[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Shirtog Radio Network Preview for UFC Fight Night 282 on Kaliyev vs. Gooskov, also known as UFC Abu Dhabi.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host, benduffyevshirtog.com, and with me as usual, is Keith Shillin, the executive producer of the Shirtog Radio Network.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, how are you doing today?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing good right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am doing just fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quick note for our usual listeners.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, anyone who's listening right now wants to be part of this, the final Shillman Duffy Preview is going to be next week's preview for UFC Belgrade.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do something completely different.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do an all live show where we're going to invite you to chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: talk with us about things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe talk a little bit about the card, just talk a little bit about stuff in general, but it'll be 9 p.m. Eastern time on the Shirtog YouTube page.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll send out a reminder there'll be one on the Shirtog front page and we'll go out through our socials.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we just thought it would be a lot more fun to talk directly with y'all about really whatever you want to talk about rather than, well, the UFC's first foray into the nation of Serbia.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, the ending of the show kind of came on
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if we knew the show was coming to an end, like we got to stop at the White House card.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that would've been the perfect one to end on, or even like the Reconi's return.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you're as mad as she's one of our guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I mean, it's like one of the worst methods on paper at a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, Daniel Rodriguez is like, I should have just stayed in that Mexican prison.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, Daniel Rodriguez, he's headlining a card.
[SPEAKER_01]: They could also just head that being the opener of the card.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like Daniel Rodriguez, he's a fun guy to watch fight, but yeah, it's wild as a min event.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's not preview that card.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got this week's card to talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: The UFC's back in Abu Dhabi.
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point,
[SPEAKER_00]: we know what we get when the UFC goes to the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia, you're going to get a card full of Russian dudes that can't get these to come to North America or Western Europe.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are a bunch of debuting fighters in the card.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, a lot who came up through like Brave CF UAE warriors, a couple through the sanctioned Chechen Promotion ACA.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to obviously talk about all 13 use fights in order.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Keith, give me your general overall thoughts on this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm actually going to go like a C plus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it doesn't have a lot of name value.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, you have a former champion, and I call I have, you know, I'll see he beat out for her.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, there's not a lot of sexy names.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then that when you dig in, this is a lot of talent.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of guys making the UCW that are really good fighters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'm talking like C plus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm on board with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking right around to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Outside of, say, the top two fights, the ones, you know, Uncle I have, Goosegov, Ursaeg, the three probably best known names on the card aside from, well, I don't know, not even quite sure how to put that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let me just say this, which fight on this card outside of the top two are you most excited for?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go with,
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's come with, two guys, I have no idea how to say their names, but they're pretty talented.
[SPEAKER_01]: Reset, Reset Bikki versus Zyna Koff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Demi and Shepeski versus Megaman Zyna Koff is a fantastic matchup between two undefeated lightweight up and cumbers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that one actually I believe is all the way up on the main card.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that one when we get to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that one as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just for the sheer gong show, wildness of it, if Walter Walker gets his fifth heel hook in a row against Thomas Peterson, I might actually just do a solo recap of the cards so I can laugh on camera for 90 minutes straight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm kept for the for the for the
[SPEAKER_00]: One thing I'll say about this is if you certainly if you read the text previews that I've been doing for sure dog for the last year, you know that when when the UFC is on the road, I'll kind of grade them on how well they do as far as geographic relevance goes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like if they're in Canada or they're Canadian fighters in winnable fights,
[SPEAKER_00]: This card has some grotesque mismatches on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are at least two or three fighters on this card that I know we're on the Shillon and Duffy Cut list after the last time they fought.
[SPEAKER_00]: Doods just on long losing streaks that have either been kept around or brought back just strictly to get smashed by Middle Eastern or CIS fighters in these fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about them when we get to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is our second to last preview show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am beyond the point of speaking tactfully about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you may get what the hell is the UFC doing here out of me a few times on this card.
[SPEAKER_00]: Any other general thoughts on this one before we jump in?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: First up on the UFC Abu Dhabi prelimbs, at least as the card is set up as of the beginning of fight week, is a Bannonweight matchup between Cody Gibson and the debuting Abdul Hussein.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gibson, the 38-year-old Californian, is 21 and 12 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 3 and 7 across two separate stints in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 2 and 4 since returning as the Bannonweight runner-up of season 31 of the ultimate fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's on a two-fight losing streak, dating back a little over a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Most recent, we saw him was last October where he was getting knocked out in just 21 seconds by Aureche Lang.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would like to avoid going on a three-fight losing streak.
[SPEAKER_00]: Might very well be fighting for his job here.
[SPEAKER_00]: In order to keep that job, he's going to have to get past the debuting Hussein.
[SPEAKER_00]: 28-year-old
[SPEAKER_00]: Jordanian, or sorry, Lebanese fighter, by way of Finland is 15 and 2 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is on an eight fight win streak overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, his last loss was to Muhammad McIev, a little over five years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Last time we saw him, well, last time you saw him, if you happen to watch regional MMA in Finland, was the day after Christmas where he knocked out Tyson and NAM in the first round.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's making his debut here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is favored to beat Gibson.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, take a guess at what the line is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, he's, he's going to be huge, like minus 400 that is exactly correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abdul Hussein minus 400 Cody Gibson plus 300.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did promise that you were going to get a few what the hell is the UFC doing here about these matchups.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one, they get a pass because Gibson is stepping in for moving Gaffer off on about two weeks notice a Gaffer off L of the card on July 10th.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's a late notice matchup, you know, you have to do what you have to do at least gives and is a veteran fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and the gaffer off matchup would have been fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I do like this as a last notice or a late notice matchup.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I watched four or five full fights of Abdul Hussein.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what I saw Keith, I saw a potential to top 10 fly weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, yeah, but this is a band of weight fight and Cody gives us a big band of weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And and I do who's saying was not a big fly weight and here he's fighting a band of weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have the feeling he's going to get past Gibson, but if he doesn't drop the flyway immediately, he's going to lose a fight soon just because he is way undersized.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, McCye, if he was about the same size, and McCye was a decent-sized flyway, he was dwarfed by Tysonnam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tysonnam is a former flyway as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a big flyway, but again, who's saying he's going to try to fight here at the next weight class up from there.
[SPEAKER_00]: he tried out for season 34 of the ultimate fighter, the one that's on TV right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was actually cut during the like the preliminaries before they even went into the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: But really.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is to try to jump 30.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't really followed the season, but I I can't imagine they wanted to like 16 guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can imagine a 16 guys better than them.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to go into it here, but DC came close to taking him and didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to regret it because honestly, who's saying has more upside than
[SPEAKER_00]: anybody that's actually in the actual cast.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's, again, he's small.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a decent size flyway fighting at Banimway.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's quick, quick twitch guy on the feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Switch his stance is frequently.
[SPEAKER_00]: Has a really nice caff kick.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the thing I noticed about his caff kick and that I liked is it doesn't look like he's throwing it very hard, but you can tell by the way people react that it's having an impact and it's extremely accurate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once, like he throw it out a few times,
[SPEAKER_00]: them and didn't get his leg up out of the way, he'd start throwing the super super low caff kick like right at the ankle, which normally is not a good idea because if somebody checks it, you're probably just going to go right underneath their leg and throw yourself off balance.
[SPEAKER_00]: But once he realized they weren't checking leg kicks, he started going for this really low painful kick right on the ankle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, he fights a little bit like Macayev, just without Macayev's elite offensive wrestling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Macayev shoots a beautiful shot from outside that he can chain, and he's a very good technical wrestler.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subtract that away, who's saying's, game on the ground, kind of reminded me of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Tyson Amphite, where he knocked out a veteran former fringe contender in the first round, I liked the veteran poise that he showed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nam is a guy that had plenty of potential to upset and up-and-coming prospect.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Nam might be 40 years old, but he still hits like a truck, powers the last thing to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even when who's saying realized he was, he was the better fighter in there, he was quicker, he was more accurate.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't go all out in search of the finish.
[SPEAKER_00]: He never opened himself up to,
[SPEAKER_00]: the equalizer punch from now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just kind of took a little ground, took a little ground, heard him, heard him, heard him, heard him, and then when that was really in trouble, he knocked him out cold.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he staggered now and then just stepped in the pocket and leveled him with one punch.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seeing him do that makes it less likely that he's going to take an upset in the UFC just from
[SPEAKER_00]: just from poor fight IQ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I think he's going to hit his ceiling because of his size, but if I turn out to be wrong about that, he might be a contender of Bannonway.
[SPEAKER_00]: As it is, like I said, I think his best days are probably back down at flyway, but as far as Gibson goes, Gibson is a huge Bannonway and even when he wasn't 39 years old or whatever he is now, he wasn't the fastest for most fluid guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, who's saying he's going to pop into the pocket against Gibson and either
[SPEAKER_00]: and just do a Tasmanian devil routine on them, or just punch them in the chops, and probably hurt them real bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I do have who's saying by first round knockout here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just looking for things that will tell me things about his future upside.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, kind of like the NAM fight, I just want to see him do a mistake, free performance and get out of there with the way in a fight that he should have all the advantages.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I see the prospects very similar.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Gibson, the one thing about Gibson, him coming in and showing off, you know, he's good right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the guy's not a great athlete, but he's got to just bring me action.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's gonna come right out of him, he's got high output.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like it is like it is like it is fighting its practicing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of that that's the fight that can go in the Hall of Fame.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was the alive as that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Straight shots he has some power.
