UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier - Live Fight Thread

Let's do this every week! Super fun and a great atmosphere in here. I'm not going back to reddit. I was there 12 years, and saw it slip just like I saw digg slip before it. Let's keep this going while we wait for others to see the obvious - once the people who create the best content leave there's no reason to stay there.

Hello, this is Marvin Vettori's brain. I'm not able to answer the phone right now, but please leave a message and I'll get back to you after round five.

thanks for hanging out with me, everyone. had a great time with you all

fun fight

It might be impossible to knockout Vettori.

This is currently the most commented thread ever on kbin. It's a shame that it won't grow from here, with the return of the subreddit soon.

Historically, no one has EVER beat an ass more than Cannonier at middleweight, and yet somehow Vettori is still here. That dude probably lost 2 or 3 years off his career tonight, though.

never seen cannonier cook somebody like this. very impressive.

Also everyone, please upvote this thread itself so we can get other folks from the fediverse to come over to the thread as well. Thanks.

Fuck I miss hanging with the boyz!!

Cruz absolutely creaming himself over Keith Peterson making a mistake, lol.

So happy with how active this thread is too!

9am, here in Aus, brekky is served, bois.

I'd like to start a petition to replace Cruz with Laura Sanko. I think it'd be nice to get a former female fighter's opinion in there, and she's well spoke and deserves it.

Most exciting fight by either fighter. They both want to make a statement.

Mods, lemme get that "Head to head deez nuts" flair.

Three minutes into the fight, I would have given it to Salikhov. Dalby proved me severely wrong

TIFU guys, as an aside. Went fishing today, was wading in a stream I've never waded before. Took a step and in that exact spot the water was about 3 feet deeper than on either side. Went completely under, cut my legs up and lost my phone. Phone is....not water proof. $300 fishing trip feels bad man.

I think it takes a metal noggin like Vetorri and a relentless ass beating machine like Cannonier to break that record. We might not see it again.

That was the right call. Good on Keith to fix that.

minty bets is still not a real person

Guy gave birth and then takes a fight. Badass

Fights like this deserve a real crowd. Apex is played out.

I'm really sorry about your money, @TummyAcheHaver@kbin.social

Vettori looks like he just woke up from a nap.

Incredible that Vettori is still standing. Cannonier was teeing off.

Slippin' Jimmy.

Kinda feels like the mullet is on the wrong dude here...

KO of the year.

Jason Herzog is the real gold standard. He is just a step above the rest.

My favorite ref is the ref that gives a warning if it needs a warning and takes a point if it was serious. I think too many refs are hesitant to take a point on things like fence grabs that change the whole position of fight or eye pokes that compromise the fighter for the rest of the fight. I'd like to see more points taken until the behavior decreases across the whole industry

Who gets it done tonight, guys? Rocky or Creed?

Tots are cold by the time they get from my oven to my couch. There's no way I'm ordering them from Dominos.

ehh after a while it felt like Marvin had nothing for Jared, looked like he was too slow. Corner should've thrown in the towel, he wore the damage well but that could take some time to recover from

Kick his ass, Sea Bass!

kbin feels like a Ladder Season reset for Reddit.

I've heard that damage is a scoring criteria. 4-1 Jared. Marvin is not human.

I did not expect Vettori to survive that round. Very impressive

Love Cannonier fights, Izzy was too smart to trade with him

Refs tonight putting on the clown costume a lot faster than in most fight nights.

Do you think Pat Sabatini and Danny Sabatello hang out?

dom with the clutch commentator curse 😂

Sabatini like your ultra needy ex here, absolutely smothering.

Costa looked good. That shoutout to Grasso & Aldana was wholesome as fuck too

Pretty sure their heads touched when dalby drove him into the fence right there. Should we stop the fight, guys?

ehh after a while it felt like Marvin had nothing for Jared, looked like he was too slow. Corner should've thrown in the towel, he wore the damage well but that could take some time to recover from

Sabatini committing murders out here. Respect to Almeida for refusing to die

God damn, absolutely daddied him

one of the most fucking horrible stoppages ive ever fucking seen

What drugs and/or alcohol is making McGregor look like he's always doing a Robert DeNiro impression?

Salikhov starts losing the second he gives up the middle of the octagon. I think that's bad ring craft.

Bondar should be a little more focused on winning the round and a little less on showing off. I know you wanna make a name for yourself as someone other than the guy that had the freak injury, but let's start by winning a fight, maybe?

I should have bet him but my momma always told me to never trust a Kyung Ho.

