GDT: UFC on ESPN: Brunson vs. Holland

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Date: March 20, 2021
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 10 pm ET/7 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+, TSN 5

MAIN CARD (ESPN, TSN 5)

Middleweight bout: Derek Brunson vs. Kevin Holland
Lightweight bout: Gregor Gillespie vs. Brad Riddell
Women’s Strawweight bout: Cheyanne Buys vs. Montserrat Ruiz
Bantamweight bout: Adrian Yanez vs. Gustavo Lopez
Welterweight bout: Song Kenan vs. Max Griffin
Heavyweight bout: Tai Tuivasa vs. Harry Hunsucker

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN 2, TSN 5)

Women’s Bantamweight bout: Marion Reneau vs. Macy Chiasson
Lightweight bout: Leonardo Santos vs. Grant Dawson
Middleweight bout: Trevin Giles vs. Roman Dolidze
Bantamweight bout: Montel Jackson vs. Jesse Strader
Women’s Bantamweight bout: Julia Avila vs. Julija Stoliarenko
Flyweight bout: JP Buys vs. Bruno Gustavo da Silva​
 
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CDJ

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Tai Tuivasa is back on the card against short notice fill-in Harry Hunsucker, who I expect to be sent to the moon

I like the value on Leonardo Santos at +170. Primarily because Dawson is a submission guy fighting up at 155 and Santos is larger and a 4th degree black belt. And because he’s not afraid of going to the ground Santos loads up and does try to wildly knock people out

Riddell +195 is nice if you think Gillespie is still susceptible to head kicks. I know Gillespie didn’t train for a lot of last year. He was still in great shape obviously but I know the gyms were all shut down for him so he just fished
 
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Top 2 fights are decent. I think Tuivasa and Griffin are probably the only other guys I could pick out of a line up. Definitely a "let's get it to next weekend" card.
 

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One fight card for me but Holland is one of my favorite fighters in the UFC right now. Super cerebral guy who knows how to talk trash. His interview this week with Mike Heck was one of my favorite fighter interviews in some time.
 
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Pretty meh card.

Good to see Gillespie finally back after that brutal KO. That being said Riddell is a TOUGH opponent to come back against. I’m surprised Riddells such a significant underdog that fight is more of a pick ‘em to me.

Also with regards to the main event I think Brunson does what he does best and plays the role of spoiler and stops the Kevin Holland hype train. Brunson’s another live dog.

May parlay the 2 dogs in the last 2 fights and call it a night.
 

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Pretty meh card.

Good to see Gillespie finally back after that brutal KO. That being said Riddell is a TOUGH opponent to come back against. I’m surprised Riddells such a significant underdog that fight is more of a pick ‘em to me.

Also with regards to the main event I think Brunson does what he does best and plays the role of spoiler and stops the Kevin Holland hype train. Brunson’s another live dog.

May parlay the 2 dogs in the last 2 fights and call it a night.


Watch this card be full of amazing knockouts and finishes, and next weeks big event be a snooze fest haha
 

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Kevin Holland is one of my favorites but I have a weird feeling about this one. I think Brunson’s got the better wins lately. I’d argue his last 3 wins are better than anybody Holland has beaten in the ufc. I think the version of Theodoreau that Brunson beat is better than the version of Jacare that Holland beat. And I know Heinisch and Shahbazyan are better.

If Brunson keeps his strategy from his last fight I think he can have success. I’m rooting for Holland but I think I’d bet Brunson +150

Sidenote- Speaking of Elias Theodoreau he got another finish a week ago on the regional circuit. He’s a talented guy. Was boring af as a Ufc fighter but talented
 
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Whale shit card on paper, but I bet on two underdogs in Santos and Brunson so those fights should be exciting for me at least.
 

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Silva definitely hit him in the back of the head about four times, lol. But was still on his way to the finish, so I guess that's life.
 

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Dolidze is a big leg lock guy. I know he went for them in his last fight too. He’s got a couple of leg lock subs on his resume too


I had Giles in this fight. He looked to stun Dolidze a bit when Roman committed to a heel hook. Will be interesting to see how round 3 goes
 

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Win or lose, horrible IQ for Giles. He had that in the bag, but insisted on playing his opponents game.
 
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Not often you see all the judges on the same page in a fight like that. I think they got it right too
 

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Welcome to the bigs kid. Here’s a little bit of adversity for Dawson, we’ll learn a lot about him here
 

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HOLY SHIT GRANT DAWSON

those were vicious shots, Santos is out. Rat f*** Tognoni let’s another guy take multiple shots while unconscious. Dawson was dribbling his head lol
 
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bov

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Wow, curious to see if he did indeed save himself from a loss. Crazy finish, bit of a late stoppage too.
 

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