[SPEAKER_01]: He isn't very technical.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll overthrow his shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in this fight, he kind of worked for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like brawl it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's your best chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe have the power advantage.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does duck a lot to avoid strikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has been a reactant to strikes very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was, I mean, he was just knocked out for reaching the lane.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's obviously concerning, but he's got a big kicking game.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope though he will throw kicks without a set up.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can sneak a take down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he's got a lot of success taking, who's saying down, but if he's just a little much bigger than him, maybe he's just going to out muscle him, but he'll look for take notes a lot, good top game, and he's got great carders to go all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who's saying, I mean, a lot of movement, but he also crushes well.
[SPEAKER_01]: He fights out of both stances, good boxing, a lot of faints.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like that he goes up and down with faints, which is one of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also handfights, like what did I say to watch him?
[SPEAKER_01]: He was handfighting, I'm like, oh, this guy, he's already one of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good jab from the orthodox dance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice straight left from the self-possed dance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Accurate.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has power.
[SPEAKER_01]: He just knocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tyson name, dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's not Tyson name from five years ago, but still it's still quality win.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does keep his chin a little high for my liking, but he'll close the distance, he'll dirty box, he'll look for takedowns.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need to drive through the hips a little bit more, so it's kind of like where I see where you're saying he's not going to die of in that sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I love the fakes takedowns and throws over hand rights and he has some issue on the record, so I'm in the human, I'm all about who's saying here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's way better than gives him, I think everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: I clicked in a land with some really good clean shots, get some take-downs, because of the side difference, I don't think it's going to get the finish, but give me who's saying my easiest decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lightweights take the cage next at UFC Abu Dhabi as Nrulu alayev tries to stay undefeated against Mike Davis.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alayev, the 26-year-old from Tajikistan, is a perfect 11-in-0 as a professional.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 3-in-0, since joining the UFC out of season 3 of, or sorry, season 6 of Dana White's Contender series.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last time we saw him in the cage was in November at UFC fight night, Saru Keen vs Hooker winning a dominant unanimous decision over Shamrock.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he'll look to make it four and a row to start as UFC run, stamp himself as an even more surefire future contender in this division against Beastboy.
[SPEAKER_00]: 33-year-old from New York is 12 and 3 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 5 and 2 since joining the UFC as a veteran of the second season of the contender series.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is coming in off a win as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently almost exactly a year ago at UFC Fight Night Lewis versus Tashara where he blasted Mitch Ramirez in the second round with a flying name.
[SPEAKER_00]: So looking to get a second win in a row, put his loss to Ferres, I am a little further in the rear view.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not favorite to get it done, Keith.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the rule of a lie is your favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess of what the line is.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one's this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's probably pretty close.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say a lie is late.
[SPEAKER_00]: minus 200 exactly correct again I swear folks I do not believe Keith is cheating here but that's two in a row a lie of minus 200 Davis plus one seventy give me your take on this fight I feel like this is a very good fight between two good fighters to be this low on on the card but tell me who that it wins and what it looks like yeah they mean it's like like third from the
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that's like when you have two really good fighters going, so sometimes I'm like, more upset like, oh, man, one of these guys got to lose Davis is very tough to read, because some fights he's incredible, others he's pretty mediocre.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good Davis is very well-rounded.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a boy today, striker, not the best output.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does cruise a lot, and that's worries me, but he's very tactical.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good slipping and ripping.
[SPEAKER_01]: He slips out of range and then counters with own shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like his jab.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a nice kind of right hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I go back to late to another time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me blast in him with a beautiful straight right accurate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right last note, I put on is just striking you super clean, good at picking up his opponent's timing, he targets the body well, I like the end combination quick kicks, when he's in the pocket, he lays grab in the clinch and start blasting, more tight knees is plumb clinched.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he'll post on the head and frame and when he's in there, he can get takedowns, especially when it's a bonus pressure, he'll lift opponents in the air and slam them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, go back to the last fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: He picked Mitch Ramirez and lifting the throne right over his head.
[SPEAKER_01]: busy ground upon in the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need better control sometimes so he'll he'll write a little too high and scramble too much, but he's overall a good grappler, which is surprising why he he probably thought he could pull guard against freeze I am, but the problem is there is some bad things about Davis that could certainly and that is um
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little worried about his defense.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got great head movement.
[SPEAKER_01]: He bounces off the center line and he's show the roles, but he also drops his hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when he gets hit recently, he has been reacting to strikes too well.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also gas slightly against Mitch Ramirez.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got to do his way better than him.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then he found his second win and looks sensational.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's not a leave, Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali, the first thing it sends out is only 25 results.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he can continue to make big improvements.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's looked really good so far in the UFC solid athlete.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see he's an okay striker.
[SPEAKER_01]: He throws a good jab, nice followed to not the hardest hit of the, at this age, he can really improve that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes to close the distance and grind in the clinch.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a very good wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes upper body takedowns.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good top game, busy ground up hound.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not as submission artists.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't have a single sub on his record.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he also guests a little bit against Joe Seleccley.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's a really tough fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it should be a little closer.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the feet, I favor Davis on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel I favor Aliive.
[SPEAKER_01]: If good Davis shows up, I think he wins.
[SPEAKER_01]: If bad Davis shows up, he gets smoked.
[SPEAKER_01]: I expect Aliav to take Davis down, but Davis has to actually be good enough to discover, to his feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think only gets back on his feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Davis jabs amount works the body.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to think this is like one of those fights where guys really good and he's got a really good future, but he has like a tough loss early in his career.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with the upset.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go Davis by split decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the the pick there because I see upset potential for Davis as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I could see him winning the decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could also see him just meeting a level change with a well-timed knee and just blasting.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the evidence in a way that we haven't seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Aliyev's wrestling is like, it's very, very good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for a guy that doesn't actually have any submission wins, I think his grappling is very good as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's really just a matter of time before he racks up some submissions in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a way, it's kind of impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Through three fights in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's fought Havi Al-Alv's Joe Seleki and Shemrock.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, those guys are world beaters, but all three of them are submission specialists.
[SPEAKER_00]: He took all three of them down fearlessly and was never in a bit of trouble against them.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's already kind of that guy from that part of the world as just a wrestler and kind of top position, just airtight bully.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's one outcome as he does that to Davis for at least two out of three rounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other possibility is that Davis either sticks and moves or hurts him badly enough to win rounds that way or finishes him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going with Aliyev here, but if I were a betting man, Davis at plus one 70, which what he's at right now, I think the upset potential is definitely there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We head next to the Light Heavyweight Division.
[SPEAKER_00]: As brinches in Hibero, welcomes undefeated prospect, magma to Chalov to the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hibero, the 29-year-old Brazilian, is 17 and 10 with one no contest overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is two and five, since joining the UFC out of season seven of Dana White's contender series, and he is on a three-fight losing streak.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... last time we saw him in the cage was back in April at UFC fight night mwy kind of versus Dunkin where he got tapped out in the first round by abdel rock man yacayev prior to that he suffered a first round knockout to Omar C prior to that a first round uh... t-k-o by submission to punches to as a mottin was a connoff so a streak of three straight first round defeats for hebedo
[SPEAKER_00]: I said there were a few fighters on this card that were on our cut list last time they fought.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's one of them, but here he is, welcoming the new guy to the Octagon.
[SPEAKER_00]: To Chalov, 26 year old from Dagestan, is five a no as a professional.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw him most recently, well, we saw him if you watch UAE warriors back in March, where he knocked out Kyle Machado in the first round.
[SPEAKER_00]: This will be his debut.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is favorite to get it done.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a big favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith take a guess at what the line is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's going to be stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's minus 700.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith nailing that bull's eye again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to show all the minus 750.
[SPEAKER_00]: He better plus 525, but there were no, there were definitely some definitely some books out there that had minus 700.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think this line makes sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think to show off he has upside.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, potential.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has some physical tools and some skills, but he's also raw as hell and has some bad habits.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, he better was.
[SPEAKER_00]: record in the UFC looks terrible, but look at his last three fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: Azamat Merzekanov was a top 10 if not top six or seven fighter at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Omar see and Abdulrahman Yakaev are two of the best prospects in the division.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he better, there are people in this division he could beat.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a big guy, he's a young guy, he's the top of the road.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's an athlete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the junior top is still around, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, junior top is still around.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has physical gifts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's a big guy, he's a good athlete.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hits like a truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not much of a technical wrestler and he's terrible at taking control of ice.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's terrible at knowing when to wrestle and when to strike.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the times he's been beaten,
[SPEAKER_00]: one, yeah, with better weapons, but two, who knows what he wants to do and goes out and does it to he better.
[SPEAKER_00]: To Chalov doesn't have that, I watched all of Chalov's fights that were available and again, the guy's five and no, but he's big.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's very tall, long-limbed, but he's not massive.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to end up with probably more muscle on his frame at some point, but right now he's a big, long-limbed guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: usually fights orthodox does the tall man think of just kind of pawing with the lead hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't even call it hand fighting like hand fighting is good just pawing instead of throwing a jab isn't always but poor defensive habits on the feet like one of his last fights was against a South African guy that's normally a middleweight like this 5 foot 10 stocky guy that weighed in at about £198 for their fight and that guy kept on getting into the pocket and hitting him cleanly in the face.
