UFC Atlanta Full Card Predictions

“Give me Jaylen Jamey-Lyn Horth by I want to say submission. I think she could submit Vanessa Demopoulos on the map, but decision is very, very possible.”

“Wallmaker first round knockout whooping.”

“Give me Kiesta by decision.”

“Give me monster Abdul Mansur Abdul-Malik by knockout but it really is again it's a car crash.”

“Give me Miranda Maverick. I think Miranda Maverick is going to win by decision in this fight.”

“I think Joaquin Buckley knocks him out in this fight.”

“I think Cody's going to be much quicker than him on the feet... I think he'll win by decision.”

“I think Petroski could actually submit Edmond Shbazian. I think he's obviously very big grappling discrepancy here... Petroski I think can probably get Edmen Shahbazyan by arm triangle in this fight.”

“I think Jose Ochoa Hawk could hurt Cody Durden pretty often in this fight. Now, a couple Cody's in this card. Cody Durden. Got Cody. That's horrible content. What? What am I referencing? Cody Cody Garbrandtt Cody Brundage. Um, that was that was that was bad. I'm sorry. I don't know why I went to ride with that. We'll move on. All right. Ignore it. Ignore it. U Chrisinho versus Malcolm Wellmaker. Sacrifice of the year. That's year. Yeah, sacrifice of the year. Um, no reason. Uh there is no reason that Chris Mantino should be in the UFC again. This is this fight was made and announced on 10 days notice. Malcolm Wmaker in his UFC debut after knocking out Cameron Smotherman asked to fight in UC Atlanta. Nobody so many people turned on the fight to fight him. They ended up bringing Kris Moutinho to fight him. Chris Matinho infamously came on short notice to lose to Shawn Ali. Um TKO'ed in round three after getting stunned on literally the whole fight. Um then he got knocked out by Guido Kennedy in round one and then got kicked out of the UFC. Didn't look that great. I think he lost outside of the UFC as well if I'm not wrong. Uh came back I think he won one fight is back in here now and he's just going to it's going to be a mulling. I mean it's going to be a first round knockout. Uh Malcolm Wmaker is going to connect. Moutinho is going to go down. This is literally as embarrassing. It's shame it's a shameless shameless um uh fight to make for the UFC because you're literally screwing this guy. I mean you're not really screwing him. paying him $12,000 to come in here and take a beating and move forward. Maybe a little bit more for Matt than 122,000 cuz he's done the UFC a couple favors on short notice and you know taking gigantic beatings in those short notice fights. Anyways, um but Dana White's cheap enough to not give him more than 12,000. You never know. You'd assume they'd give him more than 12,000, right? Anyways, um yeah, Wallmaker first round knockout whooping. I mean, what more can I really say about this fight? Um and then maybe we can start having Wall Maker fight something interesting. Make Wmaker versus Talbot. Let's have a fun prospect fight here. Uh Michael Chiesa versus Court McGee. old guy geyser uh uh scrambling fight. More than likely going to be a lot of scrambles in this fight. I know they usually say two grapplers leads to a striking fight and these are these guys want to strike and both of these guys want to grapple, it's going to be a little bit of uh fun. I think it'll be fun. I think this old man scrambling fight will be fun because honestly if you have high level scrambles, even just a bunch of scrambles in MMA on the mat, it's going to be fun. Both guys actually do scramble pretty well. They don't really get stalled in positions. Um, Cor McGee's never been submitted, so it's pretty interesting. Maybe you'll have a couple good spots where he's defended a lot of submissions here, but Max Griffin was never submitted. Michael Kiosa just submitted him, too. I I think Kasa can win this fight on position for the most part. Um, he's actually bigger than Court McGee, which is something to note. McGee, neither guy really durable on the feet, neither guy really good on the feet overall. Somehow, I'm I don't know. I actually don't know who's better on the feet between the two. Like, they both have their eh moments on the feet, and they're both typically horrible regardless on the feet. Um, and both slow, both not really that durable. Both really do not like getting hit. Kasa actually probably likes getting hit a lot less. McGee is just nowhere near as durable. McGee honestly had a long streak of never being finished in the UFC before. And then I think Jeremiah Wells just completely sparked him. But yeah, um, I don't think he gets sparked in this fight. I think