Joaquin Buckley vs Abdul Razak Alhassan Fight Odds
Joaquin Buckley -150 vs Abdul Razak Alhassan
Fight is at 185 lbs and is -280 to end inside the distance.
This fight is something of an appetizer to the main event’s main course. We fully expect an early knock out in the main event, and we can fully expect that from these two heavy hitters as well.
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We get two fighters here that are truly knock out hunters. These two fighters combine for eight UFC wins and all eight have come by way of knock out. Every single one. Neither fighter prefers to grapple and both fighters enter the cage with the sole mission of removing their opponent from consciousness.
I don’t think there’s a huge durability edge, but if there is one to be had, it is on the side of Abdul Razak Alhassan. Alhassan has been knocked out once in the octagon, with his other three losses coming via judge’s scorecards.
Both strikers are quite explosive, but Alhassan is the tighter and more diverse striker. The head kick might be a notable weapon for Alhassan, as the story of these two fighters has Alessio Di Chirico involved as well. Di Chirico slept Buckley with a head kick. In his next fight, it was Alhassan that slept Di Chirico with a head kick.
A note for Alhassan. He has moved to training at Elevation, and I believe this might give him a cardio edge and make him the busier striker of the two.
What To Bet
The truth is this is an extremely close fight, but I do believe it is Alhassan that should be the slight favorite. I simply have the exact same feel on this fight as I did for Tai Tuivasa vs Derrick Lewis last week. Like that fight, both fighters have ral power, but the underdog is the more diverse striker. A fight that will almost surely end in a knock out, and a huge value on the ITD line for the underdog side. The ITD lines are +110 for Buckley and +215 for Alhassan. We get +215 on what I see as the slightly better side of a coin flip, and that is value to attack.
Betting Pick: Alhassan ITD +215
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