Almeida Next Brazilian Superstar
First ever headlining spot took advantage of the spotlight with finishing Rozenstruik with ease with a first round submission, rear naked choke .
Dana White calling him “future heavyweight star” and similar fighting style to Khabib.
Even tho Heavyweight division has improved there’s always need for young Heavyweight stars and Jailton Almeida fits the bill, won’t be surprised by 2023 or 2024 is challenging for Heavyweight title.
Potential matchups against Alexander Volkov, Sergey Spivak and Tai Tuivasa may lead to title shot. All top ten Heavyweight matchups.
“Of course, UFC Abu Dhabi or UFC Brazil around October,” Almeida said. “I want Tai Tuivasa. Either he comes to Brazil and feels the energy down there, or perhaps go to Abu Dhabi, where I heard he actually trains. https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2023/05/ufc-on-abc-4-news-jailton-almeida-eyes-tai-tuivasa-next-heavyweight-title-in-2024
UFC 292 Boston August 19th can be next scheduled bout for Jailton Almeida. Scheduling the Brazilian Heavyweight on the Main Card as Dana White continues to promote the next Heavyweight star.
Johnny Walker Top Five Matchups Only
Best technical performance of Johnny Walker’s career was defeated title challenger Anthony Smith. Great job of staying cool and composed instead of making silly decisions and fighting wild.
Punishing Anthony Smith’s right leg to the point he couldn’t stand in the third round. Whole fight took the smart calculated approach by beating him with easy jabs, overhand rights and mxture of the accurate leg kicks that worked wonders. Dana White and fans definitely weren’t pleased with his performance but looked sharp against a tough opponent.
Win against Anthony Smith shows he rightly deserves top five matchups only. Calling out Jamahal Hill in his post fight interview.
Potential matchups can be revenging his loss against Nikita Krylov, fight Magomed Ankalaev or Jan Blachowicz in number one contender matchup. Definitely will be interesting matchups love to watch Walker vs Ankalaev throw down in 2023.
Ian Garry Wants Neil Magny
Next Irish superstar delivered at Charlotte by easily finishing toughest opponent yet Daniel Rodriguez.
Thought this fight would last till second round but Ian Garry shown his world class potential and superstar mic skills. UFC has a superstar on there hands and Dana White loves it.
White added: “He’s super confident, and that kid’s ready to take over the world.
“He looked awesome tonight. Obviously, he fought a guy very durable, dangerous, and a prospect in his own right,” White said during his post-fight press conference. https://talksport.com/sport/mma/1424884/dana-white-ian-garry-ufc-superstar-conor-mcgregor/
Love Ian Garry’s call out… Neil Magny really respected welterweight who shows basically in every fight how talented of all-around MMA fighter he is. Defeating Magny gives Garry confidence you’re able to have a true MMA fight with UFC Welterweight veteran.
“I believe Neil Magny is the perfect opponent for me to go out there and smoke and show the world how good I am.” Ian Garry said https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/ian-garry/ian-garry-names-the-perfect-opponent-he-wants-to-go-out-there-and-smoke-next/
Respect Ian Garry for asking for Neil Magny was scrolling through tapology.com welterweight rankings thinking about potential matchups, glanced at Neil Magny name thinking it would be fun too soon but Ian Garry proved me wrong.
Everyone speaks highly of Ian Garry that he’s a great training partner, absorbs a lot of information. Fight against Magny gets scheduled, must consistently drill defensive grappling to defeat Neil Magny. Prevents any takedowns or not let himself get controlled on the fence he’ll win.
“For me to go in there and absolutely run through him in any way I want to, whether it’s grappling, wrestling or striking – or all combined – no matter where I goes I believe I will out work him.” Ian Garry https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2023/05/ufc-news-ian-machado-garry-dana-white-sees-me-superstar-in-making-ireland-neil-magny
UFC smartly building fighters they truly believe will become UFC superstars one day, Ian Garry is one of those future stars there gradually building but a respectable win against Neil Magny will show everyone this kid will be a future champion.
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