UFC 297: Predictions and Breakdown

Here are my full predictions and breakdown of the UFC 297 card headlined by Sean Strickland vs Dricus Du Plessis and Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno Silva.

0:00 – UFC 297 Preview

2:03 – Full Card Predictions

14:21 – Bets

16:18 – Arnold Allen vs Movsar Evloev

18:54 – Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno Silva

19:53 – Sean Strickland vs Dricus Du Plessis

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This video is brought to you by mybookie.ag what’s up guys we are finally here to the first Pay-Per-View event of 2024 Sean Strickland versus drias dupy and Raquel Pennington versus Myra Bueno Silva the card’s all right the main event is good I’m curious to see what Mike mot looks like Chris

Curtis versus Mark Andre baral could be a pretty good fight and Arnold Allen versus mobar evev in my opinion is the second best fight on the whole card right behind the main event we have some good prospects like Shawn Woodson Siri cidi probably pronounced that wrong and

Of course Mike is probably the biggest prospect on the card he’s pretty good everywhere he has a St potential if he’s able to advance his skills overall and he’s taking a big step up in competition here for his fourth UFC fight he’s going up against Neil Magny after last

Defeating Adam fujit trying to become a ranked fighter now he is 32 years old so he doesn’t have a crazy amount of time to do stuff so the fact that they’re given him Neil Magny in his fourth UFC fight does make sense considering his 32-year-old age but still you can

Consider him some sort of prospect if he’s able to get things going pretty quickly here the fighter of the night is the only champion on the card Sean Strickland who’s probably going to bring most eyes to the card and everybody’s waiting to see if he’s able to become that that next dominant middleweight

Champion and he has a very big task on his hands with drias dupy the stake of the night the fighter that absolutely needs a win here is Jimmy flick Jimmy Flick’s on a two law streak simar to Malcolm Gordon as well but the think about Jimmy flick is he only has one win

In the UFC so he’s 1 and two and if he gets another loss here to Malcolm Gordon that could be it for him for his UFC career so practically both Gordon and flick are fighting to keep themselves in the UFC The Banger of the night the most

Explosive fun fight on the card is probably Chris Curtis versus Mark Andre burial but there’s not a load of crazy big fights like that it looks like most of them are going to be rather technical than a Barn Burning fight but if there’s a chance for one of them to happen it’s

Probably going to be Curtis versus baral and the fight of the night is the main event by far Shan Strickland versus drias T C is easily by by a mile the best fight on the entire UFC 297 card and let’s start with the first fight so we got Malcolm Gordon versus Jimmy flick

I got Malcolm Gordon in this fight he definitely has the more power of the two Jimmy flick like to stalk forward with his head leaning a bit and it could get him caught by some big uppercuts molm likes to go to the left hook and Jimmy

Flick is just not active enough on the feet flick is really good with the triangle choke he did catch the flying triangle against Cody Duran so even offensively he could be quite dangerous he does leave himself open to a lot of big ground and pound shots when he’s on

The bottom this is definitely Show when he was attacking the leg of allesandro Costa and just got wailed on by elbows I think Jimmy flick just gives way too openings on himself and I think Malcolm Gordon is solid enough to take advantage of those so I’m go with Malcolm Gordon

And I’m going to go by a third round TKO through ground and pound then we go to Jasmine that I cannot pronounce her last name no matter how many times I hear it versus Priscilla katera Jasmine is a enormous favor going into it Priscilla kera’s got some like eye openening

Performances that I did not think she would do too well in like for an example the the win over Ariana lipsky was definitely the big one that caught me by surprise finishing her quickly in the fight she’s Scrappy she’s strong and JZ is not that great of a striker she could

Definitely get caught by some crazy stuff from Priscilla and shown in the Tracy CZ fight her head is there to be hit she does pick her hands up but just does not react well to punches coming at her and she’s just like purely focusing on her own offense she’s got good knees

In the clinch she’s got good work there she has decent control as well but her punches are fairly slow her kicks are fairly slow and I think she needs to take the fight to the ground if she’s able to get that double leg in there similar to what she hit Tracy Cortez

With or get some trips in the clinch I think she should win the fight through a decision but I don’t think Jasmine is a 4 to one favorite her skills in the standup don’t seem to be that vastly Superior to Priscilla’s ferocity and pressure and power I would not be

