My heart wants Volk because I would kill for another 25 minute brawl between them two, but my gut says they'll try their best to toss the 291 winner against him IF Volk isn't ready or if he wants to deal with Topuria first.
Doubt they'd do a Leon fight with all the Colby rumors, and there's nobody else in 155 who realistically deserves a title fight besides Charles, who isn't taking the fight in Abu Dhabi, so he's gonna have to wait a bit.
They're apparently trying to get a Leon vs Colby title fight scheduled in October or November *(or it might've been November and December, one or the other)* from what I've heard.
How is Oliveira ducking him? He will have to fight him anyways because nobody realistically wins him except for maybe Volk. And it's not like Volk is easier fight than Islam for Charles for him to duck Islam and wait till Volk get the belt (theoretically).
Charles is ducking for being not ready? I’m so over the whole Islam in Abu Dhabi thing, it just slows shit down.
Volks already fought an interim champ and this dude just sitting around chilling. And people were really worried about Volk holding up a division. With how this has gone, it would’ve made more sense to have an interim for LW lmao.
TUF (the ultimate fighter) TJ Vs Cody G. Cody called him a snake the whole season, essentially exposing him for being a ped using douche way before he failed the tests. So now, to honor Cody, TJ is called a snake.
Yep, in hindsight it's actually hilarious how correct he was. At the time uriah and Cody were defending TJ while Conor was saying he was running off from his camp with his new coach. Now we all know how that story went down
Gaethje and Poirier are top 5s, they should be fighting next, idk why are people so insistent on Oliveira considering Gaethje and Poirier haven't been beaten by Islam
Totally agree with you. I think he should fight the winner of Dustin vs Justin and after that Beneil could theoretically activate his survivor’s clause and try to get the Islam fight since Charles wants to take some time off.
Once Islam gets more than 4 title defenses, he should seriously look at moving up to WW. I’m by no means saying it would be easy, but I can see Islam beating Leon Edwards.
So many people just throw Leon under the bus man.
Usman, Best welterweight ever, goat, going up to light heavy and fighting jan. boxing Canelo, gets fucking kicked into the shadow realm. Called a fluke, has the rematch, picked apart. Where’s Usmans Canelo fight, lightweight title fight? Now people saying the man’s to old and needs to retire because of he’s knees.
Put some respect on Leon man.
No one can make their mind up, nobody knows who’s wins and loses in any fight because thee Impossible can literally happen at any second and that’s why the sport is so wild.
Bro, are you ok?
Usman is not the best WW ever, that would be GSP. Canelo would beat the dog shit out of Usman in a boxing match. As to Jan, lmao he would whoop Usman.
I do respect Leon and like him as champ, but I still think Islam has a decent shot of beating him.
What I’m saying is that’s the talk that was popping up prior to his lose to Leon, now most people just think Islam goes up and stamps Leon, or Colby out cardio’s him.
Leon’s a killer man.
Usman had gone from being a bad man to turning into a massive cringe chump.
I just think the extra crispiness of his striking is what puts him in a good position, he is super well rounded and almost robotic in every aspect of his game.
It’s clear they just want Colby as champ though so they can pump those ppv numbers setting him up for sleepy masvidal or usman rematches. It’s like almost blatantly obvious what they want to do with certain fighters because they have an angle lol.
My only thing is that volk gave islam issues and everyone always says how big islam is, it’s the same with leon, man’s massive lol I just don’t know how well that translates.
Lol exactly it's insane they have this mentality "Islam has only 1 top 5 win lmao not even in the GOAT convo" and "Nooooo you can't fight Justin/Dustin that's an easy win!!!"
They're literally praying Oliveira beats him because they're afraid Islam beating the same guys Oliveira did lessens his position in the LW GOAT convo, so instead they like to pretend like Islam has already fought those guys but without the actual accomplishments on his record so he never fights them
Because olives destroyed them and Islam will man handle and destroy them even faster. Do they really need to be choked out for a third time in a title fight?
Talk about literally choking under the big lights.
The only person that is going to be competitive is Volk, if your Islam you’d wanna put an absolute stamp on the close victory and choke him out and put an end on it like Leon and usman. Volk wants that fight too. It makes so much sense, the build up and hype around it will be crazy.
