Despite the issue of injury to the high ground, the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) heads to the CSKA stadium in Moscow, Russia, this Saturday (November 9, 2019). Once the joint feature is complete, the headlines of Zabit Magomedsharipov and Calvin Kattar became headlines in a battle that could affect the title in the near future, and former headliner Alexander Volkov replaces Greg Hardy in the joint feature. There is also a Welterweight battle between heavy hitters Zelim Imadaev and Danny Roberts in the ESPN + menu.
UFC Fight Night 163 offers seven “Prelims” Undercard Bouts before joining the main card in ESPN +. Let's get started …
170 lbs: Abubakar Nurmagomedov and David Zawada
Abubakar Nurmagomedov, the cousin of welterweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov (15-2-1), won five consecutive victories in the World Series of Fighting (WSOF). A two-round draw against UFC veteran Bojan Velickovic led to a decision victory against Jonatan Westin.
His only defeat came through a cut strike against the currently rising lightweight Magomed Mustafaev.
David Zawada (16-5) won five victories in his latest announcement Octagon debut and fought against the decision to split Danny Roberts and Hamburg's "night fight". He dropped "The Leech" early four months later in a confrontation with Li Jingliang, but eventually yielded to the hull at the last minute.
11 wins in 14 strikes came through (technical) knockouts.
Abubakar is not Khabib. He's a more sophisticated striker and has a great frustration to look forward to, but he lacks incredible pressure, bizarre chain wrestling, or ground-and-ground rocking grounds that can't plant "The Eagle" among the greatest warriors in UFC history. He is still a very solid and versatile competitor with the skills to fall into the Top 15. Do not look at him beyond expectations.
Zawada is incredibly fun and a couple of outstanding finishers, but they don't have enough strength or defense to stop Nurmagomedov from winning the best position. Nurmagomedov fell before and tapped, so it is worth seeing. But there is a possibility that a young Nurmagomedov will go the way toward a comfortable victory.
Prediction: Nurmagomedov through unanimous decision
155 lbs: Alexander Jakoblev vs. Loose belt roberts
Alexander vs. Jakoblev (25-9-1) was not particularly thunderous in his first Octagon appearance, dropping four out of six to Damian Maia and Kamaruusman before sitting both in 2017 and 2018. “I returned to the lightweight who beat Gray Maynard and stopped St. Petersburg's late replacement Alex Da Silva.
He defeated nine professional enemies each.
Roosevelt Roberts (8-1) made a decision on Darrell Horcher's award-winning guillotine and Thomas Gifford after signing a UFC contract to stop Garrett Gross in the “Contender Series”. The penalty shoot-out with Vinc Pichel wasn't properly solved. Because a heavy predator survived the hard first round to take down Roberts to make a decision.
He enters Pichel, mentioned about three weeks ago.
Full disclosure: I generally can not choose to fight Yakovlev to save me life. Sometimes he is a choking power with a sneaky punching power Really should not You can handle him. Roberts has a good outlook but had a serious problem with physically imposing Fitzell and gave up withdrawing as the battle progressed.
If Yakovlev looks like he did a hot shot at da Silva, he could be upset, especially because Roberts doesn't have his customary height advantage. And again Jacoby has problems with aggressive wrestling, and Roberts' guillotines are absolutely fatal. It's a flip of the coin and the universe conspires to look silly even if I choose, but Roberts says he first found Yakovlev's neck.
Prediction: Roberts through First Submission
135 lbs: Jessica Rose Clark vs. Fanny Qianzad
Jessica Rose Clarke (9-5) started his UFC career with a series of notable characters in Bec Rawlings and Paige VanZant, despite only two fights in two fight skids. Jessica Ai defeated Australia in Singapore's decision and proved too much for her in his third octagon effort.
Her first fight for over 16 months began with weight loss failure and foot injuries.
Fanny Qianzad (11-5), who beat Clark at Invicta with the first undefeated (8-0), has since hit three skids, but ultimately found himself in the Fighter Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 28 finals. Macy Chiasson's back ankle was in the finals, and after winning the Swedish circuit, he lost his decision to Julia Avila.
"Banzai" is 2 inches larger than Clark and 3 inches in reach.
We match "excess sweets vs undersweets". Kianzad has done much better than his record suggests, and Kianzad has not been successful for a long time. To complicate the story, Clark "does better than her record" for the Flyweights, Kianzad is fine with £ 145.
Both prominent wrestling and wrestling seem fierce in terms of dead heat techniques. In other words, the physical edge of Kianzad can be the determining factor. "Banzai" uses his height, length, and strength to end up mostly noticeable battles, but with some basic work.
Prediction: Qianzad through unanimous decision
135 lbs: And Li Popov vs. Davy Grant
10 consecutive wins against World Extreme Cage Fighting (WEC) champion Eddie Wineland at UFC 238 made Tiger Muay Thai and Lee Popov (14-3) make an octagonal debut. Russian player punching in the second round.
He will give up one inch of each key and reach Davey Grant (10-4).
After losing to Chris Holdsworth at the TUF 18 Finale in November 2013, long unhappiness had Grant three games. He entered the cage on the heels of submission losses for Damian Stasiak and Manny Bermudez since July 2018. .
All eight of his professional works choke.
At the peak of these two is Grant's fight due to landslides. Popov is a terrible wrestler controlled on the mat by an exponentially inferior grapple than the "dangerous" Davey. But not a good home. Between inactivity due to Grant's injury and retirement due to concussion of fellow finalist Holdworth, I'm sure the season was somehow cursed.
Luckily for 33 year old Brit, even his previous ego shell should be too large. He could never stop on strike, and Popov fought against a mighty martial art. Grant dragged onto the mat in just a few minutes and arrived right at the choke. & # 39;
Forecast: Subsidies through First Submission
UFC Fight Night 163 Three more "preliminary" opening fights remain, and you can preview and predict tomorrow, such as a clash between US mid-level prospects and light heavyweight clashes. Maniac at the same time tomorrow
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