[SPEAKER_00]: to shallow end it up winning, but there are about 20 unranked light heavy weights in the UFC that would have knocked his block off in that fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a guy that doesn't really shoot a conventional take down from outside, he's good at getting the fight to the ground when he wants to.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's tall, but he kind of uses that leverage.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll just kind of get
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not comparing him to John Jones in any other way, but the kind of John Jones thing of just getting underhooks either in space or against the cage, knowing he's taller than the other guy and just kind of hoisting him and tripping him and tipping him over with the bonus of basically landing in side control or mount half the time where a guy shooting a double like usually lands in guard.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a good thing he does.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he comes out and does that to he better he'll probably tap him out or knock him out in the first round.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he doesn't, if he goofs around like he did against Domiso, the guy from South Africa that he fought within the last year, there's every chance he better just catches him clean in the pocket and knocks him senseless.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is another one where
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm leaning towards the shallow and if I pick to shallow, I might as well pick him by first round finish, but the upset potential for he betto is much, much greater than that minus 750 line would indicate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like to shallow, might be a really good light heavyweight at some point, but I don't think he is right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me to shallow, buy first round knockouts, but again, if you want to take he betto at plus 525, maybe take the prop for a finish, you might make a little money.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I just say the, yeah, I don't know what that proper finish and just in the fight in general, but it's better than The other guy to shallow by by wouldn't take that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I think I kind of agree with a lot of things you're saying like anybody who's making the UC debut very inexperienced and also going into guy with an incredible like 81 inch reach.
[SPEAKER_01]: who really could if he just fixes some things he'd be a pretty decent fighter, I mean, you know, fight from fight from distance a little bit, learn to control his distance, increase his output, he could be a dangerous fighter, so should he be a seven to one favorite problem in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's very unorthodox.
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes to brawl a little bit, which you know, he load up a lot, try to end the fight with every blow, but Intro big loop and punches when he should be the complete opposite should be on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is pop shotting.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does have a good power though.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has 90 kilos.
[SPEAKER_01]: He mixes punches and kicks together well, and I know I'm talking about distance fighting.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be hard distance fighting against Kujalov because he's very similar build, but I've just talked about generally about a burial big kick in game good high kick Teapkicks are best part of his game hard calf kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is very heavy on that front foot though And he's obviously got long legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's open to get his legs kicked off Yoastans very tall with his chin high in the air.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been hurt a lot
[SPEAKER_01]: you mentioned he will try to take down but he's surely not a wrestler if he gets away the ground I mean he's at those long arms got kind of like whipping ground in pound he has seven subs he will jump gear team which is
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I've never really liked, especially because he has bad take under us all the other.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looked for subs off his back, but he'll take damage there, and he's not like he's not great on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Yakiav just sub them smoked him on the ground, and his credit has been inconsistent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, to shallow, if he's also 65, what worries me is he keeps his hands really low, and he keeps his chin high in the air.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, he will really spring into his shots, he throws a big
[SPEAKER_01]: looping power shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good power, he'll get inside and look for elbows and clothes.
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes, he likes it was like holly home side kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love his step in these.
[SPEAKER_01]: His step in these are are really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm a little higher in his wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some good wrestling, some good bi-lock takedowns, good overall top control, vents is positioned on the ground and really busy ground and pound.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, you mentioned it, it's also the competition he's going to get.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to as much as I just bash this I'm going to go with the line like I'm going to say to shell of destroys the barrier.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he lends big shots on the feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he actually might go to take downs.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he lends big shots from my top.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me to shell up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to see finish the very first round to show off my first round not go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lightwates are up next at UFC Abu Dhabi, as Ismail Bonfim tries to write the ship against Axel Solo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bonfim, the 30-year-old Brazilian, is 26 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 2 and 3, since joining the UFC out of season 6 of Dana White's contender series.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's on a two-fight losing streak.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first losing streak of any kind of his professional career.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last time we saw him was in November at UFC Fight Night Bone theme versus Brown, that would be headline by his brother, Gabriel Bone theme.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he fought Chris Padilla, was supposed to be at lightweight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He blew weight by six pounds and got his ass kicked.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second round TKO.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, knees to bounce back from that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is go, I told you guys, it's our second last preview.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's a Herbert Burns.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, he's the, the Aussie can saco the, the Jim Balushi of the Bonfium family.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's up, what's up, what's up, that's this along the brothers name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Frank Stallone, he's the Frank's fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is my all the fight in Frank Stallone, Bonfium, needs to write the ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to have to get it done against Sola.
[SPEAKER_00]: 28-year-old Frenchman is 11-1 and 1 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is one-and-one since joining the UFC out of or as the outgoing Aries FC lightweight champ.
[SPEAKER_00]: He actually took his first career loss in his last outing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was back in March at UFC fight night of Leia versus Murphy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the one in London where he came up short in a unanimous decision against Mason Jones.
[SPEAKER_00]: This will be his third fight in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's finally fighting somebody, not from Wales, and he is favored to win.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, take a guess of what the line is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he's at home minus one eighth five.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is minus 200, bone-fein plus 170 coming back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty close.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is, yeah, you were different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like again, you're really on at this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, dude, I know why, I know why.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where are they?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where are they, uh, Abu Dhabi?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're not Abu Dhabi.
[SPEAKER_01]: You think, yeah, I lived in the Middle East for your death.
[SPEAKER_01]: Find you, you still know, you still know the, uh, geography method I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, uh, tell me who you think wins this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: What the, what the fight looks like.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the people would wait if Bonson wins.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, how great would that be?
[SPEAKER_01]: Go, are we all Bonson, the lesser Bonson brother?
[SPEAKER_01]: There is things that I do like about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is a good athlete.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good mojty striker, he's a good counter striker, he's good at beating his opponents at the point of contact, he's got quick hands, he's accurate, he throws a hard jab, he works the body really well, he's got a hard left hook to the body,
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got like he said he's got power wings power punches.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does load up a lot in every strike But it's pretty decent if you like if you pill or he'll wrap punches around You go to fence he throws wide hooks at the end of his combination trying to catch Upon an exiting you know out of the exchanges hard lay kicks obviously
[SPEAKER_01]: He reminded me a little, not to the extent like finishing guys like Terrence McKinney, but he reminds me a little Terrence McKinney where he's a front runner.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's got a lot of defensive issues, he pillors, he backs straight up.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can wrestle, he's got some nice entries, he physically is throwing, he gets to a limb and he can slam you, but he's definitely more like a BJJ wrestler, you know, he's more like trying to get a creative scramble, he's got four subs, but when you start press
[SPEAKER_01]: He folds.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he folded against Crisper Dia from the pressure.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess that I think he's a front runner, but then gets bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: He finds a way out, plus he's mentioned he missed weight in his last fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gasped against Crisper Dia.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, as the opposite, he's a South boy, huge for the way class, throws long strikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to be the one pressure and he hated being pressured back by Mason Jones.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was a solid jab, he's got a big power, he attacks the calves,
[SPEAKER_01]: isn't much of a wrestler but if he ends up on top, he's a busy, you know, busy part of pound.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a weak defensive wrestler and needs to improve his get-up game, but he's can take him and you go back to the major and he can take a beat and he has tons of hard just keeps coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, one guy's technical but doesn't have the attributes.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other guy has all the attributes and not very technical.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not very high on either.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually flip-flopped.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm
[SPEAKER_01]: but can't finish bonfins.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually, you know what, you know what, let's go with bonfins by split the season.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is pretty funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's like some nerd somewhere who kept all our records for the last five years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the one fight that's gonna tilt, that's gonna cost me the championship.
[SPEAKER_00]: the chip.
[SPEAKER_00]: If there's a chip, you are so far ahead of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we went back and forth naming guns and roads.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they did play that game like I say one you say one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what do you think would fit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Who would they would mess up one first?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you'd beat me at that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you'd actually think guns and roses man, but you are a better music person than I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: I
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a good chance of beating me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I know a lot of guns are Rosa songs, but yeah, you might beat me at that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: We should do a set of regular guns.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, I'm just going to say, like, don't cry if both of them just gasses in like seven minutes and ends up getting pounded out on the ground in the third round.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is like the civil war, this fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think that I agree with your take on both guys, a bone theme, the problems are kind of laid bare at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: It the comparison to Terrence McKinney is a salt one and it's interesting because he fought McKinney and the way he beat him was a very McKinney way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like his,
[SPEAKER_00]: his reckless entries into the pocket have given him some of his best career moments and some of his worst like when it works he flattens a guy like Terrence McKinney when it doesn't work he got busted up so bad entering the pocket against the zamsatacov that yeah if if he hadn't gotten like cut I think you would have gotten knocked out eventually anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Pitya fight was concerning.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope there was something going on in this camp because to blow weight by literally halfway to the next weight class and gas out and just kind of look slow and flat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that wasn't a good look.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's part of what makes me feel better about Solar's chances than I already did and he's a pretty comfortable favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with your take on Solar.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say this about his wrestling.
[SPEAKER_00]: It,
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, obviously, in the sense of I shoot takedowns to get the other guy on the ground and go to work there, it's not a great wrestling game, but he's got this thing with well-time level changes where even if he doesn't get the takedown, it closes the distance, runs his opponent to the fence and he starts dirty boxing him from there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I like that he kind of has a well put together game and the decider for me is that
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a tough, gritty dude and I just don't feel like bone-feem is.
