UFC FIGHT NIGHT 121: WERDUM vs. TYBURA 19 November 2017 | Qudos Bank Arena | Sydney, AUS MAIN CARD FS1, 10 p.m. ET Fabricio Werdum vs. Marcin Tybura Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Bec Rawlings Tim Means vs. Belal Muhammad Jake Matthews vs. Bojan Velickovic Dan Kelly vs. Elias Theodorou Alex Volkanovski vs. Shane Young PRELIMINARY CARD FS1, 8 p.m. ET Ryan Benoit vs. Ashkan Mokhtarian Will Brooks vs. Nik Lentz Anthony Hamilton vs. Adam Wieczorek Damien Brown vs. Frank Camacho PRELIMINARY CARD UFC Fight Pass, 6.30 p.m. ET Alex Chambers vs. Nadia Kassem Tai Tuivasa vs. Rashad Coulter
Hunt pulled, Werdum in to replace him. Some speculation that Hunt talking about slurred speech and memory loss gave the UFC a reason to yank him. Hunt as you might expect is furious.
Hunt can whine all he wants to, but this time it is on him and not the UFC. Hunt threatens to slap a lawsuit on the organization every other day over the steroids thing. It doesn't seem like a stretch to think that he would turn around and sue the UFC for letting him fight when he has publicly hinted at having severe brain damage.
He's now saying he was joking about his memory loss, an inside joke he has with his wife, says his memory is good. Rants like this don't exactly make him seem stable, though...
Fans in Australia might be frustrated that the UFC keeps trotting out the same guys every time they are there.
Wonder how many cans Werdum needs to smash before he gets at Miocic again? It would seem the winner of Reem/Ngannou will get next crack.
Frank Camacho and Damien Brown put on the brawl of a lifetime. Stood toe to toe and just beat each other up.
Honestly, outside of Camacho/Brown, this has been a pretty boring night of fights. Hopefully the main event will have some fireworks because the rest of the card has experienced very few.
Results Fabricio Werdum def. Marcin Tybura via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 49-46) Jessica-Rose Clark def. Bec Rawlings via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Belal Muhammad def. Tim Means via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Jake Matthews def. Bojan Velickovic via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) Elias Theodorou def. Daniel Kelly via unanimous decision (30-28, 30-27, 30-26) Alex Volkanovski def. Shane Young via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-26, 30-26) Ryan Benoit def. Ashkan Mokhtarian via knockout (head kick) – Round 3, 2:38 Nik Lentz def. Will Brooks via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 2, 2:05 Tai Tuivasa def. Rashad Coulter via knockout (knee) – Round 1, 4:35 Frank Camacho def. Damien Brown via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 29-28) Nadia Kassem def. Alex Chambers via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-27, 29-27) Eric Shelton def. Jenel Lausa via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-26, 30-25) Adam Wieczorek def. Anthony Hamilton via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
I was going to say I didn't see most of the fights but I actually did see the entire main card, such as it was, so yeah, I wasn't very focused apparently. I believe this is close to the longest UFC event with nine of thirteen fights going the distance. Volkanovski/Young-- don't know much about either fighter. Volk was better. Did they say Young was Maori? Wouldn't have known by looking at him. Theodorou/Kelly-- probably impolite of me to say this but Dan Kelly is a stiff, lumbering old man and how he's gotten this far in the UFC I'll never know. Theo should've steamrolled him but instead it was actually close (but he's a so-so MW). Matthews/Velickovic-- I wanted Matthews to win so he wouldn't get his dick kicked in by his irate father. Muhammad/Means-- like with Kelly I'm surprised that Muhammad has put together so many wins in the UFC. He is truly unremarkable. He's got no shot at fighting or beating Covington. Clark/Rawlings-- not a fan of Rawlings so it was nice to see her finally get her walking papers, presumably. She can take her BFF Magana with her. Both her and Clark are low skill fighters. This was the co-main?! Werdum/Tybura-- Tybura had the most straightforward fight plan of all time but he's tough so I guess it was semi-successful. Werdum is on the grind right now getting wins. The winner of Reem/Ngannou will probably fight Stipe next so Werdum has another middling HW to beat in the meantime. Arlovski?
This event was 3.04 long fight time making it to the longest UFC event so far. Add in at least 3 hours of adds to make one long fucken event for those in attendance. I was at UFC 87 that had I think eight fights go the distance and it was like five hours long. By the end we didn't want to go out after.
