UFC Fight Night predictions, odds, fight card for Magomed Ankalaev vs. Bogdan Guskov
The UFC’s famed Octagon returns to Abu Dhabi on Saturday for a UFC Fight Night occasion headlined by former mild heavyweight champion Magomed Ankalaev taking over Bogdan Guskov.
Guskov is stepping in on comparatively quick discover after former title challenger Khalil Rountree Jr.. he was pressured to withdraw from his deliberate fight with Ankalaev. Rountree vs. Ankalaev was an intriguing assembly of confirmed 205-pounders, however Guskov has been on a stable run of late and will probably be trying to make his title off of a win over Ankalaev.
Guskov was submitted by Volkan Oezdemir in his UFC debut, however bounced again with a four-fight successful streak that included a TKO of Ryan Spann and knockout of Nikita Krylov.
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Those wins set Guskov up for the most important fight of his profession, a showdown with former mild heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz at UFC 323. Guskov practically completed Blachowicz within the second spherical, scoring a crushing knockdown within the body, however Blachowicz stormed again within the third spherical, leading to a draw.
Guskov and Blachowicz had been set for a rematch on Aug. 1, however Guskov’s name to save lots of Saturday’s primary occasion scrapped that concept. It is nice information for Guskov that he was already in coaching camp and his timeline solely modified by per week, so he must be able to fight.
Ankalaev has been out of motion since final October, when he misplaced the sunshine heavyweight title in his rematch with Alex Pereira at UFC 320. That evening, Ankalaev was stopped in simply 80 seconds, a a lot completely different end result than his title-winning efficiency within the first Pereira fight, the place Ankalaev largely dominated the motion.
The loss to Pereira snapped a 13-fight unbeaten streak for Ankalaev that started after he misplaced his first UFC bout.
UFC Fight Night fight card, odds
- Magomed Ankalaev -550 vs. Bogdan Guskov +410, mild heavyweights
- Steve Erceg -112 vs. Ramazan Temirov -108, flyweights
- Islam Dulatov -1000 vs. Wellington Turman +650, welterweights
- Magomed Zaynukov -298 vs. Damian Rzepecki +240, light-weight
- Rizvan Kuniev -340 vs. Tyrell Fortune +270, heavyweights
- Abubakar Vagaev -250 vs. Saygid Izagakhmaev +205, welterweights
- Walter Walker -166 vs. Thomas Petersen +140, heavyweights
- Dustin Jacoby -185 vs. Muhammad Saidov +154, mild heavyweights
- Sam Patterson -500 vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio +380, welterweights
- Axel Sola -192 vs. Ismael Bonfim +160, light-weight
- Magomed Tuchalov -850 vs. Brendson Ribeiro +575, mild heavyweights
- Nurullo Aliev -225 vs. Mike Davis +185, light-weight
- Abdul Hussein -535 vs. Cody Gibson +400, bantamweights
Prediction
Ankalaev has confirmed himself an elite mild heavyweight, grinding away for years and years to lastly get — and make good on — a chance to turn out to be champion. While he misplaced the title within the rematch, Ankalaev has mentioned he ignored his group’s recommendation to tug out of that fight attributable to harm and paid for it with the loss.
Guskov is a harmful fighter, however he hasn’t proven himself to be fairly at Ankalaev’s stage. Still, it is notable that Guskov has overwhelmed some good fighters and went to a draw with Blachowicz.
It’s regarding that Guskov had such a dominant second spherical towards Blachowicz however was knocked down and misplaced the third. Ankalaev is a fighter who will benefit from a fading fighter and has the abilities to make Guskov work for all the pieces. Pick: Magomed Ankalaev through UD