[SPEAKER_00]: If this fight is close halfway through the second round, I'm feeling even better about Sola.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just because, I think bone-feem has mostly a puncher's slash flying near chance in this fight anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if he doesn't get the finish, just to hurt Sola bad enough and sock around away and goes ahead and wins a decision that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: But,
[SPEAKER_00]: It gets worse and worse for him as the fight goes along.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have solo by decision in this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, it's my lock of the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel good about solo's upside.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Bonfeme is settling into what he is, kind of a reliable action merchant, whether it's at 155 or 170.
[SPEAKER_00]: So give me solo by decision.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, the way you're breaking that down, you make me kind of question myself, like it's good to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so easy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like, it's like, live a lead die, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now he's gonna, you know, he might end up being in a coma after this or he might say, I used to love him but I had to kill her, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next up on the UFC Abu Dhabi prelimbs is a welterweight matchup between Santiago Ponsonibio and Sam Patterson.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ponsonibio, the 39 year old from Argentina, is 39 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 12 and 8 in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is coming in off the loss and he's lost three of his last four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think five of his last seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a rough last few years for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But last time we saw him was a little over a year ago at UFC on ESPN San Hagen versus Figurado where he got knocked out in the third round by Daniel Rodriguez.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, look into...
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, looking to get back in the wind column, probably looking to sign a new deal with the UFC in order to get any of that done, he's going to have to turn back Patterson.
[SPEAKER_00]: 30 year old Englishman is 14, 3 and 1 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 4 and 2 since joining the UFC out of season six of Dana White's contender series.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming in awful lost as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought at UFC London back in March where he came up short in a unanimous decision against Michael Venom Page.
[SPEAKER_00]: Prior to that, he'd been on a four-fight win streak.
[SPEAKER_00]: And frankly, looking surprisingly good, he would like to get back in the win column here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is favored to do so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, take a guess of what the line is in favor of Sam Patterson.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm in St. Patterson.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be, I mean, he's going to be huge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I was fast passing this one, um, like minus six hundred.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not quite that bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Patterson as minus 400, Ponsonibio plus 300, you're fast-passing this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say, I agree with the line here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ponsonibio literally has a Puncher's chance, and I don't think it's even that much of a Puncher's chance, because he hits hard, but even in his prime, he wasn't a one-shot killer most of the time, even the pro.
[SPEAKER_00]: And meanwhile, Patterson can hurt him on the feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Patterson, I've got Patterson by second round submission.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna catch him in a front-hand lock and just squeeze his head off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and there is one I'm fast passing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Patterson, he's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just like, I'm done with breaking that opportunity, but I think that should be retired.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not reacting to the strikes, well, I say, I actually put my notes down for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to find where I don't what I had as if I haven't finishing them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll see Patterson.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... passing cracks in the very first round first round tql and i'm making that's my luck of the night but but my but i didn't realize he's gonna be that bigger ferris i'll say i'll see you finish it that's my luck of the night all right we head back to the two hundred and five pound division for a match up between dust and jacobi and the day viewing mahamid saiid
[SPEAKER_00]: Jacobi, the 38-year-old Chicago native, is 22-9-1 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 10-6 in one, across two separate stints in the UFC, but he's 10-4 in one since being back this time through season 4 of Dana White's Contender series, and he's on a three-fight win streak dating back a year and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw him most recently back in February where he knocked out Julius Walker in the second round prior to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had knockout wins over Bruno Lopez and Vitor Patrino.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking to make it four wins in a row, show even that as he pushes towards its 40th birthday, he is still a factor in this division.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to need to get past the debuting side in order to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: 30-year-old Russian is a perfect nine-in-o as a professional.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is stepping in for Iran-Satobaldev, who fell off the card about a week and a half ago, so he is coming in on short notice, but last time we saw him was, again, we for values of we that include regular watchers of UAE warriors, but back in May against UFC veteran and Rikai Frankenstein Jr.
[SPEAKER_00]: Saeed is not favored to get it done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, dang it, he's less than a minus 200 favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: I should have just flipped it to you this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, Jacobi's minus 180, psi U plus 150.
[SPEAKER_00]: OK, so when you go to do tape study on a new fighter that you're not very familiar with, I mean, I have no magic database of fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do it the same way you guys do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I Google them.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you Google a guy whose first name is Muhammad and his last name is spelled like said,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the results were all a bunch of things that the Prophet Muhammad, either said or didn't say and I'm so great.
[SPEAKER_01]: That exact, I said a bunch of these videos of Christians debating Muslims.
[SPEAKER_01]: Same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's so funny that we did the exact same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mohammed Said is he's a guy that probably would have made it to the UFC eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a decent size light heavyweight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 30, so he's not young, but 205 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he might have another decade of productive fight life in him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the things I said about magma teach all of were I said he had some physical potential, but the complete skill said isn't there and the poise isn't there and he just looks like a guy that might not be ready for prime time, it all goes double for Mohammed Said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, he's a decent size, light heavyweight, his size and his reach don't do much for him because he cannot keep shorter guys off him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, kind of like Dichol, if I watch him again, he's volmier to Silva who is a kind of decent middleing regional Brazilian guy who is much shorter, much stockier, this little tank of a guy and Saeed just was backing straight up, which just made it the easiest thing in the world for the Silva to get inside out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm because
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care who you are, I can run forward, fast when you can run backward.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you're like an NFL cornerback.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe, maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he has power, but doesn't throw in combination well enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: doesn't move his head very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, backs up on straight lines.
[SPEAKER_00]: His inside game is pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very Sambo style.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll work.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll like clinch.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see him wait for the right moment and then just explode with like a judo style throw or a flurry of punches on the inside.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably where he's most effective.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if Dustin Jakobi is still the guy that's on this three-fight win streak, Sides never going to get there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Jakobi is a tall, long, lanky, very experienced kickboxer, who has always been pretty damn good about dictating distance.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has good lateral movement, which, I mean, I just said, Sides has no lateral movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has good lateral movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: He establishes distance well with really nice low kicks and a very one of the better jabs in the division.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has good power without over swinging on things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think he's going to be able to get to the spots where he's most effective.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not like Jacobi has no weapons in the clinch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jacobi's biggest problems have come against either people who hit incredibly hard and manage to catch him, or people that are more of a conventional wrestler have shot in on his hips and taken him down.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even there, he's gotten a little better at getting up, but people try to step into the pocket and get an overhook and underhook and do a harigo shi on him has never really worked on Dustin Jacobi.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's pretty measured these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, just as a Kobe five years ago, I would have said this thing's over in the first round.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say Jacobi gets a TKO in the second round, but he's pretty much in the driver seat the whole time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is, this is a for the, honestly, like a lot of these I saw from the newcomers, like, yeah, he's okay, I mean, he's pretty athletic, he's got high output, he throws like it, like you said, a blitz of shots, big, big right hand, good, good power.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, he needs to kind of get inside and do his thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can't stick and take down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he will hire on his and his rest and I am like, I saw somebody locked take down the stuff, but like his control wasn't that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, you could be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm just yeah, he's, I mean, he's a good kickboxer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good output technically sound.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, he's very poised, Perry's punch as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, faint, set up his shots cuts angles well works behind a good jab.
[SPEAKER_01]: throw some clean shots doesn't waste a lot of energy just kind of like taps until he finds spot that he lands some good shots, hard caff kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not much of a offense wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does need to learn to get people off his legs though.
[SPEAKER_01]: He throws long strikes which kind of gives a chance to duck under and that's kind of where I'm worried about with Saeed as is Jacobi's a weaker defensive wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also taking a lot of damage, some worried about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean he he was getting hurt obviously a lot by where's a caught off with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's incredible But he was hurt by men and field.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's knocked out by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ray is but I'm still here I don't have a lot of clue because it's not a lot I spent too much time watching To two tough guys debating each other Yeah, I'm with you though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jacob is more tanky.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he can move and stick and move and give me I say it's closer Then you're saying I'm gonna say goes decision.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say Jacob.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been by split decision
[SPEAKER_00]: Next up at UFC Fight Night 282, and at least as the card is constituted as of the beginning of Fight Week, the top prelim is a heavyweight matchup between Walter Walker and Thomas Peterson.
[SPEAKER_00]: Walker, the 28-year-old Brazilian, by way of Russia, is 15 and 1 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 4 and 1 in the UFC, and he's on a 4-fight win streak.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only is he on a 4-fight win streak, he is on a streak of 4-strate first round Healhook finishes.
[SPEAKER_00]: The most recent of those was last October at UFC 321, the victim Louis Sutherland, who succumbed in just 84 seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will look to keep up at least the string of wins if not the streak of exotic finishes
[SPEAKER_00]: Peterson, 31-year-old from Minnesota, 11 and 4 overall, 3 and 3, since joining the UFC out of season 7 of Dana White's contender series.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming in off a win as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's alternated losses and wins throughout his UFC run, but last time we saw him was back in April at UFC fight night and wake up versus Duncan, where he won a unanimous decision over a Gil Yermie pot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, your favorite is minus 180, underdog plus 150, who are they?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I mean, I, that walk is a favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: Walter Walker minus 180 Thomas Peterson plus 150, obviously, in the 90s, being a specialist or even frankly, a one trick pony was, I mean, that's what no holds bar fighting was.
