I love how the bond between Aljo and Merab has only gotten stronger through the years. It is a special bond that runs deep. Forged through countless hours in the gym bleeding and sweating in eachother. This is what true friendship and brotherhood looks like. And now they can finally rejoice and embrace eachother as the greatest bantamweights of all time.
yeah Bridge Circles are a standard everyday neck exercise and warmup. Arman probably does those every day. It was likely what Parrumpa said; he got injured but dealt with it, then it flared up during the harsh weight cut.
It appears that way. But I also remember DC saying he threw out his back, or a rib, just from sneezing. So even the slightest tweak to the neck/back area of the body can result in discomfort.
Mike is on point tonight. And comparison between Khabib and Islam remind me situation with Fedor in Pride and Velasquez in UFC at late 00 Khabib was undefeated and Fedor was undefeated in Pride but Velasquez was and Islam is nowadays truly future of mma at general wherever future holds for them
If Islam Maakhachev defends his title one or two more times, he distances himself from the pack. I'd like to see him fight Oliveira and Tsarukyan next.
@@A1v5p9 I think Oliveira will wait it out. And then defend vs. Tsarukyan, unless Makhachev gets a rematch (which he would definitely deserve). But first he has to beat IM and that's no easy task.
We all know why dana white finally said that islam is p4p bc jones is gonna retire and dana knows that cmon he would never ever say that islam is p4p if jones will still fight
Lightweight is not and was never the toughest division, it has had very entertaining fighters, too many of them. Everyone stand and trade kind of fighters
@@MMAJunkieGeorge He looked 100% on thursday, was posting pics of his physique all week. Got "injured" on friday...Hard to believe. I just think the moment got to him and he had to find a reason to withdraw from the fight without looking like a p****. Reminds me of Nicco Montano when she was scheduled to fight Valentina Shevchenko.
@ Previous injury ? Why would he take this fight if he wasn't totally healed ? Getting injured during the weight cutting process ?...Imagine if Makhachev pulled out because of that...I mean, people would push the UFC to strip him of his title right away and schedule a fight for the vacant title between Arman and Oliveira the next month...
It's not Islam fault that Oliveira got injured and especially all those former featherweights up to the lightweight because they can't make featherweight anymore
Nobody gives islam any credits they criticized him when he won against volkanovski and said yes he should fight someone in his own division islam is a weight bully this and that but the same people are the ones saying islam vs ilia tuporia 🤣1.ilia just became a champion and defended 1 time 2.islam deserves to move up a weightclass but no one wants to see that but they want it for ilia tuporia biggest hypocrites 3.islam takes all the risk even if makhachev beats ilia tuporia people are going to say the same thing they won’t give him any credits for it so i hope makhachev will not fight him untill tuporia defend his belt couple times and then move up to lightweight fight some good contenders and then we will see what happen that’s how i see it people want to give him privileges but not for islam who achieved much more and who always gives us a fight even risk for us last 24 hours noticed he accept it while moicano ans arman training together and same traiber and couche moicano said it himself he also prepared for islam so that means arman knew it but kept silent to train moicano and so that islam and his tean got no time to study moicano dirty tactics they did i got mad bc a lot of hypocrites in this mma community and disrespectful people
I love how the bond between Aljo and Merab has only gotten stronger through the years. It is a special bond that runs deep. Forged through countless hours in the gym bleeding and sweating in eachother. This is what true friendship and brotherhood looks like. And now they can finally rejoice and embrace eachother as the greatest bantamweights of all time.
They definitely stuck to their guns. Props to them.
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yeah Bridge Circles are a standard everyday neck exercise and warmup. Arman probably does those every day. It was likely what Parrumpa said; he got injured but dealt with it, then it flared up during the harsh weight cut.
It appears that way.
But I also remember DC saying he threw out his back, or a rib, just from sneezing. So even the slightest tweak to the neck/back area of the body can result in discomfort.
Great show!!
Mike is on point tonight.
