Aaron Tau vs Elijah Smith Smith is extremely athletic, extremely fast, well rounded. Tau is explosive, but also defensively responsible, moves in and out really well. Trains at City Kickboxing. Chris’ Pick: Tau by 1st round knockout. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Tau -125 Tallison...
Sean O’Malley vs Merab Dvalishvili The numbers are the numbers. And what the numbers showed in O’Malley’s fight with Sterling is that Sterling out struck him 16 to 10 up until the KO. Fast forward to the Vera rematch and O’Malley out strikes Vera 227 to 85. Wow. That’s...
Phillip Latu vs Navajo Stirling Latu trains at Elevation fight team, has impressive power, but he got hit too much for me to put a 65 grade on his striking. Pretty confident his striking is just a 60 for now. Stirling only has 4 pro MMA fights, so not...
Gilbert Burns vs Sean Brady I wasn’t too surprised Brady was able to steamroll Gastelum on the ground. Probably 75 wrestling for Brady. But I still have that Muhammad fight in my head and ask myself, has Brady improved his cardio? What if the take downs don’t come as...
Igor Cavalcanti vs Seok Hyun Ko Ko’s striking looks really good, fluid karate base, smoothly moves in and out, but there’s flags. Just a few years ago, Ko got knocked out by Han Seul Kim, who went 1-2 in the UFC. Last fight only went 48 seconds, not too...
Jieleyisi Baergeng vs Tokitaka Nakanishi Possible that Jieleyisi’s striking could be as high as a 60. Chris’ Pick: Jieleyisi by decision. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Jieleyisi -175 Angad Bisht vs Dong Hun Choi Chris’ Pick: Choi by decision. What odds I think the favorite...
Bin Xie vs Masuto Kawana Kawana’s wrestling was better than I thought. The tool is close to a 65, but the reason it’s still a 60 for me is he doesn’t have the cardio to carry it at that high a level through the whole fight. He gassed pretty...
Jared Cannonier vs Caio Borralho Borralho out struck Craig 35 to 22 and Craig got nowhere close to being able to take Borralho down. Enough for me to see he’s gotten better everywhere. Chris’ Pick: Borralho by 2nd round knockout. What odds I think the favorite should be at:...
Andrey Pulyaev vs Liam Anderson I watched one of Anderson’s last fights against a well rounded 2-0 fighter and was underwhelmed. It was at LFA and let’s say Anderson’s opponent is better than just the 2 pro fights indicate, that maybe he has 55 striking and 50 wrestling. Highly...
Andreas Gustafsson vs Pat Pytlik Gustafsson’s striking is a borderline 60 grade. Close. But he gets hit way too much so I have him as a 55 for now. Chris’ Pick: Gustafsson by 1st round knockout. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Gustafsson -135 Rizvan Kuniev...