Latest / Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation / MMA Show | January 13, 2024 | UFC Fight Night DraftKings DFS Picks, Plays and Process
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- 0:04Fall. System's going clear for lifting. What's going on? Everybody? We're
- 0:38back after a month break. UFC always does it. It's always a nice
- 0:42time grinding content throughout the year every single week. Nice little break, NBA
- 0:46on the NFL on, but I'm excited for some fights back on the screen.
- 0:50One hundred k up top NFL Playoffs, NBA m m A Saturday.
- 0:55Can't drop a better weekend there, Big Marley, How are you doing?
- 0:57How is your break? Hope everything been going well with the holidays? Yeah,
- 1:00man, I'm good. I'm glad to be back. I always go
- 1:03into the break like looking forward for a refresher, because sometimes I do feel
- 1:07a little burnt out. But like a week is plenty for me. You
- 1:11know, I don't need a whole three weeks. I was really struggling that
- 1:14last week. But I can't wait. Man. I love having these fights
- 1:18and football on the same night. Hopefully we just double up on both of
- 1:22them. But we have all sports for you over at ship at nation dot
- 1:25com. Go sign up if you haven't yet, you're missing out If you
- 1:26haven't signed up, absolutely yeah, as Big Marley side, we have weekly,
- 1:30monthly, six months, and annual packages. Golf, going on,
- 1:34MMA, going on Golf Showdown, NBA, NHL, NFL, man,
- 1:40next thing you know, MLB will be here. All the money to be
- 1:44made right here. If you baked the flagship of every contest. If you
- 1:48say DraftKings, just anything on DraftKings, the main sports you're looking at.
- 1:52I mean, NFL's gotta have a million or something, so you're looking at
- 1:55seven figures right there. Obviously that's a wish of all make a wishes.
- 1:59But man, MMA, Hunter, k MFL, NBA, get in the
- 2:02streets and all of them. Of course, always play responsibly. But I'm
- 2:06very pumped for this card. Twelve fights at the Apex, we got pricing,
- 2:10we're talking a little pre show. It's a pretty tough card, I
- 2:13think, with a lot of big favorites. My takeaway the mid tier is
- 2:16absolutely loaded, especially three fights Bruno Ferreira, Phil Hawes, Jim Miller,
- 2:22Gabriel Benezitez and Matthew Semmelsberger, Press and Parsons. Three fights all in the
- 2:28mid tier, all price fine, and I think that is where if I
- 2:30do leave salary, I will be jamming those fights a lot. Otherwise the
- 2:34dogs someone's gonna come through, I think. But pretty tough to pinpoint which
- 2:38one in my opinion, any broad Slate overviews before you go fight by fight,
- 2:43No, I think that was a good one. I think the mid
- 2:44range is very important this week. I think the upper range is where it's
- 2:49tough, and I would be fine, say spending our I guess saving salary
- 2:53on this card and just loading up on that mid range, not forcing in
- 2:57all your salary with whoever it is in the nine k rang. But there's
- 3:00just so many like decent plays up top where I can't really separate them from
- 3:04each other. But there's also not a lot of complete fades for me on
- 3:08this card, which I always try to x out as many people as I
- 3:10can. I always hope for like six or so if I can, But
- 3:15I feel like I'm maybe like three on this card. Maybe we'll see if
- 3:19we can even get there. But I'm hoping that you can help me clear
- 3:22some things up on this show. There's a couple fights I have questions about
- 3:24that. I don't really feel great about how they're going to play out,
- 3:29but the metrics make me feel one way, film made me feel another,
- 3:31So we'll see. I'm looking forward to talking to talking about yeah, for
- 3:35sure. I think you said another important part, like I can't up top
- 3:38the ninety two hundred and a bove, I mean you can even go eighty
- 3:40eight hundred. I think Joshua Van is a very strong play. We're about
- 3:44to touch on him. But it's hard for me to like rank them.
- 3:47And I was doing the tier rankings. At number one, I put Gene
- 3:51Silva just because he's in a tier of his own in term of money line
- 3:53inside like minus nine hundred, minus eight hundred to finish, but still he
- 3:57can put up one ten and that not be enough. These other nine k
- 4:00guys at their prices have just as much upside. So yeah, I think
- 4:03that's a great broadside overview. Three fights in the mid tier, upper tier.
- 4:08I'll be mixing and matching, of course, gotta find some fades as
- 4:12always, but all of our content will be up on the site projections ownership.
- 4:15You have a lot of sports going on, a lot of familiar faces
- 4:17in chat. Ben's in here, data is in here, Robert Payne,
- 4:21Yes, Smarty, Ross k, Shawn Smith, Joe Madness. Appreciate y'all
- 4:26out there, Appreciate all the love as always, and I see in chat
- 4:29mads in discord as well. Fight by fight twelve to talk about ways are
- 4:33going in right now. A lot of people already have weight in. Everyone
- 4:36has made weight thus far, but still waiting on a couple fighters. So
- 4:41fingers cross is always to keep all twelve. First fight of the night bottom
- 4:45to the top. Joshua Van taking on flipe Buonez eighty eight hundred Van seventy
- 4:49four hundred Bonez. Looking at the odds Van minus two fifty five, Bonez
- 4:55two fifteen on the way back, this fight's minus one seventy to finish,
- 5:00plus two to seventy five Joshua Van plus one twenty five. My initial thoughts,
- 5:04great fights at target. Eighty eight hundred Van. You look at his
- 5:08output two USC fights over nine significant strikes per minute. Buona is on the
- 5:13other side, making his USC debut, big age discrepancy in this one.
- 5:16He's walking competition, looks like a primary grappler. Van's only loss has been
- 5:21by submission. I'm kind of looking at a class of styles. Van on
- 5:25the feet, with the volume in the pace Bunez needs it on the map,
- 5:28I'll be having both sides of this fight. To start it off,
- 5:30I'm going to get my water I forgot it. You write down this fight,
- 5:33I'll be right back. Yeah. I like this fight as a curtain
- 5:36jerker. I mean, Van's definitely a solid prospect. He's super young,
- 5:42He's like twenty two to twenty three years old, and he's got solid boxing
- 5:46already. I love this kid's pace he's landed. I think it's almost three
- 5:49hundred total strikes in his first two UFC fights, which I always love to
- 5:55see where you can get one hundred points from a guy without even having to
- 5:59look to wrestle. Well, that's a guy that Van is. I do
- 6:01think he is gonna have the striking edge in this one, but he's gonna
- 6:04have to keep it striking. Most likely, Boonies is the most dangerous grappler
- 6:11he's faced so far. And then on that first fight that Josh Van had,
- 6:15they mentioned like he had only been grappling for six months or so,
- 6:18so at this point that gives him like a year of grappling. And I
- 6:23just don't think he's gonna be on Boonie's level on the ground. And I
- 6:26also think Boonies is pretty decent on the fee. He's not gonna be able
- 6:29to hang with Van volume wise, he's probably gonna get doubled up, tripled
- 6:31up in striking, but I do think he's pretty dangerous. He throws some
- 6:35hard shots. It wouldn't shock me to see him clip Van and then jump
- 6:40on a neck and tap him out or something like that. I don't think
- 6:43he has great wrestling, but if he can get the fight to the ground,
- 6:46I think he could be dangerous there and maybe grind out minutes on the
- 6:49ground, but more likely, in my opinion, end up getting a finish.
- 6:53So I do like Boonies as a contrarian GPP play in this one.
- 6:59I will be overweight to him, but on the same side, I am
- 7:01picking Van to win. I think he is just a minute winner in this
- 7:06fight. He probably does stuff most of the takedowns or gets back to his
- 7:10feet and then either makes it a clear decision or finishes them late. Just
- 7:15that volume adds up and he ends up getting a stoppage at some point.
