UFC 228: WOODLEY vs. TILL 4 March 2017 | T-Mobile Arena | Paradise, NV MAIN CARD Pay-Per-View, 10 p.m. ET Tyron Woodley (c) vs. Darren Till Nicco Montano (c) vs. Valentina Shevchenko Brandon Davis vs. Zabit Magomedsharipov Jessica Andrade vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz Niko Price vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan PRELIMINARY CARD FS1, 8 p.m. ET Carla Esparza vs. Tatiana Suarez Aljamain Sterling vs. Cody Stamann Charles Byrd vs. Darren Stewart Jimmie Rivera vs. John Dodson PRELIMINARY CARD UFC Fight Pass, 7 p.m. ET Diego Sanchez vs. Craig White Jim Miller vs. Alex White Irene Aldana vs. Lucie Pudilova Ryan Benoit vs. Roberto Sanchez Geoff Neal vs. Frank Camacho
I see abysmal PPV sales for this card. Not fair to Woodley, IMO. I'm not even a Woodley fan but that undercard is UFN quality. I'll stream this one. Love the thread!
According to MMAjunkie, Till is already talking about middleweight after 2 or 3 more fights at welterweight. Dude should already be at that weight class...
Till has 12 lbs to cut in two days. Should be able to do it...but we'll see.. Sick of him complaining about cutting weight. You're the gorilla (literally you're fighting moniker) forcing yourself down to 170 when you could easily make 185.
She won't have a chance to get wrecked. She was rushed to the hospital. The fight is off. No word as to why, yet. Woodley (170lbs) and Till(169lbs) both make weight.
Bullet said she wouldn't believe the fight was happening until they were in the cage. No wonder. They pushed this fight what, three times and still can't make it happen. Feel bad for Montano but only if it's legit. She seems to be quacking a lot.
Results Tyron Woodley def. Darren Till via submission (D’Arce choke) – Round 2, 4:19 – to defend welterweight title Jessica Andrade def. Karolina Kowalkiewicz via knockout (punch) – Round 1, 1:58 Zabit Magomedsharipov def. Brandon Davis via submission (kneebar) – Round 2, 3:46 Jimmie Rivera def. John Dodson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) Abdul Razak Alhassan def. Niko Price via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 0:43 Tatiana Suarez def. Carla Esparza via TKO (strikes) – Round 3, 4:33 Aljamain Sterling def. Cody Stamann via submission (kneebar) – Round 2, 3:42 Geoff Neal def. Frank Camacho via knockout (high kick) – Round 2, 1:23 Darren Stewart def. Charles Byrd via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 2:17 Diego Sanchez def. Craig White via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) Jim Miller def. Alex White via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 1:29 Irene Aldana def. Lucie Pudilova via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Jarred Brooks def. Roberto Sanchez via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Managed to see the last six fights. Suarez squished Esparza who is still too small for the divison. Suarez is one dimensional but could be good enough to hold the belt eventually. ARA ran through Niko Price. Rivera vs. Dodson was a typical shit-tier Dodson fight. He honestly sucks to watch these days. Jimmy Rivera's walkout music was intense. Zabit vs. Davis was good. Zabit's banana split-kneebar submission was awesome. Can't wait to see what's next. Andrade ran through KK. Shocking. Can't help but suspect that Andrade and Gadelha are juicy. Hopefully this isn't a major setback for KK since she was pro to take this fight on short notice but she's back to being two or three fights from a title shot again. T-Wood handled Till. Another real surprise. Till didn't learn from his fight with Wonderboy and started much too slowly. Woodley tried to set a quick pace early but Till responded by not doing much at all. He got sucked in by Woodley, per his typical strategy, and ate the pullback right hand. From there Woodley GNP'd him and eventually sunk in a D'arce. Great performance by Woodley, poor performance by Till. Good set of fights overall.
I see guys like Whittaker, Rumble, and Poirier who stopped cutting large amounts of weight and feel like Till could move up successfully like they have done. The only problem is the three I mentioned are different fighters than Till. They seemed to have more one punch knockout power than Till, even when they used cutting all of the weight, and have been far more aggressive in their fights. So he is not exactly cut from the same cloth as those three and there are questions as to whether his game plans would transition to a higher weight class. No matter what, I hope Woodley's next fight is him shutting the inbred dude's mouth.
Did not expect Woodley to dominate like that. I didn't expect Till to be so gun shy. Till was really overmatched and shows why maybe prospects shouldn't be rushed along so fast. I think he belongs at 185 TBH; hopefully he'll settle in there. He has a lot of tools and, I hope he can expand his ground game. I'm happy for Woodley too. I'm not the biggest fan of the guy, but you can't deny his talent. Hopefully he beats the shit out of Covington.
