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The UFC became the first of the world’s leading sport organizers to host a tournament, despite the coronavirus pandemic still being undefeated and many countries still closed.
Lithuania time Sunday morning, the UFC 249 tournament offered fans a great show at home: Justinas Gaethje won the temporary lightweight champion title, who beat Tony Ferguson, who claimed 12 straight wins in the fifth round. in a spectacular technical knockout.
Viewers also saw two-weight champion Henry Cejudo’s victory against MMA legend Dominic Cruz and the unexpected news of his career end, Francis Ngannou’s knockout in 20 seconds ahead of Jairzinho Rozenstruik and other fights.
What awaits the main players at UFC 249? ESPN journalist Brett Okamoto made his predictions.
Whats Next Chabib Nurmagomedov
When Okamoto asked UFC President Dana White a few weeks ago if the winner of this fight would actually face Nurmagomedov in another fight, he replied “100 percent.”
Gaethje wanted to be the most interesting fighter in the world for many years and he succeeded. He is now focused on the true lightweight champion title and in this fight he has earned the right to meet C.Nurmagomedov.
J.Gaethje and C.Nurmagomedov will certainly be considered the favorites in the fight, C.Nurmagomedov, but J.Gaethje also has many years of experience in wrestling. Even though his last four rivals fell after knockouts or technical knockouts, he has also been involved in wrestling since he was 4 years old. He won state titles. What if I managed to keep C.Nurmagomedov in a standing position? Oh man, what would happen then?
Dark horse: You will meet McGregoras
Before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, the fight between C.Nurmagomedov and T.Ferguson was canceled for the fifth time. Before that, there had been talk of Gaetje’s possible fight against C. McGregor this summer. However, now it would be difficult to expect Gaethje to join the fight against C. McGregor even before the duel with C. Nurmagomedov.
C.Nurmagomedov wants to fight, he was disappointed that he couldn’t defend the title in April. There are two champions at lightweight again, so the title must be united. C. McGregor doesn’t realize it here unless he starts to speak out loud about the desire to fight Gaethje. As we know, C. McGregor generally gets what he wants.
Whats Next You will meet McGregoras
If you have been following this sport for a long time, then your heart is really crying for T. Ferguson. He deserved to fight for the royal title, not to meet an opponent of a completely different style than he had and fight for the title of interim champion.
Ferguson took the greatest risk in the UFC 249 tournament. He had won 12 fights in a row before, but had never before fought for a true champion title. It’s disgusting.Therefore, he should be rewarded at least with fighting C.McGregor.
However, Okamoto does not believe the UFC does that. Ferguson was never the name C. McGregor was particularly interested in. Still, many UFC fans would like this fight.
Black Horse: Charlesas Oliveira
Unfortunately, it will probably happen that Ferguson will queue up again for the title battles. You may again have to fight people whom others avoid. At this point, it would be Ch.Oliveira.
Ch.Oliveira has won seven in a row and is ahead of all of them. It would be a fantastic style matchup and B. Okamoto believes the UFC can organize it.
Whats Next End of career?
You are sure H. Cejudo is only 33 years old and is at the top of the martial arts. In the ESPN ranking of the absolute best categories, H. Cejudoi was in third place. Is your career really going to end? Perhaps after the victory, Cave’s coach Eric Albarracin spoke to Okamoto on the phone and told him it could be monetary. He also mentioned that if the UFC adds another zero to its earnings, it thought it would be difficult for H. Moveo to resign.
Black Horse: Jose Aldo
If H. Cejudo returned, chances are the man he could deal with would be J. Aldo.
Personally, B.Okamoto wouldn’t want that, because J.Aldo is after defeat, and there are more fighters in this weight class who deserve to fight for the title, but when he returns, H.Kejudo would really like to fight well-known names. .
Whats Next Frankie Edgar
That would be a really big fight. She is amazing because both guys have no other options. Edgar has lost twice in a row and would like to start in a new weight class. Cruz also lost twice in a row and was knocked out for the first time in his career. Before that, he didn’t fight for even 1,226 days.
Here we would see two respected veterans, former champions. They are both well known, and this fight would be even more exciting than one where one of them would fight for the title.
Black Horse: Jose Aldo
If J.Aldas doesn’t fight for the title, then it would be great to see his fight with D.Cruz as well. Once upon a time, D.Cruz was the king of the lighter weight category in the WEC organization, and at the same time J.Aldo reigned there in light weight. Their styles are completely different, but they respect each other and this fight would be very exciting.
Whats Next Winner of the fight between Stipe Miočičius and Daniel Cormier.
There are no other possible answers. This has been clear since F. Ngannou brought down Junior dos Santos in 71 seconds. F.Ngannou knocked out each of his last four rivals, and even three of them didn’t take a minute.
F.Ngannou is now where he was in 2018. At first, when he challenged S.Miočičius for the title of heavyweight champion. You are the scariest person in the world who has to answer a question: Can you defend yourself against rollovers and stay competitive for more than one round? There are only two people who would be interested to see now in the fight against F. Nannann – S. Miočičius and D. Cormier.
Black Horse: John Jones
If you have to think non-standardly, what do you think about the fight between F. Ngannou and J. Jones? If it takes time to organize the third fight of S.Miočičius and D.Cormier or both of them would end their careers after that, what do you think about F.Ngannou’s fight with the UFC light heavyweight champion? It really can happen.
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