Shocked if Priscilla wins this fight but I’m going to go Jasmine by a decision look go the Johan less versus Sam Patterson Sam Patterson didn’t really have a good UFC debut he got annihilated by a much smaller yanel ashmos one big overhand seemed to have put him down off

A caught leg kick and then the follow-up shot really dazed him but the guy was on a very good win streak going into that fight he’s enormous for the lightweight division very long and tall he was a bit too big for the lightweight division in my opinion he’s moving up to the

Welterweight division to fight Johan standing at 6′ 3 with a 78 in reach he’s 27 years old he’s got plenty of finishes one decision win in his entire career nasty Guillotine choke he has a big fainting game to him and he also does stand very tall constantly fainting with

The knee showing his right hand forward it it’s very similar to some of the stuff that volkanovski will do out there but just like a much much less version of it and Johan 6’1 quite more compact has a 76 in reach he’s 31 years old and

It’s not just like pure power that he has but the way that he commits with his punches can emphasize that power so Johan is a lot more honest with what he’s doing he doesn’t like faint nearly as much as Sam Patterson he will move around Galloping and shuffling around

The cage to find that one big blitzing right straight and then moves away repe repeatedly shuffling around the cage for another opening and he doesn’t really do too well with pressure and you saw that guess during weeks but it would be pretty interesting if s patters can put

That kind of pressure on him I do think Yan is going to be physically the stronger guy I think he’s have more power punch for punch and Sam Patterson seems to not move his head he stands so tall so I could see that Johan lands a big overhand right or a big right

Straight if Patterson cannot keep him away with the teps if the fight goes to the ground is definitely going to favor Sam Patterson but if the fight stays standing it could be a bit dangerous so I’m ultimately going to go with Johan and I’m going to go by a first round TKO

Landing some big blitzing shot from distance and catch a s Patterson putting him down they with to Jillian Robertson versus paana Viana Jillian Robertson is the favorite going into this she’s a minus 200 she’s 28 years old 5’5 63in reach paana VI is 31 years old 5’5 with

A 67 inch reach both Fighters are fairly well-rounded but Jillian Robertson definitely leans more to the grappling more to the Brazilian Jitsu she’s very good there defeated roll nunas in the grappling match most most of her wins are by submission her last two wins in the row have been by submission and

Poana Viana did not look too great on the ground with Lindo in her last fight she seems to be a little bit more capable of a striker she has more wrinkles to the standup but I think as the fight goes to the ground jillan Robertson is going to have a major

Advantage there paa’s got a good armar she could definitely go to that but I think Jillian should be able to see that ultimately submitting paana via I don’t expect it to be like a too technical of a fight I think wherever the strengths lie it’s definitely going to take over

So if Jillian gets the fight to the ground she’s going to be the dominant force on top if paulan Viana is able to keep the fight standing I think she should be able to Edge out in the exchanges so I’m going to go jilan Robertson and I’m going to go by a

Second round submission then we go to the bantamweight division with Seri Sadi I think that’s how you pronounce it versus ront tarz sir side is a very big bantamweight he’s 27 years old he’s 5’1 72 in reach really giving Shany something to worry about with those

Attributes and tavar is is 30 years old 5’8 with a 70in reach pretty long long for his height now this is a rematch of a early stoppage that happened on the contender Series where Sidi popped him with a very fast jab looked like tarez tried to pull counter it and misstep

With his lead foot Sidi did a really good job of back stepping away at a left angle to line up his onew that put Taris to the ground it looked like Sai was having a lot of success with the body and head kicks his length was giv him a

Big advantage on finding those Kicks On the Open stands and it’s going to be a similar kind of thing as well I’m just very surprised tarz did not go for any leg kicks because Sidi does not deal with with leg kicks that well and it’s been shown throughout most of his career

Already even if you’re in the opposite stance you should be hammering those on this guy because you put good pressure on him you keep something for him to worry about but you do have to mask him because he is so long and he is pretty

Active with his lead hand I think in the rematch side he’s still going to have that probing lead hand constantly hand tra and tavar is really only looking for that one left straight to connect and I was very surprised why he didn’t go for any of these check right hooks that he

Landed on many other Orthodox opponents throughout his career and even some big body kicks and stuff I mean delivers on the right side side so the open stance is going to be perfect for him to land those kicks on the liver it looked like tar just went into that fight with a

Very limited game plan whereas Sidi was using everything he looked very good in that fight and Sid’s pretty good on the ground as well he has a good triangle choke against Jericho platon it wasn’t a fast triangle choke but he does have it to his Arsenal I don’t know where he