[SPEAKER_00]: And true specialists have, have managed to stick around the sport, even up to the present day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Volter Walker is the equivalent of, you know, there's like always one knuckle baller in the major leagues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like, yeah, who was Volter Walker?
[SPEAKER_01]: He was that guy that he won the, he won the sai young.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was good for like, already Dickie.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was good for like one season.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dan, like, this Volter Walker's run would be like, if already Dickie had four, 21 seasons in a row, like, everybody knows what's coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is a technique that not only is it a pretty niche technique, it's a technique that frankly doesn't work when 95% of people try it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't work to the point that they usually get their face smashed in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like across the streak of forestrate first round heel hook finishes, it started out with every other heavyweight in the UFC just sitting in their couch and just say, sit up, punch them with the face, come on, like how stupid can you be?
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time you got to the fourth one in a row,
[SPEAKER_00]: just heavy weights in the UFC are just texting their agents to me like nope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this, it shouldn't, it shouldn't work.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all know it's coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not, it's not usually difficult to defend.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is Peterson going to be the guy that can do it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know man because here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peterson is an okay
[SPEAKER_00]: boxer, but he does his best work when he's either wrestling or at least just getting in close and getting chest to chest with people and mashing him into the kit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a short, stocky, barrel chested heavyweight does not have long arms.
[SPEAKER_00]: So even if he's like, okay, I'm not going to shoot take downs on Walker.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen that Walker has no problem at all just rolling for a knee bar or I'm sorry,
[SPEAKER_00]: even like mashed down at the base of the fence, like the way he did it to, I think, yeah, I was kind of these etchiquo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where he did it in the absolute worst position, a place where his head was stuck on the ground and if etchiquo had been quicker at defending the, the heel hook, he would have just been able to hammer fist, walker to death.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't, I don't think there's any safe place for Tom Speederson here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Walker wins, and weird as it sounds, I think he wins probably by another first round heel hook.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, dude, like, I hate picky girls.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh, wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Peterson is, I mean, he's, he's, is striking is pretty bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, he's, he does, he's South poor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's, I'll put his been pretty low.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not very tactical.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does have some power, but, um, you know, you need to tuck his chin and everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good entries.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, snatch singles running the pipe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also get some upper body, take down, but that's not a good idea against Walker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I'm like, what is he going to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to strike
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually think Walker probably hits hard on me probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's not tactical, but he I mean, he's he's got his got power.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's he's bigger.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's six six.
[SPEAKER_00]: He might literally have a foot of reach on Peterson.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he's got he hit that high kick.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex Nicholson.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he gets hit himself, but like he wants you to take him down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, he's a sneaky wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, he guys are so worried to go back to the cage or he just he'll do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll throw big punches for you to get to the cage and then he'll get to take down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he'll just roll on Ethan.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you, dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he said, I hate going against wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think Walker's run is insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm praying we get more of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me Walker the first transmission.
[SPEAKER_00]: The six-fight main card of UFC Abu Dhabi opens up with a welterweight contest between Saigid is a Gakmayev and Abu Bukarbakayev.
[SPEAKER_00]: And boy, howdy, you better hope that the UFC leaves Bruce Buffer at home for this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he's a guy I have, the 31 year old Dagestanie, a long time teammate of Hubby and the Magramate Off and family 22 and three overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is Owen one in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He joined the UFC last November after a long distinguished run in one championship and got Nicholas Dolbyed by the man himself, Nicholas Dolby.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's looking to bounce back from that loss and he's stepping in unfairly short notice here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Magamedra's a little gassanoff, but gassanoff fell off the card back in June.
[SPEAKER_00]: They brought it in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it Gokmayev and they bump this down from middleweight to welterweight?
[SPEAKER_00]: That should suit Bugayev, because he actually is a welterweight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was being brought in at middleweight more or less as the setup guy for gassanoff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is a debut.
[SPEAKER_00]: Match up without the real debut star.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can read Brazil, Gisano was the guy that UFC really wanted to showcase here, which is why they brought in, but I haven't bumped them up to 185, but we're going to get back in his better weight class.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's from Chechnya, so just next door from Dagestan, 33 years old, 24 and 4 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw him most recently at ACA 183 back in February that is if you were a bad American and watch ACA, which you shouldn't do, but he won a unanimous decision over Albert to men off who may be a familiar name as a former UFC fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, but guy up is your favorite here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess of what the line is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'd say it's.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, this is definitely a tough one to pick, so he's over a, all right, so you tell me it's favorite, so he's more than a two to one favorite, like minus two 50s.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is exactly correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: A boobacarbacayev minus 250, say, eat is a guck may have plus 210.
[SPEAKER_00]: First thing out of the way, the fact that this is taking place at Walterweight shouldn't make a difference.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Bugayev is a career welterweight and they did this change.
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll end up being a month and a half out from fight night almost.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I assume that there's not gonna be any problem for either man making 171 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: prospect, orthodox striker tends to wait and then explode with bursts of punches.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he's at his best, when he's kind of starting to roll, he'll throw bursts of punches usually punctuate them with a low kick.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can wrestle offensively, but he tends to prefer to take care of his business on the feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: His last three fights in ACA were all against good fighters.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got two men off, Michelle Priseras, who was also in the UFC for a while, and Adilis Engelov, who is a pretty solid prospect from that region as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if he had beaten,
[SPEAKER_00]: the guy have in their fight, he might be the guy debuting here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's been fighting good guys in an ACA and against a single love who really, really wanted to take him down.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did a good job to stay upright against a determined wrestler and stay upright.
[SPEAKER_00]: and make kind of enough space for himself that he could continue striking.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I do like him as a prospect.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like him as well as Gassanov.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, when this was Gassanov versus Vagaya, that was a set-up fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gassanov is a middleweight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a very good one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I imagine he'll be in the UFC sooner than later.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the line here kind of discounts how good is a Gakmayev is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, he's a long time team mate of
[SPEAKER_00]: top shelf athleticism is those two and doesn't have quite the same just I don't know indefineable mean this, but he's in the same neighborhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a good striker, moves well, throws in combination, has good power.
[SPEAKER_00]: very good wrestler.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at his record.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has a lot more submission than knockout wins, but that's by choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gets people on the ground and wears them the hell out.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you wanted to have an equal number of knockouts and submissions, he could have just punched some of these people a few more times instead of arm-triangling or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was surprised at what the line is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, just, easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got to my have is more proven against a higher level of opposition.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, he lost a Nicholas Dalby in his UFC debut, but Nicholas Dalby could be 54 years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's still what he's going to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to jump up and just snare a lights out prospect and break somebody's 9 or 10 fight win streak once or twice a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't hold that against him too badly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me as I got my half in by decision here in a pretty big upset.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, I was surprised because I I thought you were taking I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm I'm gonna struggle with it with these dudes days
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're taking them for a guy if I say it's my guy is again is a he's a he's smaller all the way uh... my type strike are you march is on his phone is going to good jab for some hard hooks it really steps into his shots uh... nice high kick good caff kicks I like to be mixes punch in the kicks together well uh... i hate that he pillars though uh... he will look for take down but i wouldn't i don't like his wrestling i think
[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, but he's getting a nice grind of pound.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's a good grappler though quick back taste.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got he's a big submission artist.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got 12 subs on his record.
[SPEAKER_01]: But guy, the first thing he said doesn't he's being some good solid competition before coming to USC on the fee.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good striker.
[SPEAKER_01]: It throws big punches and not really no fric chaos, but I like the point you meant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Made, I think he could get more chaos.
[SPEAKER_01]: Throw some big combos.
[SPEAKER_01]: Looks for uppercuts inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He loves that like.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does throw without set without set up sometimes, but he loves that like holly home side kick.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a fast high kick.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good calf kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of spinning kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of has like a like out there or some manko style to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He will clinch and look from these inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good wrestler and he wrestles the bunch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good entries.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the he he mixes his striking well with his wrestling, but also he mixes his wrestling well that set up his strike.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll fake take down the throw overhands and landslot.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got it ducking under his point of shot to getting takedowns, awesome takedown defense, not the best tough control.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's probably the one big knock of a solid backtakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Only one submission went on his professional record though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think both are solid.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go the opposite.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the guy I have a lot here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's better than him everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think he has a huge advantage on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he, in the control in the ground, not in the overall grappling, but I think he gets a dominant decision one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Heavy weights are up next on the UFC Abu Dhabi main card as Rizvon Kuneev squares off against Tyrell Fortune.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kuneev, the 34-year-old Dagestani, is 13-3 and 1 with one no contest overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is one and one since joining the UFC as a two-time winner on Dana White's Contender series.
[SPEAKER_00]: He won on season 5 as well as season 8.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's coming in off a win.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently back in February, at UFC fight night, about Tester versus Olivera, where he won a unanimous decision over Gile Tanamaida, or at least when we all woke up, the referee was holding Kunia's hand in the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we assume he won.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a absolutely terrible fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: At any rate, looking for two straight wins here, he will need to get past Fortune, who is looking to do the exact same in order to get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fortune, 36 year old, Oregonian, fighting out of Arizona is 18 and three with two no contests overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 1-0 in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He made his UFC debut earlier this year as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was at UFC fight night out of sign-in versus Piper back in March, where he won a unanimous decision over March and Tibera.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is on a four-fight win streak overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would love to extend it to five.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is not favored to get it done.
[SPEAKER_00]: He, Rizvon Kuniav is your favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess of what the line is.