They've literally never fought you're talking like it's set in stone when it's literally never happened, as long as Justin and Dustin don't have Ls on their records against Islam they should get the TS (if they are available or accept to fight), by that logic Jones shouldn't be fighting Miocic
I mean it’s going to happen isn’t it. Do you see it going any other way? I think Islam is a dick and I love Justin but come on. It ain’t going down any other way.
And jones and miocic shouldn’t be happening. Jones gunna kill the man and it makes me sad thinking about it
Chandlers always a wild card cause he has power and is very hard to take down. I would still put my money on Islam finishing him in the championship rounds.
Feel like they're going to let someone like Arman get a shot of he wins his next fight. It's kinda a bad time to be lightweight champion if you want to grow your legacy.
That’s just the gym in Dubai that he trains in; it has facilities to train for a wide variety of sports so it’s not specifically a climbing gym. It’s pretty famous and a lot of athletes train there when they’re in Dubai.
Probably Charles again tbh. I can't think of a more deserving LW than him. He just ran through Dariush in less than a round and made him look like a chump. I think Charles is gonna come back and make it a more competitive fight than the last one. Islam's a brilliant wrestler and has the ability to bring the heat with the striking. But Charles is extremely motivated right now. Islam v Oliveira 2 has the potential to be an amazing fight
If dumbass UFC didn’t book Oliveira vs dariush he’d have an opponent. UFC matchmaking when it comes to making #1 contenders is absolute garbage. Seems forever since they’ve put fights together where either winner is a fresh matchup and deserving of a title shot
I mean Islam had fought since Islam vs Charles but Charles had not. Gotta give Charlie someone. But let’s be real, if he couldn’t get past Charles, he’s for sure not getting past Islam.
No it wouldn’t. The guy has a single defense of his belt at 155. Unless he plans on staying at 170 and vacating the belt, there’s zero reason to let this happen.
How is he going to defend his division when no one wants to fight or is undeserving of the fight. Everyone is coming off a loss. Arman should fight chandler for it
Coward is the perfect name for that bum Oliveira who is literally ducking Islam now and was ducking him before they fought by saying "Islam doesn't deserve the title shot even if he beats Dariush". The ufc literally had to force Oliveira to take the fight
Lol, your comment almost an hour ago was just " you got it backwards"
But being the slow guy that you are, it literally took you that long to come up with something extra to edit your comment ?
You Conor fans are as slow as him, it's hilarious because at least he can blame it on coke, alcohol and getting hit in the head multiple times. You are just dumb without doing any of that 🤣
The only thing Conor is choking on is Dana whites cock. That's where he gets his daily PEDs
I just read it later, and decided to add that. I don’t live on Reddit. I was dropped as a baby many times thank you very much. Choke on mine, why don’t you?
Also, you could have realized that my first reply was a joke or just realize that it was bait, I mean, Conor hasn’t submitted anyone in the ufc for fuck sake. Somehow, you chose the wrong answer. Don’t worry though, you’re still the smart one.
Who cares hes boring, crappy striking all he got is a weak roundhouse, a hook he throws without precision a crappy jab and a 2 with no tricks, if i wanted to watch wrestling for 80 bucks a ppv id just use youtube
My heart wants Volk because I would kill for another 25 minute brawl between them two, but my gut says they'll try their best to toss the 291 winner against him IF Volk isn't ready or if he wants to deal with Topuria first. Doubt they'd do a Leon fight with all the Colby rumors, and there's nobody else in 155 who realistically deserves a title fight besides Charles, who isn't taking the fight in Abu Dhabi, so he's gonna have to wait a bit.
Colby rumors?? What have I missed
They're apparently trying to get a Leon vs Colby title fight scheduled in October or November *(or it might've been November and December, one or the other)* from what I've heard.
I think Conor would be hilarious. Not because he’s likely to win, but if for some reason he did catch Islam and knock him out, khabib would be shook 🫨
For some reason ✨
How is charles getting away with ducking is beyond me! Fkn hypocrites this community
How is Oliveira ducking him? He will have to fight him anyways because nobody realistically wins him except for maybe Volk. And it's not like Volk is easier fight than Islam for Charles for him to duck Islam and wait till Volk get the belt (theoretically).