Unless I'm mistaken, McGregor has now passed the deadline where he needed to test in order to fight this year, right? Or was there news of him entering the pool that I missed?

what is the point of TUF when so many of the losers still get contracts lol

Hey hey new MMA

MMA on kbin yessss boyz!

You know this will somehow be a contested decision.

Come on UFC, don't make Dalby have to produce his own obscure octagon trivia.

There are too many "fight capitals of the world"

Love how one ref ended the fight before anything happened, no tap or anything, and now one wanted to see 5 elbows to the head first.

Paul Felder wants to have sex with that elbow. We all know this.

Cannonier is legitimately kickboxing him up. 2-1 so far. And Jared definitely look to have the better stamina for 5.

Flick literally looks like the meth dealer you'd see at the mall. He sells heroin too but hates that shit, only keeps it around to keep his meth business afloat (gets high on his own supply too much)

No nonsense lol

Vettori saw Yoel being a punching bag last night and said he could do better.

The ole Brazilian tap! Love to see it

This is getting stopped. No way Almeida survives another round of that

come on twister!!!

At least the judges didn't totally blow it

Oh hey, he made it outta the round!

mad respect to Vettori for surviving until the decision but he had very little for Cannonier. holy shit

Nice to see fight threads on here already

keith trying to see a dead body tonight. 👀

Keith tapped for him lol

Opponent can't stand, better run at him and clinch.

That was a great KO, but that could have gone either way. Dude won't survive the top guys until he learns to tuck his chin.

The corpse of Harrison Ford and that lady from Fleabag. That's what people wanna see, right? Right guys?....

got drunk last night and accidentally bet $10 on Jiminy Cricket here getting a first round win by KO/TKO/DQ. I'll get $290 if he does but uhhhhhh I've already kissed that money goodbye

Mullet man beats should-have-a-mullet man

Wow, the ref really messed up...

Just saw the Keith Peterson thing, lmao having Dom in the booth was fucking chefs kiss for that. I will never stop enjoying his eternal pettiness.

I mean I'd hope he's looking for a fight

holy shit did the slam knock him out?

Translator's getting a challenge here lol

ref after the 199th punch to the face: let's see where he's going with this
ref after the 200th punch to the face: ah shit i guess he got him, okay

oh fuck can you imagine if they no contest this fight, too?

I love the "live odds" on screen because they exist to make the fight seem closer. The on-screen graphic was like +180 and -200 or some shit. Draftkings has it at -1300 to +750 lmao

it's a rare fight where the winner is bleeding from the face and the loser doesn't appear to have a scratch on him

Sabatini gave Almeida the Chimaev treatment.

I'll say it again, if Vetorri does that blast double from across the octagon, you can count on Cannonier landing a knee or uppercut. Gonna get interesting.

Dom the GOAT at never letting anything go

‘good ref job’

he’s so mad he can’t even talk straight

The fact that this dude is the best translator in Portuguese AND Spanish is pretty amazing.

Well, gotta assume between getting dropped in the first and controlled hard in the second, Salikhov needs a finish, right?

What the fuck? This reffing is amusingly bad.

Honestly, Jackson must actually be pretty good, since he beat Sabatini and I think he only has losses to Topuria and Dan Ige in the UFC

RIP, I jinxef him

Sucks they both just get half their pay now…

Herb Dean is the review official, so obviously no points taken. Lmfao. Of course.

Dude is legitimately terrible.

HOLY SHIT!

the only good thing about this duluth trading company loch ness monster ad is that it's not their standard "HEY THIS SHIT FEELS SO GOOD ON YOUR BALLS AND ASS, BROTHER" shtick

Ref let him get a couple extra shots in there at the end.

That's a clash of heads, but the knee isn't a deduction, huh?

Let's go guys! Thanks for setting this up (obligatory fuck reddit)

Book it. Pantoja is gonna finish Moreno

he's gotten cracked

Let's see if Keith is all nonsense tonight

That HAS to be a point. I mean, he had time to pause and consider before he did the stupid thing, regardless of how hard it landed

Ref? He was already out on the slam.

Brazilian tap?

bloody mess

I think this will be a banger

Charli Arnault looks like she's spent five minutes wrestling with candy wrapper curtains.

Is this three straight for Dalby now? Maybe he's figuring it all out...

No wonder Adesanya danced around and avoided Cannonier for 5 rounds.

bleda: "i'm going to pin you against the cage/climb on top of you and do absolutely nothing"
fernandes: "yeah sounds good, I'll let you do that and also not do anything, either"

do either of these broads want to win the fight???

Vettori's cheek is literally hanging open

great stoppage by Peterson. never any issues with him.

These refs are atrocious

nasty leg kicks

Keith ~~no ~~ nonsense Peterson

No Nonsense Keith had too much alcohol and cigarettes

El Loco all the way

Go flick! Use your meth strength!!!

