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...
Dricus Du Plessis vs Israel Adesanya Prior to Adesanya matching up with Strickland, I said Adesanya being priced at -600 was bonkers. Maybe the market thought Adesanya had top of the scale 80 grade striking. Market was probably really under rating Strickland’s striking. Striking numbers were stunning with Strickland...
Mansur Abdul-Malik vs Wes Schultz Most of Schultz’s fights, he immediately goes to his wrestling and gets his way. Doesn’t show a lot of his stand up. Possible his striking tool could be a 60. Only 1 fighter has made it past 2 minutes in Abdul-Malik’s 5 pro fights....
Serghei Spivac vs Marcin Tybura I’m pretty sure Spivac’s striking is a 65, but wow, he really melted against Ciryl Gane. Spivac was out struck 105 to 11. Might be one of the widest gaps in striking in UFC history. Needless to say, it’s possible Spivac’s striking is closer...
Cory Sandhagen vs Umar Nurmagomedov Chris’ Pick: Sandhagen by 2nd round knockout. What odds I think the favorite should be at: Sandhagen -275 Shara Magomedov vs Michal Oleksiejczuk Hard to take away much from Magomedov’s last fight with Trocoli, who was already a mystery, being that he hadn’t fought...
Leon Edwards vs Belal Muhammad 2 It does look like Muhammad has gotten better since his first fight with Edwards in 2021. Wrestling is on the low end of a 75 grade. And I know Muhammad’s striking is only a 70 as the striking with Burns was close to...