UFC president Dana White now revealed to reporters a middleweight bout between former Strikeforce middleweight champion Ronaldo”Jacare” Souza and Yushin Okami is being targeted for a future event. The fight is intriguing in certain ways, but it might prove to be a huge stinker if Okami’s game plan is to push Souza against the weapon for a quarter hour. Although Souza is a fine grappler in his own right, he’s smaller than Okami and could have issues with his size if Okami’s strategy would be to just wall-and-stall, he tends to perform in nearly all his struggles. However, in the event the grappling neutralizes each other and the fight becomes a stand-up battle then it’s a lot more probable the Souza wins. The Brazilian’s hands have gotten much better in recent years and although Okami is a nice striker in his own right, his chin is very suspect at this point of his career and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Souza won the fight via TKO. The struggle will be closer than the public thinks, as I am sure they’ll be all over Souza. As such, I expect”Jacare” to start at around -200 together with all the comeback on Okami being +150. I do prefer Souza slightly because he does have the striking benefit but in the event the line reaches the +200 markers for Okami the bet may be on him. It is a close fight though and also the right play could just be to pass it altogether unless the lineup retains absurd value for man. Koch vs. Poirier Added to UFC 164 Based on MMAweekly.com, a featherweight tilt between Erik Koch and Dustin Poirier has been added to the upcoming UFC 164 card, which takes place August 31 at Bradley Center in Milwaukee, WI, that’s the city Koch stands from. This is an exceptional matchup between two men hovering around the top 10 of the UFC featherweight division and I anticipate it to be tightly contested, so much so I see the opening betting line being about a Select’em of -115 for each fighter. Though Koch has the edge that is striking, Poirier has the grappling benefit and as Koch showed in his last fight against Ricardo Lamas, he is definitely vulnerable to being placed on his spine. However, when he can keep the fight standing he has a very good chance of knocking”The Diamond” out. I really don’t have a slender way yet within this struggle and my bet will probably rely on where the gambling public takes the line. Thales Leites Returns to UFC Former UFC middleweight title challenger Thales Leites is coming to the UFC after winning six of the last seven fights since being cut from the promotion following back-to-back losses to Anderson Silva at UFC 97 and Alessio Sakara at UFC 101. The information was reported today by Sportv.Globo.com. Even though a lot of people are surprised by Leites returning, I for one am not. Leites is actually a very solid middleweight fighter and in my opinion that he must haven’t been published in the first place because shedding to Silva was a automatic loss on his album and also the judges absolutely chased him against Sakara. There has not been any competition named yet for Leites in his return but expect him to compete on the UFC 163 card against one of the branch’s lower-end fighters, possibly someone from TUF 17.
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