- 7:18So I like Van as well. I think he could score just as much
- 7:21as that nine K range. So I'll be in on this fight good amount.
- 7:26Probably, I don't know sixty percent of my lineups or so, maybe
- 7:30more will have this fight, I'm thinking, But give me Van to win,
- 7:32I'll probably have more leverage on the underdog. I'd agree everything you said.
- 7:38What do you think ownership is? I haven't checked. That's say you
- 7:42have posted it. Yeah, you posted it. I'll get it over to
- 7:46the site. So right now we have boone has fourteen percent and Joshua Avan
- 7:51twenty six percent. Yeah, both those numbers and again our ownership, shout
- 7:56out. Marley has been phenomenal over here. Sheets has been keeping up with
- 8:00it and it has been one of the best in the industry. So shout
- 8:01out you there and at that ownership. I'll be overweight on both guys or
- 8:05I want to be overweight, like you said, Van, even if he
- 8:09doesn't finish. He scored one oh six last fight. He did mix in
- 8:13two takedowns. I'm not expecting any of those this would be high nineties.
- 8:16But he landed twenty significant strikes in that first round and then landed seventy plus
- 8:20in the second round. The dude just throws volume for days. He's young,
- 8:24can push a pace. I just I think Bunas is a solid all
- 8:28run fighter. I'm just not sure he could keep that pace on the feet
- 8:31and the volume. So I got banned by late finish similar to your thoughts.
- 8:35Wouldn't be surprised with the decision, but I love the upside, like
- 8:37plus one twenty five to finish, he finishes, you know there's volume behind
- 8:41it, so I love it for that price and you get that discount from
- 8:45the Ankalaias, the Nolans of the world. And I like your call with
- 8:50Bunez. If he wins, probably wrestling, it's probably on the map,
- 8:52maybe a submission, and dogs are pretty tough to come by. He's I
- 8:56mean tier rankings, I'll give it away. He's my second on the seventy
- 9:00six hundred or below price tag there. So yeah, a ton of interest
- 9:03in this fight, like what I'm seeing from the ownership numbers. Keep it
- 9:07rolling. What's going on, Big Driggs. Appreciate you hanging out with us.
- 9:11Man our second fight on the car, Tom Nolan taking on Nicholas Mada
- 9:16looking at the odds or Nolan ninety two hundred not a seventy seven thousand,
- 9:20Tom Nolan minus three fifty plus two eighty five on the way back. A
- 9:26couple of these big fit or like big favorites to finish inside the distance prop
- 9:30minus twelve hundred for this fight. To finish Nolan minus too eighty five MODA
- 9:35plus three hundred again looking at the metrics, minus twelve hundred to finish,
- 9:39minus two eighty five for the favorite, plus three hundred for the dog.
- 9:43This fight under one and a half minus two eighty five. All of that
- 9:46Scream's gotta play some of this fight. Mine has been awful in the USC
- 9:50trey. Iigden just box his ears off last fight as a primary grappler who's
- 9:54never knocked nobody out, So man, it's hard to get behind him.
- 9:58But he's gonna be low on and this fight, if he does win,
- 10:01it's gonna be by a knockout. So all of sum met low ownership.
- 10:05It's not a fun click though, because I think he's bad and I think
- 10:07he gets school. How do you see this one going? Yeah? I
- 10:11do, Man, I don't know this. This is a tough one.
- 10:13I think that just looking at these guys, Nolan looks like the better striker.
- 10:18He's gonna be taller, longer, he's he throws straighter shots, and
- 10:22he's got more tools in his arsenal, where Matt is really just looking to
- 10:26take his opponent's head off. That's the only edge he has in this fight
- 10:28in my opinion. Well, I guess two edges will be pure one punch
- 10:33power and then experience. Nolan's only had six fights so far, so I
- 10:39mean, he looks good against these scrubs. But Mada looked pretty damn good
- 10:41against scrubs too, I thought before he came to the UFC, and then
- 10:45he's just looked like trash in the UFC, and then we got Nolan is
- 10:48a finisher. Mad has been finished in every one of his losses. So
- 10:52that's kind of what's leading this minus twelve hundred inside the distance line. But
- 10:56I was shocked when I saw minus twelve hundred inside the distance. Be honest
- 11:00with you, I think that there's a decent chance this goes the distance.
- 11:03I think I might bet that this does go the distance. I like the
- 11:05over one and a half as well, but I think that the line is
- 11:11probably a bit too wide. I just am not sold enough on Nolan coming
- 11:18to the big show against a more experienced guy. Maybe he isn't a high
- 11:22volume guy. He's a little bit worried about that power coming from Mada.
- 11:26That could make it a closer fight on the scorecards. And then, like
- 11:28we mentioned, Mada has huge power, he could also knock Nolan out,
- 11:31So it's knockout or bust, probably either way for the win on Mada,
- 11:37but that's the only way he's gonna have any chance of scoring. Well,
- 11:39I don't think anyone's gonna be on him, So for that reason, I
- 11:43do want some Mada exposure. Give me a very low knockout or something like
- 11:46that. But just pick wise, I had to go with Nolan. I
- 11:50think he could win by any method here. He's probably the higher volume striker,
- 11:54the better striker overall, more likely to take the fight to the ground,
- 11:58more durable. So I actually picked him to win a unanimous decision,
- 12:03So that minus twelve hundred inside the distance a little bit too crazy to me.
- 12:07I do think if he does win an unanimous decision, there's a decent
- 12:11chance he's not on the optimal lineup. So I was gonna put this as
- 12:15a like four star on the rankings, but that minus twelve hundred is just
- 12:20sitting there right next to it. When I'm typing, I'm like, I
- 12:22gotta go five star. I gotta go with the metrics over what I think.
- 12:26So for me, it's gonna be like a five star on rankings,
- 12:28But when I end up doing my lineups, I might end up under on
- 12:31this fight, and I'll change it to a four star if that's the case.
- 12:35Yeah, that all makes sense. I mean Nolan's gonna be one of
- 12:37the more popular fighters on this card, Like he's ninety two hundred, and
- 12:39there's so many good upper tier plays, but ank Elia's ninety five, Silva's
- 12:45ninety six, like that four hundred three hundred that goes a decent long way
- 12:50on a slate like this, and that prop minus two eighty five, minus
- 12:52three fifty favorite. We have forty three and ten for the ownership right now,
- 12:58and that's why I takes mo degree. I might agree it's not a
- 13:01fun overweight stands, but when he wins, I think it's by knockout.
- 13:05Like I just can't ignore these metrics. I maybe if you want to do
- 13:09it, like plus six fifty is the best I see on the market for
- 13:11a fight goes the distance right now. For how you're talking, especially,
- 13:15sounds like you were thinking, like it is really weird. There's a couple
- 13:18fights on this card that are juice like we've never really seen. Minus twelve
- 13:22hundred. Usually this feels like it could be like a minus six hundred spot
- 13:24or something like that. So yeah, maybe a little value on the over.
- 13:28And if you told me this fight goes the distance, I probably would
- 13:31full fade Tom Nolan. The upper range is just too good there, So
- 13:35I'm gonna lie sign with the metrics. I'm gonna I like both these guys
- 13:39very well. Might be more overweight to Mode than Nolan because ten percent if
- 13:43you go twenty definitely not going eighty something percent Nolan and doubled in the field.
- 13:46There, So two fights to start off the card and two fights I'll
- 13:50have a lot invested in and want some optimal scores to start it off.