he can get submitted in this fight, but I don't I think he does well scrambling, defending the positions, and we'll have some fun. We'll have some fun watching this fight. Give me Kiesta by decision. If he does sub him, he would have taken two people's first ever submission losses ever in the UFC. and Max Griffin and Court McGee, but I think Kestle should be fine here. It'll be more entertaining and more competitive than people are making out to be. These odds are a little crazy, but I I mean, I get it like UFC typically, like if there's a relatively clear winner, you kind of have these odds inflate a little bit more. And I think Kios is fine. I think K is going to be fine here. This was a co-main event. Raoni Barcelos versus uh Paul Paul Craig was a co-main event um for UFC Vegas. I forgot. Um what was the main event on that card? One of one of the one of the Apex cards, man. It was supposed to be the co-en event. Raoni Barcelos, I don't know what happened. He had herpes. I guess he pulled out cuz of her. I don't know how he got that far and then he pulled out the night of and he had her. I don't know. Anyways, um yeah, this was a co-main event. Maybe it wasn't an Apex card and I forgot it was that it wasn't that memorable. Anyways, Raoni Barcelos is going to knock him out. Paul Craig sucks on the feet. Paul Craig sucks on the feet. Paul Craig can't wrestle. Moves backwards. Not durable. 35 37 years old or something like that. Old, slow, can't strike. Can't take a punch. can't wrestle. He is He's relying on either fighting Andre Manise because he cannot strike to save his life and half of you guys can knock out Andre Manise or um Fluke Fluke Fluke wins a 179 and one. I mean, yeah, he he's very reliant on Fluke. He's very reliant on Fluke. Balato should knock him out. Yeah, he had a pretty interesting fight with um who who was the Aussie that he fought? Was he Aussie or New Zealander that he fought? Jimmy Crew. Um, it was a pretty good fight. Pretty good draw. Um, I can understand the scorecard to an extent, I guess. But, um, yeah, Crew is more of a proactive grappler than, uh, Paul Craig is. Actually has some wrestling to his game, whereas Paul Craig quite literally has none. He pulls guard and praise to God, you go down with him, and then he could try to pull something off. And that's just what happens, um, in most of his wins. I mean, the guy beat Jamal Hill and Malcolm Wellmaker off of stuff like that. Yeah. Uh, Bellato should knock him out. I don't really see anything other than that unless we just see another Paul Paul Craig fluke. Um, Alonzo Menfield versus Oumar Sy Oumar Sy. Gigantic height difference. Gigantic size. Not gigantic height difference. A pretty big height difference. Gigantic size difference overall between the two. Uh, Menfield 10 years older I believe. Um, much different reach. I mean overall just size much better bigger overall fighter. I think he's more explosive. I think he's a better overall grappler by a substantial margin. I think he's going to be able to win minutes every single minute in this fight if he wants to grapple here. I think Menfield is not going to do too well defending them. I think Menfield's just way past it. His fight against Julius Walker was so bad. His performance against Julius Walker was legitimately abysmal. I don't know how um he's declined so quickly, I guess. I mean, yeah, he's getting older. He's taken a lot of damage in his career. Uh his entrance to the Paul Carlos um Alberg fight was just why like why do you just rush Carlos Alberg like that? S I think has more finishing ability. I think he's more durable. Again, the grappling is going to be a big upside here and he could just wear on Menfield. Um, I don't think he's like some unbelievable prospect, but I also don't think like heavyweights some unbelievable division where a guy like Oumar Sy can't just get better or better at 27 years old and end up beating a couple guys in the top 15 and start having some interesting fights. But yeah, I think Oumar Sy's comfortable here against Menfield. You'll eat a shot here and there, but that's all he's really being offered. Um, Cody Brundage versus Mansur Abdul-Mansur Abdul-Malik. This is a car crash. This is probably is it? Yeah. Car crash of the night, right? Car crash of the night. Manor Abdul Mansur Abdul-Malik versus Cody Brundage. Cody Brundage, car crash fighter, quits a lot. Manor Abdul Mansur Abdul-Malik, car crash fighter. Although, you know, Cody Brundage didn't quit last time. He he got he got hurt badly against um Julian Marquez several times and you know, he ended up winning the fight. Ended up knocking him out