Trains his Brazilian Jitsu but he would be a really good 10th Planet guy he uses his long legs very well and he ties his opponents up from the bottom it’s just the only thing there are some fights where he doesn’t seem too stable on his his feet he’s got knocked off balance

Quite a bit and I’m very curious to see if ran is going to come in there with another game plan so my prediction for this fight I am going Sid to win the rematch again but this time I’m going to go by a decision win Raman can

Absolutely win this if he comes out there with a multi faceted game plan instead of just looking a box they go to Charles jordane versus Shawn Woodson jordane’s on a two-fight win streak last one was a very good Guillotine choke against pakado hamos and Shan Woodson is

On a four-fight unbeaten streak he does have that draw against l San and This Guy’s super tall for the featherweight division 6’2 man and jordane’s going into this as the favorite 185 favorite jordane is like very inconsistent with the way he performs there are some fights where this guy looks like he can

Be a contender the win against Lando Vada he looked great in his Josh kibal fight his win against doho Choy and then you see him get Dar choked by Julian Arosa lose the Desmond Green it’s hard to really know exactly what you’re going to get from jordane but if he’s on point

He could def beat Shawn Woodson sha Woodson’s a lot more consistent with the way he fights he moves around a lot he will be willing to go on the back foot and fight off of his jab he uses his reach pretty well he has a good flying

Knee he will stall you out against the fence if it has to come to that but even with sha Woodson he got Dar choked by Julian Rosa too I I just don’t understand maybe I’m just underrating Julian Arosa but for this fight jordane’s going to have a definite speed

Advantage I think he has more power shot for shot but Woodson could be dangerous because of that length if he catches the with a knee or a high kick or something like that I think he will have a much more consistent groundwork off that jab whereas Charles jordain has to try

Different things in order to get the Shawn Woodson I think leg kicks could be a big thing Taps to the body if he already has Woodson backed up to the cage but he has to watch out for a rebounding knee and has to be very wary

Of that check left hook from range so the fight is very difficult to predict jordane also does have a decent submission game how he was able to re-engage on the guillotine against hak Hamel was pretty slick but the fact that jordane’s on a two-fight win streak makes me think that Shawn Woodson’s just

Going to win by default because of how inconsistent jordain is so my prediction is I’m going to go with the underdog I’m going to go with Shawn Woodson in this fight I think he has a lot more things to be safe with I think he has a big

Advantage when it comes to these distance strikes he has a very consistent jab which I do like for him Jordan potentially might switch stances just to take it off but it’s going to be interesting to see how jordane is going to answer some of these ranged attacks

From Woodson and man if that knee lands that could that could be pretty crazy so I’m going to go Sean Woodson and I’m going to go by a decision win then we go to Brad Katona versus Garrett Armfield Brad Katona is 32 years old he’s been on

The Ultimate Fighter twice he’s 5’6 with a about a 65 in reach gar Armfield is 27 years old 5’6 with a 70 in reach he has a major reach advantage over bra Katona and he definitely has a lot of power to go with it the guy hits pretty hard for

A bantamweight whereas bra Kona is a decision machine he’s well-rounded he has a good grappling game good wrestling game holds you down usually isn’t too exciting to watch but his fight with Cody Gibson was good but G Armfield has such a threatening boxing game that I

Think it’s going to cause Barona to try to take him to the ground and submit him because Armfield doesn’t have the greatest bra Jitsu to him he got armed triangled by David onama he’s not the most technical boxer out there but he will fire from different angles that

Could catch bra Kona pretty good and with that reach Advantage man arfield does have a little bit of a wrestling game to him that he used against David onama so I do like bra Kona in this fight I think he should be able to use his wrestling to win this fight win two

Out of the three rounds to get that decision win then we go to Chris Curtis versus Mark Andre bariel Chris Curtis is a minus 165 favorite he’s 36 years old 5′ 10 a 75 1/2 in reach rather short for the middleweight division so this is going to be an open stance fight Curtis

Is Southpaw baral is orthodox and we know how Chris curis likes to attack these kind of guys you saw in the nazer IMA fight it’s a lot more limited of a striking style that he presents forward his main pressure is off of that left straight and the speed is going to be

Relative but I think Curtis might have a little bit of a speed Advantage so he might be able to cut off baralt if he gets them backed up to the fence but the thing is baral attacks with a lot more variety he has a lot more kicks to his