- 13:54And again this is in the apex. You can maybe benefit wrestlers a little
- 13:58more, cage easier to grab. I wouldn't be surprised if no one takes
- 14:03it to the Matt. Not sure Mode really has much off his back,
- 14:05but wouldn't be surprised to see a striking match either. Appreciate you hanging out
- 14:09with us, Matt as well. Good to see in here. We'll keep
- 14:13it rolling again. Appreciate all the lights coming in. People are still weighing
- 14:16in as well. Looks like over half people have made weight. Hopefully the
- 14:20rest make weight as well. Will keep you updated. Third fight on the
- 14:22card, Gen Silva, Wess and Wilson. Biggest favorite on the card is
- 14:26Gene Silva ninety six hundred, Wilson sixty six hundred, Silva minus nine hundred
- 14:31money line over minus one thousand at a lot of places, with Wilson plus
- 14:37six hundred roughly on the way back. Another monster inside the distance minus four
- 14:41fourteen hundred for this fight to finish, Jean Silva minus eight hundred inside the
- 14:46distance Wes and Wilson plus eight hundred. Silva in round one is minus one
- 14:52fifty. So yeah, the books are saying Wes and Wilson is cheeks.
- 14:56Jean Silva is gonna walk right through him. It's giving up some USC debut.
- 15:01I don't know. It feels like Wes and Wilson's just awful. And
- 15:03that's where the line is that way. I don't know if Jean Silva deserves
- 15:07to be over minus one thousand against anyone. You tell me your thoughts there,
- 15:11and can he pay off this ninety six hundred price tag and be optimal?
- 15:15Yeah? I wasn't like sold on Silva at all. So there's no
- 15:18way I would bet this line on him. I don't see any value at
- 15:22all. If there's any value, I'm betting the underdog, to be honest
- 15:24with you. But just going back and watching Wilson, there's just nothing good
- 15:28about this guy's game. I mean, it is submission grapplings decent, but
- 15:31he can't control where the fight's gonna take place. He kind of just needs
- 15:35to jump guillotine or try and grab a news ankle or something like that.
- 15:39But once the fight's on the ground like these Silver Better is gonna be sweating
- 15:41it out if that happens. But I do think that Silva is probably the
- 15:46better wrestler can use it in defense to keep the fight standing. He's gonna
- 15:48be walking Wilson down, throwing bombs. Wilson doesn't eat shots well, so
- 15:52I think Silva probably puts them away, probably puts them away early. You
- 15:56said minus one fifty to win in round one. That's sixty percent right there.
- 16:02That's making me think I need like at least sixty percent of this guy
- 16:04in my lineups. Like ninety six is a tough price to pay, but
- 16:08when we're comparing money lines, it's only you know what, one hundred bucks
- 16:12more than the next guy on DraftKings, but a wide margin, more likely
- 16:18to win, wide margin, more likely to win early and in the first
- 16:22round minus one fifty. You don't see that very often. So yeah,
- 16:25I gotta go with Silva as the preferred play. I'll get as much as
- 16:27I can afford, but I am fine with whatever amount I need to go
- 16:32down. There's so many people I'm find going down to if I need to
- 16:34in order to like my lineup somewhere else more. But on the Wilson side,
- 16:38I think he's I mean, I don't know about somewhat live, but
- 16:42it would not shock me completely to see this guy grab an neck, just
- 16:45junkie guillotine and get the tap at no ownership. I think it'll be like
- 16:52five percent ownership something like that. So I might double the field, go
- 16:55go five to ten percent ownership with my one fifty. But if I'm just
- 16:59making twenty handbuilds, I'm mixing him out and it would be silver pass man.
- 17:04We've been locked up on these first three fights. I really love to
- 17:07see it. And that last question I was gonna ask you, like,
- 17:10how many lineups would it take you to finally Coick Wes and Wilson's name.
- 17:14For me, it would probably be seventy five. Maybe I know I'm not
- 17:18getting there in twenty I'd say you, if I make fifty, all have
- 17:22at least one. Yeah, that sounds good, that makes sense, And
- 17:26I build the slate plan for twenty entry in below. They had that three
- 17:30dollars twenty entry Max Haymaker they used to run. Now it looks like they're
- 17:33trying to transit or they're kind of transitioning the three dollars one to fifty.
- 17:37Max could still obviously put twenty teams in there. You don't have to max
- 17:41it. But when I am doing twenty years below, we're building single entries
- 17:45and stuff like that, I'm definitely not getting any Wes and Wilson. Jean
- 17:48Silva. Like, if I land up, if I love my script and
- 17:52I thirty percent, I'd be good with that because there's so many other viable
- 17:56options up top that the price tag. He could score one ten and still
- 18:00not be enough. But I love my whole script and he and I have
- 18:03seventy percent, I'd also love that as well. So that's kind of how
- 18:06I'm with this Upwardsier I'm miss whatever I like for these dogs, Like I
- 18:10want to get the mid tier in the dog exposure to where I like it,
- 18:12and then up top I'll juggle these other guys around. But yeah,
- 18:15I mean he probably walks in here destroys them when at to be shocked.
- 18:18If West and Wilson won, I mean, we've seen a lot crazy We've
- 18:22seen crazy things happen in this sport. So he could kick them in the
- 18:26nuts and it be a dq could you could talk to a lot of bad
- 18:27things in New existence. But yeah, I definitely want some silva. No
- 18:32West and Wilson run the shaun Ze Green in here, easy bets. People
- 18:37watching live, what's going on? Appreciate all you're hanging out, familiar faces
- 18:41as always. Hope everybody out there having a great Friday. Plenty of money
- 18:45be made on this week. And yeah you missed that three dollars twenty entry
- 18:48max. It was really the nut contest. That is why when I've been
- 18:53doing content the past three years, four years, whatever it may be,
- 18:56I directed it to that contest because fits bankrules. There's one dollar twenty entry
- 19:00max stuff too, and I just man, I'm not good at single entry
- 19:04stuff in MMA man, like you can have the six or six get everything
- 19:08right, but the ninety three hundred guy outscores the ninety four hundred guy by
- 19:14two points, and that train of twelve people you take the second nuts and
- 19:18you get paid pennies essentially instead. So it's an MMV score for me.
- 19:22Dial in some exposures, but hey, reach their own little rent right there.
- 19:26We'll keep it rolling for me. Actually, I'd say I've moved into
- 19:30I like doing the one fifty in that three dollars, and then for me,
- 19:33the twenty or less is usually the big contest, Like for this week
- 19:36in twenty dollars, I'm not gonna throw one hundred and fifty lineups in MAT,
- 19:38so if I do play it, I'll probably limit myself to twenty lineups
- 19:41or less. That's what I'm thinking this week too. I used to match
- 19:45every single week the MMA, but Avis shrunk it a little bit. Like
- 19:48it used to be like fifteen bucks twenty eight thousand people. This week's twenty
- 19:52bucks, like nineteen thousand or something, And I was getting my ass kicked
- 19:56for a little while too, So I'm starting to do that thing too,
- 19:59throw like twenty fifty to set whatever it may be, and then I can
- 20:02play more condensed there, whereas the one to fifty, like you're saying,
- 20:04if I will max the three dollars one fifty, I will have some West
- 20:08and Wilson in that where I'm not doing in the bigger stuff. So we're
- 20:11doing it very similar there. Let's keep it rolling. Next fight on the
- 20:15car just reason what easy Bets was saying. Interesting one Freed Bostroz Taylor,
- 20:19laplis eighty nine hundred for Reed, seventy three hundred for Lapolis. Looking at
- 20:25the odds in this one Fred minus two eighty, laplis plus two forty despite
- 20:30is plus one eighty to finish, So unlike these first couple, this is
- 20:33expected to go to the distance Farried plus two to twenty five laplis plus six
- 20:38fifty. And looking at odds or ownership, we have Farrid at twenty one
- 20:44and Lapless at thirteen. That feels maybe a little high. I'm for Reed.
- 20:49I hope it's twenty one percent, so he was one of my fades
- 20:52and twenty entry in below. Would I be surprised if he goes out there,
- 20:56gets four takedowns, top control, maybe finishes it plus two twenty five
- 21:00isn't bad, but man, this upper tier is so loaded. I couldn't
- 21:04click everyone's name on twenty and below. Him and his brother has been knowing
- 21:07be defensively sounds slow down the pace. Lapolo is pretty solid takedown defense,
- 21:12so if you can't get those, I really don't think he hits the ceiling.