I feel like the UFC is getting super watered down. Tons of no name fighters so they don't have to pay them much, and WAY too many people with 5-0 or 6-0 jumping in here. I remember when it used to be that if you saw a person at 5-0 in the octagon, you were like "Oh my God, they must be amazing."

That was one fast elbow knock out!

Kang just absolutely donged him right there.

And to be fair, Dan was pulling his head off.

Holy shit, that was incredibly brutal! My goodness!

damn I fell asleep and missed the main event

being an old-timer east coaster sucks with these 10pm cards

Pop pop pop

You guys remember when Heavy Cannonier carried that little bag around with him like he was keeping the souls of his KO'ed victims in there?

It'll go down as the best KO that wasn't.

This is amazing

unless Almeida can pull a rabbit out of his ass, he's fucked

Looking forward to these Fediverse fight threads each week now! Fun in here with you nice folks.

knocked him dead. crazy finish

Crikey, it's the Aussie outback!

By Felder's logic, if someone stopped in front of you, looked at you and then purposely poked you in the eye you wouldn't take a point unless he did it hard?

Knee to the head, FINE. Slightest clash of heads from a legal throw NOT ALLOWED. Pathetic.

you can almost count in Costa's leg kick timing

Bleda just throwing punches but hitting air.

This card has had some very rough judge/ref work already. Vegas, baby.

Well...this doesn't look good

Insane Tsarukyan took that punch

masterclass in "control time but doing nothing with it"

dude i have tried and i hate this website. get the reddit-stream guy to come fix it. 😭

In slo-mo, for just a moment, I think you can see Tsarukyan's eyes looking in different directions after that shot.

these mango cherry popsicles are low key amazing. Sorry my children, dad's got a taste for your frozen treats now.

can't be doing that bro, next time just kick him in the nuts since you get multiple warnings for those

Dom about to get asked nicely to no longer be on the broadcast team

That was nothing? His head was a ping pong ball between that elbow and the canvas for 10 shots at least.

UFC 290 looking good

The ref should pay them himself out of his own pocket. Wasted time and lost money. Awful from the ref.

that guy was out after the throw. that wasn't a head clash. and those elbows didn't need to happen. holy shit.

Nice survival instinct by Salikhov. Instant takedown.

Why is Peterson so eager to stop the fight RIGHT as there's a tap? I mean he doesn't hesitate to let fighters receive follow up shots until they nearly die, but God forbid someone gets choked two seconds extra? Super bad

Well, that was a fight... of some sort.

That right there is the look of a broken man.

Kind of a low skill fight but sloppy and fun.

I swear I'd spend all my time learning to frame up, dig an underhook and turn my opponent if I had come into mma from a striking base. Become an expert in that? You're gonna go a long way.

There are levels to this, folks. I thought Sabatini might get caught on an obvious entry, but instead he just absolutely embarrassed this guy. Good for him.

two guys standing a just inside typical kicking distance....someone's taking a shot to the nuts, folks.

Minty Bets.

Cousin of Mookie.

Hernandez is going to be PISSED about that point when the judges blow this and give it 2-1 to Bondar in a split.

Thanks Toyo

Anyone know how to bring the comment box to under the post, like at reddit?

Imagine coming to on a stool being hugged by the guy you were just KO'd by lmao

worst translator in awhile?

Keith just HAD to have a smoke

Did Felder just try to interview Flick? Everyone's off their game tonight, man.

Rushes in and gets caught, then just opens his neck up for the taking. Bad 30 seconds, that! :')

This could go either way, Keith is presiding.

1st event on /m/mma. Let's go booyyyz!

Holy shit

Absolutely nasty elbow

Did Sabatini actually try to pick Almeida up like a baby?

Late to the party, sounds like Vettori got worked the first two rounds?

GOAT translator back at it!

Duncan went full ricky bobby right there and spun himself into a takedown.

yikes bad foul

for some reason I still think Vettori has a chance at a knockout here. i'm the dumbest man alive so don't go by me but it only takes one punch

Wow, I guess we're doing assumed will taps now.

Watch them go to the score cards and he loses.

I have this on the card as "only chance at a leglock tonight." Let's see what happens

Leeeeeroooooooyyy Dunnnncaaaaaaaannnnnnn!

I think Cannonier might have blown his load. He threw a LOT of punches there. Vettori might win this fight just by being too damned durable.

what the FUCK just happened

The fact that they don't advertise them as going to fight tells you everything you need to know. McGregor doesn't want any part of that fight.

