The Doctor's Stoppage MMA Blog

 To most neutral parties, the White House event was about as much of a success as the UFC could have hoped for. They ended up having to cancel the prefight coverage and had a short delay due to weather, but after everything actually started moving, the weather held off. It didn't seem like the humidity really played any part in determining the outcomes, mostly because only the main event extended in any meaningful way. The fights themselves were all action for the most part and all ended inside the distance, which meant the casual fans stayed engaged. The only real thing that isn't a complete knit pick in my opinion is the Josh Hokit comment. I'll have more on that tomorrow so, stay tuned if that topic is something that interests you. There's not too many fights left to go over now that I have done the two title fights the last couple of days, but we will quickly run through everyone left and give a quick evaluation of their performance and take a look at some options f...

 Because of the shocking nature of the main event, and just how great of a fight it ended up being, we really haven't seen as much discourse about the co-main event of the evening. Cyril Gane knocked out Alex Pereira in the second round of their interim heavyweight championship fight. Pereira was making his attempt to capture a title in his 3rd weight class after transitioning from kickboxing over to MMA not all that long ago. There were a lot of questions with how he would adapt to such a massive jump in weight and unfortunately, I don't think we got a ton of answers just because of the nature of Cyril Gane as an opponent and how the fight ended up playing out. It ended up being a solid fight while it lasted and then Gane quickly put an end to it to capture the interim title for the second time in his career. It wasn't as crazy of a back and forth battle like the main event was, but it was my most highly anticipated fight of te night and I think it was that way for most ot...

 What a time to return to writing because it was just in time for one of the biggest upsets we've seen over the last handful of years and, at least from a narrative perspective, of all time. I know betting odds wise it won't make any list of the biggest upsets we've seen, but from a general public perspective, it really didn't feel like there was anyone giving Gaethje more than a punchers chance in this one. Even finding someone saying "well you never know" was hard to come by. It was almost a forgone conclusion that Topuria would win, it was just a matter of what method and how long it would be. Gaethje flipped all of that on it's head with one of, if not the best performance of his entire career. It all culminated in what will be a fight of the year candidate when we look up in 6 months with both guys having their highs and lows before the fight being called off by someone in the Topuria corner. There is some debate as to who actually made the call and w...

 It has been quite a long time since I did one of these and while it is exciting to be back, it does feel a little odd. On one hand, it feels like it has been forever, but also feels so familiar at the same time. A lot has happened since my last real post here. If you missed it in my previous update, I ended up not being able to keep up with this during grad school and now that I am graduated, I am back and ready to update this more regularly. I have a lot of things to cover because the MMA landscape has changed drastically since my last appearance so we have a lot of ground to cover. Let's not waste any more time and get to what you came here for. 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 the bottom. Bets are now being officially tracked at BetMMA as well. Diego Lopes defeats Steve Garcia                  ...

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 ...