Despite a late-notice addition at the main event, a winner of UFC Vegas 108 seems clear, according to the Bloody Elbow experts.
Tatsuro Taira was supposed to fight Amir Albazi in a top-of-the-card flying weight, because two top-ranging contenders had the head in a fight that had huge implications for a future title fight.
However, Albazi did not succeed in passing the medical to compete at UFC Vegas 108, which means that it was removed from the main event and was replaced only a few days before the event by Hyun Sung Park.
In the Co-Main event of the Show, two very similar linked hunters see the expulsion in the lightweight division, while there are a number of hunters on the Undercard who are in a shot to win a $ 50,000 bonus with their versions.
The bloody elbow personnel has made their predictions about what will happen at UFC Vegas 108, including the two main event files, as well as the fight of the night and performance of the night bonus winners
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Tatsuro Taira vs Hyun Sung Park -forecasts
- Jordan Ellis: Tatsuro Taira
- Kyle Dimond: Tatsuro Taira
- Harvey Leonard: Tatsuro Taira
The most important event of UFC Vegas 108 has come in the short term, but that should not affect Taira's opportunities to win.
The bloody elbow experts all agree that the Japanese flight weight will lead the winner against an inexperienced park, which may have taken this fight too early in his career.
While he is still faltering of March's defeat against Brandon Royval, Taira is still the #6 -arranged flight weight in the division and it seems that it probably seems to earn a title shot in the near future if he can string some more victories.
Although Park has so far been 3-0 in the UFC, he has a long way to go before he reaches that level and must be defeated by Taira in an exciting main event on 2 August.
With four Finishes in his six UFC victories, Taira could end this fight early if Park is not at its best at UFC Vegas 108.
Mateusz Rebecki vs. Chris Duncan
- Jordan Ellis: Chris Duncan
- Kyle Dimond: Chris Duncan
- Harvey Leonard: Mateusz Rebecki
- Ross Markey: Chris Duncan
The experts are somewhat divided at the CO-Main event, which Mateusz Rebecki places against Chris Duncan in an exciting lightweight collision.
This fight could go in all directions, with both men with similar records, with four victories in their last five fights in the run -up to UFC Vegas 108.
“The problem” won his last two attacks via Guillotine choke, so he will want to come behind Rebecki to finish him, although it would be the first loss of submission of his career if the post would lose the fight, as Jordan, Ross and Kyle predict.
With a record of 20-2, however, Harvey supports Rebecki to beat Duncan, ending the two-fighter extraction streak of the Scot in the Co-Main event of the show.
Vecht van de Nacht
- Jordan Ellis: Mateusz Rebecki vs. Chris Duncan
- Kyle Dimond: Mateusz Rebecki vs. Chris Duncan
- Harvey Leonard: Elves Brener vs. Esteban Riabovics
- Ross Markey: Mateusz Rebecki vs. Chris Duncan
According to two of the experts, the Co-Main event seems to be exciting. Ross, Jordan and Kyle supported Duncan to beat Rebecki in the lightweight collision, but they also think that this fight will give them a $ 50,000 bonus to put on the fight of the night on 2 August.
While Duncan won his last two attacks through the entry, three Van Rebecki's last four did not get into mind. An entry and TKO victory, plus a defeat for Diego Ferreira via TKO, fills his recent record, with even his split decision victory over myktybek Orolbai entertaining fans at UFC 308.
Harvey, however, supports another fight to impress. He thinks that Elves Brener, who wants to lose his duck of back-to-back, will do a good show against Esteban Riabovics in what his last UFC fight could be.
Robovics has his own motivation to impress, while he wants to break into the top 15 rankings in the lightweight division, and an impressive victory over Brener could do that exactly.
Execution of the night
- Jordan Ellis: Kevin Vallejos
- Kyle Dimond: Kevin Vallejos
- Harvey Leonard: Rinya Nakamura
- Ross Markey: Tatsuro Taira
Jordan and Kyle have one eye on the undercard when they look at their performance of the night at UFC Vegas 108. The performance of Kevin Vallejos will be of particular importance and looks like a good choice for the end-the-night bonus on Saturday.
The Argentinian hunter returns to fight for the first time since March, where he achieved a TKO victory of the first round on Seung Woo Choi, and hope to add a second victory to his record with a great achievements.
Harvey, however, supports Rinya Nakamura on the Prelims to take the compliments. “The Hybrid” may come from a loss for Muin Geaturov, but he has all the tools to set up a good show in Las Vegas.
Finally, Ross thinks that Taira will make an impression in the main event and will easily put it in the park at the end of the night.