[Official] UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Holland - Live Discussion Thread

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hell of a card to see for my first live UFC event, blessed.

I want holland to be good so bad but I think it’s over

Lmao

He doesn't have the dawgggg in him

We just had an entire card of amazing fights for FREE. Meanwhile boxing had a PPV with Fury vs Chisora… and people wonder why boxing is dying.

The Fury card was ESPN +

So funny that he gave up dominate positions to meme only to be a panic wrestler by the 3rd and 4th rounds anyways.

I hate that I’m probably jinxing this but……. Dustin porier never breaking his hand even though he has like a million striking wars in the cage is so damn impressive, and that includes some quick turns like his Garth into Eddie fights

Pretty sure Brian Ortega almost started a fight cageside last night and got escorted out. I was right below the nosebleeds and I'm pretty sure that was him

Holland said on his IG story that he broke 3 knuckles. Wonder when we’ll see him back.

Honestly would love if Wonderboy snuck into a title shot somehow

That’s really not that fun of a fight. Leon would clinch and outgrapple the shit out of him. He’s not a dumb brawler like Kevin.

Off an unranked win and previous to that being shut out by Muhammad and burns? Lmao

I think Leon would wrestle with him to clinch rounds, Holland had takedowns that he purposely didn’t do anything with/finish

hell yeah wonderboy leon would b awesome

I can't believe Michael Johnson was less than a minute away from beating Josh Emmett and then got slept

i can believe it, its Michael Johnson

Great night of fights, awesome to see so many legends on one card

so is the post-fight conf video just mangled and not working tonight?

Wonderboy looked good but definitely a bit past his prime. Wish he could go out on this fight. It was a textbook Wonderboy performance.

I wonder how many fights left he has on his UFC deal, Wonderboy can still be a massive asset to Karate Combat

Nah he’s still got 10 more years at least

glad to know his family was there he is good guy deserves it

Was the main event as good as the commentary made it sound? Could only listen to it Edit: missed the main event

It was a really good fight, first 3 rounds were back and forth, there was a moment I thought Holland was gonna get the finish late in the 1st, and then Wonderboy just styled on him in the 4th with body shots and head kicks. I think Bisping hyped it up a little much, I wouldn’t call it a top 10 fight all time or anything but definitely a top 10 fight of the year, maybe top 5.

Main event was top 5 foty

It was amazing at the Amway tonight

Yeah great card, extremely fun main event

High action and even higher fives

Go back for it. Do it

better :) Way better.

Every fight on the main card was a finish. All 7. Which can’t remember a time we had so many fights on main.

Great night of fights capped off by an amazing round 4 by wonderboy, very enjoy

Anyone have that crazy switch kick clipped?

That jumping switch kick was beautiful, as well as all of the hook kicks thrown! Would love to have someone post a clip!

nows the time for Wonderboy vs Usman. Winner gets Leon

Not even Wonderboy would want that fight.

Usman wrestles/foot stomps him into the next dimension, those kicks can’t land with that constant threat of the takedown

We just saw wonder boy become wonder man

I'm wonder dad and me and wonder mom are so proud

rush is a good band my favorite blessings

I miss the DOs Anjos stache heheeee

Anyone else getting checked for cancer after this card?

Ball checks and colonoscopies with the boyssssssssss

Yooo another shoutout to RDA! Fucking controlled the fight and put on a BJJ clinic

I’d bet wonderboy would have set the record for most heel strikes thrown/landed in a single bout if they kept records for it.

Depends if you count Usmans foot stomps in masvidal 1 of not

Imagine being 40 and fighting like you're on skates

This time he was on skates but next time he’ll be left frozen, like Elsa.

Could wonderboy beat Leon

4-5 years ago, yes. Think Leon grapples him to a W if they fight today.

Leon wouldn’t hesitate to grapple the way Kevin gave up positions in the first few rounds

Probably not with Leon's grappling

If Edwards loses, him vs Thompson is banger

Yes agree

Idk if this has been asked but Is this the first time there’s been a finish in every single bout on a main card?

Santos vs Hill in august was 100% finishes (main card + prelims).

It's tied first with the 50 other times it has happened

Nah happened recently

Nah

Not me constantly refreshing Hollands Instagram to make sure he hasnt posted a retirement video.

Holland needs to retire. Just got beaten by a guy who was born during the Reagan presidency

This fight most likely motivated him to read his opponents better. At 30’s still too young to call it quits and throw in the towel. He put up a great fight even hes been bested by someone nearing his 40s and retirement age.

Me and Nancy will fuck you up

I think Till beats Du Plessis, if he makes it to the fight.

I honestly respect holland for standing and banging with Stephen fucking Thompson. We all wanted to see a striking match between the two and that’s what we got.

