Fighter Brandon Royval Ready For “Hell” In UFC Fight Night 212 Bout
Saturday testament redeem the UFC to Las Vegas for UFC Fight Night 212. Among the fights on the identity card testament follow flyweight contender Brandon Royval, who said on Wednesday that he’s ready for “hell” inwards his fight with Askar Askarov.
UFC fighters often render to avoid taking impairment as practically as possible in a fight. However, Royval (14-6 MMA, 4-2 UFC) plans to ut simply the opposite. He has a hectic and untamed fighting style and admits that he expects to occupy equipment casualty when he faces Askarov (14-1-1 MMA, 3-1-1 UFC).
Also on the scorecard inwards the women’s fights is a repugn 'tween Alexa Grasso (14-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) and Viviane Araujo (11-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC). Grasso is on her path upwards and is ready for a shot at the title.
Royval Ready To Get Messy
After connection the UFC inward 2020, Royval blazed a route for statute title contention. He took come out Tim Elliott and Kai Kara-France inward his first-class honours degree 2 appearances before dropping consecutive bouts to Brandon Moreno and Alexandre Pantoja.
However, Royval speedily recovered from the slouch and earned wins over Rogerio Bontorin and Matt Schnell. Considering the win/loss stock split and his stream momentum, he believes this Saturday could turn out to live his best public presentation to date.
It’s non going to be an easy repugn on Saturday, and Royval is going to face some stiff competition. He’s ranked fifth, simply behindhand his opponent. Askarov took the for the first time red of his calling this past Mar when he just lost to Kai Kara-France past decision.
Askarov testament piss adjustments against Royval and live to a greater extent methodical. This could apply him an edge, which is why DraftKings and BetMGM spring him the reward at -240 and -275, respectively. Royval is far out on the other side, getting +200 and +210.
The UFC’s flyweight conflict still doesn’t get a unmortgaged leader. There are several candidates in contention, with another upcoming mate go under to maybe wind the scales.
Champion Deiveson Figueiredo and former prizewinning Brandon Moreno will face from each one other for the 4th time on January 21 at UFC 283 inward Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They for each one get a win, a red ink and a draw, and this bout will be i of the most-watched inward recent history.
Grasso Confident In Title Shot
Grasso meets Araujo inward the briny case on Saturday. This is an important matchup for both, and it comes just a calendar week before Katlyn Chookagian and Manon Fiorot human face away at UFC 280.
Both of those bouts could go down the microscope stage for contention for the title. If Grasso is able to emerge victorious tomorrow, she’s confident that she will experience a real barb at taking it.
Grasso is 3-0 since moving upwardly from strawweight two years ago. She has secured cay wins against toughened competitors like Joanne Wood, Maycee Barber and Ji Yeon Kim, but said the upcoming fight back could define her as a fighter.
Araujo, who is inward 6th place, has had 4 bouts inwards the lastly ii years, all decided on the scorecards. The Brazilian vanquish Montana de la Rosa, Roxanne Modafferi and Angela Lee, but lost to Katlyn Chookagyan shoemaker's last year.
All results were by unanimous decision. If she wants to donjon Grasso from her course on the title, Araujo will have to live more strong-growing inward the octagon.
Based on her performances, oddsmakers don’t believe she’ll follow able to do it. Grasso is out inward front, getting -230 at Caesars and BetRivers. Araujo is +190 and +180, respectively.
The defend identity card led past Grasso and Araujo testament also include the bantamweight fights of stager Cub Swanson against Jonathan Martínez. In addition, Piera Rodríguez testament represent her undefeated enter (8-0) against Sam Hughes.