- 21:15So it's darker pass in terms of dfs. But I respect the Bosrat
- 21:21brothers and think they're so solid that they'll probably win a unanimous decision and I
- 21:26won't really want much. Lapliss is solid, though I said a little bit
- 21:30of Laplis underweights fade for Reid. I don't love this fight much at all
- 21:33personally, but I don't think it'll really be owned either. What are you
- 21:37seeing? Yeah, it could be just because I'm kind of the opposite on
- 21:41this one. For me, it's gonna be favorite or pass. I'm definitely
- 21:44not forcing basher At into my lineups because I do think he could just be
- 21:48a somewhat low volume where he's not gonna score well if this fight takes place
- 21:52on the feet for too long. It's also a pretty close fight on the
- 21:55feet. Lapolis is a good striker, but what I do like is.
- 21:59I mean, I love the Bachelarat brothers. Everything about their game is to
- 22:03be honest, but I think for Reid is the better and more likely grappler
- 22:07of the two, and in this matchup, where you might not even be
- 22:10the better striker, he should be looking to grapple and that's how he's gonna
- 22:12score a lot of points. And this matchup is on the ground. I
- 22:17think he could finish him on the ground in any round, but I also
- 22:19think he could get six plus takedowns, win all three rounds and still score
- 22:26one hundred points on the cards. And I also thought, you know,
- 22:29just the name Bascharat in DFS probably does stay a little bit low owned.
- 22:33So I was kind of like, you know what, I need to get
- 22:34a little bit of leverage to Basherat here. I don't know how much I'm
- 22:37gonna end up getting. I haven't done lineups yet, but I do think
- 22:41I will be overweight on Basharat. Maybe I'll be around that twenty one percent,
- 22:45and I'll end up putting it lower on the expected ownership. But I
- 22:48just don't really have any interest in Laplis. I think he is really in
- 22:52play for a knockout, but he averages sixty nine points and decision wins.
- 22:56If he gets a decision win here, actually take the under on sixty nine
- 23:00points, So I'm gonna probably exo out Lapolis out of my playpool. I
- 23:06think he's in play as a live dog who needs to keep the fight standing.
- 23:10If Bashla is spending extended time on the ground, even in a win,
- 23:14I don't think Lapolis is gonna get there. But that's why he would
- 23:17be in plays just as a live dog. He's cheap, but for me,
- 23:18it's gonna be favorite or pass. I think Basharatt is in play for
- 23:23a ten x or more scorer in this one. I don't think he'll be
- 23:26two owned in his best path to victories on the ground. Yeah no,
- 23:30I mean, like the more you talk about it, and I thought the
- 23:33same thing like Lapolis when I clicked that lineup. It's eleven favorites win,
- 23:37ten favorites win, or like none of these cheap dogs win, and seventy
- 23:41somehow is enough because all these upper tier guys score a lot, Like I
- 23:45hate the ceiling for him free definitely. Yeah, you can paint a picture
- 23:49his wrestling all of that. Just when I'm comparing him to like Marcus McGee,
- 23:55Joshua Van, Tom Nolan, where would you rank him of those four?
- 24:02So I'm putting McGee's one. I'm looking forward to your your breakdown on
- 24:07Yeah, I like his just ground upside and if he gets to take that
- 24:10like so I have him, so we'll get there. But right now I'm
- 24:12gonna rank him last. Yeah that is, and then it would be between
- 24:18Bachearat and Van. I'm not sure, so I guess I'm sorry. I'm
- 24:23a little bit more interested in how Shu I put I'm Bascharat and Van are
- 24:30similar to me, but I'm much more interested in Van's opponent than i am
- 24:34a Bachelarats. So maybe that puts bachelarat as to Nolan will be first.
- 24:40That makes a lot of sense. I like like the thought process those are
- 24:42and we'll play a lot of lines. But like if the ownership and you
- 24:47loved all your ownership and like you had more McGee than Basharat, I don't
- 24:51think you're changing anything unless it's a wide margin. But that's important the rankings
- 24:55up here, because I'm struggling with these top tier guys. FORID is gonna
- 24:57be one I'm leaving off and twenty and below, and it is scary like
- 25:00he definitely could ruin my night wrestling. He's a good fighter. I do
- 25:06understand that. I think all these guys in the upper ak nine k range
- 25:11you can pay. You can see a clear path to a big score from
- 25:14him and on the optimal. So let's get right to that fight. Marcus
- 25:17McGee guests in Blanos ninety one hundred McGee seventy one hundred Blanos. Looking at
- 25:22the odds minus, the odds have come down, so sin about minus two
- 25:26fifteen is Marcus McGee now he opened minus three seventy five Blanos plus one eighty
- 25:33four on the way back. This fight is minus two fifteen to finish.
- 25:37Earlier in the week it was minus two fifty. So some money kids come
- 25:41in this past couple of days on Blanos and on fight the over and then
- 25:45looking at the odds to finish McGee minus one twenty inside the distance Bolanos plus
- 25:51three sixty. So may my take is I just love this fight. Blonos
- 25:55is one of my favorite dogs. If it's on the feet, which Marcus
- 25:57McGee has been a primary. He doesn't hasn't shot for takedowns. I mean
- 26:03Blanos, this line looks off, so I think that's why some money's coming
- 26:06on him. But and Marcus McGee comes out there and tries to wrestle,
- 26:10I mean his subprop is plus two to twenty five. Actually now it's plus
- 26:12two hundred yesterday when I was right now plus two twenty five. So I
- 26:15think it's clear as day. If he wins, which he's over minus two
- 26:18hundred, it's gonna be a takedown and he probably just subs them. Could
- 26:22be in the first round, could be second, whenever, But gimme wrestling
- 26:26and our top control upside, which I guess that's kind of why you're saying
- 26:30for Reid as well. I just I respect Lapolis's takedown defense and ground game
- 26:36a lot more than I respect blonos is at the end of the day,
- 26:38So that's kind of the only thing. But you can see a lot of
- 26:41comparisons in that fight, Blonos on the feet and McGee on the ground.
- 26:45I'm picking McGee and I went back and forth because I'm not one hundred percent
- 26:49certain McGee would lose a striking match. I'm ninety nine percent certain Blonos is
- 26:53losing on the mat, So I think he has more pass but when talking
- 26:59dogs and cheek guys, I'll definitely have a good amount of Blanos too.
- 27:00I like this fight and last thing before I throw it to you our ownership.
- 27:03Right now, we have Marcus McGee twenty two, that's music to my
- 27:07ears. Bolanos seventeen. I love that for sure, and I'd probably be
- 27:11overweight on both of those. So what do you see in this one?
- 27:15Yeah, pretty much the same, except for I just I don't I haven't
- 27:22seen enough of McGee's ground game to like trust that he's gonna go there.
- 27:25I do think that Belanos is bad enough on the ground though, where that
- 27:30was really what made me pick McGee as the winner. I kind of think
- 27:36it is a striking match, and if it is, then the line's definitely
- 27:40off. Give me Blanos as my play, but it's it's pretty close on
- 27:44the feet. I don't have a real preferred play in a striking match,
- 27:48but if his fight's gonna go to the ground, it's gonna be McGee taking
- 27:51it there. I don't think he's a great wrestler. I just think he's
- 27:53more of a power wrestler where he's just he could just grab onto his oponent
- 27:56or like you know, double leg him like a football tackle. He's in
- 28:02play for that. I don't know how great his control game would be,
- 28:03but I think he is live for the submission. And he's got power on
- 28:08the feet too, so he's definitely in play for the knockout. The metrics
- 28:12are what are what are making me want this fight, and I think both
- 28:18sides are in play where McGee he could get a knockout, he could get
- 28:21a submission. Either one of those probably score well. But if he's not
- 28:25landing more than let's say two takedowns in this fight, I think he's scoring
- 28:29less than ten X in a decision here. And on the Bilanos side,
- 28:33if he's spending any time on the ground or against the cage, he's not
- 28:37going to be scoring there. He's already not very high volume on the feet.