Oh sheeeeittt that was rough

Jfc that was so many hard elbows

KAAAAAAAAAAANG

wouldn't it be a No Contest if a foul led to the knockout? Why is it going to the judges, I remember bobby green's situation ended up being a NC

Smoothest leg catch takedown I've ever seen.

Flyweight one of my favorite divisions, always high energy

I think Sabatini is getting slept here.

that was like a right hook elbow, he put his entire weight into it. Brutal

Damn, great finish

Hernandez is giving me some strong create a fighter vibes

there are only like a handful of rules you need to keep in mind here. not kneeing a guy on the ground in the fucking head seems like a rather obvious

dalby literally punching air

me at the start of round 2: silva is fucked. he's never been more fucked than he is right now
me, during the last two minutes of the fight: oh shit is he actually doing something here?

Lets go!

time for more meat to the grist mill. ufc is lacking in good free agent signing, but most do come in late year

Wow, they're no contest this, aren't they.

I can't unsee Bleda's face.

If she did a face swap with Stefan Struve they'd look like the same person

GOAT Translator is back!

I'm in Aus. It's near 4pm in Vegas. What time does the prelims start?

The skill level here is... a lil rough.

Headed to the cupboard. Time to get out the tequila and do a shot every time Brendan Fitzgerald talks about someone having a dance partner. Glad I'm not working tomorrow

Long limbs = best base for mma

Good NIGHT

Jesus, Baukauskus has a set of quads on him.

Can’t fucking stand this commercial for Cleveland lol

How many times out of 10 do you think Damon Jackson wins that Sabatini fight?

If I have to watch this light bondage t mobile commercial one more time....it might stir something in me

lets goooooo

Duncan likes to fuck around. Only time will tell if he finds out.

A LOT of dance talk tonight...

Pat Sabatini exposed Lucas ground game pretty bad.

Wow was that really late on the stoppage

He pulled his hand from Keith... oh man that's bad. Didn't see that live.

that was a little late

society if pete davison never got famous

futuristic-dome-city.jpg

Paul Felder, using six hundred words to ask a simple question. The translator's wife is screaming at the screen at home.

Impressively dumb move.

Eyes were completely closed. Clown moment for this ref.

Manuel "No me puedes veer" torres

See, I would call the fight there and then. Flick is only going get smashed from there.

great finish

He's trying to pull his head off . He did tap. Keith side angle seemed to show he did a tap.

brutal finish

Lmao. That was terrible.

If they gave it to Bondar right there, I would have laughed my ass off.

surprised that head kick didn't put him down.

Let's gooooooo!
First post-reddit MMA thread!

twister incoming?

Jesus, that was crazy!

I think the narrative that some refs are bad is just kinda based on whatever happened most recently. I remember when it was Big john is the best in the business and herb dean was a screw up depending on the day. Now it seems like Herb gets the prestige, though I don't think he's calling the fights any better than he ever did.

holy SHIT

that leg is dead

Vetorri better not try a blast double from the other side of the octagon like he sometimes does. Cannonier will end that man's career with a knee or uppercut.

Wow that sucks for Arguetta so bad.... Damn, half pay bc of that....

WOW!

Chiesa keeps calling him Joe-wah-keen Silva, I have never in my life heard "Joaquim" pronounced that way.

Is that some kind of Brazillian/Portuguese pronounciation?

Holy elbows...

Flick seems to be fighting like he has no training at all. He looks lost to me

The Hitman

i honestly don't know who won that round

Just got home. Did I miss anything cool

Gotta learn to defend takedowns against the cage. It's something you have to be able to do, plain and simple. Get in the gym, learn to dig underhooks and turn people and separate.

Sick this is great. Thanks for making a fight thread @sirvalkyerie can i give you a markdown table of the card to put in the thread description for reference?

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Motta has hands!

holy shit what a hellbow

felder. they were necessary cause the ref didn't stop it. all on the ref. 😭

Bet the house on Silva!

is that legal?

Wow, that replay shows the ref looking on like he's trying to guess what Hernandez is making out of Bondar's face.

Bondar? More like Bored-ar. Dude needs to get his head in the game and focus

Costa's combinations are very satisfying.

Here we go!

That dude is wrecked

Missed the knee, went to get a drink literally before it happened...

Damn Keith usually on it. That was bad. I wonder how tight that choke was.

Dalby looks a little overconfident. If he wades in there with his face out he's gonna get slept.

A+ shadowboxing effort

strangely lopsided co-main event from a betting odds standpoint. -1050 to 700?

holy SHIT

Dalby fighting like a guy mashing buttons in super smash brothers

haven't seen two guys fight like this since we were in high school and the winner got to kiss the girl