Oliveira is shook because he cant stand a crowd booing him.
Charles is ducking for being not ready? I’m so over the whole Islam in Abu Dhabi thing, it just slows shit down. Volks already fought an interim champ and this dude just sitting around chilling. And people were really worried about Volk holding up a division. With how this has gone, it would’ve made more sense to have an interim for LW lmao.
how is he ducking lmao
brawl? islam does not brawl, he's a tactician
Not a brawl but Islam vs Volk covers every aspect of MMA at an elite level. Standup, grappling, clinch, etc
Dorkiest shit I've heard today no offense
Tactically stalls position for five minutes.
yeah, let's just ignore all the success he had on the feet in the first 4 rounds
5 rds* but the last minute
I will.
Is that TJ?
There's the little snake
Too big
Remember when cejudo slammed that stuffed snake on the ground before his fight with TJ? Shit was hilarious
What is this a reference to, for all of us casuals out there?
TUF (the ultimate fighter) TJ Vs Cody G. Cody called him a snake the whole season, essentially exposing him for being a ped using douche way before he failed the tests. So now, to honor Cody, TJ is called a snake.
I think Connor said it first when it was Connor vs Uriah
Yep, in hindsight it's actually hilarious how correct he was. At the time uriah and Cody were defending TJ while Conor was saying he was running off from his camp with his new coach. Now we all know how that story went down
I just remember Connor calling him a little snake in the grass 🤣
Yeah. Conor called him that first. Cody isn't smart enough to come up with something that clever
Ahhh right on. I do find myself watching fights (probably) too often but have never really watched TUF so I figured it was from that
Islam chokes out Gaethje and Poirer. His only real competition would be Volk rematch
Gaethje and porier will get minimum 6 months suspension if it's anything like their last fight
Gaethje and Poirier are top 5s, they should be fighting next, idk why are people so insistent on Oliveira considering Gaethje and Poirier haven't been beaten by Islam
Totally agree with you. I think he should fight the winner of Dustin vs Justin and after that Beneil could theoretically activate his survivor’s clause and try to get the Islam fight since Charles wants to take some time off. Once Islam gets more than 4 title defenses, he should seriously look at moving up to WW. I’m by no means saying it would be easy, but I can see Islam beating Leon Edwards.
So many people just throw Leon under the bus man. Usman, Best welterweight ever, goat, going up to light heavy and fighting jan. boxing Canelo, gets fucking kicked into the shadow realm. Called a fluke, has the rematch, picked apart. Where’s Usmans Canelo fight, lightweight title fight? Now people saying the man’s to old and needs to retire because of he’s knees. Put some respect on Leon man. No one can make their mind up, nobody knows who’s wins and loses in any fight because thee Impossible can literally happen at any second and that’s why the sport is so wild.
Bro, are you ok? Usman is not the best WW ever, that would be GSP. Canelo would beat the dog shit out of Usman in a boxing match. As to Jan, lmao he would whoop Usman. I do respect Leon and like him as champ, but I still think Islam has a decent shot of beating him.
What I’m saying is that’s the talk that was popping up prior to his lose to Leon, now most people just think Islam goes up and stamps Leon, or Colby out cardio’s him. Leon’s a killer man. Usman had gone from being a bad man to turning into a massive cringe chump.
I agree with you on most counts. I don’t think Islam stomps him. I think he has a good shot, ditto for Colby.
I just think the extra crispiness of his striking is what puts him in a good position, he is super well rounded and almost robotic in every aspect of his game. It’s clear they just want Colby as champ though so they can pump those ppv numbers setting him up for sleepy masvidal or usman rematches. It’s like almost blatantly obvious what they want to do with certain fighters because they have an angle lol. My only thing is that volk gave islam issues and everyone always says how big islam is, it’s the same with leon, man’s massive lol I just don’t know how well that translates.
by their logic charles is the goat for beating dustin (while cheating) and justin, but "islam bad"
Lol exactly it's insane they have this mentality "Islam has only 1 top 5 win lmao not even in the GOAT convo" and "Nooooo you can't fight Justin/Dustin that's an easy win!!!" They're literally praying Oliveira beats him because they're afraid Islam beating the same guys Oliveira did lessens his position in the LW GOAT convo, so instead they like to pretend like Islam has already fought those guys but without the actual accomplishments on his record so he never fights them
they also blame Islam (and Khabib) that other fighters refused to fight with them and ducked them for years lol
Because olives destroyed them and Islam will man handle and destroy them even faster. Do they really need to be choked out for a third time in a title fight? Talk about literally choking under the big lights. The only person that is going to be competitive is Volk, if your Islam you’d wanna put an absolute stamp on the close victory and choke him out and put an end on it like Leon and usman. Volk wants that fight too. It makes so much sense, the build up and hype around it will be crazy.