Arsenal a lot of knees he saw this in his last fight with Eric Anders he’s got a very good right straight but I do like Curtis’s Precision a little bit better than barotz he has good body shots he has a good check right hook over the top you could definitely see he possesses

Good amount of power but I don’t know man barott might not have the chin to take a big shot from Curtis he did get put away very quickly by chitty NE J kuani and even some of the shots from Eric Anders were stumbling him a bit and

If Chris Curtis can catch him with a check right hook or left straight that could finish off the fight so I’m going to go with Chris ctis and I’m going to go by a second round TKO and then we go to Neil Magny versus Mike mot Neil Magny

Is 36 years old 6′ 3 with a 80in reach he has currently exchanged wins and losses since 2020 Mike mot is 32 years old 6’1 with a 73in reach and he is currently on a six-fight win streak also being a near three to1 favorite over Neil Magny and I think that is probably

For good reason Michel Mala is quite well-rounded he has a good head on his shoulders good fight IQ even though Mike mot’s not that fast of a fighter Neil Magny isn’t either so it’s not going to be too much of an issue for him he possesses more power he works off

Different kind of things Magny has just kind of been stagnant throughout his career if you have a a wrestling weakness he will take you down constantly if you have a difficulty with range he’s going to jab you all fight if you can’t get off the cage he’s going to

Keep you there the whole time Mike mot is well enough in my opinion to be dangerous on the ground dangerous in the standup and not allow Neil Magny to stall out the fight anywhere so I think the light kicks are going to be massive I think the body shots are going to be

Big Magny does not have good takedown defense so Mike Mala could take him down there try to choke him out because Magny has even worse of a Brazilian Jitsu game than he does wrestling and I am ultimately going with Mike mot for a first round submission I could even say

Second round though so there’s some really good lines on here man for you to capitalize with my bookie.ag so on the odds Shan stricken a minus 135 in the main event I think those are good odds both ways but for my bookie specifically if you’re a dri’s dupc c fan and you’re

Going with him they got better odds as for him as an underdog and of course there are props here if you want to pick either fighter to win by a knockout or a decision marra buo Silva is a minus 170 favorite I do like her to be a little

Bit bigger than that in my opinion Mike mot is a minus 375 I think he’s a lock Chris Curtis minus 200 I think it’s closer than that msar evev minus 210 that is an an interesting one they really have Arnold Allen that big of an

Underdog huh bra atona a minus 190 I do like him in the fight Charles jordaine minus 180 I do like sha Woodson but it is very close I’m not going to count on jordane at all seridi is a minus 180 against the plus 140 ront tarz Jillian

Robertson is a minus 270 I do like her in the fight as the favorite Johan against Sam Patterson is a minus 150 that makes sense I think Jasmine’s a minus 400 again she’s not so good on the feet that she’s going to absolutely dominate but the grappling should go to

Her side for sure – 400 I think is kind of crazy so I might put something very small on Catera and then Malcolm Gordon is atus 210 I do like those odds for him so very interesting betting lines here if you guys want to go and capitalize on

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Going to start with Arnold Allen versus mobar evev so we all know where the strengths lie Arnold Allen has a better striking game Mob evev is a better grappling game or at least on paper he should msar has gotten better with his striking he is putting together some

Good combinations with his hands but he seems a little too stiff at times and defensively he doesn’t have the greatest head movement he tries to block your punches but I think Arnold Allen should be able to find angles around the guard and his footwork is just eons ahead of

Msar evev the only thing he has to worry about is just not get backed up to the cage too much if he passes those black lines he’s going to be a bit of danger he needs to know from there he must create an angle and get back to the

Center he moves around so much that he might create too much space between him and mobar backing up way too close to the cage he has to cut angles constantly it’s not only going to take away the pressure from mobar but it’s also going to make it more difficult for msar to

Attack takedowns he might resort to single legs because of that though and Allen has to be very quick on reacting to those now there is one issue going into this fight about Arnold Allen he has not had to defend a takedown since 2021 now he’s not very active and that

Guy he had to defend takedowns against was sadik yusf who’s not the greatest wrestler right he’s not going to be a good reference or an example for this mobar fight the other guy was Nick lent in 2020 who attempted many takedowns and failed on all of them he did fight an

Old Gilbert Melendez he did fight mawan amirani way back in the day and got taken down quite a few amount of times Matt’s brell way back in the day was taking him down a lot and I don’t think it’s good to look back at some of those

