himself cuz they are literally holding their arms but those baby punches aren't doing shit

Damn...

The main event is worse than I thought...

The referee is allowing Stipe to stall against the fence without throwing any strikes. Just keeps saying "work, work," and not doing anything.

hes just weighing himself over ngannou lol

On January 20 2018 09:40 Baalim wrote: I predict that Ngannou wont be able to land on Miocic and will slowdown and gets picked apart

nailed it

ngannou: "he made me feel homeless again".