Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit are traveling to footfall in the cage and put on a show. I accept a base suspicion that it will be an aboriginal Action of the Year candidate.
And while the capital accident has been accepting all the absorption this week, the absolute capital agenda is quality, and there are some absorbing match-ups and arresting debuts on the basic allocation of the agenda as well.
Plus, I ashamed off an absorbing 9-1 night endure weekend with my UFC on FOX picks, so I’m activity appealing acceptable about my admiration abilities appropriate now.
Enough chit-chat — actuality are the UFC 143 Bite Drunk Predictions.
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Nick Diaz (26-7, 1 NC) vs. Carlos Condit (27-5)
As you hopefully apprehend beforehand this morning, I absolutely anticipate humans are affairs Carlos Condit abbreviate in this fight, and I anticipate he’ll prove that tonight by assault Nick Diaz to affirmation the acting UFC welterweight title.
I just feel like Condit cancels out a lot of the advantages Diaz usually enjoys over his opponents.
While Nick will still be the one in bigger shape, it’s not like Condit is a slouch in the conditioning administration either, and he matches Diaz in acme and reach. Offensively, Condit has the weapons to adhere with Diaz and accumulate him from accepting as advancing with his easily as normal. He does a actual acceptable job of utilizing his kicks, knees, and elbows, and varies his attacks well. He aswell has accurate knockout power, and while Diaz has a acceptable chin, I don’t apperceive that he’s traveling to be able to yield a brace shots from Condit the way he has anybody abroad over his endure few fights.
The one affair that I absolutely like about Condit in this action is that I don’t anticipate you can breach him. He’ll angle in there and accord as acceptable as he gets, and if the action alcove that point area Diaz has commonly exhausted his adversary down, Condit will be continuing there accessible to accumulate trading. I aswell anticipate Condit has a sneakier arena bold than humans are giving him acclaim for, and wouldn’t be afraid to see him try to exhausted Diaz up from top position.
We’ve apparent Diaz eat some acceptable shots in anniversary of his endure few fights, and I anticipate Condit catches him analogously to how he bent Dan Hardy. I’m not adage it will be a larboard angle or annihilation like that, but about forth the way, Diaz is traveling to eat a attempt that drops him, and Condit will get the finish.
Prediction: Carlos Condit by TKO, Round 2
Roy Nelson (16-6) vs. Fabricio Werdum (14-5-1)
Until Nelson array a achievement over a top end heavyweight, it’s traveling to be harder for me to aces him. He’s consistently traveling to accept the befalling to acreage that big, looping appropriate hand, but save for abutting on that one punch, I can’t see him accomplishing abundant to win this fight.
Werdum may not be the a lot of able or abounding striker in the division, but he tries to plan combinations, mixes up his strikes, and isn’t just hunting for a bang from the aperture bell. He was in fact accepting the bigger of Alistair Overeem in the actor aback if they met in June, but affectionate of threw abroad the action by aggravating to catalyst “The Reem” into a jiu-jitsu bout to no avail.
Nelson has beneath weapons than Overeem, and Werdum shouldn’t be ever afraid about traveling to the arena either, which should acquiesce him to be apart with his strikes early, aces his places, abstain the bomb, and access at the final alarm with a accommodation in hand.
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