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#4 Modestas Bukauskas vs. Khalil Rountree promises to be a wild stand-up affair
Some UFC fights don’t necessarily need highly-ranked combatants to make them well worth watching. A perfect example is the light heavyweight bout between Modestas Bukauskas and Khalil Rountree that’s scheduled to go down this weekend.
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Despite the UFC light heavyweight division being somewhat thin on talent, neither man is ranked in the top fifteen right now. That's probably because they’re both coming off back-to-back losses.
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However, both ‘The Baltic Gladiator’ and ‘The War Horse’ fight in a very similar style. Essentially, they’re both likely to throw heavy leather at their opponent until someone is knocked unconscious.
We’ve seen examples of this throughout the UFC careers of both men. Bukauskas knocked out Andreas Michailidis and then fell to a KO himself against Jimmy Crute. Rountree, meanwhile, took out the likes of Gokhan Saki and Paul Craig, but was stopped by Johnny Walker and Ion Cutelaba.
More than any other fight on this weekend’s UFC card, it’s absolutely impossible to imagine this clash going the distance. If both men come in and fight in their usual style, someone is getting knocked out, and it’ll likely be in highlight-reel fashion too.
With a don’t-blink clash on the main card, this UFC Fight Night is surely worth watching.
#3 Alex Morono has a chance to prove he's for real after his win over UFC legend Donald Cerrone
It’s always intriguing to see how a fighter can follow up the first really big win of their career. And at this weekend’s UFC Fight Night, we should find out exactly how good Alex Morono really is.
Morono has been in the UFC since 2016, and holds a record of 8-4-1. But despite that being a solid ledger, few fans would’ve taken note of ‘The Great White’ prior to his win over UFC legend Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone in May.
Morono looked excellent in that fight, dismantling Cerrone with hard, accurate strikes en route to a first round TKO. Prior to this, however, he’d shown no signs that he was capable of beating a top level opponent in the octagon.
So how much of that win came from Morono making the necessary improvements - and how much of it was caused by Cerrone’s rapidly waning durability?
We should hopefully find out the answer to that question this weekend, as Morono takes on David Zawada. Nobody is going to mistake the German for a top ten welterweight right now, as he’s just 1-3 in the UFC and has only fought once since November 2019.
However, ‘Sagat’ does have talent, and has shown substantial skills in all areas since arriving in the UFC in 2018. He’s more than capable of springing an upset, especially if Morono comes in overconfident.
But if ‘The Great White’ is for real, then he should roll over Zawada this weekend, giving him an impressive follow-up to that Cerrone win. Either way, it’ll be interesting to see what happens in this fight.
