Picks for UFC Fight Night Barboza -VS- Lee
The great cards just keep coming and coming and this Saturdays fight night is another excellent bill of fights. There's thirteen fights in total, so I'm going to pick the three I am looking forward to the most, and make my predictions for them. I'll be picking which round and how the fight was finished i.e via KO/TKO or Submission etc.
The main event of the evening is going to be a technical showdown, while the fight will have it's wild moments, I think both men will adopt a very cautious approach, as they respect each others skills quite a lot, and of course both guys need a win as they're coming off bad losses. Both fights were title level fights as Barboza got mauled by current lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Lee got shut down by the pure skills of Tony Ferguson, although he contests his staph infection had a huge role to play.
Either way Barboza and Lee are Championship level fighters and it will show this weekend, I had a tough time picking a winner here, either guy could easily take it, I shall make a prediction for fun anyway.
Winner: Kevin Lee - Round 3 via Submission
Nothing needs to be said about these two men, two absolute murderers inside the cage, and two absolute gentlemen outside the cage, this is a PPV headliner level fight.
Both men are coming off a loss to Brian Ortega, who is fast becoming the next big thing, they will be looking to shake off the cobwebs and get back to action. I think this will be a striking war with some fun wrestling thrown in there, in the end I think Frankie gets the "W".
Winner: Frankie Edgar - Round 4 via KO/TKO
Another great technical fight taking place at 135 pounds, both guys are ranked and very game, Sterlin is ranked a little higher, but I don't think it will bother Johns one bit as he has the heart of a lion and real will to win.
Johns is making his fourth ever UFC appearance and will look to continue his unbeaten streak of 3 - 0 in the UFC, while Al is coming off a vicious first round KO loss to Marlon Moraes back in December 2017. Hard to pick a winner here too, If Al is back on form I can see him being the more technical fighter, If he is still rattled from the KO he won't have a fun night in there with Johns, I see John grinding out the win, but he will have to work very hard for it.
Winner: Brett Johns - Round 3 via split decision
Leave your picks for this weekends card below and let me know which fights you are looking forward to the most.
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I would agree with those picks this whole card is a bit of a sleeper and should be a good one, by the way i mentioned you in my last post check it out if you got the time.
Yeah man it seems to be getting over looked, it's gonne be real good in my opinion, just read your article there man, thanks a bunch for the mention, as I said there, I enjoy your input on my posts.
Gran pelea. no se la pueden perder.
Estoy deseando que sea hombre, va a ser una pelea realmente buena.
Nice post. Can't wait for Barboza vs Lee, both guys have a point to prove, with both of them coming off a loss to the "Big Two". I agree that maybe Lee takes it. He's a big personality so it will add more fire to an already crazy division if he does!
Absolutely, it's going to be mental trying to break the top 5 for the next while anyway, even the top 10 at this stage, everyone of them is close to championship level.
Crypt, I know these are your picks but this acts as a nice preview too! If it's ok with you I would like to include a link to this article in my contest? unless you're going to do an official preview,..then I'll wait and include that..
@agr8buzz Hey man, no problem at all, you're free to link to any of my content at any time man, just give credit ;) This is all im doing on this card for now, I will be doing bigger previews and picks for the PPV's at the end of each month.
Personally pulling for Edson and Cub but all 4 guys in the main/co-main are absolute monsters. I do believe it needs to be discussed though if cub wins the fight if he gets the winner of max/ortega.
That would be fun, but he has already lost to both of them, which complicates things a little.
That I agree with, however FW is kind of in a weird position as Holloway as the top guys have all fought and beaten each other so deciding next top title contention is a little weird
Yeah man it's all over the place, it's especially gonna get insane when Zhabit breaks the top 5.
All aboard Zabit hype train
Everyone will be on board soon haha.
Amazing fight...loving post
Thanks man, it's gonna be a great one this weekend.
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