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Not surprisingly, both men have helped create some of the finest highlight reels on YouTube due to their handy clinch-work, where they have forced superior wrestlers and jiu-jitsu fighters into a not-so-friendly game of fisticuffs. Both prefer to box anyway, which should further negate the number of times we see either man go for a takedown or a Thai plum. Conditioning: Noons and Masvidal always show up ready to fight. More impressively is that they have been doing it anywhere at weights ranging from pounds to pounds throughout their careers.
Experience: Noons clearly has more pure striking experience, having competed in roughly 27 combined boxing and kickboxing bouts. However, MMA is a different animal, which gives Masvidal the overall edge.
Noons started his MMA seven months sooner, but he has had three lengthy waits between fights during his career. This has allowed Masvidal to accumulate over twice the number of fights than Noons 27 fights to 13 fights. Advantage: Masvidal. Prediction — In my mind, this bout, conveniently sandwiched in the middle of four heavyweight slobber knockers, will once again show why the lightweight division is one of the most exciting in MMA.
While Noons and Masvidal both bring impressive credentials to the ring, they have both also shown susceptibility to major upsets. Both have learned valuable lessons in those defeats, which should make this more of a technical stand-up battle than an all out slug fest.
Noons possesses the more polished stand-up and should win a great fight via Split Decision. This is one of the more unexpected and intriguing bouts scheduled in the heavyweight division lately. Olympic wrestling teams in and Striking: While both men are grapplers by trade, they both cross train at two of the best MMA gyms in the country. Perhaps to many peoples surprise is that Monson also participated in three professional boxing matches in , where he won two via TKO and had a draw in the other.
That should give Monson the slight edge when the two engage on the feet. Advantage: Monson. Grappling: This aspect of the fight game will be the most interesting, as both Cormier and Monson are grapplers by trade.
Cormier the world class wrestler vs. Monson the world class submission grappler. Cormier should have the clear advantage with takedowns, but what he does after that is unclear. Monson, who is known in the submission grappling world for his safe and methodical top game also has a highly-underrated half guard game, which should come in handy should he find himself on the wrong end of a Cormier takedown.
The unknowns of what will happen on the ground are what make this fight so exciting. Clinch: This is the area of the fight where Monson is usually trying to take his opponents down.
However, he is now paired up with a man with the wrestling pedigree not only to stuff his takedowns, but the ability to reverse or land a takedown himself.
This is not a situation Monson has come across often over the course of his 14 year career, but his solid wrestling base and dirty boxing should help make things interesting. Advantage: Cormier. Conditioning: Considering that both Cormier and Monson are smaller heavyweights, usually fighting below pounds, and the fact that both have substantial amateur grappling backgrounds having excelled at the highest level of wrestling and submission grappling respectively, conditioning should not play a major factor in this fight.
While they usually both find themselves in better shape than their opponents, they will find equally ready opposition in the strength and conditioning department on Saturday night. Experience: The experience advantage goes to Monson in a landslide. Monson participated in his first MMA bout in 14 years ago, when Cormier was fresh out of high school.
Cormier and Monson have comparable amateur grappling accolades in wrestling and submission grappling respectively, but Monson has faced some of the best in the world of MMA with almost 50 more fights to his credit. Prediction — This is a classic battle of prospect vs. Werdum emerged victorious after submitting Overeem with a kimura arm lock. Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum Results:. UFC odds: Prop bets and lines explained for the "Nunes vs.
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