- 28:40He's not going to be looking to wrestle. So I think we need
- 28:42the knockout for any real upside from Berlanos. Otherwise we're shooting for a ten
- 28:47X type of win. So I don't know what I'm gonna do with this
- 28:51one. The film is kind of telling me that I want to hope that
- 28:53it goes the distance with McGee winning and him just not scoring enough, and
- 28:56I want to get away from this fight. But at the same time,
- 29:00the metrics are telling me it's probably a good one to target. So I
- 29:03don't know. This is the one I'm most confused on. You liking it
- 29:07and being high on on it make me want to target it more. But
- 29:11I think right now, I'm gonna when we finish, I'm gonna do all
- 29:15my fight rankings and all that stuff, and then I'll start building my lineups.
- 29:18Right right now, in my head, I think I'm going to avoid
- 29:21it with any handbuilds and then I'll kind of let the optimizer do its thing,
- 29:26and if it gives me, you know, twenty to thirty percent of
- 29:27both of these guys, then so be it. But it's a tough one
- 29:33for me. I don't really know. Yeah, the more you're talking about,
- 29:36I see all the cases you're saying, and I'm getting I'm a little
- 29:40more hesitant on it. But then I look at ownership and it looks to
- 29:42actually be pretty low owned. Could you cube itive ownership wise? Man?
- 29:48I know I'm gonna be playing gltos as a dog because when you compare them
- 29:52to some of these big punts like I like them more than Nikolau. I
- 29:55like them more than Johnny Walker. I like it more than Arlosky. Like
- 29:59there's only so many dogs down here that I like. So I know i'll
- 30:00have that side, but maybe I will, I don't know. Maybe I'll
- 30:06change McGee to underweight, for Reid to underweight, and just like some of
- 30:11my McGee ownership to for Red. But then I'll probably be underweight on both.
- 30:15But I'm not completely dead at Freed wins. I can see like they
- 30:18both I guess have the same path, Like Fared can wrestle and get a
- 30:22lot of talk control. I guess he's probably more willing to wrestle than McGee
- 30:26is. But if McGhee does it man like, I think it'll be easy.
- 30:30See, I think that bash Rat is a really good wrestler and grappler,
- 30:33whereas you think I don't think that about him. Is just that this
- 30:37matchup makes him look Yeah it would be Yeah, No, it's really the
- 30:41matchup for me too, and I respect laplis is take on defense, So
- 30:45the matchup's way worse for Freed, where I know we'll wrestle more. Yeah,
- 30:48that's tough. I'm gonna have to think about that to all of our
- 30:51content. We'll be up on the site, though mine will be up finished
- 30:53after the show, hoping thirty minutes after something like that, everything will be
- 30:59up. But a very interesting fight and one that you had me thinking a
- 31:03lot too. Lou In here, Sady's here, Detrol Marley, Matty Ice,
- 31:06my man, what's going on? Good to see you, Yeah,
- 31:08lou Man, I saw you at a midnight show last night. What the
- 31:11heck? I can't stay up that late. I'm an old man these days.
- 31:14I'm gonna have to check the replay on that one. I was definitely
- 31:17in bed at midnight as well. It's left good over here. Let's keep
- 31:19it rolling. Next fight on the card, Matthew said, mid tier fight.
- 31:25One of the three mid tier fights I absolutely love. Matthew Semosberger pressing
- 31:27Parsons eighty four hundred Semosberger seventy eight hundred Parsons. This fight is minus or
- 31:34it's a coin flip on each side. So yesterday when I was runt it,
- 31:37Semosberger was minus one thirty. We saw a lot of line movement.
- 31:41Semlsberger opened plus one thirty. Parsons was the favorite at minus one fifty.
- 31:45A couple of minutes later, Semlsberger got by it a minus one twenty five
- 31:49was sitting at about there for a couple of weeks, and then as of
- 31:53blade parsons, the past day has taken some money and it's now a coin
- 31:57flip. It's minus one seventy five to finish Semlsberger plus one fifty parsons plus
- 32:04two fifteen inside the distance. I mean, this is just a classic clash
- 32:07of styles. For me, Semlsberger wanted to keep it on the feet.
- 32:10Parsons will be chaining takedowns. Can he get those takedowns? Or does Semlsburger,
- 32:16who hits like a truck, find the chin of parsons and put them
- 32:20away. It's how I see it. So eighty four hundred and seventy eight
- 32:22hundred, I'm gonna have more. I don't have a strong lean on the
- 32:25winner. I like seeing the line move in parsons favor, but I wanted
- 32:30him to be less owned because a lot of Semlsberger lineups build a team.
- 32:35Have Semuolsberger take Semolsburger out, plug in parsons. There's six hundred dollars you're
- 32:39leaving right there on a very close fight. So just for that reason alone,
- 32:45I think I'll probably have more parsons. But if ownership gets crazy now
- 32:49and that's six hundred difference, lets Semlsberger way less owned, I think I
- 32:53maybe want to go that side. So I'll be keeping a close eye on
- 32:55ownership in this one. Right now we have it Semmelsburger twenty eight, Parsons
- 33:01twenty six. And if that is the case, I definitely will probably have
- 33:05more press and parsons. And again I'll be using in a lineups having Semlsburger
- 33:08in taking them out, leaving salary. What do you see in this fight
- 33:14again? Minus one ten apiece? Yeah, that could be one I end
- 33:16up adjusting because I think I did ownership first, and then I went and
- 33:20I adjusted our info, so I changed all the lines and another line that
- 33:23I changed it went from minus one thirty to minus one ten on Semolsburger.
- 33:29But it also went from like minus three hundred inside the distance to plus sorry,
- 33:32minus one seventy five, So more people are starting to think that could
- 33:37go all three. But yeah, I might move parsons ownership up because now
- 33:44with that line movement is gonna come more ownership. So I might up him
- 33:49and lower Semlsburger or maybe just up him. I'm not sure yet. To
- 33:52keep it brings me back to that Jeremiah Wells. I think Court McGee fight.
- 33:57It was something like that eighty four maybe it was another Simalsburger fight.
- 34:00I think it was the Semmonsburger Jeremie Wells. There's eighty four hundred and seventy
- 34:04eight hundred, and money was coming in on Wells or Semmlsburger at seventy eight
- 34:08hundred, but the eighty four hundred he stayed the same, and like he
- 34:12ended up being a little higher owned because people play the leveling game, like
- 34:16you would think Parsons would be way higher on. But I'm curious to see
- 34:20what you're gonna do on ownership because that's you say, yeah, but yeah.
- 34:25So the way I'm thinking it now is that Parsons will be higher owned,
- 34:29Semlsburger will be a little bit lower owned, and I just like both
- 34:32sides. I think if Parsons wins, is gonna come on the ground,
- 34:36whether that be five plus takedowns uh and scoring well in a decision or just
- 34:42getting into the ground and submitting this guy at some point He's live for both
- 34:45of those types of wins, but Semolsburger is gonna have a bit of a
- 34:50striking edge in this one. I don't think Parsons is a good wrestler.
