Preview: UFC London Prelims – Kondratavicius vs. Troccoli
Middleweights
BETTING ODDS: Kondratavicius (-750); Trocoli (+525) Lithuania’s Kondratavicius (8-1) seeks his first UFC win right here towards Trocoli (12-6, 1 NC; 0-3 UFC), who continues to be seeking the identical regardless of three earlier tries. Much shall be product of Kondratavicius’ knockout energy, which he positively possesses, however at this level in his improvement, the 26-yr-previous is an extremely-uncooked work in progress. He is an efficient-sized middleweight, blessed with athleticism that may be clean or explosive because the second requires, and good ending instincts. While he’s a effectively-educated striker able to using all kinds of methods, he tends to cost in on straight strains and doesn’t throw together usually sufficient, except for swarming on an already harm foe. The result’s that he has amassed a powerful spotlight reel, however watching the present fights reveals a prospect who will get hit cleanly far too usually, even by opponents who could not hope to match his offensive output and have been finally overwhelmed. There is one thing of early-profession Edmen Shahbazyan about him in that regard, and regardless of the final result of Saturday’s battle, he could also be in for the same studying curve sooner or later.
Having stated that, even when Kondratavicius is ripe for some in-cage classes, Trocoli might be not the one to ship them. “Malvado” is a completely large middleweight (after arising as an
impossibly large welterweight) however regardless of his vaunted grappling background, it is troublesome to level out something he does at a UFC degree. Trocoli enjoys peak and attain benefits over everybody else within the division, however his hand velocity and head motion are so poor that smaller fighters don’t have any bother navigating the gap. He is a succesful offensive grappler, and has huge floor-and-pound when the chance presents itself, however he lacks any dependable strategy to get good middleweights to the ground, and his personal grappling protection has been cracked in consecutive first-spherical submission losses, together with getting guillotine choked by a striker and marginal UFC expertise in Tresean Gore.
This battle options one of many widest betting strains on the cardboard for good cause. Kondratavicius is a promising expertise however removed from a completed product, however it’s troublesome to plot a path to victory for Trocoli outdoors of touchdown the very best haymaker of his profession. Conversely, Kondratavicius’ tendency to emerge ahead behind a storm of big, disconnected single strikes is prone to repay huge towards an upright, sluggish-footed opponent with zero head motion. The decide is Kondratavicius by first-spherical knockout.
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