Shillan and Duffy: UFC 280 Preview
A week after the shortest Shillan & Duffy preview ever, here comes the longest. The 14-bout lineup of UFC 280 is absolutely packed with great fights from top to bottom, and to give each fight the attention it deserved took nearly four hours. OK...yes, there were some tangents and historical asides. This time, they included Roger Clemens, The Iron Sheik, Fabricio Werdum, the Assyrian diaspora—and of course, Bo Nickal. If you like to take the scenic route, hop in and buckle up. If you want "just the facts, ma'am," timestamps are your friend.
0:00 Intro: Redemption, Thales Leites and Roger Clemens
13:42 Karol Rosa (15-4) vs. Lina Lansberg (10-6)
22:02 Muhammad Mokaev (8-0, 1 NC) vs. Malcolm Gordon (14-5)
33:04 Armen Petrosyan (7-2) vs. A.J. Dobson (6-1, 1 NC)
46:32 Abubakar Nurmagomedov (16-3-1) vs. Gadzhi Omargadzhiev (13-1)
58:50 Magomed Mustafaev (14-3) vs. Yamato Nishikawa (21-3-6)
1:09:07 Zubaira Tukhugov (20-5-1) vs. Lucas Almeida (14-1)
1:18:20 Volkan Oezdemir (18-6) vs. Nikita Krylov (28-9)
1:32:44 Makhmud Muradov (25-7) vs. Caio Borralho (12-1)
1:45:52 Belal Muhammad (21-3, 1 NC) vs. Sean Brady (15-0)
2:02:22 Katlyn Chookagian (18-4) vs. Manon Fiorot (9-1)
2:16:45 Beneil Dariush (21-4-1) vs. Mateusz Gamrot (21-1)
2:33:16 Petr Yan (16-3) vs. Sean O’Malley (15-1, 1 NC)
2:52:41 Aljamain Sterling (21-3) vs. T.J. Dillashaw (17-4)
3:14:22 Charles Oliveira (33-8, 1 NC) vs. Islam Makhachev (22-1)
3:39:59 Bonus: Alexander Volkanovski (25-1) vs. Everybody
3:44:34 A quick rundown of all the picks