himself. One of the best rounds of the year, by the way. Julian Marquez uh versus Cody Brunnage. And Bernage came on top of that after I think a knockdown or so. Um submitting a knockdown or so and also you know feeding a couple of himself. Uh Abdul Mansur Abdul-Malik actually got hurt against um Nick Klein and he actually fought through that. So he's been hurt a couple times in his career. We've seen even on the regional scene and he's been able to fight it. He's the bigger fighter. He's more explosive, much longer. He's 7 and 12 in reach advantager. Um but he's in my opinion a better overall fighter, a better overall striker, much more explosive overall. Um I don't know about the grappling in this fight. I mean Brundage really nothing off of his back. He has a good guillotine and every now and then um which Madik could fall victim to. And yeah, Mansur Abdul-Malik could be shooting a double leg. He leaves himself open, even a single leg. And um Bronnage ends up pulling in a guillotine and jumps the guard and can get a guillotine on Mansur Abdul-Malik if Mansur Abdul-Malik wants to wrestle. But Mansur Abdul-Malik's more explosive overall. I do think he's going to be able to find Bronnage. I think he's a little bit more durable. Um and also has a little bit more grit to him when he does get hurt. Uh I feel like Brundage gets hurt in this fight and I think he's going to be able to fold, especially because Mansur Abdul-Malik's going to be able to follow it up a little bit more. Yeah, I like Mansur Abdul-Malik in this fight. I know a lot of people are on Brundage. I I know even though like he Mansur Abdul-Malik is a gigantic favorite in this fight which I guess it doesn't show like Bronnage is going to keep it a little bit competitive cuz I don't think Man Abdul Mansur Abdul-Malik is like that great of a fighter. He's just a very fun freak of nature to watch in fights and yeah I think I think we'll have uh a fun time watching this. Again car crash fight the night. Give me monster Abdul Mansur Abdul-Malik by knockout but it really is again it's a car crash. Cody Cody Garbrandt versus Raoni Barcelos. I actually give Cody Garbrandt a pretty good chance to win this fight. Davis and Figero choked out Cody Cody Garbrandtt. He outgrappled him. I understand that. On the feet, Cody Garbrandtt looked good against Davis and Figero. I legitimately was watching Figero and was like, he's getting tagged pretty often against Cody in this fight. Um, even re-watching it back on tape. I was actually surprised how often Cody was landing on feet. But Figaro was landing some pretty good shots, pressuring him, got him down, and obviously got the choke. But Figaredo is a different level, obviously. Um, I'm not saying Rhino Barcelos is a bad grappler. I think he's a very good grappler. We watch that against uh Payton Talbet, but also Talba not really the best defensive grappler and not really the greatest takedown defense where Cody Garbin in his career notoriously is pretty good at takedown defense. Um really good anti-grappler on top of that. I mean Figero is a different level but how often you see Cody Garbin getting out grappled like that out controlled like that getting his back taken to that regard. And Barcelos is a great grappler but at this stage of his career I think he's about 40 years old or so like nearing that age like he's looking a lot slower on the feet. the damage he's not able to take on the feet, it's starting to look a little bit worse for wear. He was once very, very durable. Got knocked out by Oumar Sy with Oumar Sy by one of the weirdest shots. One of the weirdest like um inside hooks I've ever seen and just insta just knocked out. It was crazy. And yeah, I feel like his durability is slightly gone. I know he hasn't been knocked out since and but every time he gets hurt or he gets hit, it looks very very withered. It looks like he's reacting much more to these shots and I think Cody's going to be much quicker than him on the feet. Um, I think this it was a gigantic step up in competition for Cody Cody Garbrandttt going up to fight um, Davis and Figero and he didn't look horrible on the feet. I also don't think Cody's chin is going to be heavily tested by Barcelos right now at Barcelos's age. Although I I actually used to rate Barcelos a lot as a striker and overall mixed martial artist. He just came to the UFC pretty late and wasn't really there for for long. Um, yeah, I think Barcelus is pretty good. I just think he's aging a little bit. I think Cody's going to be a lot faster on the feet. We'll be able to defend these takedowns a lot more. I think Barcelos's main way to win