Older fights in 2018 and 2017 it’s very hard to know exactly where Arnold Allen’s wrestling defense is going to be at for this fight but the fact that he does have very good footwork and that’s the first phase of takedown defense should be pretty good going into this

And it’s a three rounder so maybe he could cause enough damage or he can Sprout back up it’s just that suffocating wrestling style can be difficult and we did see Diego Lopez put some hands on mobar that I think Arnold Allen should be able to work off of as

Well so my prediction for this fight I am going to go with Arnold Allen I think he could cause enough damage to win this on the scorecards I don’t see either guy getting knocked out just because of the way the mobs are fights and I think he

Should be able to move away from some of these takedowns get himself away from the cage enough and even if he gets pushed up against it I think he is stronger than mobar and he should be able to fight off the grip sometimes land some good knees in the clinch land

Some good elbows try to disengage and create enough space to get himself back to the center and really put some good output on this guy because he has to have some kind of constant output to keep msar guessing so I’m going to go with Arnold Allen by a decision and I

Think it’s going to be very close and then we go to the Coan event Raquel Pennington versus marra bu Silva for the bantamweight title this is probably going to be a difficult fight because Rael Pennington is defensive enough to tougher way through a lot of things even

Though Silva has a much better grappling game she has very good Brazilian juu for this white class she’s faster than most of these Fighters as well she used to fight 125 but Raquel is very physically strong and Pennington’s mostly a boxer has some good defensive skills all throughout she’s very tough but what

Worried me about her was the amount of time she was leaning against Caitlyn Vieira and she could get hit by a head kick by Silva for that almost none of these Fighters fight at the speed that Silva does and the way that she even throws her elbows and punches is quite

Different than a lot of these other bantamweights so I’m going to go with Silva and I think she’s going to win by a decision I think Pennington is going to be defensive enough to not get herself finished but if she tries to be a bit more aggressive I think Silva

Could catch her with something and then we finally go to the main event by far the best fight on this card and the one everybody’s excited for the fight of The Underdogs Shan Strickland versus drias dupy nobody expected them to be put in this position both of these guys were

Counted out throughout their careers and they are arguably the two best middleweights on the planet right now Shan Strickland is the champion defending his belt he’s on a three-fight win streak dricus is on an eight-fight win streak Strickland last lost of Jer kir by a split decision that a lot of

People still today think that Strickland won drick is’s last loss was in the welterweight division in a rematch with Roberto s way back in 2018 where he was knocked out in the third round so he has one loss and both the middleweight and welterweight division his middleweight

Loss is way back in the day against Gareth mclen and his welterweight loss was the Roberto solich so he has an insane record for both divisions and this is going to be a very interesting one it’s a one that a lot of people are debating on a lot of people seem to

Think that drix is going to win a lot of people think that Strickland’s going to win Strickland right now is a minus 120 favorite it’s nearly a pick them and the man is in insane shape Sean stricken is in better shape than we’ve ever seen him before and there’s something to that

Saying that a fighter gets 30% better after he becomes the champ we might see a much better version of him in this fight than we’ve ever seen before the physical shape that he is in is quite stunning I’ve never seen him look this way he is completely leaned out and it

Goes to tell me that he might be faster in this fight than ever before he might have better cardio and the pace in those Championship rounds could be quite problematic for drias because drias has fatigued in some of his fights he will power through it he’s definitely shown

To have a lot of heart and in some of those fights that he clearly looks tired he will still throw a lot of punches at you he will still attempt takedowns regardless of how tired is he saw that in the Brad dvar third round but he’s

Never been past the third round in his entire career a lot of people are talking about his no surgery and how much oxygen he was missing out missing out on before but dricus has come out and said that his no surgery has not affected his cardio at all now I don’t

Know if he’s saying that on purpose but he seems to be a very honest man if it is true that his surgery has not helped his cardio which I do think it has helped his cardio but let’s say drias is being truthful and his cardio has not

Improved I’m scared for him in those fourth and fifth rounds man because if he’s tiring too much but he’s still throwing but he’s slow enough where strick is able to see all the punches coming and counter him and then overwhelm him we could see Strickland

Get a late finish in this fight but the other way around I am scared for Sean Strickland those first two rounds with drias because drias is very dangerous in the standup and on the ground he is one of the better Grapplers in this Division I mean this guy ran through the Gracie