Bisping drunk already? WB already fought Till with some BS handicaps, and Till is now at 185

What handicaps?

Wonder Boy vs Masvidal 2?

why? that fight does nothing for either of them

That fight was way more fun than I thought it would be. Wonderboy clearly spent time praying at the Cro cop shrine this camp.

Kick-heavy fighters are some of my favorites

how to fight someone with a reach advantage 101

Wonderboy was sensational tonight. Would love to see a match up between him & Edwards

Edwards would wrestle him

If/once Darren Till loses next week, that's a good comeback fight for Holland.

Perfect comeback fight.

Khamzat took away any title hopes if Holland had any so I can see why he decided to throw down

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karyn bryant lispin like a mother fucker. she get invasalign? 🤷‍♂️

I was thinking maybe she had a stroke or something. Definitely very noticible

This fight shows that UFC should introduce Kickboxing in 4oz gloves

Would be a lot better than Slap Fight Championship or whatever the fuck Dana's new money laundering thing is

What happened to Kevins hand/arm though? From blocking so many kicks or was he just gassed?

broke 3 knuckles in the first round when he blasted wonderboy’s forehead

Blocking head kicks with one hand over and over is not a good idea. I think those kicks fractured Kevin's hand / wrist. Then wonderboy noticed it, so kept spamming those left kicks along Kevin's upper body, knowing how bad they'd hurt to block, and if not blocked, how bad they'd hurt the the liver. Smart shit.

Ate a hundred billion kicks on his arms. An underrated thing you learn in muay thai/kickboxing is to kick the arms. Even if they're blocking, it fucking hurts after a while especially when they only block with one arm. X block is a life saver. Canelo attacked the arms of Callum Smith. Legit strategy.

Pretty sure he either broke his hand or forearm

Hopefully this fight is the stepping stone to Holland becoming the new generations wonderboy after he retires lol

Yeah, might be time to really commit to winning before entertaining too. He fought a hell of a fight but despite recent results, he's not shabby at all on the ground and should really mix that in against a guy like Wonderboy if/when winning is your #1 goal. He's got an amazing chin but each big shot he eats shortens that chain, and that's something you want to rely on when you're getting tagged in contender/championship fights years from now...not a 'fun' kickboxing match with Wonderboy after a loss. Or, he might not see a path to the title because WW is packed with grappling specialists at the top. Or, it's neither of those, lol. I'm glad it was stopped in-between...I really like Holland.

Holland would've won if he didn't eat all those punches and kicks and landed more of his own offence

I've got no patience for these hot takes!

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I agree, if Holland didn't lose he would've won

He would've won if he didn't lose

Beautiful insight

Now that it's clear that WB is never going to be champ in a division full of grapplers they should just feed him strikers. Conor, Jorge 2, Michel Pereira, Daniel Rodriguez...would be fireworks.

jack della maddalena

Winner of Lawler Ponzinibbio

DC keeps trying to sell that Wonderboy should retire. He has taken minimal damage, he won’t be champion, but the dude has some high profile wins in him if he is selective

I can see why DC would want him to retire while he’s on top. It only takes one fight to be “one too many” in this unforgiving game.

DC is just mad he cant get his legs up that high.

Does she have a lisp?

Only since after the fight.

Uhh Karyn Bryan has a lisp now?

Rampage Jackthin

I really like holland but I’m happy wonderboy won Kevin will be fine but if wonderboy lost it wouldn’t be good for the rest of his career

Yooo, Kevin may have lost, but I’d definitely tune in to see one of his fights

Pettis was getting dominated until the KO though

Holland's hand was (wait for it).... A BALEEWN

Kevin Holland is outrageously tough. Any one of those head kicks would have killed most men

one of those liverkicks he took was so loud I actually felt like I took some of it for him lmao i winced instantly

no

What a feather in Pettis' cap though am I right

The timing of that superman punch was legitimately insane, countered right off of the sidekick.

no

Idk why they even would want to match Wonderboy up with grapplers at this point in his career. That should be the very last matchmaking options for him.

if he wants to fight up that's all he's got

its mma, everyone has some grappling. holland clearly could have used some if he wanted to.

Finishes all night, this shit should've been a PPV

Yooo this card was a banger

Fun fights but none of them really mean much for their respective divisions.

Dude I thought it was

Could’ve been* thank god it wasn’t haha

The prelims were mostly decisions, but the main card yeah.

Holland is as durable as they come.

give wonderboy to pereira and holland to ponz if he wins

wanna see wonderboy vs masvidal

It's very rare for a fighter to retire after such a good performance. Too bad I see two more wrestlefucks and maybe a KO in WBs future. Not too many people will just let him stand up like Holland tonight.

Just say no to grapplers, Wonderboy.

