UFC FN 138: Volkan vs. Smith

Date: Saturday, October 27th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 23:30 LP.net / 3:30pm PST / 6:30pm EST
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 2): 1:00 LP.net / 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (Fox Sports 1): 3:00 LP.net / 7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: http://www.fìrstrow.eu/




Main Card (Fox Sports 1)

Volkan Oezdemir (15-2) vs. Anthony Smith (30-13) (Light Heavyweight)
Michael Johnson (18-13) vs. Artem Lobov (13-14-1) (Featherweight)
Misha Cirkunov (13-4) vs. Patrick Cummins (10-5) (Light Heavyweight)
Andre Soukhamthath (12-6) vs. Jonathan Martinez (9-1) (Bantamweight)
Gian Villante (16-10) vs. Ed Herman (23-13) (Light Heavyweight)
Alex Garcia (15-5) vs. Court McGee (18-7) (Welterweight)

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 2)

Nordine Taleb (14-5) vs. Sean Strickland (19-13) (Welterweight)
Thibault Gouti (12-4) vs. Nasrat Haqparast (9-2) (Lightweight)
Calvin Kattar (18-3) vs. Chris Fishgold (17-1-1) (Featherweight)
Sarah Moras (5-3) vs. Talita Bernardo (5-3) (Women's Bantamweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Te'Jovan Edwards (6-1) vs. Don Madge (7-3-1) (Lightweight)
Arjan Bhullar (7-1) vs. Marcelo Golm (6-1) (Heavyweight)
Stevie Ray (21-8) vs. Jessin Ayari (16-4) (Lightweight)

Other

- Zubaira Tukhugov was scheduled to face Artem Lobov at the event. However, Tukhugov was removed from the fight due his role in the UFC 229 post-fight melee. Tukhugov was replaced by Michael Johnson on October 15.
- Gavin Tucker was scheduled to face Andre Soukhamthath at the event. However, Tucker pulled out of the fight in early October citing an undisclosed injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Jonathan Martinez on October 10.

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First impression of the match-ups:

• Smith > Oezdemir
• Johnson > Lobov
• Cirkunov > Cummins
• Soukhamthath vs. Martinez (dunno)
• Villante vs. Herman (dunno)
• Garcia > McGee
• Taleb > Strickland
• Haqparast > Gouti
• Kattar > Fishgold
• Moras vs. Bernardo (dunno)
• Edwards > Madge
• Golm > Bhullar
• Ayari > Ray

Lobov has 4 losses in 6 fights and is the co-main event, what kind of a joke is that lmao .. I get that he is part of the Khabib- McGregor feud, but cmon.... 99% of the cases he d be cut off the roster, and then there is the 1% of being a close friend of McGregor so UFC will throw away free money at him

On October 24 2018 21:34 Spitfiree wrote: Lobov has 4 losses in 6 fights and is the co-main event, what kind of a joke is that lmao .. I get that he is part of the Khabib- McGregor feud, but cmon.... 99% of the cases he d be cut off the roster, and then there is the 1% of being a close friend of McGregor so UFC will throw away free money at him

Lobov is the GOAT.

Respect him.

he gets enough attention so that's all it matters

On October 24 2018 23:59 PuertoRican wrote: Show nested quote + On October 24 2018 21:34 Spitfiree wrote: Lobov has 4 losses in 6 fights and is the co-main event, what kind of a joke is that lmao .. I get that he is part of the Khabib- McGregor feud, but cmon.... 99% of the cases he d be cut off the roster, and then there is the 1% of being a close friend of McGregor so UFC will throw away free money at him Lobov is the GOAT. Respect him.

hahahahahahahaaa! where did that joke start? or was it really a joke?

sherdog forums?

Artems an easy target but he seems very self aware, not ignorant of his place in the UFC. He also always comes to fight (just not that well) and I remember him showing good sportsmanship when he didn't need to after he beat Nate Diaz's punk friend who was really the one who didn't belong in the UFC. I root for artem. He's about to get wrecked though

MJ was supposed to give Artem 20% of his purse because he missed weight but Artem didn't take it, he is a great guy overall, just not a good fighter

Volkan Oezdemir (205.5) vs. Anthony Smith (205.5)
Michael Johnson (147) vs. Artem Lobov (145.5) - Johnson forfeits 20% of his purse to Lobov
Misha Cirkunov (205) vs. Patrick Cummins (205.5)
Jonathan Martinez (135) vs. Andre Soukhamthath (136)
Ed Herman (205.5) vs. Gian Villante (205.5)
Alex Garcia (170.5) vs. Court McGee (170.5)
Sean Strickland (170.5) vs. Nordine Taleb (170.5)
Thibault Gouti (155.5) vs. Nasrat Haqparast (156)
Chris Fishgold (146) vs. Calvin Kattar (146)
Talita Bernardo (133) vs. Sarah Moras (135.5)
Te Edwards (156) vs. Don Madge (154)
Arjan Bhullar (242) vs. Marcelo Golm (255.5)
Jessin Ayari (155) vs. Stevie Ray (155.5)

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My final picks:

• Smith > Oezdemir
• Johnson > Lobov
• Cirkunov > Cummins
• Soukhamthath > Martinez
• Villante > Herman
• Garcia > McGee
• Taleb > Strickland
• Haqparast > Gouti
• Kattar > Fishgold
• Bernardo > Moras
• Edwards > Madge
• Golm > Bhullar
• Ayari > Ray

Well dissapointed by my old training partner Ayari....

I talked to him a lot yesterday after weight ins ....
I said that he is 5times a better fighter than me... but still my honest opinion is that he needs to utlize his Wrestling to win the rounds.
He agreed and promised to not just box for points but go for takedowns and make it a real MMA fight....

And then he goes for 3 round 100% point boxing

i still think he won though

On October 28 2018 00:09 PplusAD wrote: Well dissapointed by my old training partner Ayari.... I talked to him a lot yesterday after weight ins .... I said that he is 5times a better fighter than me... but still my honest opinion is that he needs to utlize his Wrestling to win the rounds. He agreed and promised to not just box for points but go for takedowns and make it a real MMA fight.... And then he goes for 3 round 100% point boxing i still think he won though

I thought Ray won.

Ayari looked better at welterweight, even though he was small for the division.

Smith's coach: "HAND BEHIND THE HEAD, ANTHONY!!!"

2 seconds later, he sinks in the choke the correct way and gets a quick tap.


Great fight between Oezdemir and Smith!

Feels like Oezdemir was pretty ready to give up/spent. Maybe this is a narrative that doesn't exist but it feels like he's not the first Hooft trained fighter with 0 urgency in defending rncs...