The Fight #90 LNT

The weFight #90 LNT covers the full UFC 328 main card, headlined by Sean Strickland reclaiming the UFC middleweight title in a razor-close split decision over Khamzat Chimaev. We break down Strickland’s comeback, Chimaev’s early grappling control, the scorecard debate, Joshua Van’s late flyweight title stoppage over Tatsuro Taira, plus key wins from Alexander Volkov, Sean Brady, and King Green. 

Transcript

King Green Finishes Fast

Brady Uses Wrestling To Shut Down

Heavyweight Levels And Power Talk

Joshua Van’s Late TKO Statement

Strickland Split Decision And What’s Next

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Layton LA The fight episode 90 UFC 328 signed and delivered like FedEx right at your door like Doordash. Shout out to Paramount Plus. Shout out to the competitors. Shout out to the fight episode 99. No, not 99, but 90. Let's get it. King Green versus Jeremy Steffens opens up the main event, main card for UFC 328. Incredible. Listen. King Green is on tear right now. If you get him in there with somebody his age, he's going to beat them handedly. If you get them in there too green, he's going to get them out there. Too fast. Shout out to King Green. He gets the round one rare-necked choke on Jeremy Steffens, who missed weight. So he got his check. No performance bonus, but Dana's gonna let him wear whatever shirts he wants. You know, weird shit like that. But shout out to King Green. Did exactly what I thought he was gonna do. If these guys are the same age as him, he's just better. He's more maintained, he's fresher. He hasn't been in a lot of wars. People talk a lot about his defeats, but he hasn't been in wars in which he's been chipped away and degraded as a fighter. He's actually picked up skills from each match, and it's a season vet. And I don't think he's gonna be getting out of the UFC no time soon. He's been on all the major cards doing a lot of major work. Child to King Green and the round one Rare Naked Choke. Now, Sean Brady versus Joaquin Buckley. Buckley was talking a lot. Okay. He was talking about boxers. He's talking about this. He's talking about being hugged. He's talking about this and that. Here's the thing nothing you do or say before you get in that ring really fucking mattered, bro. I fuck with Joaquin Buckley. I knew that he would lose this fight because wrestling is a skill that is so powerful in the UFC, especially as you rise in level. You know, Usman's level of wrestling, Sean Brady's level of wrestling, nullifies everything, anything and everything Buckley has to offer. It's just too much form at the time. Like it's nothing he can really do about it. And it's crazy to see on a day-in, day out basis, the difference between the two. It's uh truly what shows us the pedigree of what a fighter is. With Buckley taking the loss handedly, unanimous decision, 3-0, going Sean Bradley's way. Sean Brady just controlled him the entire fight. He's coming off of getting knocked out. He had no shakes or jitters. He was controlled, composed. It showed exactly why he's in the top 15 in that showing, turning Buckley back. The Welt awake division is on fire. With Carlos Pratas, with JDM, with all these former champions still in there, with all these rising fighters still in there. The UC has his hands full. I can't wait to see what Islam does with his next competitor. Now, Alexander Volkoff versus Waldo Cortez is exactly what happened with Sean Brady, Sean Brady, and Joaquin Buckley. There's difference in levels. There's difference in managing a fight. There's difference in looking good, being powerful, and winning rounds. See, Waldo was beating everything because it was horse versus horse. Bokal had strategy, force, power, decision making, skills, and most importantly, the experience to take the win in a unanimous decision and line himself up for the next fight against Tom Aspinall after we figure out what's going to go on between Poltan and Cyril Gond, which is still a pick'em fight for me. Cyril Ghan is a big guy. Potan's a great striker, but it's going to be different. Everybody has high, high levels of skill, but at the heavyweight division, everybody hits extremely hard. So he may miss and knock someone out, but I don't know if Alex can take that heavyweight power. We shall see. Now we got the main event fights coming up. The co main, Joshua Van versus Tassoura. Listen, Joshua Van is a champion. Joshua Van is a champion. If your takedowns don't do damage, you are not going to win a fight. And I love that the UC is now like this. You know, a lot of people would have given Tassora rounds when he wasn't doing anything. Joshua Van almost choked this man out, and he beat him down and got the TKO in the fifth round. Shout out to Joshua Van, true champion. So many doubts, so much conversation, so much here or there or everywhere else, but what who he is and what he is, a fucking UFC champion. And he's good for the fans and he's good for the sport. And it's great to see someone at 24 not only attain their dreams, but maintain them. Now, if he gets into it with Pantoja, am I going to bet on him? I don't think so. The way he was on bottom shows me that if someone as savvy and experience, you know, Pantoja has experience that circumvents a lot of what Tessora lacked in this fight. He was in good position, but he was so amped, so pushing it that Joshua found gaps and got himself back on the feet. And honestly, his striking was not up to par. He was more of a grappling in there with a striker. And that's the thing with Pantoja. Pantoja can strike at a high level. He can make you respect his hands and his feet, and then he can choke you out. That is the threat with Pantoja. I still have him at the edge for that win. It's going to be a tough fight for Joshua Van, but congratulations on this win. Now, talking about tough wins, Sean Strickland versus Cosmock was everything we exactly thought it was going to be. And it is a split decision win for Sean, for Sean Strickland. Now, there is a lot of chatter, a lot of hooting and hollering. But once men spend 25 and 25 minutes trying to harm each other, of course that hashtag will be buried. Shout out to them for taking the mature route. There's a lot of hellacious things, a lot of heinous things said. Hopefully, and it remains just fight talk. But people were talking and moving in a way that I thought is going to go beyond that. Shout out to the fighters for being more than that situation. Asked them to be. Now, Sean Strickland won this by the skin of his teeth. He was backing up the entire time. If it was a different set of judges, Cosmot would have won this fight because he was advancing. Now, both fighters didn't get to do everything. Neither one. Strickland didn't strike the entire time, and Cosmot did not keep him on the ground the entire time. Also, that weight cut is killing Cosmot. There has been rumors and talk and chatter about Cosmont almost going up to a different division before this fight. It is obvious that he needs to. Shout out to Sean Strickland. But with him being the champ, I think the middleweight division is wide open. I don't think he's going to keep that for very long. He lost it to DuPlisis and he lost to DuPlisseis twice. So I see DuPlissis as the current champion. I have to be honest. If DDP gets the belt back, I think he keeps it for a while. But I think it's going to be interchangeable. Everybody's beatable. Emanov is up next. He did lose to Sean back in the day, but he's extremely crispy now. Both his striking and grappling. So I'm excited to see the next engagement. Incredible times, incredible journeys. It's it's great to see the UC at its heights that it is now. Shout out to both fighters. Hopefully, Sean can keep that belt. I really don't think so. Everybody's a good matchup. Either the strikers can out strike them or the grapplers can get them on the ground. But we shall see in the next event. This is the fight episode 90. Tap ending.