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UFC at ABC: Robert Whittaker vs. Reinier de Ridder Main Preview and card failure
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(Photo Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)In general, these “Fight Night” cards without payments are quite tame and kept in front of almost any audience on the top of the UFC. This is not the UFC release on ABC on July 26. This card takes place at the well -known Etihad arena in the United Arab Emirates. It will be the 21st UFC visit to the Etihad Arena, the majority in the last four years from the end of the arena in 2021.
We have two ranking fights with the five best guys in the main and co-head event. At Headliner No. 5 Robert “Bobby Knuckles” Whittaker is heading No. 12 Reinier de Ridder. In cooperation, the former weight weight master and pretender No. 3 Petr Yan fights No. 13 Marcus McGhee.
Even unrestricted duels are fascinating, and Bryce Mitchell is fighting, said Nurmagomedov in Bantameight scrap metal, and Shabutdin Magomedov throws him out of Marc-Andre Bariault in the card opener.
Here’s everything you need to know about this fights quartter! And don’t forget that this event in Abu Dhabi the main card runs at 15.00 et Piercing!
Main event: No. 5 Robert Whittaker vs. No. 12 Reinier de Ridder – Middle Wweight Ranking
Robert Whittaker (26-8) enters this fight in a significant flaw in almost every category. It has a height of six feet, but Reinier de Ridder (20-2) is a massive 6’4 “. 73.5-inch Whittaker’s range will also be relatively petite, and the” Dutch knight “has worked for 79 inches. Both men will be 34 years elderly when they enter the Octagon on July 26.
Whittaker will want to reflect after a slightly embarrassing show against Khamzat Chimaev, who in the first round relaxed the Australian to get the crank on the face of the first round. Bobby has 3-2 because he lost the fight for the title with Israel Adesanya in 2022. Meanwhile, de Ridder won all three UFC fights since joining the promotion last autumn.
De Ridder has finished 13 of his 20 wins by reporting, so Whittaker will definitely look for removal. However, he has a ten in defense of the average weight (over 77 percent), so the Dutchman will be hard to drop him. Borz is the only one who took Bobby Knuckles in the last five fights.
If we were doing UFC forecastsWe would like Bobby Knuckles not only for Nostalgia, but also because it seems a good opportunity to bounce. Sellers also have it mentioned as a petite favorite, so we are not alone.
CO-MAIN event: No. 3 Petr Yan vs. No. 13 Marcus McGhee-Ranking Bantamweight Bout
In the co–Main Petr Yan (18-5) and Marcus McGhee (10-1) event, they fit quite well physically. Yan, at 5’7 “, is a shorter man by one inch, while McGhee also enjoys a two -inch advantage, from 67” to 69 “. However, despite a much longer and more outstanding career for Yan, at the age of 32 he is three years younger than McGhee.
McGhee won all four UFC duels, ending his first three, and recently winning the decision on Jonathan Martinez. Meanwhile, Yan won the last two in a row against much more hard competition in the song Yadong and Deiveson Figueiredo. Some were worried after he lost three hard decisions (MERAB, O’Malley, Sterling), but the Russian seems to have returned. This is the first real challenge of UFC McGhee (he is a huge weaker) and the boy is huge.
Bryce Mitchell vs. Sai
Bryce “Thug Nasty” Mitchell (17-3) comes on 5’9 “with 70-inch range. Said Nurmagomedov (18-4) with a 5’8 frame” and an identical 70-inch range. The Dagestani fighter is three years older, and Mitchell is only 30 years elderly despite the seven years in UFC.
Mitchell was completed by Red Sizzling Jean Silva in his last duel in April, and alternately won and losses in the last six. At that time he won impressive victories over Dan IgE and Edson Barboza. Nurmagomedov does not quite touch his name because he lost two of the last three of the less than the famed competition.
Shabutdin Magomedov vs. Marc-Andre Barriault-Middleight
In the main card opener we get one of the most intriguing MMA fighters in Shabutdin Magomedov (15-1), taking Canadian sensation at Marc-Andre Barriault (17-9, 1 NC). Shara “Bullet” seems to have many advantages here: he is higher than Barriault by one inch (6’2 “vs. 6’1”), and in the age of 31 is four years younger than Barriault. Both have 73-inch resources.
His only disadvantage is that Shara is blind in the right eye. Because of this blindness, he must not fight in the United States yet, he remains a sniper, and his 62.4 -percentage significant striking accuracy takes second place in the weight class.
Shara will want to avenge his first career defeat when he was the last time he fought, when he abandoned his decision on the unconventional and unpredictable side of Michael. Otherwise, he dominated since joining the UFC, winning his first four fights and generally doing it in a dominant way.
Barriault returned with great nervousness towards Bruno Silva in his last fight just two months ago in May. But he lost three in a row (two in the first round of Nokaut) and seems to be on snail-paced.
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