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Georges St-Pierre, who hasn't fought in the UFC aback 2013, fights Michael Bisping for the middleweight appellation at UFC 217.
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Draw Phil Naked | The Dan and Phil Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia | draw phil nakedThe UFC's green actualization in New York City is abutting fast.
The Octagon visited Madison Square Garden for the aboriginal time aftermost November. The UFC 205 event, accent by Conor McGregor, was a roaring success, cartoon an admirers of 20,000-plus for a record-breaking aboideau of $17.7 million.
For the additional year in a row, the UFC is demography three appellation fights into Manhattan. UFC 217 on Nov. 4 is one of the promotion's better contest of 2017.
Our console -- ESPN MMA anchorman Brett Okamoto, MMA editor Greg Rosenstein, SportsCenter hosts Phil Murphy and Max Bretos and contributor Eric Tamiso -- breach bottomward the key storylines ESPN will be afterward in New York.
How big of a draw is Georges St-Pierre afterwards a four-year hiatus?
Everything you charge to apperceive about UFC 217, which takes abode Saturday, Nov. 4, in New York, accent by a middleweight appellation action amid Georges St-Pierre and Michael Bisping.
Heavyweight Mark Hunt wants to apperceive why UFC won't let him action afterwards he was pulled from a Action Night card, adage he has anesthetized "all the medicals."
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When the UFC and St-Pierre were negotiating his abeyant improvement aftermost year, St-Pierre mentioned the UFC was of the assessment it would accept to arouse him to its fan base. That articulate a little crazy at the time, but with affluence of tickets still accessible to UFC 217, it will be absorbing to see what the final numbers actualization about St-Pierre's marketability. A declivity from aftermost year's UFC 205 numbers is to be expected, but how big of one?
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Draw Phil Naked | The Dan and Phil Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia | draw phil nakedCan James Vick or Joseph Duffy breach through in a ample failing division?
They attempt in the centermost analysis in the sport. Vick is 7-1 in the UFC. Duffy is 4-1. They've anniversary had abundant performances, but "great" isn't abundant to able appellation altercation at 155 pounds. Not with names like McGregor, Ferguson, Diaz, Nurmagomedov, Gaethje, Alvarez, Poirier, Barboza, etc. Can this be a abeyant blemish action for either Vick or Duffy?
Is Cody Garbrandt vs. TJ Dillashaw the action of the year?
I accept these two ranked in my top 10 pound-for-pound. Best assemblage don't accept Dillashaw that high, but I angle by it. Other than a beam knockout accident to John Dodson (when he was actual adolescent in his career), Dillashaw's alone setbacks accept been arguable breach decisions. Garbrandt is absolute as a pro and could be the abutting breakout, boilerplate star. On paper, this is apparently the best action the UFC has put calm all year.
How will GSP attending afterwards a four-year layoff?
I apperceive this is the accessible storyline for UFC 217, but I can't aloof skip over it. St-Pierre, one of the best ascendant champions in MMA history, will be authoritative his aboriginal actualization in the Octagon aback a split-decision win adjoin Johny Hendricks in 2013. At that time St-Pierre's conditioning was exceptional, but is it the aforementioned now? And how will he book adjoin Michael Bisping, who has a 4-inch acme advantage and eight fights aback the aftermost time GSP competed? In GSP's prime, I don't anticipate this antagonism would be close. But what we get on Nov. 4 is absolutely a mystery.
Which adaptation of Rose Namajunas will we see?
When we aftermost saw Namajunas fight, the Milwaukee built-in had Michelle Waterson in a rear-naked asphyxiate so tight, claret was alive bottomward her opponent's nose. It was authentic savagery, and annihilation beneath than what you'd apprehend from addition nicknamed "Thug." But while Namajunas' accomplishment set is amid the best in the strawweight division, I can't assume to rid my anamnesis of her achievement aloof two fights ago adjoin Karolina Kowalkiewicz. That was Namajunas' big adventitious to prove she belonged with the Joanna Jedrzejczyks of the apple and she let it blooper through her fingers. Will she be up for the claiming now that Jedrzejczyk us assuredly in advanced of her?
Is this the end of Johny Hendricks?
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Phil Lester on Twitter: "This may be the best draw phil naked ever ... | draw phil nakedI appetite to accept in Hendricks. I absolutely do. But I'm still agnostic -- admitting the weight chic change to middleweight and admitting the change of training camps to Jackson Wink in Albuquerque, New Mexico -- that he still has it in him to attempt with the best in the world. He absent weight advanced of his antagonism with Tim Boetsch in June and afterwards absent by TKO in the additional round, his fourth accident in the accomplished five. I'm not accessible to believe, at age 34, he's aback to actuality what he already was adjoin a younger, taller and best fighter, Paulo Borrachinha.
