UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Emmett

UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Emmett is full of a bunch of amazing fights to watch and to bet on. This card is an action pact card with numerous fights that can go either way. This card is definitely not as popular compared to other fights because there are no big name fighters, however, there are amazing fighters in this card, I strongly believe that this card will be astonishing and something for us bettors to make some money on.  

Lets begin with match 4 on the main card Joaquin Buckley vs Albert Duraev. I believe that this fight will be one of the closest fights on the main card. This fight will be very interesting because of the two fighters’ different styles. Buckley is a striker with a 14-4 record in his fighting career with most of those wins coming from a knockout. Duraev’s known fighting style is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with a record of 15-3 dominating his opponents from the ground being 9-0 in submissions.  

A big aspect of this fight is going to be their fighting stance. Duraev’s stance is orthodox like almost every fighter. However, Buckley’s stance is southpaw which I believe will give him a slight advantage over Duraev. The southpaw stance will give Buckley an edge on Duraev simply because it will be difficult to cope with a fighter who moves in a mirror-reverse. Southpaw fighters have also historically beaten orthodox fighters at a 52% rate. Out of the two fighters, I do believe that Duraev is superior on the ground than Buckley. If Duraev takes this fight to the ground it could be over fairly quickly. My official bet is Joaquin Buckley ML at +180 because if Buckely can stay off the ground I do believe that he will dominate in this fight.  

The next fight is between Kevin Holland and Tim Means. Kevin Holland has a record of 22-7 with 11 of them coming from a TKO win. Tim Means has a record of 31-12 with 18 of them coming from a TKO win as well. I believe that this match will be dominated by Kevin Holland. There are just too many factors that go his way that make me think that Kevin Holland will come out on top. First, Kevin Holland has a superior reach by 6 inches as well with being an inch taller. The more significant factor in my opinion is age. Holland is almost 10 years younger than Means, giving him in my opinion a great combination for an overall victory. Kevin Holland -290 ML should be an easy bet however, taking that ML alone could be too much for some bettors so I would go on a method of victory bet and take Holland by KO/TKO +260.  

This next fight is an interesting one between Donald Cowboy Cerrone with a record of 36-16 vs Joe Lauzon with a record of 28-16. This fight was supposed to take place on UFC 274 but Cowboy had to withdraw because of COVID-19 which makes me want to lean towards Joe Lauzon. I think this will be a very action packed fight with numerous hard hits. I believe that if Joe Lauzon comes out strong and out the gate aggressive which he usually does he can really do some damage and win this fight. I think that Cowboy is still being viewed as a dominant unstoppable force that he used to be. That is just not the case anymore, he has lost 4 out of his last 6 fights by KO/TKO. All the recent events happening to Cowboy just does not make a good recipe for a win. My official bet is Joe Lauzon +140 ML. I do think this bet has great value and would just take Lauzon winning outright rather than a method of victory, however I do think a good side bet would also be Lauzon by KO/TKO. 

Now onto the main event Calvin Kattar vs Josh Emmett. Both of these guys are absolute beasts and this fight will be one to keep your eyes on. Calvin Kattar has a record of 23-5 with 18 KO/TKO wins and Josh Emmett is 17-2 with 6 KO/TKO wins. I will give a slight edge to Calvin Kattar however, because of his two inch reach and five inch height advantage. These advantages will appear very visible in this match creating a lot of openings for Kattar to strike hard on Emmett because of the ground that Emmett has to make up. Calvin Kattar has also generally more experience and has fought stronger opponents than Josh Emmett. He is coming off one of his greatest wins in his career defeating Giga Chikadze as a +200 underdog surprising the world and putting himself on the map. I also do believe that Calvin Kattar just simply has a more complete game than Emmett both on the ground and striking. This will be Josh Emmett’s hardest fight of his career however, he is a very tough opponent and will make Kattar earn every inch of this fight but I do strongly believe that Kattar -240 ML will be a great bet. However, for some bettors -240 is extremely expensive to straight bet, so this could be thrown into a parlay and bettors can take Kattar winning by KO/TKO +215 which is what I think would be a great value bet as well.