this fight is going to be by grappling. And I think we're going to see Cody land a pretty good amount on Barcelos here. Win the volume and I think he'll win by decision. He could win by knockout. Um but I do I do see Cody winning by decision here, but I wouldn't be surprised if he knocks out Raoni Barcelos. I'm actually surprised he's the underdog in this fight. Um Edmen Shahbazyan versus Andre Petroski. Weird fight. Very binary. You have Edmond Edmen Shahbazyan as a striker or Andre Petroski um as the wrestler here and wrestler grappler type thing. I think Petroski can get Edmen Shahbazyan down pretty often. Edmen Shahbazyan's takedown defense is just not improved throughout his career as it's one as it's his quote unquote one hole. His striking isn't that good either to be fair. Um it's not bad, it's just glaringly better than his grappling and that was like his go-to essentially and his marquee for why he was such a great prospect. And then Derrick Brunson beat the life out of him and manhandled him and then you know you go from there. Um Petroski I think can get him down. I think actually Petroski is a type of fighter where he actually fights a pretty good game plan for the most part. Um, sometimes has some pretty weird blunders, but honestly, I really haven't seen a fight with Petroski, if I'm not if I'm recalling properly where he doesn't stick to a proper game plan. He doesn't just completely botch his game plan. He actually fights pretty smart for the most part. Um, I think he's a part of the Philly crew if I'm not wrong with like Joe Pyer and uh Sean Brady and them and they're they're pretty solid when it comes to working with game plans, although Piper is pretty boring. Um, yeah, I I I don't see where Petroski doesn't try to force the occasion grappling. I don't see where Petroski tries to keep himself at distance against Edmen Shahbazyan and be at risk there. I think Petroski knows like he isn't the most durable guy in the world. Don't think he wants to keep constantly taking shots from Edmond either to the body or to the head. Um he's had some pretty weird injuries as well. That uh nasty cut to the head. I think it was where he just went out hold against um Jacob Malcoun. That was pretty weird. Yeah, I think Petroski could gra could grapple here. I think he could actually submit Edmond Shbazian. I think he's obviously very big grappling discrepancy here. And usually when you have a big grappling discrepancy between a grappler and a striker and the striker in my opinion is worse in grappling. I think Shbazian is worse of a grappler than Petroski is a striker. I also think that it's a relatively mediocre level of MMA to where the grappling typically takes a very large precedent. Whereas when you get to higher level MMA, maybe the takedown defense can start proceeding itself a little bit against a grappler and those guys can maybe start boxing and then you have striker versus a grappler type thing. But typically when it's like a kickboxer as opposed to a boxer with good takedown offense, it's a kickboxer that can move backwards or even move forwards against a wrestler. I usually kind of edge the wrestler and stylistically this is very similar to that and also just based on their abilities in general I think Petroski will be able to get Edmen Shahbazyan down get into good position he passes guard actually pretty well when he is on top he doesn't really just lay in full guard and Petroski I think can probably get Edmen Shahbazyan by arm triangle in this fight Rose Namajunas versus Miranda Maverick why is Rose as big of a favorite what does Rose do in her recent fights that makes her like looked like she's going to be separating in her fight. She doesn't separate. Rose Namunes does not separate in her fights. She loses to people with good wrestling. She beat a manorbas is not a good wrestler. She's a good jiu-jitsu player. She's not a good wrestler at all. Good grappler on the map. Good jiu-jitsu player. Honestly, not the greatest defensive grappling. She actually just got sub by Mackenzie Dur. I know it's Mackenzie Durn, but also like how long has it been since Mackenzie Durn has gotten a submission in the UFC against any sort of level competition, right? Yeah. Uh, Miranda Maverick is going to be pushing the pace. I I assume I don't think she we're going to see her be moving on the back foot too often. Um, she's on a four-ight win streak. She's only lost to Jasmine Jazz Vicious, Aaron Blanchfield, and Macy Barber. And Macy Barber was a complete robbery. She beat Macy Barber. So, realistically, it's only lost to I would probably presume is the two greatest grapplers in