The dust has settled on the massive Volkanovski/Makhachev fight and we move straight on to what is a massive event. Finally Jon Jones makes his return (after more than 3 years) and finally Jones makes his heavyweight debut (after talking about it for about a decade).
Shevchenko should find a way, but Grasso at least has the ground game to threaten. With all the champions losing lately, you never know.
Big hype-train Nickel makes his debut and should win very easily and quickly here. Du Plessis makes a pretty quick turnaround and it wouldn't surprise me at all if Brunson ended his run. Yet another hype train in Ian Garry on the early prelims shows the depth, and looking forward to seeing Ricci again (mind out of the gutters fellas).
Besides the ME, it's the Rakhomonov/Neal fight I'm most looking forward to. Neal is a serious test and I expect Shavkat to keep his train on the tracks and put his name forward for a top 5 fight next.
Shevchenko should find a way, but Grasso at least has the ground game to threaten. With all the champions losing lately, you never know.
Big hype-train Nickel makes his debut and should win very easily and quickly here. Du Plessis makes a pretty quick turnaround and it wouldn't surprise me at all if Brunson ended his run. Yet another hype train in Ian Garry on the early prelims shows the depth, and looking forward to seeing Ricci again (mind out of the gutters fellas).
Besides the ME, it's the Rakhomonov/Neal fight I'm most looking forward to. Neal is a serious test and I expect Shavkat to keep his train on the tracks and put his name forward for a top 5 fight next.