[SPEAKER_01]: minus $2.75.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is, but that's actually very close.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got him at minus $300, $14 plus $2.40.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to flip this to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: All I'm going to say is that Rizvon Kunia has been in two really, really lousy fights so far in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, they cut tiles in Amida after
[SPEAKER_00]: after his loss to Kuniav like, it takes a lot usually for the UFC to cut a top 10 fighter, but I think they would have cut whoever lost that fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think if Kuniav had lost to Almeda and was 0 and 2 in his first two, they might have cut him immediately.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a dreadful fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me who you think wins this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and this one's probably going to be just as dreadful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, I didn't cut it because, I mean, see what you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: These guys are like, right, heavy weights.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I had like, I didn't want to like go right to fast passing, right, heavy weights, um,
[SPEAKER_01]: For what you can move pretty well a lot of like L stepping for a heavyweight, but he doesn't need to improve his output.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'll put his last one was horrendously bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of single strikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes uppercuts in close.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has he likes to go like a left hook straight right combo.
[SPEAKER_01]: heavy-lay kicks though he will throw them naked durability has always been an issue and he's been heard a bunch of fights Obviously he's no first wrestling He'll close the distance mountain.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good wrestler Yeah, I mean, he's a D2 guy World team member and Greco, but did Alex keep saying it's Greco doesn't mean too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: One not many Americans really competing Greco and it's a limited skill set
[SPEAKER_01]: in in wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, but he likes like snatch singles.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gets to fight the around a good top game, but he's also been taken down by lesser wrestlers, but that's because he doesn't have to defend legs in Greco.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does struggle, you know, to get back up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he gased.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he gets a little against Marcee and tomorrow in the fight that was like super, super slow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he beat Curtis plays and the fight wasn't great, but he's won't rounded solid boxer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also has problems with volume though.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good left hook, he goes to the body.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does hit hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like his step in these.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also has some deep kicks, hard calf kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hit close the distance, a work in the clinch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Helson, he can take down pretty solid defensive wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is a submission threat.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has three subs on his record.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Coney if here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he jabs and kicks forces
[SPEAKER_01]: Fortune closes a distance, doesn't get taped down or stays on the side, doesn't throw enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me coony, I've got a really boring, terrible decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have much to add to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think both these guys are going to want the same kind of fight and just Kunea was a little bit better at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is concerning to be same as to you that fortune can be taken down by frankly less credentialed wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember all the way back, Litton Vicell, Out Wrestling and we've, I like Litton Vicell.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a great interview.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's an underrated fighter, but if you get out wrestle by an English kickboxer,
[SPEAKER_00]: He better not have a USA wrestling tattoo anywhere on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I got to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, give me Kuniav in a really, really dreadful fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, I mean, we've got a lock of the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is my smoke break of the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, give me a Kuniav by decision as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even smoke.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to start smoking.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to smoke this fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take suggestions on what you guys think I should start smoking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next up on the UFC Abu Dhabi main card is a lightweight matchup between two-day viewing talents in Damian Shepeski and Magamid Zainukov.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shepeski, the 24-year-old from Poland, is a perfect ten-and-o as a professional.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought most recently back in April at WOW, which is a kind of central European vote.
[SPEAKER_00]: check slash Polish promotion.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't care who is fighting or how he won.
[SPEAKER_00]: I watched it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, Tenano making his debut here, but he is clearly the other guy to somebody that frankly has the skids' grease to become a star in the UFC if he can win if you fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zynekov 31 year old from Dagestan, a perfect 8-0 as a professional.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought on the
[SPEAKER_00]: makes his debut here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the favorites.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Keith take a guess at what the line is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, my is 350.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is exactly minus three, Keith, are you cheating?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm 100% I was like, how long is it gonna be prevented to think that I was cheating?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I was starting to think I was gonna make it the entire show.
[SPEAKER_01]: One time I didn't have it up, I had it down and I said, I said it like, looking up like, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I actually guessed in just one of my, I said, like, 250, I can find it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, yeah, last show.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Megaman Zynekov, minus 350, Damian Shepeski, plus 275.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know this about Megaman Zynekov, he is a, I've dulling up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nirmagomedov school guy, and not just a teammate of the Habeed Nirmagomedov and Islamachachav, but like their homey.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can find videos on YouTube with over a million views where he and Habeed were just hanging out in Dagestan and doing funny stuff and going through his daily routine.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is a guy that
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, again, you'll need to win a few fights.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's only, it is a million videos of them hanging out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's like, well, like, 100,000 of you would have been hanging out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, the startup is there.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you win a few fights, it starts here again, Stepazki.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zineckov, he is a good prospect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Having said that, he is a 31-year-old guy who only has eight professional fights, like all the tools and skills are there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fights like a niragamate of, but honestly, fights more like, oh, more of it, Habib.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, your deck is Danny fighters tend to come into basic archetypes, wrestlers who learn to strike to some extent, and nimble kickboxers who have some level of wrestling in their back pocket.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's overrated slash overstated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it really is that good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a beat, Megamit Shreepoff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, his wrestling was really, really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just, you know, didn't flash it very often.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zynekov, good kickboxer, like on the contender series, he fought Lucas Caldus, a Brazilian guy who's a striker by preference, and he beat him in a nearly pure striking contest.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, he's a striker that has the wrestling in his back pocket.
[SPEAKER_00]: He took him down a couple times, but next to no ground time, he didn't even really try to keep him down.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just, the take down for more or less to disrupt Caldus's rhythm and just tilt the striking more in his favor.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that as a fight IQ thing, as a game planning thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But kind of like the Zabits and Umar's of the world, really nimble kicking game, dexterity with both legs, will break out spinning stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at least in the fight said I watch, it doesn't overdo the spinning stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like watching Christian Lee Roy Duncan last week at UFC Oklahoma City where he was just so obviously waiting and waiting and waiting to spin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zyna Kov actually works it organically into his game.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks like an okay prospect, like he was not on my radar at all until I started researching for this card.
[SPEAKER_00]: He switches dances works.
[SPEAKER_00]: He works pretty well from South Paul and I don't know this about him, but he sure looks to me like an Orthodox guy that has forced himself to learn to fight South Paul because when he sets up South Paul,
[SPEAKER_00]: he leads with everything from the rear side he'll just start throwing kicks from the rear side punches from the rear side he's got the kind of tyram woodly thing where he's got a real good cross a real good like left cross out of south paw that he throws without throwing the jab like the thing about woodly was he would faint faint but he throws right cross without really throwing his jab first it worked in MMA it's why he was never that great when he switched over to boxing
[SPEAKER_00]: the one time I saw him intentionally take the fight that the ground he did with a nice judo throw but then really just ruined his own day by holding onto a scarf hold too long like some women's fly weight and basically gave up his back to a terrible fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a good set-up match for Megameth Zynekoff.
[SPEAKER_00]: They managed to find an undefeated fighter whose young has a clean record and isn't as good as Zynekoff anywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zynekoff's preferred kind of fight is
[SPEAKER_00]: a middle to long distance kickboxing about where he's the one who decides when to try to take the fight to the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the one that decides when to try to collapse a distance and fight inside.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Shepesky will probably give him that kind of fight and I think Zannikov is just going to completely outclass him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been going back and forth between dominant decision and Zynekov finding the finish.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say this goes to decision, but if Zynekov starts hurting Shepeski on the feet, takes him down and chokes him out real quick, that wouldn't surprise me at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I think it's from, I actually, it's basically, I think he's actually a pretty solid fighter himself, but I totally get what you're saying about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: sign-up office is the guy, what I like about Roseski, he's only 24 years old, he's a South Pole, he's a builder, he's volume really picks up as the fight goes along, good boxing, a lot of faints, likes up and down faints, short tight shots, good jab, likes up and cuts inside, works the body well, good light kicker,
[SPEAKER_01]: Not much of an offensive wrestler, but the problem is he has a weak takedown defense.
[SPEAKER_01]: He needs to improve his top patrol if he ends up on top, but he does have five subs on his record.
[SPEAKER_01]: Zenikov, I mean, he's moving forward, he hates being pressure back, he switches dances, really leaves into his shots, good right hand, accurate, big weapon hooks, tax recommendations, good uppercuts inside, targets the body, so many kicks,
[SPEAKER_01]: Though he will not set them up, but he likes push kicks with his calf kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was hurt on the contenders series, which was surprising.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he can wrestle, he'll even catch a kick to get the fight to the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: Needs better control, again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you said that he's not a heavy style wrestler, not a submission through it, but he does have good cardio.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a good fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think both guys are good additions to the UFC, but I think Zana cough is better everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he has a huge advantage on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he gets a submission.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third from the top at UFC Abu Dhabi is a welterweight matchup between Islam-Dulatov and Wellington Termin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dulatov, the 27-year-old Dagestani by way of Germany, is 12 and 1 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: And after losing his professional debut, he is on a 12-fight win streak, including his appearance on Dana White's contender series and his UFC debut, which took place almost exactly a year ago at UFC 318.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knocked out Adam Fujit late in the first round, setting himself up for this return appearance.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will be facing Terman, 29-year-old Brazilian, is 18 and 8 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 3 and 6 in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 0 and 2 since dropping to Walterweight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He initially presented in the UFC as a middleweight, and he dropped down and has become a less than middleing
[SPEAKER_00]: almost three years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't been seen in the cage at all since December of 23 when he got tapped out in the second round by Jared Gooden.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was an intentional pause.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, do a top is your favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess at what the line is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bet I know all the lines, I checked it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do a top minus 900.
