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Mania Money Pool Season 15 Event 5 Results: UFC Doubleheader Sunday - UFC Fight Night 53 (Story vs Nelson) and UFC Fight Night 54 (Ares vs Saffiedine)

Two events, two continents, two exciting welterweight main events in one night. Expect this to be the trend nowadays as the UFC has already undertaken an expansion strategy that will hopefully increase the global popularity of MMA. But since these are just baby steps so far, what we have are 25 fights with 75% of the fights comprising of fighters we barely know. But hey, let's look at the bright side of this. Ares impressed with a TKO over Tarec and Story derailed the Nelson train with his improved striking. 13 decisions and 10 finishes, not bad for a lot of fights!

The scores were off-the-roof this event but when the smoke cleared, Phasebook emerged as the event winner scoring 173 points, going 18 out of 23 correct picks and 11 perfect picks. I am sure Jonny, Trip and G Smith were not happy.

UFC Fight Night 53 results below.


Main card (UFC Fight Pass at 3 p.m. ET)

Rick Story def. Gunnar Nelson via split decision (48-47 Nelson, 49-46 Story, 50-44 Story)
Max Holloway def. Akira Corassani via TKO (strikes) at 3:11 of round 1
Jan Blachowicz def. Ilir Latifi via TKO (strikes) at 1:58 of round 1
Mike Wilkinson def. Niklas Backstrom via KO (punch) at 1:19 in round 1

Undercard (UFC Fight Pass at 12:10 p.m. ET)

Magnus Cedenblad def. Scott Askham via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Nico Musoke def. Alexander Yakovlev via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Dennis Siver def. Charles Rosa via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Cathal Pendred def. Gasan Umalatov via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Krzysztof Jotko def. Tor Troeng via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-26, 30-27)
Mairbek Taisumov def. Marcin Bandel via TKO (strikes) at 1:01 of round 1
Zubaira Tukhugov def. Ernest Chavez via TKO (strikes) at 4:21 of round 1

UFC FIGHT NIGHT 54 QUICK RESULTS:

170 lbs.: Rory MacDonald def. Tarec Saffiedine via TKO (punches) – Round 3, 1:28
135 lbs.: Raphael Assuncao def. Bryan Caraway via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
155 lbs.: Chad Laprise def. Yosdenis Cedeno via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

185 lbs.: Elias Theodorou def. Bruno Santos via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
170 lbs.: Nordine Taleb def. Li Jingliang via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27)
135 lbs.: Mitch Gagnon def. Roman Salazar via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:06
155 lbs.: Daron Cruickshank def. Anthony Njokuani via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
155 lbs.: Olivier Aubin-Mercier def Jake Lindsey via submission (inverted triangle choke) – Round 2, 3:22
155 lbs.: Paul Felder def. Jason Saggo via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
125 lbs.: Chris Kelades def. Patrick Holohan via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
170 lbs.: Albert Tumenov def. Matt Dwyer via knockout (head kick and punches)
135 lbs.: Pedro Munhoz def. Jerrod Sanders via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 0:39

EVENT WINNER: PHASEBOOK - 173 POINTS

  • Phase went 18/23 with 11 perfect picks

  • Gets automatic entry into Season 16 with this event win for this season.
  • #9 out of 986 in PG

  • Back-to-back shit picking from dildon. Out of all the 23 fights and 200+ scores, dildon picked one fight and got 5 points on Zubaira Tuhugov.

Fight Night 53 / Fight Night 54
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UFC Fight Night 54
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Rank Points Player
1 173 Phasebook
2 170 ShivanTiger
2 170 jelly_belly
4 167 kg12
5 163 Ninja_Oreo_Dollop
6 162 MMA_Boss
7 160 ricky-dooby
8 158 biggant
9 155 Dlocc
9 155 VicDundee
11 154 lanky6
11 154 Jonnyboy6969
13 152 Agar
14 149 thepride
15 146 RGIII
16 142 anguyen
17 141 Rilly
17 141 sudnvictoryMP
19 138 BNF
20 136 letstalkmma
21 134 GotaHemmi
21 134 OilCheck
23 132 Aussie
23 132 SanabriaMan
25 129 pabloXL
26 127 Couchchamp
27 126 Donnmcslick
28 125 JimGunn
29 124 bezzarguy
30 123 TripPilch
31 121 Bill_P
32 112 potato623
33 110 Joben
33 110 Jido7
35 104 MA-TAYO
36 100 warhero70
37 91 FearTheBeard
38 79 Tap-or-snap-Bons
38 79 Smerf
40 75 Deuce02
41 5 dildon



Season Leaders - The Big Show Pick'em #21

5 / 10 events complete
Season started Sep 05, 2014

Rank Points Player Movement
1 445 ricky-dooby +/-
2 444 ShivanTiger +/-
3 442 jelly_belly 1
4 438 Phasebook 1
5 425 Agar 2
6 403 MMA_Boss 5
7 396 lanky6 3
8 393 Jonnyboy6969 4
9 390 Dlocc 5
10 385 Rilly 1
11 383 GotaHemmi 3
12 381 biggant 10
13 376 thepride 7
14 371 letstalkmma 1
15 364 potato623 8
15 364 Ninja_Oreo_Dollop 17
17 360 SanabriaMan 1
18 359 sudnvictoryMP 7
18 359 MA-TAYO 12
20 357 pabloXL 4
21 356 Bill_P 8
22 354 Aussie 1
22 354 RGIII 7
24 353 OilCheck +/-
24 353 JimGunn 8
26 352 BNF 1
26 352 VicDundee 7
26 352 bezzarguy 10
29 342 Donnmcslick 3
30 331 kg12 9
31 328 TripPilch 1
32 313 Jido7 1
32 313 Couchchamp 6
34 304 FearTheBeard 6
35 298 anguyen 5
36 297 Joben 1
37 275 Smerf 3
38 271 Tap-or-snap-Bons 3
39 242 warhero70 2
40 225 MixedMartialFarts 19
41 189 Deuce02 1
41 189 broken0rbital 5
43 104 dildon +/-


EVENT WINNERS for SEASON 15:

Event 1: sudnvictoryMP - 58 POINTS

Event 2: lanky6 - 87 POINTS

Event 3: JellyBelly - 92 POINTS

Event 4: ricky dooby - 94 POINTS

Event 5: Phasebook - 173 POINTS

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EVENT SHITPICKERS for SEASON 15:

Event 1: JimGunn - 10 POINTS

Event 2: warhero70 - 24 POINTS

Event 3: brokenorbital - 21 POINTS

Event 4: dildon - 17 POINTS

Event 5: dildon - 5 POINTS

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