The Doctor's Stoppage MMA Blog

Well, here we are. My last post was in 2023 and they just stopped with no warning. I know that I mentioned within the context of some of the posts that I was beginning a grad school program and wanted to try to keep up with this and suspected I would be able to do so. As you can tell, that was not the case and I ended up tailing off pretty quickly after the program picked up. Fast forward a few years and I have now graduated and have the time I need to restart this again and plan to do just that. While I was not writing, I never stopped following MMA during this time, although I did not consume nearly as much content outside of the fights themselves as I used to. I also did not track my bets during that time, but I will be returning to doing that consistently. I am excited to be back and if anyone who used to read my posts a few years ago is reading this now then it is great to have you back. If you are new then I am glad to have you. In any case, I want you to put the word out that we...

 Unfortunately, we are setting up for what probably ends up being the weakest PPV of the year, at least on paper. With that said, I think we do have the potential to see some pretty decent action, so it's not all lost. The main event doesn't really have a ton of steam on it though. With options like Dricus Du Plessis, Khamzat Chimaev, or a third fight against Alex Pereira, it's sort of hard to get up for a Sean Strickland title fight. I think I've been pretty clear on the fact that I find Sean to be kind of annoying, but on top of that, I just don't think he's all that interesting to watch and this matchup is pretty much the worst case scenario for him in my eyes. That doesn't mean he can't make it interesting, but I think our entertainment will likely have to come earlier in the card. Just to be clear,  my picks will be in the bolded font , and  the real results will be listed next to it in italics  after the fight is official. Official bets will be at ...

 We were having such a good week last week until the end when Korean Zombie decided to go out on his shield a round earlier than I needed, but that's just how it goes sometimes. It was probably a fitting end to an incredible career for him. It wouldn't have been right for someone named the Zombie to just sheepishly lose a decision in their last fight. Zombie went out the way he fought his entire career and it's nothing but respect to one of the legends of the game. Unfortunately, I had some trouble getting my post to actually upload after I finished writing it. I think it was a problem with Blogger because my internet was working fine, but I just couldn't get the upload to work. I have all of the picks saved, but my bets didn't, so I have to redo that part at the end. The post is up as of now so all of the picks were there. The bets were still tracked on BetMMA so the transparency of the operation is upheld, but it is a bit annoying that I couldn't get that out ...

Last week was kind of a strange experience. The overall card felt a bit on the slow side, but there were some fantastic moments. My bets were not one of them, but that aside, I thought we at least got a pretty good ending to the end. Ian Garry looked tremendous, Zhang Weili looked unbeatable, and Sean O'Malley did exactly what he said he was going to do. It almost feels surreal to see Sean as champion after all this time and he has so many potential options moving forward that it really does feel like the sky is the limit for him right now. He'll have to get through some tough matchups for him with a rematch with Aljo, the Merab fight, and a potential Henry Cejudo fight out there for him, but the path is there for him to be a bigger star than he already is. We move on to this week which is a sneaky good Fight Night. We get a weird start time with it being in Singapore, but I'll take a good non-PPV event whenever we can. Just to be clear,  my picks will be in the bolded font...