UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Tapology dudes goofy as hell for calling this a rematch lmao

Whole situation is really weird when they had to be broken up "brawl" Alin coach was the one holding down or hitting or both Josy.
Pretty funny **** skank can't even fight her own fight, if she wins and "dances" I am gonna throw up.
  On Saturday, Perez won a unanimous decision over Lucie Pudilova on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 82 . But prior to that victory, Perez also had a run in at the UFC PI as she told reporters after the fight that the black eye she was sporting into the cage came from an altercation she had on fight week.

“So, pretty much I’m someone just like everyone else. I don’t have a problem personally with anyone,” Perez said at her post fight press scrum (h/t MMA Mania ). “What I did was I stated my opinion online about the fight. I didn’t disrespect anyone; I didn’t talk about about anyone. But this irrelevant lady came up to me after I was opinionated about one of her fights, just talking about the performance that she did. And she came to assault me. She did assault me with the intention to make me pull out of my fight, but I’m sorry, she did not achieve it. I won and fought regardless of the assault that took place.

“I want to thank my coach, who was there at the time of the assault, because if it wasn’t for him, I would have had much worse injuries because he was able to take her off me when she was assaulting me,” Perez continued. “And the fight probably would have been off if it wasn’t for my coach, who saved me.”

While Perez did not specifically name the fighter who attacked her, the fighter in question is fellow UFC bantamweight Joselyne Edwards . Edwards also gave MMA Mania a statement about the incident, though her version differs pretty starkly from the one Perez offered.

“While we were fighting, her coach attacked me from behind. He was strangling me so that Ailin would hit me,” Edwards wrote. “Her coach attacked me. I practically had to fight two of them. He did not protect anyone, he started the fight, he was the one who heated things so that the fight would take place, and then he attacked me and was strangling me. Later, when they had already separated me from Ailin, he was still strangling me and did not want to let me go. He never separated the fight; he attacked me while she attacked me.”

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Prudential Center - 25 Lafayette St, Newark, NJ 07102, United States

It's saying this is the address for UFC 302? Is this event in Newark, NJ?

* Edited at 02.18.2024, 5:03 PM ET *

@CrimsonChinGuru 

Where do you see this?

@dianabanana 

https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-302-June-1-101617

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_302

https://schedule.fightmag.com/events/ufc-302/

Type UFC 302 location in on google

* Edited at 02.18.2024, 9:28 PM ET *

@CrimsonChinGuru 

damnnnn bro. I didn't mean to sound rude. I'm just excited because I would love to go to this event then. Maybe we can see Brady vs. Garry.

Dricus Du Plessis vs Israel Adesanya
Leon Edwards vs Belal Muhammad
Jared Cannonier vs Khamzat Chimaev
Beneil Dariush vs Dan Hooker
Nasdourdine Imavov vs Jack Hermansson

@yusufff 

I doubt all of those happen. I'm sure the UFC is planning an England trip, and I think they are trying for UFC Africa too. + UFC Paris 3. Also bro we need some east coasters !!!

Leon and Belal 100% gonna be headliner. They should've did this event in Chicago though. Maybe Shavkat-Usman as co-main too🤷

UFC 302 Newark New Jersey

Leon Edwards vs. Belal Muhammad  (World Welterweight Championship)
Colby Covington vs. Ian Garry (Co Main)
Josh Emmett vs. Movsar Elelov  (Featured Fight)
Kai Kara Francis vs. Manel Kape
Paul Craig vs. Ikram Aliskerov 

@yusufff 

you gotta be trolling lol u named 2 ppv headliners and Saudi headliner and u think all that would be on the same card 

@Richmond1724 

I'm hoping this card will be stacked because ufc 301 won't have the best main card

@yusufff 

it might also be a weaker ppv just because how the schedule is you have 2 very stacked ppv in March and April then you have the Saudi fight night card that has to be better then a normal fight night card the you got International fight week end of June so that ppv will probably be stacked wouldn’t be shocked if grasso and Valentina 3 are on this card with maybe Leon vs belal 

* Edited at 02.26.2024, 8:55 AM ET *

Hafez Free

Islam vs Poirier let's go 

Edwards vs. Perez II
Joselyne Edwards, DEC
Lol joe already beat her once what idiot pick alien.

yall actually crazy for saying the perez fight is a rematch lmao

Jailton Almeida vs. Volkov added

People are down on Jalton, but I was impressed with him ragdolling Blaydes in round 1of they’re fight

I think it still a problem for heavyweight because most heavyweigh are bad and can’t grapple well, And Jalton can expose that, a bit sus on his cardio and being a light heavyweight, but he’s good