- 34:53I just think his best work would be done once it hits the ground,
- 34:55and Semlsburger is just a little bit too patient off his back, doesn't have
- 35:00great takedown defense, he doesn't have a great get up game, so it's
- 35:04more so I think he's in play to use his wrestling to keep this fight
- 35:08standing, and he's just got big time power. He knocks down most of
- 35:13his opponents, and Parsons eat some shots. So the way I'm picking this
- 35:15fight to go down is Semolsburger getting an early knockout, maybe after he stuffs
- 35:21a couple of takedowns here or there. But if he doesn't get the early
- 35:24knock knockout, then Parsons probably does come back and wins this fight, whether
- 35:30it be a decision or submission. It's just a great fight to target right
- 35:34there in the mid range. But with this recent line movement, I'll be
- 35:37overweight on Semolsburger and now probably underweight on Parsons, where I would have wanted
- 35:43to come into this card with Parsons as an underdog that I'm pretty interested in.
- 35:46So I don't know a lot of changes on this one. But what
- 35:49up John Chat? Yeah, what's going on? John? We got Dennison
- 35:52here. Berger's talks making him hungry. I'm hungry too. I'm having a
- 35:57euro after this. I'm excited for that Nickel here. What's going on?
- 36:00That boy in that screen, He's gonna be fighting for a big one pretty
- 36:05soon. Shaun die in here as well. Yeah, it was good.
- 36:08Shout on the minus three hundred inside the distance, the minus one seventy five.
- 36:13That's huge line movement pretty late in the week. I still am gonna
- 36:17have a lot of this fight. But of the three, as Ali asked
- 36:21this before, we keep going mid tier fights. Phil Haws, Bruno Ferreira,
- 36:23Samuelsberger, Parsons, Jim Miller, Gabriel Benitez ranked those fights one to
- 36:30three on interest. Yeah. I love those fights. It's tough. Yeah,
- 36:36I don't know mine's mine's Phil Haws Ferrera one, the fact off Haws's
- 36:39chin Ferrara never getting a third round, and the inside the distance prop Semulsberger
- 36:45Parsons is two. The inside distance scares me a bit, but I think
- 36:50it's just that Parsons wins. It's a lot of takedowns control Samuelsberger with e
- 36:52Koh and Miller Benitez. I don't know it's a banger as well, but
- 36:57I could see it staying on the feet more so on a second round knockout
- 37:01or so. But I don't know what are your thoughts. That's tough,
- 37:04but yeah, I would say Hawes fight first and then the next one is
- 37:07just tough between those next two. And I think I've gone back and forth
- 37:10between four star and five star on both of the other two, so I'm
- 37:14not sure. You can go to my fight rankings though, and check tomorrow.
- 37:17I'll have it official and you can see if it's a five star or
- 37:22a four star and you can decide which one I like more. That way,
- 37:24love it. And then someone asks has all fighters made weight? Yes?
- 37:28I am seeing every single fighter except Manel Cop hit the scales right now
- 37:32and everybody on point for weight. So waiting on one. Love to see
- 37:37that baby. Hopefully keep all twelve right there, keep it rolling next fight
- 37:39on the card. I appreciate it, everyone hanging out, Appreciate that light
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- 38:07ship in nation dot com. Let's keep it rolling to I mean, man,
- 38:10a very interesting sanctioned fight while those Corda's Acosta taking on andre Alovski ninety
- 38:16five hundred a costa sixty seven hundred for Olowski. This fight is a Coasta
- 38:22minus seven fifty Arlovsky plus five point fifty. This fight is minus two sixty
- 38:27to finish. I mean, what Arloski ninety eight years old nowadays and does
- 38:32he post any threat offensively for Coasta to be worried about? This line looks
- 38:37pretty accurate to me. I don't know, man, but I guess how
- 38:40does ninety five hundred ANKA lives in the range? We got silva in the
- 38:44range we're talking about, Manel Cop Joshua Van like, this upper range is
- 38:50tough. So what's your thoughts? Cop? Always lasts you are right?
- 38:53Yeah, I'm gonna x Arlovski out in this one. I think the only
- 38:57way he's live in this fight is if Cortes Acosta respects him a little bit
- 39:02too much, goes out there and makes it a slow paced striking match,
- 39:07and we probably still need some poor judging, but I mean, that's damn
- 39:10near likely at this point. But that's the only way Alowski's live. I
- 39:15mean, I guess they're heavyweights. He could land one big shot, but
- 39:17I don't even really think he's live for a knockout, to be honest,
- 39:21So his path to victory is still not going to score ten X in my
- 39:24opinion. So I'm just gonna x our Alowski out here and then with Cortes
- 39:29Acosta, it's just ninety five hundred dollars, is the what makes it tough,
- 39:34because we really need a first round knockout for him. At that price.
- 39:37He's not gonna be going out there looking to wrestle at all. He
- 39:39does strike with decent volume, but not decent enough to pay off ninety five
- 39:44hundred dollars without a finish. And I'm thinking if we even make it to
- 39:47the second round, he's probably off the optimal lineup, so we probably need
- 39:52a first round knockout from Cortes Acosta, and I think he's like plus one
- 39:55forty five to win in round one. That's decent, But I'd still rather
- 40:01pay up for Silva if I can. I'd probably rather pay down for Nolan.
- 40:07But that's what the field is doing too, and that's kind of what
- 40:09puts me on Acosta. Maybe I can get a little bit different by going
- 40:13up here ninety five hundred dollars Acosta and he can get a first round knockout,
- 40:16maybe even a sixty second knockout, so I will get a little bit
- 40:21of exposure there. The way I see it though, is probably twenty to
- 40:23thirty percent something like that, because I do prefer those other those other fighters
- 40:28if we're just talking raw and more likely points. But damn, these are
- 40:32big boys or Alawski's forty four years old. Acosta looks like a solid striker.
- 40:37Is just that he's a little bit too green and the price tag is
- 40:42what just makes it a little too hard. Yeah, I mean, I'm
- 40:45definitely fading a lost. He's the easiest fade on the card probably for me,
- 40:51him and Weston Wilson. But it's definitely close between those two as far
- 40:54as ownership. So yeah, well we have above ninety two hundred Geen Silva
- 40:59high. I'm gonna go highest priced these top four guys ninety two hundred above
- 41:02Sola forty nine, A Costa twenty seven, ank Laiah forty, Tom Nolan
- 41:07forty three. So of those top four, three of the four above forty
- 41:12and I agree on that a Cosa is the odd man out. So just
- 41:15for that reason alone, I'll be eating mid tier chalk. I mean Alowski's
- 41:19forty four. Yeah, I joked at ninety eight, forty four years old.
- 41:22I mean, man, A Costa could easily just walk through him and
- 41:25make it look like cake. Maybe he's a little gun shy and just they
- 41:29stare a little bit. There's definitely concern there. But we're talking one point
- 41:34five ownership discount from all these upper guys there in Chalky Arolinus. When I'm
- 41:38playing the mid tier stuff, I gladly will click a coast over Silva E
- 41:43or ankle I of just ownership wise. If an ankle I of teams du
- 41:46twenty five times and this one's duped five times, like give me that five
- 41:51times, He's not five times more likely? Is ankle ive the outscore Coaster
- 41:53or any of these guys up top, I believe, so that's how I'll
- 41:57be using it in a vacuum, though I do preferrank Eliah with the extra
- 42:01ten minutes and the wrestling up side. I do prefer Gen Silva probably Tom
- 42:07Nolan for the three hundred savings too, but it's an ownership game, duplication
- 42:10game, so I will be mixing in the coast Alafski easy fade. There
- 42:15a couple fights left on the card. Five fights. A lot of bangers
- 42:19dan the card here, including this one mid tier fight. Bruno Ferreira Phil
- 42:23Hawes eighty three hundred, Ferreira seventy nine hundred Phil Hawes. Bruno is minus
- 42:29one thirty Phil Hawes plus one ten fights minus seven hundred two finish. Ferreira
- 42:36is plus or for us minus won twenty five inside the distance Phil Hawes plus
- 42:40one fifty five. Really curious to get your take on this fight, so
- 42:44I'm gonna throw it to you right away. Yeah, I think that Phil
- 42:47Hawes has a very weak chin. Ferreira has big time power. Could only
- 42:52take one shot for Ferrera to win this fight, and it could come in
- 42:59sixty second. He could just break the slate at eighty three hundred dollars.
