Max Holloway vs Charles Oliveira 2 Chris’ Pick: Holloway by decision. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Holloway -200 Caio Borralho vs Reinier de Ridder The Borralho we saw against Nassourdine Imavov wasn’t the real Borralho as he depleted himself making two tough weight cuts in...
Brandon Moreno vs Lone’er Kavanagh Chris’ Pick: Kavanagh by split decision. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Kavanagh -135 Marlon Vera vs David Martinez Vera is still only 33 years old, so it might feel like it’s a bit early to say he’s regressing but at...
Sean Strickland vs Anthony Hernandez Chris’ Pick: Hernandez by 4th round submission. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Hernandez -250 Geoff Neal vs Uros Medic Yes, Neal has lost 3 of his last 4 fights, but the losses have been against Carlos Prates, Ian Machado Garry...
Mario Bautista vs Vinicius Oliveira Yes, Oliveira out striking Phillips 79 to 49 was impressive, but the thing that impressed me even more was the cardio. Oliveira threw hard all 15 minutes, stalked Phillips, pressured the whole fight, didn’t slow down. Normally when a fighter pressures that much and...
Alexander Volkanovski vs Diego Lopes 2 If you watch the first Volkanovski vs Lopes fight, it looks close. Volkanovski clearly landed more, out struck Lopes 142 to 59. Crazy numbers. But Lopes seemed to do more damage. And there have been fights when Volkanovski looks like he has top...
Justin Gaethje vs Paddy Pimblett Even if you said Chandler is regressing and not the same, I know 100% for sure that his striking is no worse than a 65 grade. And still, Pimblett out struck Chandler 43 to 10, taking a massive step forward in his skills. He...
Brandon Royval vs Manel Kape Royval’s striking is a very legit 75 grade after he out struck Joshua Van 205 to 181. Chris’ Pick: Royval by decision. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Royval -250 Giga Chikadze vs Kevin Vallejos Chris’ Pick: Vallejos by split decision....
Merab Dvalishvili vs Petr Yan Ok so for a bit, I thought Figueiredo had started to regress. I saw Yan pile up the strikes, out landing Figureirdo 103 to 49 and again, chalked it up to Figueiredo taking a step back vs Yan taking a step forward. Figueiredo vs...
Arman Tsarukyan vs Dan Hooker I wish Tsarukyan was more active as we’ve seen him fight only once in the past 2 years. So there’s a real chance I’m under rating him based on how he had top control of Oliveira towards the end of their fight. But if...
Jack Della Maddalena vs Islam Makhachev Chris’ Pick: Della Maddalena by 3rd round knockout. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Della Maddalena -250 Valentina Shevchenko vs Weili Zhang The big obvious question here is how Weili’s skills translate up a weight class at 125 lbs. It’s...