Leon Edwards vs Colby Covington The difference between the second Edwards vs Usman fight vs the third one is fascinating. You can obviously see in the third fight, Usman isn’t the same guy. Lacked confidence. Wasn’t able to bully Edwards. Most tangibly speaking, Usman didn’t seem to have the same cardio to take Edwards down […]

Yadong Song vs Chris Gutierez Ok. Once and for all, Gutierez’s striking is a 70. He out landed Heili Alateng 110 to 38. I was blown away seeing Song have the ability to stuff most of Simon’s take downs. Wrestling is a 75 now. Also had Simon’s striking a 65 heading in, probably is a […]

Beneil Dariush vs Arman Tsarukyan Despite Dariush being knocked out by Charles Oliveira in his last fight, I can’t ignore his fight before that, against Gamrot. I know Gamrot has 70 striking. And Dariush out struck him 52 to 29. As much as my knee jerk reaction to picking this fight is to pick the […]

Brendan Allen vs Paul Craig Craig looked great in his 185 lb. debut, although I think him knocking out Muniz on the ground had more to do with Muniz gassing out than Craig’s grappling being a 75. I’m very confident Silva has 70 striking. I’m confident Allen has 70 striking. He should be able to […]

Jiri Prochazka vs Alex Pereira Once and finally for all, I’m convinced Blachowicz has 70 striking and 70 wrestling. The wrestling was close to a 65 in the Magomed Ankalaev fight, but there’s no way Pereira’s wrestling is worse than a 65. Pereira’s 75 striking grade at middleweight carried over to light heavyweight and same […]

Derrick Lewis vs Jailton Almeida This fight is pretty straight forward. Lewis is going to have one shot at the start of the fight to knock Almeida out. And he could, he might. He has a chance. But if he swings and misses, Almeida takes him down and will get the submission within a couple […]

Ramon Taveras vs Cortavious Romious I wish I was able to see more of Romious, but his fights recently end so quick. I really like his hand speed. Striking could be as high as a 65 if he has the cardio to push the pace for 15 minutes. And did Taveras’ fight get stopped early? […]

Islam Makhachev vs Alexander Volkanovski 2 I could be wrong with where I’ve graded Volkanovski’s skills at 155 lbs. But I think he beat Makhachev 3 rounds to 2 in their first fight. And I do think the wrestling is equal here. Yes, Makhachev had over 7 minutes of control time in the fight, but […]

Edson Barboza vs Sodiq Yusuff I know it would appear Yusuff is the A side. Young up and comer. 7 years younger than Barboza. He’s on the way up. But I’m convinced that Yusuff’s striking hasn’t moved past a 65 grade. His striking with Caceres was close to equal and I know Caceres doesn’t have […]

Rodolfo Bellato vs Murtaza Talha We all know how good Vitor Petrino is. Really good. Will probably fight for the title in the next couple years. Well, Bellato came close to knocking him out on their Contender Series fight. Bellato dropped him. Emptied the gas tank to try and finish him in the 1st round. […]