Baja team in quintet the guy was able to trip out Robert Whitaker get good top position pin him to the mat as Whitaker was trying to shrimp and just lay ground pound on him he had a great pass out of the full guard he is one of the only

Guys right now that I think could outg grapple Sean Strickland possibly but Strickland’s grappling is not something we see too often these days I made a whole breakdown on it and his take up defense is very very good he’s extremely good at hand fighting extremely good at

Prying open the grip very fast with the underhook very fast with cross facing you but he does have a weak point with his sprawling ability his hips don’t seem to be too strong and that could be because of the the motorcycle accident that he had a long time ago his hip

Still could be kind of messed up from that but he’s developed such a strong upper body defense focused on hand fighting that it could be a bit difficult for dricus at times and for example the way he was able to get out of the back take from abos magedov was

Very slick I mean he’s completely aware when he’s on the ground with you he stopped the hook from coming in with that one arm and off of that was able to rotate his way around and get up to his feet and we see drick is go for many

Different kind of takedowns he’s gotten trips that he saw with Whitaker he’s gotten double EGS that he saw with Darren H so when it comes to the grappling drick is could be quite dangerous especially in those first two rounds and on the feat he’s dangerous but not nearly as technical in my

Opinion he does some good things with game planning his game planning and tactics are a lot better than his technique his boxing technique can seem a bit too sloppy and that’s where Shan Strickland absolutely excels Strickland is very hard to punch he has insanely good boxing defense and he’s fixed a lot

Of his kicking defensive holes he had one of the worst leg kick defense rates in UFC history and he has fixed that with the osna fight with the shift NE faints but that could cause him to get taken down so it’s a little bit of a different Dynamic if he’s lifting his

Knee up he could be welcoming a Tak down from dricus instead of a leg kick right if dricus can fake a leg kick and then shoot for the high crotch things can get very interesting from that and there’s something distinct about dricus a style a lot of his striking game revolves

Around wanting some distance the way that he throws punches the way that he retracts the way he gets in and out he likes to have a bit of distance between him and his opponent even the way he jabbed Robert Whitaker look at the way he exits out he gets out far away from

Whitaker knowing that Whitaker also likes long range and likes the Blitz from there Sean Strickland likes the opposite he likes to get right in your face and stay there the whole fight which leads me to believe that from range drick is going to have a bit of an

Advantage here but as that Gap closes Strickland’s going to have the advantage and I think drick is might show a lot of defensive holes but he does get by with his awkwardness and it’s something that Strickland even talked about the most dangerous thing about drias in the

Standup is how awkward he is and it’s hard to expect a lot of what he does I mean like the way he rebounded off the cage for the straight against Trevon Giles was very unexpected and he was getting hit a lot in that fight he was

Getting pieced up a bit Brad Darez took him to the ground Darren tail was taking it to him in that second round even Derrik Brunson was Landing some big shots on the guy drias seems to be very uh inconsistent but it’s a part of his awkwardness he will lose in areas that

Makes you just scratch your head and think is this guy even that good but then he will start winning in places that just surprises you he might get taken down by Sha Strickland and he stands up he’s getting punched a bit and then just counter strick him with

Something big and drops him that’s usually the kind of way that driers his fights go and that goes to my prediction for this ultimately my prediction for this fight I’m going to go with Shan Strickland and I’m going to go by a fifth round TKO it’s a very very close

Fight it can go either way I don’t know if there’s anybody confident in predicting this fight it can really go either way drias can finish this fight early Strickland could finish this fight late or win by a decision the reason why I’m going Shan Strickland is because I

Like the shape that he’s in I like his cardio going for five rounds drias does fatigue pretty quickly if Strickland’s defensive enough the awkwardness might not be able to get through and this will ultimately gas out dricus as he attempts more and more things because drias

Doesn’t like to be inactive in a fight even if the opponent’s not really doing much he will try to open you up with some big movements and big punches if stens defensive enough kind of how he was against abos magedov he could allow drias to drain himself or put up enough

Resistance in the grappling and just Land good body shots on him to wear him out until the championship rounds and then pounces on a much slower drias dupy this this is ultimately why I am going to go with Sean Strickland I think if the fight goes in the fourth and fifth

Rounds I think Strickland is going to start dominating the fight and really put on a good performance from there and that’s it for the predictions guys I hope you guys enjoyed it and if you did make sure you give this a like make sure to subscribe hit the bell for

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