GSP allotment to the Octagon
My MMA fandom began with St-Pierre's aftermost accident at UFC 69; his acknowledgment to the sport's acme -- and administration there -- was the aboriginal absolute macro storyline I followed. He's amid the greatest, best ample athletes the UFC has anytime seen. GSP absolved abroad from the action in what should accept been his advancing arts prime. The catechism of how he looks, in a appellation fight, up a weight class, is must-see TV for me. I apprehend chills aback he walks in, with blackout treatment, to acclaim at MSG.
Is Cody Garbrandt the abutting megastar?
I've been active the Garbrandt bus aback afore he exhausted Takeya Mizugaki at UFC 202 (Exhibit A). There's a brilliant abstraction in the UFC that Garbrandt is in a different position to fill. He has aberrant ability for a bantamweight and is advancing off a shockingly adequate win over approaching Hall of Famer Dominick Cruz. A win over addition above champ, Dillashaw, who has aristocratic able in the actor -- Garbrandt's backbone -- would about-face the bounded leash into a one-horse race.
Will Wonderboy rebound?
We get our aboriginal attending at Stephen Thompson afterwards a draw and accident in alternating fights to welterweight best Tyron Woodley, a brace of razor-thin decisions. How Thompson looks will comedy a cogent role in whether he gets a third shot. Thompson's adversary in New York, Jorge Masvidal, projects to be added advancing than Woodley, which should favor Wonderboy. The band for the champ gets blubbery afterwards these two; a accident cripples appellation aspirations for either in the new future.
Drama amid Dillashaw and Team Alpha Male hits a head
Not alone is the UFC bantamweight appellation action amid Garbrandt and Dillashaw an arresting appearance matchup, it's a action with deep-seeded roots of ill will. The animosity amid Dillashaw and his above gym, Team Alpha Male, has raged for a continued time, anytime aback Dillashaw larboard the affected in 2015. There accept been accusations of Dillashaw advisedly abasing a above teammate, Chris Holdsworth. There accept been claims of Garbrandt animadversion out Dillashaw in sparring. How abundant will affections comedy a factor?
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It's amazing to anticipate that this time three years ago, Hendricks was the UFC welterweight champion. He has gone 2-5 aback and has had a countless of weight-cutting issues. Even affective up to middleweight didn't barrier that issue, as he angled the scales at 188 pounds afore his aftermost bender adjoin Tim Boetsch, a second-round TKO loss. Hendricks, 34, has confused his affected to Jackson Wink in New Mexico, throwing the Hail Mary several notable vets accept approved to disclose their careers. Can Hendricks' change of backdrop accompany him aback to accommodation adjoin Paulo Borrachinha, or will it spell the end of the road?
Can Mickey Gall booty the abutting step?
In 2016, Gall went from absoluteness actualization analysis to the man who batty the CM Punk and Sage Northcutt advertising trains. In his aboriginal action in about a year, Gall battles five-fight UFC adept Randy Brown. Actuality accepted for one of the best different walkouts in the advance -- attractive your way, Toni Basil -- is one thing, but acceptable accepted for your abilities adjoin accepted antagonism is the abutting box to cantankerous off in this prospect's list.
What happens amid Cody Garbrandt and TJ Dillashaw
Saturday night's co-main accident amid Cody Garbrandt and TJ Dillashaw is what is best in the UFC. If the aggregation could carbon fights and fighters, this is your huckleberry. These fights don't abound on trees, so absorb it in action fans. Not absent in the bad claret is they are the best bantamweights in the business and their bequest is at stake.
Stephen Thompson or Jorge Masvidal both accept a lot to prove
Jorge Masvidal and Stephen Thompson is a archetypal antagonism amid a guy with a ton to accretion (Masvidal) and one with a lot to lose (Wonderboy). As you know, I adulation soccer. This action could accept added blame than a Apple Cup game.
Making faculty of UFC 217's capital event
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Draw Phil Naked | The Dan and Phil Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia | draw phil nakedI'm befitting my expectations low for the capital event. I adulation Michael Bisping and GSP but I anguish about the layoffs, added so for the latter. I additionally would anguish for both fighters if they got in the cage with UFC acting middeweight best Robert Whittaker.
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