About Adesanya smoked “The Reaper,” leaving him swinging at air until a brutal counter did what 50 minutes of Yoel Romero artillery couldn’t and put Whittaker down for the count.Usman earned his place atop a division full of monsters. It wasn’t.

Starting with a hilariously deflating victory over the red-hot Hayder Hassan, whose late-season heroics saved American Top Team on TUF 21 and whom ATT head Dan Lambert confidently asserted he would pick to beat Godzilla, Usman rode into 2019 with nine UFC victories under his belt and Welterweight champ Tyron Woodley in his sights.It says something about the UFC’s confidence in Adesanya, and Adesanya’s confidence in himself, that his 2018 Octagon campaign saw him fight three grappling specialists and a striker in Brad Tavares who’d historically shown solid wrestling. We saw little of the volume-punching terror that had recently seized Featherweight GOAT status, and when the smoke cleared, Volkanovski’s work payed off with a title.Then came nearly nine months of feuding with Colby Covington, and while “Chaos” may have claimed to be playing a character, Usman treated their feud with grave sincerity, culminating in a surprisingly entertaining battle at UFC 245. UFC The Top MMA Fighters to Watch in 2019 Nathan McCarter @ McCarterN. All he had to do was get past Marlon Moraes. UFC On ESPN+ Rest assured: We took this seriously. Tonight's UFC Main Event will be headlined by the middleweight fight between Anthony Smith and Aleksandar Rakic, which will be aired on ESPN+ exclusively.Adesanya and Gastelum met in what might be the fight of 2019 as they had an epic 5-round brawl that ended with Adesanya winning the interim middleweight belt via unanimous decision.

Swanson and Choi traded serious blows over and over and over again and had fans screaming for it to be an instant classic and one of the best fights of the year in 2016, which had some really darn good fights. Community Guidelines UFC Results It was great to see such a legend of the sport finally get her belt.NFL Week 2 Bold Prediction: Get ready for a huge game from Jimmy Garoppolocounted down the top 10 knockouts of 2019McGregor and Diaz ran it back just months after their first fight in which Diaz choked out McGregor in the second round of an epic main event at UFC 196. Adesanya had gone from UFC debutant to (interim) champion in just over 14 months.Luckily for us, Adesanya will have no shortage of willing dance partners come 2020.

Both I and Zane fully expect him to contend for the UFC Welterweight title at some point in his career, and very possibly hold the belt for extended period of time. The main card will feature a Heavyweight match between Alistair Overeem (46-18) and Augusto Sakai (15-1-1).One of the biggest rivalries in the sport of MMA will come to a close on Saturday night in UFC 252 with Stipe Miocic fighting Daniel Cormier for the third and final time in UFC history. when he took the #1 Welterweight spot on Bloody Elbow’s Prospect WatchUFC Vegas 11: ‘Covington Vs Woodley’ PredictionsThen came the BMF title fight with fellow street tough Nate Diaz, fresh off a trouncing of Anthony Pettis. Ismail 'The Austrian Wonderboy' NaurdievPosted below are the top 100 MMA fighters of 2019, according to Tapology.2. Community Guidelines Will we ever see a trilogy fight?Check out the tune-in information as well as the odds for Saturday's UFC card for tonight below:Silva, one of the greatest to ever enter the Octagon, and Sonnen, one of the greatest talkers to ever enter the Octagon (who has also had a legendary career) squared off in a classic in Oakland. It was just the appetizer for what came next, though: Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum. Vote up the most exciting fights that entertained you the most as we crown the top overall UFC fight to take place inside the octagon in 2019!