UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum

Drakkar Klose   vs.   Jeremy Stephens

The fact the Tap majority has Drakkar winning here is almost enough to make me believe that ARC has started issuing free WIFI in its short white buses--and that Greg bought ad space on the sides of them.

This is a horrible bout for Klose, who at the end of all things, is just a less-dangerous, less good Jeremy Stephens. Literally everything Klose does Stephens does better. Everything. Yes, he's on a loss streak, but look at the guys he's lost to.

Pick a Klose fight. Any fight. Pay close attention to how ****** his boxing defense is as he marches forward chin  high, fists around his nipples, guard spread wider than cheap ***** in a motel room, flailing like a mad-***** crackskank assaulting the KFC register having been refused free chicken on the basis of an expired coupon. 

Do you people really think he's getting out of this fight without eating massive bombs from Stephens?  Because I ******* don't. He Homers his way through every bout. If you think Stephens has less chance of landing on him than Dariush (especially a massive counter) and doesn't hit harder, you shouldn't even be here.

Jeremy Stephens is not only the best value bet on this card, but so far, the best value bet of the year. Drakkar is either going to get KO'ed or ass****d brutally here. I'll go with the former.

Stephens, KO/TKO R2.

* Edited at 04.15.2021, 6:06 PM ET *

Espino. Romonov's standup is appalling. 

@Duck Penne is just a division-filler hag who hasn't won a fight in six years. She has never beaten anyone even moderately good, and is basically last-year's model thai fighter. She's almost certainly going to lose against a non-shopworn, younger, competent boxer in Lupita. She has zero power and from what I see absolutely nothing to threaten with.

* Edited at 04.15.2021, 5:39 PM ET *

@DC Yeah I know what you mean. Like I'm pretty sure if Tank Abbott came back he'd probably gogoplata Ngannou at about 0.15 of R1. Dude's had eight years to improve!

@Tieoken let's not go nuts. She can box but belt-dipping in MMA repeatedly as a defensive maneuver is like saying 'I hate myself, and I want someone to knee me in the face'. If she does that to an opponent who is wise to it **** will get real, fast. I do agree with you she's several rungs up from the majority of UFC WMMA fighters though and should just blow through Penne. I'll take fighters like her over the scissor-me-timbers esparza-esque signings all day long.