MMA ODDS AND ENDS FOR THURSDAY: JACARE VS. OKAMI RUMORED
UFC president Dana White today revealed to reporters that a middleweight bout between former Strikeforce middleweight champion Ronaldo”Jacare” Souza and Yushin Okami has been targeted for a upcoming occasion. The fight is intriguing in certain ways, but it could prove to be a massive stinker if Okami’s game plan is to push Souza contrary to the weapon for a quarter hour. Though Souza is a handsome grappler in his own right, he is smaller than Okami and could have problems with his size if Okami’s plan is to just wall-and-stall, he tends to perform in nearly all his struggles. But if the grappling neutralizes each other and the fight becomes a stand-up battle then it’s much 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 brow is very suspect at this point of his career and it would not surprise me at all if Souza won the fight via TKO. The struggle will be nearer than the public thinks, as I’m certain they will be over Souza. As such, I expect”Jacare” to open at about -200 with the comeback on Okami being +150. I really do prefer Souza slightly because he does have the striking advantage but in the event the line reaches the +200 mark for Okami the wager might be on him. It is a close fight though and also the right play might just be to maneuver it altogether unless the lineup retains absurd value for either man. Koch vs. Poirier Added to UFC 164 According to 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 trains out of. This really is an exceptional matchup involving two men hovering around the top 10 of the UFC featherweight division and that I expect it to become tightly contested, so much so I see the opening betting line being around a Pick’em of -115 for each fighter. Though Koch has the edge that is striking, Poirier gets the grappling benefit and as Koch showed in his final fight against Ricardo Lamas, he is definitely susceptible to being placed on his back. However, when he can keep the fight standing that he has a very good prospect of knocking”The Diamond” out. I really don’t have a slender way yet in this struggle and my wager will likely depend on where the betting public chooses the line. Thales Leites Returns to UFC Former UFC middleweight title challenger Thales Leites is returning to the UFC after winning six of the last seven fights since being cut by the promotion following back-to-back losses to Anderson Silva at UFC 97 and Alessio Sakara in UFC 101. The information was reported now by Sportv.Globo.com. Even though a great deal of people are surprised by Leites returning, I for one am not. Leites is actually a very solid middleweight fighter and in my view that he must haven’t been published in the first place because losing to Silva was a automatic reduction on his album and also the judges absolutely robbed him against Sakara. There has not been any competition named for Leites in his return but expect him to compete on the UFC 163 card from one of the branch’s lower-end fighters, perhaps someone from TUF 17.
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