UFC 223 My Card and DraftKing Picks

Weghtclass				Outcome
Lightweight	Al Iaquinta	vs.	Khabib Nurmagomedov	2nd Al Iaquinta
Women's Strawweight	Rose Namajunas (c)	vs.	Joanna Jędrzejczyk	Rose 2nd Sub
Featherweight	Renato Moicano	vs.	Calvin Kattar	Calvin Kattar
Women’s Strawweight	Karolina Kowalkiewicz	vs.	Felice Herrig	Kowalkiewicz Dec
Lightweight	Joe Lauzon	vs.	Chris Gruetzemacher	Joe Lauzon First RD sub
Lightweight	Evan Dunham	vs.	Olivier Aubin-Mercier	Dunham Dec
Women's Flyweight	Bec Rawlings	vs.	Ashlee Evans-Smith	Evans Smith Dec
Light Heavyweight	Devin Clark	vs.	Mike Rodriguez	Mike Rodriguez
Featherweight	Zabit Magomedsharipov	vs.	Kyle Bochniak	Zabit 2nd Sub

I had started a breakdown of Ferguson vs Nurmagomedov, I’ll give you a quick summation Tony would force Khabib to work on the ground.  Cut him with elbows from bottom and eventually bust him up on the feet in 3rd with a doctor's stoppage due to a bad cut. Very specific but I thought Tony’s game would be able to force Khabib to work a lot.  None of that matters anymore, Dana has said he would never book that fight again. But Dana’’s emotional he says a lot of stuff that the backs out of. I still wanna see this fight . Like most people I thought this was a cruel April Fools day joke.  I’ve gone through all 5 stages of grief. I’m finally in the acceptance stage. emotional stages of loss with Tony falling out. I finally accepted that Holloway has chance to be the “Champ, Champ” and I’m intrigued by the matchup.

You know what FUCK THIS CARD.  I would have had my picks down a week ago but we have been on a roller coaster of drama.  At this point the card has been gutted. Lobov vs Caceres scrapped, Borg vs Moreno Gone, Chiesa vs Pettis SEEYA, Pettis vs Nurmagodev Nope, Felder vs Nurmagodev WHAT?.  Yeah so we have gone from a 13 fight to a 9 fight card. I don’t understand why Pettis/Felder was made they both made weight they were ready to go. So during this post i was going to go back to more of my statistical breakdown of things but fuck it.  This card has just showed me that anything can happen. Let’s see some upets.

On Today’s date a 11 even years ago a man named Matt Serra shocked the world and I believe today still has the biggest upset ever in MMA. He beat George St Pierre to be the welterweight champion of the world.  Today one of his student’s from Long Island is taking a fight on one day’s notice against one of the best lightweights in the world. Al Iaquinta too has a chance to shock the world and if I learned anything from this week anything can happen.  Let’s go Raging Al. Shock the World. Shock the World. !!!!!!!!

My Draftkings Card

Rose Namajunas

Al Iaquinta

Joe Lauzon

Calvin Kattar

Evan Dunham

Mike Rodriguez