UFC 246 Free Picks, Predictions and Analysis

Fight Card

Conor McGregor is a staple of blended combative techniques, and on Saturday, Jan. 18, he’ll make his hotly anticipated come back to the Octagon at UFC 246. McGregor will fight fan most loved Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone on the UFC 246 battle card. The 13-session occasion begins with early prelims at 6:15 p.m. ET, while the principle battles start at 10 p.m. ET at T-Mobile Arena simply off the Las Vegas Strip. Previous UFC ladies’ bantamweight champion Holly Holm will take on previous title challenger Raquel Pennington in the co-headliner of the UFC 246 card

For the entirety of his honors, Cerrone, 36, has only one title session in his UFC vocation, a misfortune to Rafael Dos Anjos in December 2015. The Denver local showed up maybe made a beeline for another title run when he rolled out three straight triumphs, yet was halted by Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje in his last two sessions. A third back to back misfortune would give his faultfinders more grub.

Cerrone enters on a two-battle losing streak. He resembled the Cowboy of old in overcoming Mike Perry, Alexander Hernandez and Al Iaquinta in a seven-month length from November 2018 to May 2019, however Cerrone has since been taken out by both Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. Cerrone remains flawlessly equipped for causing a lot of hostile harm, yet his safeguard – and by augmentation, his jaw – have everything except disappeared. It’s a gigantic, huge worry against a force puncher, for example, McGregor.

Given what Khabib simply did to Conor, I don’t perceive how Cerrone can enter this battle with the course of action of doing something besides hooking. Getting in a slug fest with McGregor is a formula for potential calamity. Cattle rustler has been doing this long enough that I need to assume the best about him, however this is a person who just ventured into the Octagon against Gaethje and didn’t go for a solitary takedown in the 4:18 that the session kept going. In the event that he chooses he needs to stand and blast with McGregor, he will lose.

The one clear favorable position Cerrone has – other than his wrestling and ground game – is his cardio. He figures to have the vitality to outpoint McGregor late on the off chance that he can endure the invasion that is assuredly coming early. I confide in McGregor’s cardio in a 25-minute kickboxing match, yet that all progressions in the event that he is compelled to invest energy in the tangle and continually guard takedowns.

The Analysis for UFC 246 Free Picks and Predictions

The Fight:

Over a year after his to a great extent appalling endeavor to wrest the UFC Lightweight Championship from (or, in another sense, shield his lineal title against) Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor returns in a battle that is genuinely near being absolute drivel. The arrival of McGregor this time is little however a simple compensation for each view headliner for the UFC, one that enables them to open up 2020 with most extreme profit for a top-overwhelming card; with the criminal charges encompassing McGregor that haven’t been expelled (regardless of whether they likewise haven’t been demonstrated), it might even wind up being a net negative for the organization to book notwithstanding the without a doubt high buyrate.

McGregor’s long cutbacks have finished his residency as an authentic contender, regardless of whether his last demonstrating demonstrated that he’s likely still talented enough to be; a success over Donald Cerrone is only an arrival to winning ways using any and all means conceivable, at a weight class that isn’t generally his, explicitly to set up a gathering with the streaking Jorge Masvidal for what might be what might be compared to the Money Belt. On the off chance that the UFC had their direction, McGregor would step directly back in with Nurmagomedov, a selling session if there has ever been one.

Cerrone against a long southpaw counterpuncher who generously hits the body appears to be a simple pick to make. Cerrone simply isn’t generally worked to win a battle this way, and it’s indicated commonly. The best parallel is Darren Till, who’s greater and rawer than McGregor yet brings a ton of a similar general paradigm; Cerrone didn’t have a response for somebody who could bluff him in reverse without venturing into him, and Till tore him separated when he was against the fence. McGregor can bodysnatch him without hardly lifting a finger, and he’s not a simple man to time receptive takedowns on.

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PICK: Conor Mcgregor by Knockout (-235)

Why?

These fighters both like to stand up. The only way I can see Cerrone winning this fight is by submission. The Blueprint is layed out on how to beat Conor and they are fighting at 170, so that gives the Bigger Man Cowboy a little advantage.

If you’re feeling the big pay out then maybe sprinkle a little change on the other side.

Juice Bet: Cerrone by submission +450

Holm is the UFC’s previous Women’s bantamweight champion that hails from Albuquerque, New Mexico and battles out of the well-eminent Jackson-Wink MMA. She is a 38-year-old warrior that normally battles at featherweight yet she will go down to bantamweight by and by to fight Pennington. Known as the “Evangelist’s Daughter” she will consistently return in the historical backdrop of MMA that brought down Ronda Rousey with a leg kick in 2015. Since that success, Holm has been an enormous objective.

She lost her title during her first title protection against Meisha Tate and has lost five of her seven matches. In any case, Holm is a notable striker, who likewise won a belt in boxing, and won’t down to a battle. She has always lost by means of accommodation and was just submitted once in her profession by Tate. Holly Holm should search for that KO blow as consistently and will attempt to complete the match ahead of schedule since she has not been supported much by the judges all through her profession.

Raquel “Rough” Pennington is a 31-year-old bantamweight warrior that originated from Colorado Springs, USA and battles out of Altitude MMA. She is a UFC veteran since 2013 and from that point forward she was 7-4 in the entirety of her battles in the MMA association. She had a decent run from 2015-2016 being undefeated in four straight matches and that let her earned a title battle against Amanda Nunes.