- 43:04But skill wise, man Hawes is better everywhere. Hawes is a better striker.
- 43:08Hawes has a big time power too, but Hawes is a much better
- 43:12wrestler, and it would be a lot safer of him to go out there
- 43:15and look to wrestle to where you can hide your biggest weakness. So I
- 43:20have to pick Hawes in this one. I think the wrong guy is favored.
- 43:22I mean, Forera is minus one thirty to win, but minus one
- 43:25twenty five of that is to win inside the distance. He's knockout or bust,
- 43:30and I do not like paying juice on knockout or bust fighters to win,
- 43:35So I'm gonna be on Hawes. Hawes will be one of my higher
- 43:37owned underdogs on the card. I think he could go out there outstrike for
- 43:40Era. I think it's gonna be a t KO either way. I think
- 43:44at some point haw Is gonna knock him out if he is winning this fight,
- 43:46or he's gonna go out there and wrestle and finish him on the ground,
- 43:49That's kind of how I see it going down. Or he's gonna go
- 43:52out there and he's gonna be winning this fight until he gets knocked out.
- 43:54So either way, we're gonna get a high score in this one. Five
- 43:58star for sure. I'm gonna load up on this fight, but I see
- 44:00me having maybe fifty percent Hawes and thirty five percent Forrer or something along those
- 44:06lines. I'll have a lot of both of them, but I'm more likely
- 44:08to be overweight to Hawes and whatever that puts me like in line with or
- 44:14a little bit overweight to Ferrera. Yeah, I couldn't have gran anymore.
- 44:17I'm glad I throw it to you first. You saved me a lot of
- 44:20words. We're locks up on most of these fights, different on some,
- 44:22but our ownership right now thirty three percent Forrera, twenty eight percent Phil Hawes.
- 44:28Yeah, like you said, I think to the wrong fighter's favor,
- 44:30he's better in every way. Like should he not be favored just because his
- 44:34chin. I mean, maybe Frera's got that power and his chin isn't.
- 44:37We'll find out. But give me the guy that could go out and wrestle
- 44:40and just dominate on the mat, could get his own knockout, has the
- 44:44like Frere has never been to a third round. Phil Hawes has fought the
- 44:46better guys more experienced, like as a plus money, it made it really
- 44:51easy for me. Definitely could get chin checked. That's again why I like
- 44:54playing multiple lineups. If I was only playing one, more than likely I'm
- 44:58clicking Phil Hawes's name. But that's why I like playing multiple because for a
- 45:04definitely could chin check him. Your boy Phil Hawes one point, or he
- 45:07can get you five points and you only play one lineup and you're dead.
- 45:10However, more times than not, give me Phil Hawes in this spot.
- 45:15I'll have some for air. Best mid tier fight, probably my favorite fight
- 45:17on the card talking DFS. Because of the pricing, I'll probably have the
- 45:22most ownership to this fight. It's going on g Kaifer this fight too,
- 45:28so I was there live and I will always remember this fight. This fight
- 45:30of all fights I've ever watched live, which is a couple of cards,
- 45:34sticks out the most. He gave Duran Win the biggest ass kicking I have
- 45:37ever seen in like sitting right there, every kick, every punch. It
- 45:43was vicious. It was DC was like after the fight obviously boy, it
- 45:47was Deron Win just looked broken. I'll never forget that moment. Phil Hawes
- 45:52game as bad of an ass being as you can. And I think it
- 45:54was herb Dean let that fight go too much. But he definitely has all
- 45:58the skill in the world just to keep his keep the chin, keep the
- 46:01chin intact, and don't fall down. I mean Farrera couldn't have done that
- 46:05even to win. No, No, I mean Duran win was That was
- 46:09scary. That was definitely scary. We'll keep it rolling. Showed a lot
- 46:13of toughness and appreciative toward these MMA fighters what they put their bodies through a
- 46:16couple fights left a banger right here. Ricky Simone Mario Batista eighty six hundred,
- 46:22Simon seventy six hundred Batista Simone minus one eighty five Batista plus one sixty
- 46:28on the way back. This fight was plus one twenty to finish. Money
- 46:31now is coming on the over, so plus one forty five is what it's
- 46:36sitting at now. As far as my take on the fight, I'm this.
- 46:40I mean, I'm a big Ricky Simone guy. Chain wrestle for days
- 46:45averages over five takedowns per fifteen, Batista averages over two takedowns. Batista throws
- 46:51good volume. Ricky Simon a solid striker himself. The level of competition though.
- 46:55Where it comes to man, Simone's fought all the dudes. Mario Batis
- 47:00has been beating up on some bad dudes. I think the skills there arguably
- 47:04lost to demand Black chear. He's a good fighter, but I think Simones
- 47:07just black. Here's a Dollar Tree version and Ricky Simones the Walmart version or
- 47:12whatever. May be similar fighters, but Simon's just better in pretty much every
- 47:15area. I think he gets takedowns eventually, striking's good. He mixes it
- 47:22up. We just see a classic Ricky mohon Ricky Simone decision win right here.
- 47:27So I like Patista as a dog seventy six. If he wins,
- 47:31I think it's a high paced fight, reversals, maybe he gets takedown,
- 47:35maybe knocks him out. If he wins, I think he scores well.
- 47:37But I'm on the Simone side here. What about you? Yeah, I
- 47:40love this fight. I'm high on both of these guys. But Ricky Simone
- 47:45is just a guy that I'm always going to like on DraftKings just because I
- 47:49love his wrestling and I love his pace. He could go out there and
- 47:52laying ten plus takedowns and really any given fight, and I just I'm always
- 47:57going to be on those guys on DraftKings, and that is what he ultimately
- 48:00gave me the edge to Simone and picked him to win in this fight.
- 48:04The line made it a little interesting, though, because I think it's pretty
- 48:07close, and I do give Bautista the striking edge in this one. I
- 48:09think he's the better striker. I think he's the more dangerous striker. I
- 48:13think he's the higher volume striker, and he's also good on the ground too.
- 48:16It's just that he's not gonna be able to outpay Simon in the wrestling.
- 48:21So I'm just gonna be heavy on this fight. In the way I
- 48:23put it in my notes, I haven't done any lineups, but in my
- 48:27head I see me probably having about forty or so percent Simone thirty or so
- 48:31percent Bautista. So I have more lineups with Simone, but that would give
- 48:36me more leverage over the field on Bautista, where I'm probably right there or
- 48:40along with the field on Simone ownership. And I'd also be fine with Bautista
- 48:46over Simone in my single entry. If that's what I end up having to
- 48:50do to like my lineup, I'm just gonna make it a point to target
- 48:52this fight. I want it in more than half of my mmy lineups.
- 48:58But I'm gonna probably start with Simone in my lineup, start building it out,
- 49:01and if I need some salary, I'll drop down to Bautista and then
- 49:05start seeing what I could do with the lineup. But great fight should be
- 49:07fun, should be high paced. But I'll take Simone to win twenty nine
- 49:12to twenty eight. Man, either you and I are winning all the money
- 49:15or or losing all the money. Because just because we're picking Simone, I
- 49:19think he made a good case. Looking at our ownership, thirty nine percent
- 49:22Ricky Simone, twenty two percent Mario Batista and sounds pretty accurate to me.
- 49:28And with that being said, the thousand dollars difference, how that makes lineups
- 49:31like I very well probably will have. I'll be more overweight to Batista then
- 49:36I will Ricky Simone. Even though he's not my pick. You get leverage
- 49:39off of Simone playing Bautista. He's still gonna be owned, but you a
- 49:44lot of different roster construction. It's easier to leave like five hundred on the
- 49:46table, et cetera. And he can be one of the highest scores on
- 49:51the slate in a win like this is gonna be a high paced fight.
