UFC on ESPN 9 Review & UFC 250 Preview - Care/Don’t Care Podcast

June M. Williams

Sorry cry babies! It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the illustrious Eugene S. Robinson, the indubitable John S. Nash and our lovely & knowledgable co-host, Stephie Haynes. The format of the show is to review the prior weeks picks & then to announce each fight on the upcoming UFC 250 card, commenting on which fights are hot and which fights are not.

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the ‘Ozy Confidential Podcast’, the indubitable John S. Nash, our chief financials columnist and co-host of our ‘Show Money Podcast’, along with our lovely co-host, Stephie Haynes, of Bloody Elbow’s The Level Change Podcast and The Mookie & Crookie Show.

The format of the show is to review the prior weeks picks & then to announce each fight on the upcoming card, commenting on which fights are hot and which fights are not, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two when there’s time. This week’s topics are as follows...

UFC on ESPN 9 REVIEW - AT 1:08

Here’s a look at the RESULTS & new fight records:
UFC on ESPN 9 MAIN CARD | SAT. MAY 30th - 9PM/6PM ETPT

• At 8:51 - 170lbs - Gilbert Burns (19-3) DEF. Tyron Woodley (19-5), DEC-Unanimous
• 265lbs - Augusto Sakai (14-2) DEF. Blagoy Ivanov (18-4), DEC-SPLIT
• 150lbs - Billy Quarantillo (14-2) DEF. Spike Carlyle (9-2), DEC-Unanimous
• At 7:36 - 155lbs - Roosevelt Roberts (10-1) DEF. Brok Weaver (15-5), SUB-Rear Naked Choke at 3:26 of Rd 2. Total 8:26
• At 5:45 - 115lbs - Mackenzie Dern (8-1) DEF. Hannah Cifers (10-5), SUB-Kneebar at 2:36 of Rd 1 (First sub via kneebar in Women’s UFC History)

FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: ($50K ea.) Tim Elliott vs. Brandon Royval
PERFORMANCES OF THE NIGHT: ($50K ea.) 1. Mackenzie Dern 2. Gilbert Burns

ESPN PRELIMS | 6pm/3pm ET/PT

• At 2:53 - 125lbs - Katlyn Chookagian (14-3) DEF. Antonina Shevchenko (8-2), DEC-Unanimous
• 170lbs - Daniel Rodriguez (12-1) DEF. Gabe Green (9-3), DEC-Unanimous
• 205lbs - Jamahal Hill (8-0) DEF. Klidson Abreu (15-5), KO/TKO-Knee to Body to G & P at 1:51 of Rd 1
• At 5:25 - 125lbs - Brandon Royval (11-4) DEF. Tim Elliott (15-11), SUB-Arm Triangle Choke at 3:18 of Rd 2, Total 8:18
• At 5:15 - 135lbs - Casey Kenney (14-2) DEF. Louis Smolka (16-7), SUB-Guillotine Choke at 3:03 of Rd 1
• 145lbs - Chris Gutierrez (15-3) DEF. Vince Morales (9-5), KO/TKO-Leg Kicks at 4:27 of Rd 2, Total 9:27

---

UFC 250 PREVIEW - AT 17:10

At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our trio will go about predicting the UFC 250 PPV (Pay-Per-View) bout sheet, leading their way up to the Sat. night Co-Main Event showcasing a bantamweight bout between former UFC Bantamweight Champion Cody ‘No Love’ Garbrandt and Raphael Assunção, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event featuring UFC Women’s Featherweight Championship bout between the infamous Amanda ‘The Lioness’ Nunes and up-and-comer Felicia ‘Feenom’ Spencer. The PPV event will take place from the brand new UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Here’s a look at the upcoming fight card, bout order is subject to change:

UFC 250 PPV - Nunes vs. Spencer

MAIN CARD | SAT. JUNE 6 - 10PM/7PM ETPT

• 145lbs - Amanda Nunes (19-4) vs. Felicia Spencer (8-1) - At 38:46
• 135lbs - Raphael Assunção (27-7) vs. Cody Garbrandt (11-3) - At 36:18
• 135lbs - Aljamain Sterling (18-3) vs. Cory Sandhagen (12-1) - At 33:30
• 170lbs - Neil Magny (22-7) vs. Anthony Rocco Martin (17-5) - At 31:33
• 135lbs - Sean O’Malley (11-0) vs. Eddie Wineland (24-13) - At 26:40

ESPN/ESPN+ PRELIMS

• 145lbs - Chase Hooper (9-0) vs. Alex Caceres (15-12)/Bruce Leroy - At 24:22
• 185lbs - Ian Heinisch (13-3) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (31-12) - At 22:29
• 145 lbs - Cody Stamann (18-2) vs. Brian Kelleher (21-10) - At 22:03
• 185lbs - Charles Byrd (10-6) vs. Maki Pitolo (12-5) - At 21:43

UFC FIGHT PASS/ESPN+ EARLY PRELIMS

• 125lbs - Jussier Formiga (23-7) vs. Alex Perez (23-5) - At 21:12
• 205lbs - Alonzo Menifield (9-0) vs. Devin Clark (11-4) - At 20:40
• 150lbs - Evan Dunham (18-8) vs. Herbert Burns (10-2) - At 18:00

Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson, catch John on twitter @Heynottheface and on The Show Money Podcast, and of course you can catch Stephie @CrooklynMMA, and twice a week she’s on @MookieNCrookie AND @LevelChangePod.

If you enjoyed our show, give us a shout out in the comments here on Bloody Elbow, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Channels: SoundCloud, YouTube, iTunes & Apple TV, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, TuneIn, OverCast, or Player FM – whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe to Bloody Elbow Presents; that way you’ll always be the first to get all of BE’s daily MMA offerings. For previous episodes of the show, check out our playlists on all of our BE Presents channels.