Putting the hero to an edge, she had the option to carry the battle to five adjusts before getting took out. She returned to the octagon following a couple of months and lost by and by to Germaine de Randamie through consistent choice. She recovered her triumphant force against Irene Aldana by a split choice back in July 2019. Raquel Pennington will attempt to put this match with Holm on the tangle and attempt to win by means of accommodation or experience the judges’ choice which she has done the greater part of her vocation.

The Fight:

This is a rematch, can it go the other way this time?

PICK: Raquel Pennington +105

I think Raquel has improved tremendously since the first time these two fought.

Alexey Oleynik is a veteran 42-year-old heavyweight contender that hails from Moscow, Russia and he runs his very own camp at Oleynik Team. This match against Greene will be his 71st counterpart for his celebrated MMA profession. “The Boa Constrictor” has been a legend in the MMA world and he came in late in his vocation in the UFC just in 2014. Since resulting in these present circumstances battle association he has a 6-5 on his successes and misfortunes.

He has lost his last two battles, all in 2019, against Alistair Overeem and Walt Harris. Both originated from TKOs. With signs that he should hang his gloves up, he considers this to be against Greene as an approach to return to winning and shut down his faultfinders. Over his vocation, his name says everything that he is an accommodation craftsman and won 45 of his 57 successes through different holds. Against Greene, he doesn’t appear as though he will conflict with his usual range of familiarity.

Greene is a heavyweight warrior that lives in Evanston, Illinois in the USA. At 33-years of age, he is known as “The Crochet Boss” and has a 11-battle vocation record at 8-3. Not much can be seen with Greene but rather when he went to the UFC in 2018, he had made some persuading triumphs over Michel Batista, Jeff Hughes and Junior Albini. Tasting his first misfortune in the UFC, he tumbled to Sergei Pavlovich back in October 2019 and he is back promptly to vindicate that misfortune.

A success against Alexey will legitimize the promotion that accompanied him when he went to the UFC. Like his rival, he jumps at the chance to complete the match on the ground and he ought to get a great deal of difficulties confronting a legend in the confine. Generally speaking, Maurice Greene needs to show development in this match against a prepared warrior. Alexey has been known to exploit apathetic battling and turn it against them the minute his rival puts his watchman down.

PICK: Maurice Greene (-130)

Why?

Oleynik has a lot of experience with over 60 professional fights. I think the younger more hungry fighter gets the win in this fight. I’m taking Greene by KO.

Gadelha is a Brazilan strawweight contender that hails from Mossoro, Rio Grande Do Norte. She is a 31-year-old contender that stables out of Lutttrell-Yee MMA and Jackson-Wink MMA. Her UFC vocation began in 2014 and she is 6-4 under the battle association. It is an all over vocation for “Claudinha” and hopes to seal another title shot by beating Grasso in UFC 246.

Her last two successes were all from the judge’s scorecards and her last accommodation win was gone back in June 2017. Her capacity to remain in the octagon and stamina is her best resource that kept her a predictable title contender consistently. Against Grasso, Claudia Gadelha will hope to carry the battle to the ground as she is outstanding for her entries preceding her UFC vocation.

Grasso is a youthful Mexican warrior at age 26 and originated from Guadalajara, Jalisco. She battles out of Lobo Gym MMA and made her first UFC debut in 2016. Preceding going to the UFC, she was an undefeated warrior and made waves in Invicta FC. At this moment, she is 3-3 on her UFC battle record and hopes to ricochet back in the wake of losing to Carla Esparza on a tight lion’s share choice misfortune. In her multi year vocation in the UFC, she had scored triumphs over Heather Clark, Randa Markos and Karolina Kowakiewics.

Her three misfortunes originated from Tatiana Suares, Felice Herrig and her ongoing were against Esparza. She normally carries her battles to the judge’s score vehicles as the vast majority of her battles are won through choices. Both Grasso and Gadelha are relied upon to end their matches to the scorecards and that is what is required for the two warriors to complete their battle in UFC 246.

PICK: Claudia Gadelha (-120)

Claudia is one good fighter, this is going to be a close contest but I like or to win by decision.

Pettis versus Ferreira was fairly a late add to UFC 246. This battle is not normal for most other UFC 246 sessions in light of the fact that Pettis, 32, and Ferreira, 34, both are acknowledged warriors for set up followings. Most battles on this card, or any Conor McGregor drove occasion, are between two youthful, rising possibilities that the UFC is attempting to fabricate a brand for. This battle is as yet an elevated level battle between two veterans that has battle of the night potential.

Pettis will be returning back to lightweight where he once held UFC gold. He is coming back from a concise stretch at welterweight where he took out Stephen Thompson and lost to Nate Diaz. Since losing his lightweight tie, Pettis has been very conflicting and has lost a bigger number of battles than he has won.

He is 4-6 in his last 10 battles, fluctuating between three diverse weight classes. He wants to bring some consistency again into his profession with a success over the favored Ferreira

Not at all like Pettis, Ferreira’s vocation is inclining upwards since losing to Dustin Poirier in 2015. From that point forward, he is 5-0 with two of those successes dropping by knockout. The issue many have with Ferreira is his resume. He has not beaten anyone with name esteem, yet beating a man like Anthony Pettis? That would work and place him inside the best 15 lightweights in the UFC, ready for one more huge battle.

PICK: Diego Ferreira (-245)