the division right now. U, I maybe you could list Valentina. I think Valentina is a worse grappler uh than Blanchfield and a worse grappler than Jazz and Jazz Vicious. I would reckon um Fioro is probably a better grappler um at the bare minimum wrestler uh than Blanchfield as we saw in the fight. But yeah, I think Miranda Maverick's going to be able to wrestle with Rose Amunes. I think this is going to be a pretty similar performance that Rose had to her second Carlos Sparza fight. I think she's going to be afraid of the takedown. I think Maverick is going to be pressuring her. Actually, Maverick typically uses a pretty good game plan in her fights for the most part. She's only 27 years old. from Random Maverick. She's been like a quote unquote blue chip prospect when she entered the UFC. I remember watching her back in 2020 and a lot of people were referencing her as like a blue chip prospect. She's like 22 years old, 21, 22 years old when she came to the UFC or so. Um she's been improving. She's on a good win streak again. She's only lost quite literally to the top um of the top of this weight class. And 125 is a pretty good overall weight class that's stacked towards the top now. And look at the people that she's lost to. Aaron Blanchield right at the top. Even Macy Barber's right at the top if you want to say Barbara won that fight which she didn't obviously and Jasmine Javicious right at the top. I mean these people are fringe title shots. Um and Rose Nami Ununas is in my opinion a pretty bad anti-grappler. I think she's a pretty bad wrestler. She has okay jiu-jitsu but doesn't really use it in MMA and honestly when she gets taken down she doesn't really show any sort of confidence against a wrestler. I think Maverick gets her down. I think Maverick gets her in the clinch. I think Maverick wins those minutes. Yes, Rose is better on the feet. Yes, she's a little bit quicker but I mean she hasn't looked that great on the feet. Doesn't really separate. I think her footwork uh is being very widely um uh overrated as well. Like give me Miranda Maverick. I think Miranda Maverick is going to win by decision in this fight. I'd be surprised if she submits Rose to be honest, but I don't think she puts enough of a pace and pressure to like succumb to Rose, like succumb Rose to it. But if Maverick gets and puts on a ridiculous pace on Rose, Rose can fold. Rose does not like getting a pace put on her. She does not like being pressured like that. If Maverick does that, if Miranda Maverick does that, she can get in Rose's face and she can get on top and Rose will succumb to the pressure. She will probably get tapped out, get submitted in this fight. Um, but I think Maverick's just going to put on a good amount of pressure, not like anything crazy, and she'll get into the clinch and she'll get her takedowns here and there. And yeah, I I think Maverick's going to win this fight by decision. Um, I'm actually like I can understand if you want to put Rose as a slight favorite in this fight just based on credibility and um, just decent overall footwork, a little bit longer, better overall striker. assumes she could stop the takedowns of Maverick, but this is this is ridiculous. This is all right ridiculous. Um yeah, moving on to the main event. Joaquin Joaquin Buckley versus Kamaru Kamaru Usman. Yes, Kamaru Kamaru Usman hasn't fought in like almost two years. He fought against Kamzay um on short notice at 185. Didn't I mean he looked okay, right? He looked okay, especially for a guy coming on short notice. A lot of people argue that he could have um won that fight, especially could have won that fight if it went five rounds. Um obviously round one, he got completely involved in that fight, but that's a whole different fight to what we're looking at right now. Kamaro Kamaru Usman um is coming in. Hasn't fought in 170 pounds I think in two years or so. Um and at this stage of his career at how old he is and my opinion even in the Jamaa fight like he wasn't moving that great in the Jamaa fight. Looked pretty stiff stiffer than he's ever looked in his career. Even the third in third Leyon fight looked very very stiff in that fight. I think he has a one a jab. I think he's a two straight. It's about it. I don't really see a good hook on Kamaru Usman. I don't really see much else in the striking for him. I think his kicks are very null and void. Um I think Kamaru Usman has some decent pressure, but I don't think he could shoot an open mat takedown and get it proactively in this fight. Um and even when he gets somebody down nowadays, he doesn't really do anything outside of the full guard. I