UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington [14-12] Results

[K1power]

Main Card
Welterweight Kamaru Usman (c) vs. Colby Covington
Featherweight Max Holloway (c) vs. Alexander Volkanovski
Women's Bantamweight Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Germaine de Randamie
Bantamweight Marlon Moraes vs. José Aldo
Bantamweight Petr Yan vs. Urijah Faber

Preliminary card
Welterweight Geoff Neal vs. Mike Perry
Women's Bantamweight Ketlen Vieira vs. Irene Aldana
Middleweight Ian Heinisch vs. Omari Akhmedov
Welterweight Matt Brown vs. Ben Saunders

Early Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass)
Featherweight Chase Hooper vs. Daniel Teymur
Flyweight Brandon Moreno vs. Kai Kara-France
Women's Flyweight Jessica Eye vs. Viviane Araujo
Middleweight Punahele Soriano vs. Oskar Piechota

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_245

[K1power]

Happening this Saturday.

[h]

pretty good main card. mostly looking forward to Holloway vs Volkanovski.

[Fox]

One of few times in the year I am looking forward to MMA more than kickboxing.

[mzn]

Because of all the enthusiasm here I will have a go at watching this one too.

[K1power]

Full Results
Main card
Kamaru Usman def. Colby Covington via fifth-round TKO (4:10)
Alexander Volkanovski def. Max Holloway via UD
Amanda Nunes def. Germaine de Randamie via UD
Marlon Moraes def. Jose Aldo via split decision
Petr Yan def. Urijah Faber via third-round KO (0:43)

Undercard
Geoff Neal def. Mike Perry via first-round TKO (1:30)
Irene Aldana def. Ketlen Vieira via first-round KO (4:51)
Omari Akhmedov def. Ian Heinisch via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)
Matt Brown def. Ben Saunders via second-round KO (4:55)
Chase Hooper def. Daniel Teymur via first-round TKO (4:34)
Brandon Moreno def. Kai Kara-France via UD (29-28 x2, 30-27)
Jessica Eye def. Viviane Araujo via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)
Punahele Soriano def. Oskar Piechota via first-round KO (3:17)

www.mmafighting.com/2019/12/14/21021378/ufc-245-results-usman-vs-covington

[mzn]

Some observations:

The three man team on commentating doesn't work. All three of them are good at what they do but none have enough room to do what they are good at. They were either talking through each other, or saying nothing at all when they recognized that they were talking through each other. Either Rogan needs to move towards the play by play role more and leave out Anik, or you need to choose between Cormier and Rogan. Or Cormiers role should be limited to statistics, round scoring and short analysis between rounds.

When I last followed MMA, Aldo and Faber were ruling the world. Times have changed. Yan made me a fan, and I thought Aldo won that fight. He had more significant strikes and he was pushing the fight. I was a bit scared that the judges would do the same to Volkanovski....

It was a bit distraught that in a 2019 title fight there would be a fighter with such a hole in their game as de Randamie has. Now I know she was a kickboxer for so long and the fact that she came this far in MMA is impressive, but anyone in a title fight should have better takedown defence and mobility from their back.

Usman - Covington was a nice battle. Covington rubs me the wrong way. After a bit of googling, I take it he's playing role of a prowrestling heel. Ok Colby, It's working: you're drawing my 'heat'!

Oh, and what happened to fighting on the ground in MMA? Where's the grappling gone?

[Fox]

Great night of fights. Its been a really long time since Ive watched MMA with English commentary and one thing that consistently annoyed me in watching this event was that whenever someone was backing up landing counters and occasionally taking shots on the gloves Rogan and DC were talking as if they were losing. This perspective just seems so ridiculous to me now. You would think the fans from the land that produced Floyd Mayweather would get this.