UFC 281 Preview

The Artem Lobov of getting rote off is back! Now this was supposed to be a short but sweet intro to 5 of the best fights from UFC 281, across main card and prelims, but unfortunately I got so bogged down in the main event it’s really all I covered in depth. For the main event I looked at several key areas for both Israel “The Last Stylebender” Adesanya and Alex “Poatan” Pereira. We covered their MMA Records, UFC Records, got into the major storylines entering the fight and around the event itself, the stakes for each, the potential X Factors in deciding the fight and the path(s) to victory for both men to wrap up. I was concerned this would be a shit episode with shit analysis but I think we got thru it admirably in the end. You won’t come out of this podcast poorer in information about Saturday’s main event than you went in, promise! I touched on a bunch of the other fights on the card, mainly the title fight between Zhang Weili and Carla Esparza, “Iron” Michael Chandler vs. Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier for the unofficial violenceweight title, the returning Dan “The Hangman” Hooker vs Claudio Puelles and City Kickboxing’s Brad Riddell taking on Renato Moicano at lightweight.  As with all my MMA episodes it seems only fair to give the disclaimer I have ZERO idea what I’m talking about, I’m just a huge fan who loves to ponder the hypotheticals and armchair quarterback on the big night. Hope you like this one, I was very happy with it in the end (a few annoying electronic buzzings which I cannot remove in the edit notwithstanding- sorry about that, they don’t last long), think I’ve hit on a good structure here, will definitely try to do more previews of big cards in the future, but for now… Peace. Love. Punkadelic. Stay Punkadelic between Episodes! ⚡ All our links in one place!- find everywhere you can hear Punkadelic Podcast ⚡ R/PunkadelicPodcast - a place for memes, fight videos, fails, insanity and psychedelic imagery! ⚡ Letterboxd - where I review movies in 50 words or less! ⚡ Buy Me A Beer - donate to the campaign to raise funds for a second mic so I can start having guests! ⚡ Instagram - where I post announcements that new episodes are out!