The Ultimate Fighting Championship will be going tete-a-tete with the biggest show the Professional Fighters League can come up with on Saturday, and attention of fight fans may be diverted.
can come up with on Saturday, and attention of fight fans may be diverted. Far from the UFC’s best offering, on paper there are still some dynamite matchups, especially in the main attraction. Join the abbreviated edition of Prime Picks foras we dive into that headlining thriller and also take a spin on a power-punching Brazilian wrecking a lengthy win streak.
Two solid win streaks will collide in the middleweight main event of UFC Vegas 99, and one contender will emerge at night’s end. Since getting put away in about 40 seconds bystill one of the greatest grappling upsets seen this side of the cage. An opportunistic attacker, Hernandez will let his hands fly but ultimately wants to wrap his arms around his adversary and choke him in an uncomfortable fashion.
Hernandez is far from the most defensively focused competitors in his weight range, and he tends to take shots and bounce back well. His mad dashes into takedowns sometimes get him hurt, but he sets them up fairly well thanks to frantic swinging with a surprising amount of pop behind those blows. Pereira welcomes just such a melee, and these two bulls will crash into one another time and again until one falls.
If there is a direct path to getting past Nicolau, it is to blitz him right out of the gate, never let him get comfortable in the cage and pour on the offense until he wilts. This has been the case in three of his four career losses, as foes have swarmed and overwhelmed him. Nicolau would much rather prefer to serve as an out-fighter, staying back and countering while constantly moving, and that has worked to his disadvantage as of late.
The sample size of appearances on the major stage is limited for Almabaev, and it is a significant step up frommay have prepared him for dispatching outmatched opposition, but not what to do when he finds that he is trying to take down a 125-pound stone wall. At his best, Nicolau is a smart, sharp fighter with remarkably fast hands—he is only five knockdowns shy of the—and he is one of the toughest to hit cleanly in the weight class as well.
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