Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France Fight Odds
Brandon Moreno -215 vs Kai Kara-France
Fight is five rounds at 125 lbs and is +120 to end inside the distance.
For the interim men’s flyweight championship.
Much like the main event, the co-main event is a rematch. The original fight is far less known and talked about than the one in the main event. Brandon Moreno and Kai Kara-France squared off in 2019, early in Moreno’s second stint with the UFC. It was that fight that we learned just how much Moreno had progressed as a striker. He was the fighter that put on the noticeable damage and won that fight without a single takedown. That was a pivotal fight as Moreno went on to claim the flyweight championship. Kara-France had another hiccup since that fight, but has now moved his way to a championship fight.
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Moreno was always a high end grappler and BJJ based fighter, but did not have the striking chops in his first stint in the UFC. He came back worlds better and clearly good enough to have won a world title. Moreno is even better now than he was in his development than he was in that first fight with Kara-France. Moreno showed no durability issues back then and we clearly know none exist as Moreno fought ungodly powerful Deiveson Figueiredo in each of his last three fights. One would think that for Moreno to lose this fight, it would have to be on the judge’s scorecards. We have already seen a lesser version of Moreno outstrike Kara-France, and to just say Moreno is the superior grappler would be a large understatement.
Kara-France is a striker through and through. We have not seen him land a takedown in any of his last six fights, but we have seen him submitted by Brandon Royval. Kara-France is a sharp striker, and that worked well for him recently against grappler Askar Askarov. Where he will once again become undone is by the now wildly high level well rounded nature of Moreno.
Moreno can win this fight standing, but I think we will see some grappling as well over five rounds. Moreno has won a striking battle with Kara-France already, but the floor is quite clearly the path of least resistance. I mentioned the first iteration of this matchup kind of flies under the radar, and that is fortunate for us. If it did not, there is no way we would get Brandon Moreno with just a -215 price tag. Look for Moreno to win gold once again and take him on the flat line.
Betting Pick: Moreno -215
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