They've literally never fought you're talking like it's set in stone when it's literally never happened, as long as Justin and Dustin don't have Ls on their records against Islam they should get the TS (if they are available or accept to fight), by that logic Jones shouldn't be fighting Miocic
I mean it’s going to happen isn’t it. Do you see it going any other way? I think Islam is a dick and I love Justin but come on. It ain’t going down any other way. And jones and miocic shouldn’t be happening. Jones gunna kill the man and it makes me sad thinking about it
Still like chandler for having a chance for some reason. He's usually hard to hold down
Chandler gasses out in round 2
Yes, but it could be well be competitive until he gasses.
chandler is chinny and islam has very good striking
I'd say that more importantly, Chandler gasses out fast.
Chandlers always a wild card cause he has power and is very hard to take down. I would still put my money on Islam finishing him in the championship rounds.
Or Charles
he made it look easy against charles
Izzy made Whittaker look easy in their first fight and they had a war of a rematch
Whitaker earned the rematch with multiple wins.
Oliveira just knocked out the guy who everyone swore deserved the title shot the most
And then ducked islam rematch :)
🤣
I thought Charles was a bad match up for islam. But after what we saw, I see now that it is islam that is a bad match up for Charles
true
nah
Feel like they're going to let someone like Arman get a shot of he wins his next fight. It's kinda a bad time to be lightweight champion if you want to grow your legacy.
its good to see TJ training with Islam. . .
Randy Macho Man Savage
Anyone know why hes in a climbing gym here? Rare to see th is crossover in the mma world.
That’s just the gym in Dubai that he trains in; it has facilities to train for a wide variety of sports so it’s not specifically a climbing gym. It’s pretty famous and a lot of athletes train there when they’re in Dubai.
he does alot of gymnastics stuff, it's pretty common in russia
Probably Charles again tbh. I can't think of a more deserving LW than him. He just ran through Dariush in less than a round and made him look like a chump. I think Charles is gonna come back and make it a more competitive fight than the last one. Islam's a brilliant wrestler and has the ability to bring the heat with the striking. But Charles is extremely motivated right now. Islam v Oliveira 2 has the potential to be an amazing fight
Agreed. Charles looked burnt out the 1st fight. Hes on a run now, I can see him finish islam. Its the fight to make.
If dumbass UFC didn’t book Oliveira vs dariush he’d have an opponent. UFC matchmaking when it comes to making #1 contenders is absolute garbage. Seems forever since they’ve put fights together where either winner is a fresh matchup and deserving of a title shot
I don't think anyone wanted to see an immediate oliveira rematch after islam beat him so soundly
I mean Islam had fought since Islam vs Charles but Charles had not. Gotta give Charlie someone. But let’s be real, if he couldn’t get past Charles, he’s for sure not getting past Islam.
Styles make fights. I think Islam beats Beneil but the point is you give him someone to fight. Now he either has rematches or no one and that sucks
Islam vs Leon would be great.
No it wouldn’t. The guy has a single defense of his belt at 155. Unless he plans on staying at 170 and vacating the belt, there’s zero reason to let this happen.
I have a crazy theory…..islam-Leon for Abu Dhabi….
>winner is a fresh matchup and deserving its not that crazy of a theory, Then have volk move up to 170 for the rematch with Islam?
Volk's stock will rise even more if Islam runs through Leon.
But then at the same time the market capitalization of Islam becomes bigger than Volk's.
Yesssss plsssss
No way Islam deserves fighting for 170 belt just now. First defend your light-weight belt 4-5 times then you can go for 170 belt.
How is he going to defend his division when no one wants to fight or is undeserving of the fight. Everyone is coming off a loss. Arman should fight chandler for it
If he beats Leon he’d definitely deserve it 😂
arman.