Wonderboy vs Masvidal 2 is the fight to make

Don't think that fight goes any differently than the first lol. Wonderboy looks like hasn't lost a step since the fought and I think Masvidal just gets pieced up against to a unanimous decision.

That was like a fight you'd see in a video game where neither of the guys know the grappling and takedown controls so they just go all striking, and then in the 4th, just spamming all the kicks lol

So I have to ask… could WB possibly still beat Leon?

Wonderboy looked weak in the clinch. That might be an issue.

hell no lol

Thought about it this week a few times. I think he could, but it would be a longshot. Would LOVE to see it. Wonderboy taking the belt at 40-41 years old would be fucking BADASS and couldn’t happen to a better guy.

Leon showing up with knee sleeves

Leon's striking is leagues worse than wonderboys. That being said it doesn't take much to hold wonderboy on the ground.

Leon would wrestle fuck wonderboy

No, he'd get wrestle fucked

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All champs have good ground game except Pereira. And that's just because he fought Adesanya, who has great TDD but no grappling. WB's TDD and grappling abilities are quite bad. Considering that, he couldn't be champ in almost any division.

Guida, RDA, Johnson, and WB with the wins. Cool night.

OG's for sure!

UFC 282 way too weak to be a PPV

I couldn’t be less excited for jan vs ankalaev. At least glover vs jan would have been somewhat exciting. What an awful main event

I think they mean performance of the year

Guida Johnson and Wonderboy all winning I feel like it's 2015 again

One is washed up and the other still in his prime.

Statement fight for Wonderboy. He lost to grapplers, but his striking still what it always was. You can't hang with the dude there.

despite making sense in rankings, I'm 0% interested in Strickland x Cannonier

Cannonier is going to UD him.

I'm excited to see strickland get brutally KOd again

Especially after that Hermansson performance, Sean beat Uriah Hall and Hermansson by split and got toward the title picture LMAO

crazy fight, UFC has some things to work out. they can have better more exciting fights with favorable match ups... they need to copy onefc, and quickly start the stand up only division with 4 oz gloves. we would have never seen such a display of kicks and karate.

Totally agreed. Although that would be an entirely new thing as one has muy thai and kickboxing but not a general stand up only division right ? I love that idea haha

GGs boys and girls. See ya next event.

Lol at Wonderbreads reaction when they were cutting Hollands tape off.

“😧 oh NO!”

It wasn’t until watching Holland fight Wonderboy that I realized how sloppy Holland’s hooks are. I can see how he broke his hand. Either from throwing or blocking

He blocked a couple very hard kicks with his hand alone.

I liked real hate between Khabib and Connor. But let's be honest, real lovers of MMA has to have this fight in their top 10 ever.

This is the type of fight you want to show to a friend who’s new to MMA.

Hespect

Cannonier vs Strickland: Bath salts vs Psychopath OG

Crystal powers vs crystal meth

Tonights fights were like getting a free bag of cocaine.

UFC should just manage both those guys with good matchmaking for maximum entertainment. I don't need to know who can outwrestle and I don't want to find out

These fights cards this year in particular have been such fucking bangers

FOTY? no. Jiri/Glover, Khamzat/Burns plainly better, lots others in line before this one. was fun though

Yeah, not enough back and forth to match Jiri/Glover. It might have turned out that way if Holland didn't injure his hand.

It looked like it was shaping up to be in the first two rounds, but it was too one sided after that to be FOTY.

Jiri Glover was not better than this. Fantastic finish but not an overall better fight

Yea this was like a nostalgia trip, seeing Stephen win against a really competitive fighter

Everyone giving the corner credit when they were probably ready to just throw Holland to the wolves again. Kevin’s a smart dude, he said “get this shit off of me” meaning “take off my wraps, I’m done” and THEN they stopped the fight.

Kevin had clearly been hoping the ref was going to help, he made no secret his hand was broken, he was hoping for it to get called because of that

282 is going to have tough time to live up to this card

0 chance but it’s got some solid fights. Main event fucking sucks tho

Great W for Wonderboy

Bonus for the lot of the fighters tonight please Uncle Dana. What a card!

Has Wonderboy lost the power with age or is Kevin Holland built different?

Wonderboy has list a little bit of speed, power at least from the sound looks the same. Kevin just has a meme chin. That 4th round he just wouldnt go down

holland toughness/youth/lack of career damage

I’d say Kevin has a chin and Stephen is getting a bit older. Stephen has power though, but it’s not his style to throw hooks from a boxing stance

Holland is tough as fuck, Wonderboy shots were audible on broadcast in a crowd.

Sucks ass that Wonderboy's natural division is WW. He never really stepped up to the grappling.

Holland was definitely concussed with the way he was squinting in that interview lol

This guy CTE’s

Photophobia is real.