What are your thought about Strickland and Magomedov fight ? This is going to be Magomedovs second fight in UFC (first one he won in only 19 seconds), but he has a nice record outside UFC. If not mistaken, last time Strickland had a fight he was on a short notice and fought not in his usual division. Before that he had two hard fights. It seems that UFC is giving him an easy opponent, to make him rest. Otherwise I dont how to explain why we have practically an unranked debutant vs top7 fighter fight.
That 1st fight of Abus Magomedov in UFC Paris surely is a surprising performance of his and that fight really carve its way inside my mind and never left, after his debut fight he is now fighting a ranked guy, but for me even though Magomedov is the slight underdog he is the wolves here, and Sean Strickland is going to be feed to the wolves, and Abus is a Dagestani that decided to be a striker, you really know that Abus Magomedov is a great striker and he can also get the fight to the ground that is why Sean Strickland will be terribly going to regret accepting this fight,
^ Matomedov's first opponent in the UFC, Dustin Stoltzfus, isn't really that good tho... I think his contract wasn't renewed and he was released after the fight. And with the 19 second KO, there isn't really much to tell how good Magomedov is. We don't know if he has the cardio, the ground game or if he's durable enough to go toe to toe vs Strickland for 5 rounds.
And it's a huge step up in competiton. But watching his highlights in YT, he does have decent stand up, he seems to have powerrr in those hands and his front kick could be a problem for Strickland. If Magomedov is gonna win, it's gonna be via KO more often than not.
That front kick is a very huge problem for Strickland for sure and looking at his PFL highlights he certainly has a decent ground game, even though he got 4 losses it doesn't matter because I have seen his improvement with those recent fights he has, for me I really don't want to compare him in some fighters in the UFC because he got a unique style, for sure that Drunken punch of Strickland will not work against Abus Magomedov,
I really feel like this is gonna be a big upset. You already know by the way they stand, compare to how flatfooted Strickland is. It would be hard for Strickland to move quickly if the front kick comes.
Magomedovs gonna KO Strickland in the first round also, it will be a quick fight. He better do it quickly if he can't last 3 rounds else it will be him lying on the ground. And we'll not see him again.
Exactly Sean Strickland will not have any defense against that front kick, or maybe there will be no front kick maybe something else, or maybe a takedown I really think Abus Magomedov is pretty much well-rounded for Sean Strickland, and for me his striking game is near Pereira, if not close at least near that caliber, for me this is just my opinion in what I have seen so far,