mean, even during his prime, like how often do you see Kamaru Usen passing guard, taking the back or using anything with his grappling positions, right? He doesn't really he's not really he's one of those well Morab up until now, right? what Morav did to Ali but what Moar of Loy um Kamaru Kamaru Usman like these are the guys that they get you Muhammad as well like they get you down and they don't really do anything after those positions right they keep you down in those in that full guard for the most part or they hold you against the cage try to chain you against the cage and stuff like that I don't think Joaquin Buckley backs up to the cage as often in this fight I don't think he backs up to the cage to the desire of Kamar Kamaru Usman I think Kamaru Usman's always been a relatively chinny fighter I think he's been cracked several times against Kobe Cington where one of the times he did, he faked the nutshot and Kobe had him there. Um, got hurt to the body against Kobe, got hurt to uh, the head against Kobe in the first fight. In the second fight, he got hurt to the head against Kobe at the end of round four and got wobbled. Um, obviously Leon Edwards knocked him out, probably cracked that chin. Uh, yeah, I think Kamaru Usman just durability has been always shaky. And now, especially at this stage of his career where he's cutting back down to 170 and has not made 170 in over a year and over two years or so, like, yeah, I'm a little concerned with durability. I'm obviously concerned is his athleticism. That's typically what he thrived on at the time. His his physical ability and his his athleticism and he's not going to be able to back Joaquin Buckley up to the cage. He's not going to be able to be shooting open mat takedowns as much. Joaquin Buckley is much more explosive overall. He hits a lot harder than Kamaru Usman does at this stage of their career right now in my opinion. I think he finds his shots a little bit better than Kamaru Usman. Now, Joaquin Buckley, I don't think is the most durable fighter in the world. I think we've seen him get cracked plenty and I think Kamaru Usman can definitely crack him. I think it's going to be a pretty fun fight overall. could have some slow moments for sure, but I think we see Joaquin Buckley hurt Kamaru Usman. I think he gets in on the inside pretty quickly. I think he explodes and Kamaru Usman won't be able to react in time and we see Kamaru Usman get knocked out cold in this fight. I think that's what we're going to see. I also think Kamaru Usman will be a little bit tentative um on the feet knowing Joaquin Buckley's ability, knowing his his explosiveness. And I think that'll actually cause Kamaru Usman to fight a little bit worse on top of the fact that he is going to look slower regardless because of his age because of that cut to 170 again because of his honestly his health with his knees and his explosiveness hindering every single I I don't see um Kamaru Usman really triumphing in this fight which again the thing is we haven't seen I mean look with all due respect those Leon Edwards fights that that third Leon Edwards fight is a horrible look for Amar Kamaru Usman with what we've seen with Leon Edwards against grapplers against Bilal in general like Kamar Kamaru Usman had Leon Edwards backed up to the cage exactly where he wanted him and Leon Edwards was defending those positions and Shawn Brady and Bal was taking him down against the cage plentifully. Um yeah, stylistically it's a bad fight for Kamaru Usman. It's another guy that can explode that can hurt him um who's more explosive than him. I I just don't see Kamaru Usman really competing at the top of Welterweight anyh anymore. I think Joaquin Buckley knocks him out in this fight. Round two, round three. Um and that's the end of the card. I think it's a pretty good card overall. We're going to have some fun watching it. Um, anything else I want to say? I don't know. Follow me on Tik Tok. Follow me on TikTok, MMA_DBM. I appreciate all you guys for 10,000 followers and more. Uh, climbing, climbing, climbing very, very quickly and I appreciate you guys for that. Uh, subscribe to me here on YouTube. Daily YouTube videos. Um, if you have any ideas you want to see on my YouTube channel, uh, go ahead and, uh, go join my Discord link. I think my link link is in the bio in description over here. Um, the link is also in the bio on my TikTok. And you can there are like sections where you can tell me what you want for YouTube ideas or just leave it in the comments below. Actually, I look at all the comments on the YouTube videos. 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