[SPEAKER_00]: Termin plus 600.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, I'm gonna say something semi-bold.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't the biggest bedding line in the UFC, even this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've had bigger favorites in the UFC this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this is the most blatant set-up fight that I've seen in the UFC in a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: I go back to some of the people they brought in the fight Greg Hardy when he was in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think of when they had Michael Bisping debut in England and they brought back Elvis in a sick to fight him to make sure that Bisping didn't shit the bad in front of the English fans.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's at that level.
[SPEAKER_00]: Willington Turman is he's not good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, he lost a Jared Gooden in his last fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: it's miserable.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do feel bad for him to some extent.
[SPEAKER_00]: The guy's been out for almost three full years and he's still just 29 years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: He got to the UFC super young.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a middleweight that didn't really do anything well.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's three and six in the UFC and his wins have not aged well.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got Marcus Perez and the ghosts of Sam Alvey and Misha Serkanov.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do feel bad for
[SPEAKER_00]: Clearly back against the wall, he was like, okay, I'm gonna move down to 170 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: He moved down to 170 pounds, and they're like, okay, we'll give you Randy Brown.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you moved down, we're gonna give you one of the biggest guys in the division.
[SPEAKER_00]: then he loses to Brown.
[SPEAKER_00]: They give him Jared Gooden, who's even bigger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the only thing Jared Gooden is good at is being really big.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's pretty good at that guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he lost and it wasn't a weird flu.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gooden just beat him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Termins not much of an athlete.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was under size for a middleweight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's pretty good sized well-to-weight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still gonna be smaller than Duelotov.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has to win weird grindy fights
[SPEAKER_00]: He's capable of a decent amount of output on the feet, but he doesn't have much power.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he kind of has to pile things up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's good on the ground, but he's not going to getting people there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's at his best just kind of either doing extended clinch exchange is just kind of mashing people into kind of boring low output fights.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a bad version of Mark Andre Barrio.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like if Mark Andre Barrio was just terrible, the fights would look
[SPEAKER_00]: there is the outside possibility that he's a whole different animal because the whole thing about him is he's been at team to share for the last couple years.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for all we know he's going to come back a completely transformed fighter after two and a half years with you know to share up and those other guys like just that magic you know southern New England drinking water is a tournament to world beater.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mac of fighting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Having said all that about
[SPEAKER_00]: He might actually be the best guy that Doolotov is fought.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Doolotov is on a 12 fight win streak, but the guy he fought on the contender series was not very good.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of his last regional wins was like Will Chope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Adam Fugget is a good fighter in, he's a decent midcard fighter in the UFC who should probably be at 155 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's possibility that Terman is actually the best, or the biggest challenge, Doolotov will have faced yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: This dual-toss advantage is in speed and power are just going to be ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to have longer reach than term in faster hands, better footwork.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he can take term in down if he wants.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think term can take dual-toss down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is a squash match.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it should be minus 900, but if any fight in the UFC should have this
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of line.
[SPEAKER_00]: This might be the one because it's one of the ones where Termin just doesn't do anything well enough on offense to be able to plot a plausible route to victory for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me Doolotov by he's never been to decision yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to pick it to start now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me Doolotov to get the knockout in the second round.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I almost just like fast past this fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: But.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's something he's terminal do, he'll throw a lot of punches and his hands feet isn't bad and he has a little bit of power, but like everything's just like a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he, he likes to throw it on the pocket and but he, he telegresses shots and he really loads up.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's really easy to be countered.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it was his last fight, he was kind of keeping his punch just tighter.
[SPEAKER_01]: The problem is it's defensively that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He tries to slip, but his head moving in that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He throws punches, doesn't really read chamber arms, so he's getting caught at the end of exchanges.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think quite the best part of his game might be his calf kicks, and he throws a lot of kicks and throw all the occasional spinning attack, but as far as a Brazilianian fighter training on a glove of the share, he's not a very good offensive wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's a BJG grapple without the wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was the complete opposite of the chair.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the other chair was the better wrestling than it was overall grapple.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a weak defense wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it was super you subquick by Misha Sarkin' off and Andre Petrovsky is durable as an issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've been knocked out a bunch recently.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's because he keeps his chin eye in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Julitz off, he's a great athlete, well rounded, south pole, fast hands, accurate, taxed with combinations, really nice zip on his shots, really springs into his shots, good at slipping shots and landing, right hands, he hits hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: incredible step in elbow KO on the container series.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks with knees inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need to tuck his chin a little bit too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: He will win rounds with takedowns, but he's definitely not a wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if he gets to fight to the ground, he does have a pretty good grappling submission game.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, do those off as a massive favor for a reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: German has a chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very not much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you'll have some styles, and I expect him to win by KO, I say he gets the KO on the second round.
[SPEAKER_00]: That brings us to the command event of UFC fight night 282, a men's flyweight matchup between Steve Ursig and Ramazon Beck, Timorov.
[SPEAKER_00]: Erseg, the 30-year-old Australian, is 14 and 4 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 5 and 3 in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's on a two-fight win streak after running into three straight losses in 2024 and 25.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's turned things around with decision wins over Odae Osborn and Tim Elliott.
[SPEAKER_00]: The most recent of those, the Elliott fight, was back in May at UFC Perth in his own hometown.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll look to make it three in a row here against Temarov.
[SPEAKER_00]: 29 year old from Uzbekistan is 19 and 3 overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 2 and 0 in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is not fought at all in well over a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last time we saw him in the cage at all was UFC fight night cup versus on the bay of back last March.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was scheduled to fight last summer, but had to pull out of, it was actually UFC Abu Dhabi of last July.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to pull out due to a last minute failed drug test.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's been on the shelf, been suspended.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is back now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he is just the slightest of underdogs.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the closest fight on the card.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very nearly a pickam, but Erseg is minus 115.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Temerov is available at even money plus 100.
[SPEAKER_00]: So again, very slight underdog.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keith, tell me who you think it's a done here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what the fight looks like.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a really fun fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tricky fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tricky fight because I don't know what we get with.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, our sake is a guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what we're getting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Timmeroff, he's super explosive and everything, but he does love his, I don't like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our second thing, I mean, our second thing consisted, he went from, and I'll keep saying this every time he fights.
[SPEAKER_01]: He went from arguably beating the Eusty Champion to looking very bad at other fights.
[SPEAKER_01]: In finesse, he was good in his last fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a massive flyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good boxer, very relaxed and composed, just touches until there's an opening, fast hands, Chris Jab, good follow-up cross.
[SPEAKER_01]: He will brawl a little bit in the pocket, which is not a good idea, especially against Temeroff.
[SPEAKER_01]: He works best from distance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I see it's plus power.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did hit a pantoso with a nice elbow was the best strike.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that fight, I don't like his defense.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's very hitable, he stands up tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: He needs to move his head more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Big kicking game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes he'll throw naked like kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll also abandon the kicks at times.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did it against Brandon Rayne.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know those, Brandon Rayne was a good wrestler so that might be the reason why he also gave too much respect in that fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't look to dance.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was why he had 30 looks pretty bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: He will look for to wrestle himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't try to wrestle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brandon Rayne, but he did wrestle Odae Osman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure about his wrestling though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know if it's good or just like kind of opportunistic.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a decent region of practitioner six subs on his record.
[SPEAKER_01]: If taken down, he does well to get back to his feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Timmer off short compact guys going to give us a lot of size.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's on a gassing entire fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: That he's quick hands explosive nice timing on his right hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: He loves catching kicks and.
[SPEAKER_01]: And responded with a big straight right trying to knock his opponent out.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to get inside and it brawl big hooks big overhand shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said before he's like a little like flyweight ventilator.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's a lot of overhand, but he also loads up a lot, but he hits hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's because he really steps into shots, he springs into two shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are 11 kilos.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has to also spinning attacks, spinning kicks to the body.
[SPEAKER_01]: He isn't a wrestler, but he'll kg take the fight to ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what I do like, if he gets to fight to ground, he does advance to a better position.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got me in great amount.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think this is incredible fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think both guys will have the moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think both of them look all right, but I'm going to go bold in this pick.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say, Timer off clips or say, I'm going to say does it late in the first round.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me time for my first round knockout.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like this fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I'm glad that Ersegg has redeemed himself a little bit from that miserable losing streak.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because yeah, he went from arguably beating the top flyway to the world at the time to getting blasted by kind of a lower top 10 guy in Kikar France.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the loss to Marino, it's not just that he seemed tentative, but that is not
[SPEAKER_00]: Morano's lost both of his fights since then, and I'm sure Ersegg is kicking himself because other people are taking advantage of the things that he didn't against Morano.
[SPEAKER_00]: Having said that, it was encouraging to see his outie against him, Elliot is obviously the wildiest of veterans he is a notoriously tough out, and he's a notoriously tough guy to look good against.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he put in a veteran performance against the veteran, like just didn't overextend himself, managed to steer the fight towards his, towards his strengths.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was a very,
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a very encouraging fight for his next couple of years in the UFC flyway division.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like if he can do that to Tim Elliott, he may never make it back to the title picture, but he's gonna win more than he loses for the next couple of years.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I did like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Timorov's last outing was also encouraging, honestly.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a guy that had been on this long streak of first round knockouts, and even to some of those first round knockouts,
[SPEAKER_00]: like he had slowed a little bit after about three minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm not saying he's Terrence McKinney or something but he's a guy that you know explodes looking for the quick knockout and after a couple minutes he can sort of start to get a little choosy waiting for his spots to see him.