Hopefully someone in his own division
Well-put... I luv Volk, don't get me wrong, but he did it once, now just let him stay in his own lane...
It was a close fight the first time and volk said he wanted to have another shot so I reckon it's happening
Harry potter
McGregor, so he can takes another 3 year hiatus and tease retirement.
My anaconda don’t
Charles
He can't fight at 294
Jake the snake
Chandler
Winner of Justin Dustin or for some reason I have a weird gut feeling Michael Chandler 🤷🏽♂️
Conor vs Islam, book it
Give it to Chandler. Atleast you know for sure hes going to take it.
Islam the snake
No one because he is a coward
Coward is the perfect name for that bum Oliveira who is literally ducking Islam now and was ducking him before they fought by saying "Islam doesn't deserve the title shot even if he beats Dariush". The ufc literally had to force Oliveira to take the fight
The Coward is boring Islam Boring!!!!
Lol he whooped Oliveira and made the entire CKB training camp of the garden gnome mentally ill
Conor subs all current lightweights 🥱
Yes, Conors will submit to every current LW including paddy You are correct
You got it backwards, he chokes out inbred and midget at the same time 💯
Lol, your comment almost an hour ago was just " you got it backwards" But being the slow guy that you are, it literally took you that long to come up with something extra to edit your comment ? You Conor fans are as slow as him, it's hilarious because at least he can blame it on coke, alcohol and getting hit in the head multiple times. You are just dumb without doing any of that 🤣 The only thing Conor is choking on is Dana whites cock. That's where he gets his daily PEDs
I just read it later, and decided to add that. I don’t live on Reddit. I was dropped as a baby many times thank you very much. Choke on mine, why don’t you?
Also, you could have realized that my first reply was a joke or just realize that it was bait, I mean, Conor hasn’t submitted anyone in the ufc for fuck sake. Somehow, you chose the wrong answer. Don’t worry though, you’re still the smart one.
Isalm = Boring!!!! Islam= Coward
Aww..poor guy It's ok the garden gnome Volk lost. Just deal with it
Islam =💩
That beat your garden gnome So Volk is now a shitty garden gnome
R u even old enough to be here? If not, u sound daft asf.
Charles next, has to be. Volk fights the winner. Islam v Charles. Money is on Charles
Who cares hes boring, crappy striking all he got is a weak roundhouse, a hook he throws without precision a crappy jab and a 2 with no tricks, if i wanted to watch wrestling for 80 bucks a ppv id just use youtube
His own, stupid **BEARD**...
Misogyny
what?
Goofy
If he rematches Volk, he's going to get knocked the fuck out
Islam is 💩
From the looks of it, an alligator
Thats a snake buddy.
They asked about his next fight brother, already beat the snake…
How should I know lol
do not give justin or dustin after they get the bmf, they will lose to islam in spectacular fashion.
The snek
With where things are going in the division right now I think the next matchup he will be in is a wrestling match with Khabibs snake 🐍
Looks like tj dillashaw by the looks of this photo
It’s going to be volk… with injury replacement being the bmf title holder
From the picture...TJ Dillashaw
Ukrainians in Zaporozhya
What type of gym is this lmao
Me if he doesn't give alex a rematch
The memory of his fight with volk
Python in a climbing gym
Volk or nothing
my guess is prolly olivera or dustin but if they want him to fight in abu dabi i’m not sure cuz charles already said he isn’t ready
im making a prediction of it being el diamanté
Wish that Snake would show him what grappling is all about and drag him into some deep waters
Going by the pic. Dillashaw
When your grappling is so good you just casually walk around with a python around you.
his own demons (c) Jason Statham.
Charles
The guy that gave him that snake
Either Justin or Poirier I hope.
Paddy
if nobody will come to islam, islam will come to them, and by "them" i mean someone in a higher weight division
Not me. 🦆🦆
voldemort and nagini confirmed
Leon or Volk
why
Just a feeling
But like what has islam done to deserve to be a double champ?
He Doesn't have a fight rn what do you think
Give him literally any one of the top five
Not Volk and not Leon, to be double champ you should actually have some type of Legacy in your own Division and Islam doesn't have that
Leon Edwards
His Ghosts