Fallout for Svensson: Usually when two guys from TUF fight their first UFC bout, the loser gets cut.At the very least he could be a fun action fighter for the division. But for the moment, he’s at least through the door and he looks like he’s got a strong skill base to build off of. Lightweight is filled with grapplers who can actually wrestle too and will probably force open gaps in his style. There are other bigger questions looming ahead of him. Fallout for Teymur: He’s now in the UFC.So you have a strong clinch and range striker with takedown defense, fighting an unathletic grappler with wild striking and no takedown game. Svensson, to his own detriment, has never really shown a takedown game. As inexperienced and single minded as he is with his Muay Thai style, he’s shown the basics of takedown defense. The Expectation: Watching tape on both of them, it really felt pretty straight forward that Teymur was going to take this fight.Martin Svensson (+100) (I picked Teymur, I was right) Now that that’s all clear, let’s get to the fights!ĭavid Teymur (-120) vs. I’m using OddsShark for the odds on each fight and taking the mode for each fighter. I’m not using odds and picks to make money, but rather to try and figure out how fighters are sinking or swimming in the talent pools of the UFC.

Still, I’m not kicking myself for not betting on it, because for me all the fun is in the pursuit of narrative. Rivera, I would have run the table on this event. What I’m saying is, catching on to how Anderson Silva will fight on a given night is hard, and it’s only gotten harder as he’s getting older.ĭisclaimer Time: If it weren’t for Anderson Silva making an (arguable) meal of this fight, and the judges making an (inarguable) meal of Pickett vs. And just when you’ve started to console yourself with that, he lands the kind of knee that could part the heavens. Just when you think he’s the most venomous striker in MMA history, he turns into a guy who looks like he’d rather do anything than throw a punch. He’s a will-o-the-wisp, all at once seemingly nearby and predictable, and suddenly elusive. He’s the kind of fighter that could have gotten 100 yellow cards for stalling in some fights, and would just about pull a mans pants down if he could in others. For Silva, those borders are more erratic. If you watch enough of their fights, you’ll realize that borderline illegality his been a basic mainstay of the Michael Bisping and Anderson Silva games for a while.

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