[SPEAKER_00]: not just go three rounds and beat a very dangerous guy in Charles Johnson, but he started out hot and held on for the win and arguably even won the third round.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a fight where the danger was going to be that he gets ahead and Johnson just finds something late and crushes him like he's done to several very good fighters.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a good matchup.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a near-pickum for a reason, but I'm with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I favor Timorov in this one and given Ursig's still present defensive lapses, I might as well go for the finish as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Timorov just he hits like a truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to get a few clean shots at Ursig's face and I think that's all it's going to take.
[SPEAKER_00]: You pick Timorov by first round knockout.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go different just to be different.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's unanimous.
[SPEAKER_00]: With that, we come to the main event of UFC Abu Dhabi, a light heavyweight contenders match up between recently dethroned former champ Magamada and Kalayev, and rising contender bugged on Goosekov, who steps in on short notice for Kalil Roundtree.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll explain more about that in just a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 12 to win one with one no contest in the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is, of course, coming in off a loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last time we saw him in the cage was last October at UFC 320, where he was revenge upon by Alex Pereira in a quick and frankly brutal looking first round knockout.
[SPEAKER_00]: That caused him the title that he had won over Pereira last March, and it put some in position here to try to fight his way back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Round three fell off the card just a week ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was on the 14th of July in steps Goosecove who had been scheduled to fight at UFC Belgrade next weekend.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not like he's just being pulled completely off the couch.
[SPEAKER_00]: All he's going to need to do is bump up his weight cut a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Presumably, that won't compromise him too badly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gustav 33-year-old from Uzbekistan, though he trains in fights out of Russia, he is 18-3 in one overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is 4-1 in one in the UFC, and he's coming in off of a draw.
[SPEAKER_00]: That draw.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fought Yomble Hobitch at UFC 3-23 last December, and he
[SPEAKER_00]: came out to a majority draw.
[SPEAKER_00]: That snapped a four-fight win streak for him, but obviously didn't push him too far from the title picture, because here he is in a main event with some immediate title implications.
[SPEAKER_00]: Having said that, he of course ankle-eye is your big favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you were surprised when you saw how big the lime was, but for those at home, ankle-eye
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, tell me if you like this better than the round three fight or you miss Uncle I ever is round three.
[SPEAKER_01]: I probably would rather like round three.
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing I do like about Goosecuff getting the shot, you know, get the big one, it's like we haven't seen him get the big big fight, we've seen round three, so kind of like newer face.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you thought, yeah, I love it, but that's the one thing I do like, and it's like at least like a parallel replacement, like it wasn't like a big step down, let me
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I've experienced wise everything, but you get my point, is we still like a top-pedish guy instead of, you know, you know, someone outside at top 15 or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am a little surprised how big it is because of Gooseco's power.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he, he could really connect.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's got power too.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's first way against Alex, for he was able to march per down and pressure him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He hated being pressured back in the second fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, not the hardest hitter, but he works mine a solid jab, which he'll set up his cross.
[SPEAKER_01]: He works the body.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did crush Johnny Walker with a body shot.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has some defensive issues for Nick Lee guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: He eats a lot of shots.
[SPEAKER_01]: these attackers channel a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great kicking game, keep kicks, loves high kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is open to cat kicks himself though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go all the way back to the Yabble Hoverfiles.
[SPEAKER_01]: He put your run with late kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even Johnny Walk was having successful late kicks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is best when he closes the distance and he works in the clenched.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this dude has zero issues with just grinding and clenched, making the entire arena boo, not that I'll happen, I would be, but, you know, if you're seeing New York City or something, he doesn't get, he uses a good head position to frustrate his opponents, he'll drop down the lane and get a take down, though I've said this before, but I do think his rest is a little overrated,
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a lot of entries from the outside or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he gets it right there on a good top side grappler.
[SPEAKER_01]: No issues with stalling on top.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has solid take down defense.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am worried about it's chin though.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the damage took from prayer in his last fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good striker.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, third straight shots on the fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes throwing the same side attacks on Ro.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a, you know, little unconventional, but it works.
[SPEAKER_01]: He goes to the by a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean the big thing about his game when you think a good stuff is just power serious Poweriest 15 TQs Doesn't need to improve his defense so he lacks head movement He's been rocked a bunch himself He's a weak offensive wrestler, but if he as on top I like his grant amount But we take down fat defense can't get off the bottom if he's on the bottom
[SPEAKER_01]: is submission defense is a problem and he was quickly subbed by Vulcanism.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that was a while ago, but still, like Vulcanismary is only known for its grappling.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's a submission defense with better against Billy Alacona.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, this is a huge step up from Billy Alacona.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Goosekov.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he definitely could crack guys and knock him out, but really, I just feel him having the punches chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Eclia, if he, I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: He could get clip, but I think he has the huge advantage on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to be very desperate to get away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I expect him to take Goosecuff down beat him up on top of the majority of fire and actually he locks in the submission.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me a clip, my third round submission.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Goosecuff has been a pleasant surprise in the UFC, at least from my initial scouting report.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember when he debuted in the UFC, I watched his last few
[SPEAKER_00]: pre UFC fights, like obviously our show was already in full swing by then.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I had to scout him and I said, I don't see anything this guy does especially well other than come forward and hit really hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when he got tapped out of all things by Vulcanus Damir and his first fight, I felt justified.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, okay, yeah, this guy's going to be three and done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And instead,
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a top 10 fighter and he's going to jump several places in the title shot pecking order if he manages to get past ankle I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was wrong about Goosecuff or.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not that I was wrong because, yeah, the basic scouting report is still true.
[SPEAKER_00]: What he does best is come forward and punch really hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just underestimated how far that would take him in this division.
[SPEAKER_00]: As our, our man, Devintahata says, light heavyweight is the low fight IQ division.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no better example of that than Magamadank Alayev.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have said before about him.
[SPEAKER_00]: for somebody who came to the UFC with obvious future champ upside.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's the opposite of goose golf.
[SPEAKER_00]: He came to the UFC.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he was eight no huge guy, young at the time, well rounded skill set, had beaten some decent guys regionally.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, okay, yeah, this guy is almost certainly a future champ.
[SPEAKER_00]: The he got there, but his way to get there was so round about.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like,
[SPEAKER_00]: You're an old school enough to remember this, Keith.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember when Frank Mirjoin, the UFC back in 2002 or so.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, okay, yeah, oh, one, oh, two.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay, this guy's an obvious future champ.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like 22 years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a huge guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've never seen anybody in MMA.
[SPEAKER_00]: That size that moves that smoothly on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he's not the most decorated grappler, but he's just a,
[SPEAKER_00]: terrifying MMA effective grappler and he kept detouring himself like he got knocked out by running into just an inspired overmatched opponent at the wrong time in London then he wasted basically a whole year having to rematch a guy that was not on his level just because of a really weird outcome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are all things that Angoliah was done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Angoliah was a good comparison.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ran right in the Paul Craig in his UFC debut and got Paul Craig with one second left in that fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he might have been fighting for a title six years ago if that hasn't happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: While this thing, the Paul Craig has a win over Angoliah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the wildest thing and yet it's home and having two wins on that use.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's probably the weirdest thing this happened ankle.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have, but it's not my much because what Mirror did with West Sims ankle.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have has done twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want Kudalaba twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to fight Johnny Walker twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just again, like mirror versus Sims just getting into weird fights with weird guys and having to rematch them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, he beat them both badly the second time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he literally wasted like a whole year of his career when he should have been moving on to the
[SPEAKER_00]: He has all the talents and all the tools, but just in terms of his approach and his luck, he seems like a guy that would cross the street to step in dog shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I stand by that analysis, but I do understand why he's a huge favorite here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Gooskov could clip him with Hook or an uppercut, and Goliath does have some occasional defensive lapses, and it's valid to wonder about his chin at this point, but that's the outside chance.
[SPEAKER_00]: whatever his feelings may be, Ankelahe was buttoned up to a fault as a fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: You said it Keith, he does not care if you boo, and they might not even boo him in Abu Dhabi, but he wouldn't care if they did, and that goes for his striking as well as clinchwork and as well as on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting that a guy who fights as conservatively as Uncle I of has had as many low percentage things happen to him as have happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here he's going to have reach on Goosekov and he's usually very good at dictating distance when he has the reach advantage.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has pretty good movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good long distance weapons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect that he tenderizes Goosekov's legs and body with kicks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shucks him off
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll probably initiate the clinch if Goukov tries to step into the foam booth and start swinging uppercuts at him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is an absolute wet blanket of a clinch fighter.
[SPEAKER_00]: You had an ally of by sub in the middle rounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm kind of feeling that as well because I think Goukov is going to get tired.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Uncle I was wrestling and clinching with them, I think it's going to get frustrated if Uncle I was slipping his punches, moving laterally, kicking his legs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see Gustav kind of starting to wear down, and if he doesn't hurt Uncle I have bad in the early going, this feels like a pretty straightforward win for Uncle I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have Uncle I have by third round finish as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say TKO on the ground, but a submission would be equally likely.
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