And comparison between Khabib and Islam remind me situation with Fedor in Pride and Velasquez in UFC at late 00
Khabib was undefeated and Fedor was undefeated in Pride but Velasquez was and Islam is nowadays truly future of mma at general wherever future holds for them
If Islam Maakhachev defends his title one or two more times, he distances himself from the pack. I'd like to see him fight Oliveira and Tsarukyan next.
@MMAJunkieGeorge agree,but I'd like to see 5 rounds rematch between Oliveira and Arman (may be Gamrot as back up huh) and than winner fight Islam
@@A1v5p9 I think Oliveira will wait it out. And then defend vs. Tsarukyan, unless Makhachev gets a rematch (which he would definitely deserve). But first he has to beat IM and that's no easy task.
"Off that cycle." oh yeah, I saw that jab.
that idiot keeps claiming that moicano landed..it was a slip ...
Merab vs Pantoja since both don’t really have a clear cut contender.
George was in a group text with Alex Perreira (not Pereira) and John Jones.
Merab Dvalishvili is the biggest star in the UFC today. I dont care what anyone else says lol
He's one of them. But not the biggest.
biggest star? lol
We all know why dana white finally said that islam is p4p bc jones is gonna retire and dana knows that cmon he would never ever say that islam is p4p if jones will still fight
Wouldn't put it past him.
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You can also look at it like, Dana was promoting and pushing Jones as the p4p#1 because they wanted him to stay. "Buttering" him up.
According to abilities Ilia Topuria is the pound for pound number 1 right now
Why?
Lightweight is not and was never the toughest division, it has had very entertaining fighters, too many of them. Everyone stand and trade kind of fighters
Arman is scared. He don't really want none of Makhachev.
I think he was really injured.
@@MMAJunkieGeorge He looked 100% on thursday, was posting pics of his physique all week. Got "injured" on friday...Hard to believe. I just think the moment got to him and he had to find a reason to withdraw from the fight without looking like a p****.
Reminds me of Nicco Montano when she was scheduled to fight Valentina Shevchenko.
@ Anything is possible. But I have a good source that seems to confirm the weight cut affecting the previous injury.
@ Previous injury ?
Why would he take this fight if he wasn't totally healed ?
Getting injured during the weight cutting process ?...Imagine if Makhachev pulled out because of that...I mean, people would push the UFC to strip him of his title right away and schedule a fight for the vacant title between Arman and Oliveira the next month...
@ They all fight injured. I guess his back was messed up enough that he decided to pull out. It will cost him though.
Islam's whole title reign was beating former featherweights.🤯
It's not Islam fault that Oliveira got injured and especially all those former featherweights up to the lightweight because they can't make featherweight anymore
@A1v5p9 I'm not saying it was. Islam is great. I think it's just a weird coincidence.
Arman missed weight. End of story.
Nobody gives islam any credits they criticized him when he won against volkanovski and said yes he should fight someone in his own division islam is a weight bully this and that but the same people are the ones saying islam vs ilia tuporia 🤣1.ilia just became a champion and defended 1 time 2.islam deserves to move up a weightclass but no one wants to see that but they want it for ilia tuporia biggest hypocrites 3.islam takes all the risk even if makhachev beats ilia tuporia people are going to say the same thing they won’t give him any credits for it so i hope makhachev will not fight him untill tuporia defend his belt couple times and then move up to lightweight fight some good contenders and then we will see what happen that’s how i see it people want to give him privileges but not for islam who achieved much more and who always gives us a fight even risk for us last 24 hours noticed he accept it while moicano ans arman training together and same traiber and couche moicano said it himself he also prepared for islam so that means arman knew it but kept silent to train moicano and so that islam and his tean got no time to study moicano dirty tactics they did i got mad bc a lot of hypocrites in this mma community and disrespectful people
Your first comment is ridiculous. All I've heard all weekend is praise towards Islam Makhachev. Dude is awesome!
The two old guys in this discredit him. @@MMAJunkieGeorge