UFC on ESPN+ 2: Assunção vs. Moraes 2

Ledet is a punching bag that throws jabs...hardly looking forward to watching him get beat up again. 

Ledet vs Walker


walker, KO/TKO R1.


Ledit is, excuse me, a pile of ****. I have no idea how he has gotten to 9-1. No footwork, no hand speed, and he just throws straight arm punches square off the center line, often over extended and off balance. He's also very hittable. You could emulate Ledet perfectly by taking a spinning clothes hoist, mounting it to a single roller skate, hanging several smoked smoked hams to it then proceeding to push it in random directions while blindfolded around the room.

Walker is a murderer. This will be one of his easiest victims.

* Edited at 01.22.2019, 8:06 PM ET *

Júnior Albini   vs.   Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Albini KO/TKO R2.

I actually cannot understand why Rozenstruk is such a heavy favorite going in to this. Yes, he's undefeated, but he has fought nobodies , and he's yet to face a single fighter in MMA who matches up strong against him. Albini is that guy. Before losing a close fight with Arlovski, who fought a perfect fight, he had been undefeated in over ten fights, KO'ing and subbing people left and right. Then he lost to Oleynik by Ezekiel, which is a weird sub that shouldn't even come out of the bag and Alexii might be the only guy in the UFC who can make it stick....he's just insanely good at it. Before that happened however Oleynek was on the verge of getting KTFO--believe that. Bleeding like a stuck pig and gassed, and Albini was just winding up.

Jarizinho is not going to KO Albini. Nobody has even looked close to doing it. He'll also be smaller, much smaller--and if Albini gets on top of him he's ******, because Junior is a lump with surprisingly slick subs for a HW. Jarazinho may win on points, but he's not finishing Junior. Albini is bigger, tougher, better, and hits harder. His opponent is basically just a kickboxer. He's going to win this.

* Edited at 01.23.2019, 2:46 AM ET *

Maia vs Good

Good, TKO R3.

Maia is 41 years old. As good at choking people out as he is, there comes a point in every fighter's life where they just don't have the energy system left to finish people through the means they once did. Maia is at that point. Good isn't a world beater, but he punches hard and will do so for the full 15. He's also never been subbed, and he's close to a decade younger.

I think Maia drops this one and gets beaten up pretty badly before being TKO'ed early in the third. And I Hope he subsequently retires, because there's nothing left for him to do.

* Edited at 01.23.2019, 1:31 AM ET *

Oliviera vs Teymur


Oliviera, submission, R2.

Look, Teymur is a good fighter. You don't beat Lando and Drakkar if you suck balls. That stated, he's up against a specialist here and I don't think he's a better striker than Charles. He won't be slinging bricks the way he did against vannata, especially that high kick, because he's gonna be terrified that Oliviera is gonna snacth his ass up in something. He will get frustrated because he getting outpointed, starts getting reckless, and Oliviera WILL indeed snatch him up in something.

* Edited at 01.23.2019, 2:47 AM ET *

Moicano vs Aldo

Aldo, Dec.


I cannot even begin to fathom why Moicano, who is literally exactly what Holloway would look like if Holloway was 1/3 as good, is the favorite here. It's just plain ******* nuts.  Yes, Junior is 2-3 from his last five, but he's only lost to Holloway who is a young animal and McGregor who is really a lightweight. There's nothing bad about Moicano, but there's nothing amazing about him either....just an orthodox muay thai fighter who is rangey for FW. He doesn't have what it takes to put away someone who is arguably the FW GOAT, even though Aldo is in the twilight of his career. I expect Aldo to just completely outclass him, and while I think Renato is tough enough to survive, it would not shock me one Iota if aldo dropped some kind of death strike on him, because his guard is so wide you could park a mobile home between it. Brian Ortega was lighting him up, and Ortega is a lot of things but he's no Jose ******* Aldo in the striking department.

Jose is the dog? Cool. Free money. **** is ridiculous.

* Edited at 01.23.2019, 3:05 AM ET *

Ricardo Ramos   vs.   Said Nurmagomedov  


Ramos, submission R3.


You know, I was really high on baby nurmy until the scoggins fight, but really he just squeaked that one out and looked pretty ordinary overall. Is Ramos better than Scoggins? **** yes he is. Better everywhere. I think he takes out Said, whose cardio really did look pretty ****** in the end, in the third due to superior conditioning and actually being dangerous on the ground. He takes the first two on points, maybe drops the first, and gets the finish in R3.

* Edited at 01.23.2019, 8:23 PM ET *