The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) drought closes this Saturday night (May 13, 2017) as UFC 211 hits Dallas, Texas' American Airlines Arena with some breathtaking match ups close behind. Heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic locks horns with Junior dos Santos in the headliner, while ladies' Strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk confronts human highlight reel Jessica Andrade.
Moreover, Demian Maia and Jorg UFC 211 Live PPV will duke it out in a conceivable Welterweight No. 1title contender eliminator coordinate and Frankie Edgar will endeavor to end the brilliant ascent of Yair Rodriguez.Five of UFC 211's nine "Prelims" undercard matches will occur on Fight Pass, while the rest of to FX (not FOX Sports 1) without precedent for a while. We should first see and foresee UFC 211's online line up:
115 lbs.: Jessica Aguilar versus Cortney Casey
Jessica Aguilar (19-5) returned from her disputable misfortune to Zoila Frausto in Bellator to win 10 straight, including a ruling against Carla Esparza and two choices over the incredible Megumi Fujii. That family wasn't sufficient to spare her from Claudia Gadelha, who overwhelmed "Jag" in the last's UFC make a big appearance.
This will be her initially battle since Oct. 2015 on account of a torn ACL.
Cortney Casey (6-4) missed the mark in her initial two UFC sessions against Joanne Calderwood and Seo Hee Ham, winning "Battle of the Night" both circumstances, however demonstrated sensational change in prevailing wins over Cristina Stanciu and Randa Markos. This set up a battle with Gadelha, who charmed the Brazilian group while giving Casey her third UFC vanquish.
She will have three crawls of stature and four creeps of reach on Aguilar.
This battle comes altogether down to how much the cutback influences Aguilar. Casey has parlayed her size, quality and mean streak into some strong exhibitions, yet the wrestling and experience differences are quite recently a lot for her present skillset to overcome. Hell, Aguilar first battled Fujii a year prior to Casey's expert presentation.
Casey doesn't have enough to fall back on when Plan A (physically overwhelming Aguilar) definitely goes south. Aguilar out-catches her while in transit to her first UFC triumph.
Forecast: Aguilar def. Casey through consistent choice
145 lbs.: Jared Gordon versus Michel Quinones
Jared "Streak" Gordon (12-1) — however not the SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE — bounced back from his initially profession misfortune to Jeff Lentz by winning the CFFC Featherweight title. In his first protection, he awed Dana White and Co. enough to be the most recent "Lookin' for a Fight" procurement.
He has thumped out five adversaries and presented another two.
A striker out of American Top Team, Michel Quinones (8-1) thumped out three continuous adversaries in the first round, including The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 22 contender Billy Quarantillo, to gain a ring to Titan FC. There, he got only his second choice win over beforehand unbeaten Caio Uruguai.He was initially UFC 211 Live Stream set to make a big appearance in February against Alexander Volkanovski before anguish a harm.There's not much out there on Gordon spare highlights, but rather gratefully, Fight Pass has Quinones' last battle. "El Capo" is a forceful, effective striker with a precarious departed leg, however tends to surge forward when assaulting in blend and open himself up to counters. What I can sort out of Gordon recommends a solid wrestler with fly in his grasp.
While they're both strong, Gordon gets my speculative gesture. He looks skilled on the counter and — however Quinones' takedown protection looked strong — those charges are simply asking for an all around coordinated twofold leg takedown. Gordon blends striking and takedowns for a choice win.Expectation: Gordon by means of consistent choice265 lbs.: Chase Sherman versus Rashad CoulterPursue Sherman (9-3) entered UFC with nine first-round knockouts in 10 battles, the sole misfortune coming to current UFC contender Alex Nicholson. He has attempted to reproduce that achievement in UFC, dropping a wide choice to Justin Ledet in his introduction and enduring a knockout to individual physical example Walt Harris in January.
At 6'4", he stands five inches taller than Rashad Coulter (8-1).
Coulter enters UFC having won five straight, every one of them in the first round under strong flags like Bellator and Legacy FC. His last two battles have finished in a joined 1:49 and none of the five kept going over three minutes. Like Sherman, the greater part of Coulter's wins have stopped by type of knockout.Will be straightforward: Aside from around 10 seconds from AXS TV's post-demonstrate recaps, I can't locate any current film of Coulter. I do, in any case, realize that he's battled at Light Heavyweight before and his weight has a tendency to change significantly, which recommends he's conveying superfluous fat. Sherman might be actually restricted, however he's a 240-pound mammoth.
Both folks are coming in without prior warning, another layer of interest. Tolerating that the absence of battle tape makes this a one in million guess, I say Sherman closes the slugfest partially through the first.Forecast: Sherman by means of first-round TKO 145 lbs.: Gabriel Benitez versus Enrique BarzolaGabriel Benitez (19-5) — who vanquished Diego Rivas on the inaugural TUF: "Latin America" season — won his initial two UFC sessions before torment a profession first misfortune to Andre Fili at UFC Fight Night 78. After ten months, "Moggly" come back to activity and stifled out Sam Sicilia in Hidalgo for his fifth win in six battles.
Ten of his 19 proficient wins have stopped by accommodation, including four by guillotine gag.
Enrique Barzola (12-3-1) — satisfied his epithet on TUF: "Latin America" 2, beating Jonathan Ortega and Cesar Arzamendia before ruling Horacio Guitierrez at the Finale. After a sketchy misfortune to Kyle Bochniak, Barzola traveled past Chris Avila in Mexico City last November. His wins are part equally between knockouts, entries and choices. It's been pleasant to see TUF: "Latin American" contenders UFC 211 Live Fight in the wake of being disregarded as curiosities. Benitez has demonstrated an extremely powerful striker and Barzola is substantially more balanced than one would expect considering the constrained preparing openings he had at a very early stage in his profession.
That well-roundedness makes them pick the Peruvian. He can stand his ground on the feet and mixes his grappling with his striking great. The risk of the takedown ought to gag Benitez's typical kicking invasion and Barzola has the cardio to catch throughout the night. He outworks Benitez to a reasonable choice win.
Expectation: Barzola by means of consistent choice205 lbs.: Gadzhimurad Antigulov versus Joachim Christensen Gadzhimurad Antigulov (19-4) put a three-battle losing streak behind him with 12 continuous triumphs, everything except one by knockout or accommodation. This set up a UFC make a big appearance against Marcos Rogerio de Lima, whom Antigulov overwhelmed for a reward winning guillotine gag in 67 seconds.He has halted 16 adversaries in the first round, incorporating seven in under one moment. Joachim Christensen (14-4) saw his five-battle win streak reached an end in his UFC make a big appearance when Luis "Frankenstein" recouped from a terrible knee to submit him in the second. After three months, he came back to activity and thumped out Bojan Mihajlovic with an exquisite uppercut halfway through the third. At 6'3", he is four inches taller than Antigulov.
Antigulov is a characteristic Middleweight who compensates for his physical disservices with amazing hostility. It's not a manageable style, nor one that will keep on working once he begins to scratch the highest point of the division, yet it makes him must-sit in front of the TV against those beneath the 205-pound middle.Christensen has power and strong striking abilities. What's more, if the battle goes past the main, it's his for the taking. Unfortunately, he has not exhibited the takedown protection important to turn aside Antigulov's underlying surge. Antigulov downs him early and secures up something monstrous move.
Forecast: Antigulov by means of first-round accommodation
Despite everything we have a few awesome UFC 211 "Prelims" battles to see and anticipate tomorrow, including a confrontation between top Featherweight prospects, and in addition a barnburner between Eddie Alvarez and Dustin Poirier.
