UFC 228: 5 reasons why you need to watch the undercard

#5 A battle of finishers will open the main card

Niko Price has 5 UFC finishes under his belt

Despite the higher ranking, fighters like Tatiana Suarez, Carla Esparza, John Dodson, Jimmie Rivera and Aljamain Sterling filling the preliminary card, the main card of the pay-per-view portion of UFC 228 will be opened by unranked Welterweights Niko Price and Abdul Razak Alhassan. But don’t go into the fight thinking that this is another example of poor card placement from the UFC.

The powers-that-be have clearly placed this one as the main card opener because neither man seems to know how to have a dull fight. They have 8 UFC wins and just 2 losses between them, but the big selling point is the fact that of their 10 combined UFC outings, just one has gone the distance.

Alhassan’s fight with Omari Akhmedov went to the judges’ scorecards back in May 2017, but his other three fights – against Charlie Ward and twice against Sabah Homasi – have both been finished by violent knockout, while Price has three knockouts and two submissions on his ledger – as well as a submission loss.

Basically, it’s hard to see a situation where this fight lasts the full fifteen minutes. Both men will probably come out hell for leather looking for the finish, and it’s highly likely that one of them will find it. They might not be the biggest names, but this will probably turn out to be a must-see fight.