The Weigh-In

Blog providing analysis, reaction and opinion on the rapidly growing sport of MMA #TMMA4L

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Is the middleweight division finally returning to normality? Think the last easily justifiable title fight was Weidman v Rockhold at 194? #UFC221

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@CGeeneyPA @FightStanceJC Agreed - have a feeling a fully fit Gustafsson gives him more than a run for his money though!

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Completely agree with @MikeChiappetta’s assessment of the GSP situation - the UFC made its bed with the money fight culture, now it must lay in it!

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So what was the point of GSP moving to middleweight...? Whittaker vs Rockhold should be a hell of a fight though!

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@FightStanceJC Think Ngannou will win, but not sure about Oezdemir - get the feeling Cormier will drag him to deep waters

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Cannot wait for #UFC220 - co-main and main are insane!

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I get the Jon Jones rationale, but if he can prove he didn’t intentionally ingest a steroid (and there really wasn’t much point given previous clean USADA tests and his track record) he still has a career. If not... time to let go. @UniqueMazique

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Agree with @UniqueMazique on Diego Sanchez, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida and even Bisping after one more home fight, but Aldo is far from done. Thoroughly outpaced Frankie Edgar at 200 and met his match in Holloway.

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Could not disagree more with the commentators saying that @josealdojunior should call it a career. His victory over Frankie Edgar last year shows he is still in the top bracket, but just beaten by the better fighter at 212 and 218. Doesn’t need to be champ to build his legacy.

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@sandi_langlois @BlessedMMA Don’t remind me! Until there’s a UFC champ born after 2000, I can live with it!

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What’s perhaps most depressing is the fact that @BlessedMMA is a full year younger than me! #WhatHaveYouDoneThisYear #UFC218

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Fights to make after #UFC218: Holloway v Edgar, Aldo v Swanson/Ortega winner, Ngannou v Miocic, Overeem v Volkov, Cejudo v Johnson, S.Pettis v Borg, Alvarez v Poirier, Gaethje v A.Pettis, Torres v Kowalkiewicz, Waterson v Herrig

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Wow! @francis_ngannou is an absolute monster! Maybe facing off against him wasn't such a good idea... #UFC218

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And an absolute war between @Justin_Gaethje and @Ealvarezfight - as expected, but a picture perfect finish! #UFC218

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Get why they've done it, but interesting to see a man who 'might never fight again' on the cover of #UFC3. That's before we cover his ill-discipline outside the cage, and the fact that he's fought as many boxing bouts as MMA ones in the last year! Who knew business was fickle?

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Also huge congrats to @NiccoMontano on becoming the first flyweight champion - wonder how the division will look in 12 months and who will make the move up or down... #TUF26Finale #UFC

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Got me thinking - what would you rank in the Top 5 UFC fights of all time? #UFC218

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Just catching up on #UFC218 - what a fight between @ymedeiros and Cowboy Oliveira!

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As someone who has been in a staredown with @francis_ngannou - he means business... #UFC218

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Interesting to see @criscyborg and @josealdojunior commenting on people not in their weight class - focus on the job at hand perhaps?