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#3. UFC Fight Night: The Main Card

Thiago Moises stars on this weekend's main card

In a heavyweight bout, Josh Parisian faces Alan Baudot. Given that both men are coming off losses and haven’t made much noise in the UFC, this one could prove to be a loser-leaves-town clash.

Overall, though, Parisian appears to be the slightly harder-hitting fighter, and in the heavyweight division, that could be enough to make the difference. Parisian via TKO is the pick.

In a lightweight clash, Thiago Moises faces Christos Giagos. This one is a clash of two grapplers, and although Moises has lost his last two bouts, one loss came to Islam Makhachev and the other came via TKO.

Giagos simply isn’t the grappler that Makhachev is, nor is he a heavy hitter. Instead, he’s more of a traditional submission artist – but he isn’t on the same level as Moises and has been submitted in his own right on numerous occasions. So Moises via tapout is the pick.

At bantamweight, Nate Maness takes on Umar Nurmagomedov. Maness has thus far shown himself to be a tough customer in his UFC career, as he’s won three bouts in a row, most recently knocking out Tony Gravely.

However, he could be up against it here. Nurmagomedov – like his namesake Khabib – is a monstrous grappler who looks comfortable in simply bullying foes before submitting them or beating them up on the ground. Nurmagomedov via submission is the pick.

Finally, Chris Curtis takes on Rodolfo Vieira in a middleweight clash. Curtis produced some big upsets in 2021, beating both Brendan Allen and Phil Hawes via TKO, so can he pull another one off against Vieira, one of the world’s best grapplers?

This basically comes down to whether Vieira can take Curtis down without gassing. If he can do that, it’ll be game over for ‘Action Man’. If he can’t, then who knows? The smart money is on Vieira via submission, but Curtis definitely has an outside shot.

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#4. UFC Fight Night: The Prelims

Picks in bold

UFC light-heavyweight division: Carlos Ulberg vs. Tafon Nchukwi

UFC featherweight division: Shayilan Nuerdanbieke vs. TJ Brown

UFC bantamweight division: Raulian Paiva vs. Sergey Morozov

UFC flyweight division: JP Buys vs. Cody Durden

UFC bantamweight division: Brian Kelleher vs. Mario Bautista

UFC strawweight division: Vanessa Demopoulos vs. Jinh Yu Frey

UFC flyweight division: Tyson Nam vs. Tagir Ulanbekov