The Doctor's Stoppage MMA Blog

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...

 We're on a bit of a cold run recently. We're alternating winning and losing weeks, but the losing weeks have been really bad. Consistency is key in this game, but we'll get there eventually. We're in store for a pretty solid PPV this week, which ends with Sean O'Malley's first title shot. Aljamain Sterling is trying to become the best bantamweight in UFC history and there's some who thinks he's already there. If you're saying only in UFC history, then maybe, but all time, I think he may need this win and maybe another before he passes Dominick Cruz, but that's just me. The card is pretty solid outside of the TUF finals, really. It's not even that the TUF finals are the worst fights you'll ever see, but they're just low level fights that we have to pretend are a bigger deal than they really are. 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 offic...

 After a long week of finals, I'm probably looking forward to this card more than I should be. It's not the most amazing Fight Night you'll ever see, but I think it has enough interesting spots that it should be a decent watch even with the lower level nature of more than a few fights. It's also on at a decent hour here on the east coast, so I'll take what I can get. Rafael Dos Anjos vs Vicente Luque is kind of a random fight, but I don't see why it shouldn't be a decent main event. Let's get right into it. 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.  Juliana Miller defeats Luana Santos               Result:          Things get off to a strange start as we get the return of Juliana Miller. I th...

Last week we got one of the best events of the year and while a Fight Night can't really live up to that, we do have a pretty solid offering. I've been pretty transparent that Cory Sandhagen is one of my favorite fighters on the roster, so I'll be excited to see him fight almost anyone. I think Rob Font stepping in on short notice probably makes for a more exciting style matchup, but the Umar fight was a lot more intriguing from a consequences standpoint. 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.  Ode Osbourne defeats Assu Almabayev                Result:          This is kind of a weird fight to start off the night. Almabayev is making his UFC debut in this one and I think he has the style t...