- 49:52It's gonna be a great fight. If he wins, he's definitely stuff in
- 49:57takedowns, maybe getting reversals. The chinnis Simone like the past there in this
- 50:01fight for a big score. So at that ownership, Yeah, I like
- 50:05I'll be playing a lot of Batista, but I also like Ricky Simone.
- 50:07Another one of the best fights on the card real life and DFS in my
- 50:12mind. So that was the fourth last fight on the card. Three fights
- 50:15left again, three good ones. Appreciate the like button out there. Take
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- 50:28the little break banger. Right here, some old men going at it.
- 50:30Forty year old Jim Miller, thirty five year old Gabriel Benitez, still doing
- 50:36the damn thing, especially Jim Miller. Looking at the odds, Jim Miller
- 50:38minus one forty nine, Benitez plus one twenty nine. This fight is plus
- 50:45or minus two fifty to finish. What's three hundred earlier in the week some
- 50:49money on the over now minus two fifty Jim Miller plus one thirty five inside
- 50:52the distance Benitas plus one seventy five. So I got two questions for you
- 50:58in this one. Is Jim Miller are going to look to get it on
- 51:00the mat or if he gets a submission, do you think he's just grabbing
- 51:02a neck or something like that? And how does it play out on the
- 51:07feet if it does play out, because I Jim Miller, he's been that
- 51:12dude on the feet as of late. But Benita's his kicks. I'm a
- 51:15sucker for those calf kicks in that body kick, and I'm just not sure
- 51:17Jim Miller's legs can take all the damage and still fight on a fee for
- 51:22fifteen minutes. So another one. I'm very interested to see what your thoughts
- 51:24on it. Yeah, I think I actually think the wrong guy's favored in
- 51:30this one. Uh. And we've got Jim Miller forty one years old or
- 51:35I think he's about to be forty one years old, and his best work
- 51:37I feel like has come of late, especially DraftKings wise, his best work
- 51:42has come of late, going back to like twenty eighteen. He's got I
- 51:46think it's his last yet, his last eight wins. Miller is averaging one
- 51:51hundred and four DraftKings points in those wins. That's that's pretty damn solid.
- 51:55And he's going out there, He's blasting guys on the feet. He's an
- 51:58even better submission drap. So I do think his bigger edge in this fight
- 52:01would be the grappling. I don't think he's an amazing wrestler to go out
- 52:07there and just say, all right, we're gonna we're grappling in this fight.
- 52:09I think Benitez is dangerous too. Benitez could grab his neck if that's
- 52:14the case, and tap Miller out in my opinion, but I do think
- 52:19the biggest edge for benit Tes will be the striking department, and then more
- 52:23so after the first round. I just think Miller's gonna be super live in
- 52:27the first round, maybe the better fighter everywhere in the first round, but
- 52:30I expect his best work to come in the first half of this fight and
- 52:34then him to start slowing down. I'm not sure he's gonna win that first
- 52:37round, but I like Benitez to go out there and win the second round,
- 52:39mostly even the second half of the second round, and if it gets
- 52:43to the third round, I like Benitez more in that round than I do
- 52:46Miller in the first round. So I'm picking Benitez to win the fight.
- 52:51I think he could win by any method, but I'll take him to win
- 52:54two or three rounds on the scorecards. Maybe he could get you a knockdown
- 53:00takedown mixed in there to help out his score. But I just don't know
- 53:04what these guys would score in a decision win. I guess like I don't
- 53:07know how how high their ceiling is if I'm right, if this does go
- 53:10the distance, but they both have finishing upside. Maybe Miller's finishing upside would
- 53:15be more likely early and Benitez could possibly be more late, but man,
- 53:20Benitez is dangerous early too, So I don't know. I'm gonna be heavy
- 53:23on Benitez. I feel like the field's gonna be a little bit too heavy
- 53:27on Miller to where I don't want to match it. So I'm thinking I'll
- 53:30be like half the field or so on Miller, and maybe I'll double the
- 53:34field on Benitas. Yeah, gameril Benitas. I've always done a soccer from
- 53:38because of the kicks I have been buying in on this Miller run. As
- 53:43of late two, I know I like this fight. I mean looking at
- 53:45ownership, so I put it in eventually or at the end of the sleigh
- 53:49plan, like I'll play the ownership discount. If it's Miller, if it's
- 53:52Benitez, if one looks way more popular looking at ours right now though,
- 53:55Miller twenty six, Benitas thirty three. I think it's somewhere around there.
- 54:01I think ownership is going to be pretty tough on the mid Say what I
- 54:06put thirty three for Bernita? Yeah you have thirty three? Or no,
- 54:08I'm sorry, Yeah you do, Yeah you have thirty three. Okay,
- 54:12I might I feel like I probably I might have put that in wrong.
- 54:14We'll have to I'll go back and check it after this, so ship a
- 54:16Nation subscribers be sure to check it out afterwards. Yeah, it'll be on
- 54:21the side pretty shortly, I get we'll get projections in there the ownership.
- 54:24Maybe it's Miller thirty three, Banita's twenty five. I don't know, something
- 54:29like that. I'm kind of just if I like everything else on my exposures.
- 54:32This is a fight. I'm good with a lot of fluctuation, like
- 54:36it could go to decision and like you said, I don't know how well
- 54:38it would score. I mean, I think if you tell me goes a
- 54:42decision, I think Miller has more passed because maybe wrestling and can be on
- 54:46top, but I don't think you really want it if it's staying on the
- 54:51feet Benita's he's dangerous man, like what he was doing on a naba even
- 54:54before he got finished, he was piecing them up. I love his kicks
- 54:59and stuff, so yeah, I mean yeah, I like I said,
- 55:01I've leaned Miller slightly. I think I'm on the beneath as slightly too.
- 55:05But I've always been a sucker for his kicks. We got two fights left,
- 55:09and I don't know if you saw, man, I was a little
- 55:12worried seeing everyone set to the scales except cop mine or one twenty nine and
- 55:16a half for one twenty five. So hopefully Nikola takes to the money,
- 55:21takes the purse. We'll get right into that fight. The twelve fights to
- 55:24eleven wouldn't be fun now in terms of my interests in this fight, I'll
- 55:29be underweight. I don't like it too much now. Cop matteas Nicolau nine
- 55:32k COP seventy two hundred Nicolau Cop minus two seventy roughly Nikola plus two thirty
- 55:39this fight minus one thirty five to finish Cop all the finishing ups or equity
- 55:46minus one ten Nikola plus seven seventy five. This is a rematch from almost
- 55:52three years ago. Nicolau won his fout decision, close decision. Both guys
- 55:57scored awful. I don't no man like I think Kop and Boschrot were my
- 56:02least two favorite in this upper tier. Would I be surprised if Cock it's
- 56:06a first round knockout, No, but he very well. Second round knockout
- 56:09might not be enough for him if he doesn't let his hands go. I
- 56:14don't think he offense or wrestles. So looking at his first round prop,
- 56:19he is plus three seventy five and round one there's just a lot of other
- 56:22better first round upside there, so I think he'll be pretty low. And
- 56:25I'm looking at our ownership maybe with this weightness even more twenty eight percent Cop
- 56:31and where is nine seventy two nicolaus sixteen percent, So twenty eight and sixteen
- 56:42I'll be underweight. I guess I prefer the dog I think if I had
- 56:45to pick, but I'll throw it to you on this one. I definitely
- 56:49prefer other fights for sure. It's one of my least favorite fights. And
- 56:51does the Cop weight miess do anything for you as well? No, not
- 56:55really. I mean actually probably if he's not injured, it probably helps him,
- 57:00like because the biggest worry for him would be getting taken down. And
- 57:04I feel like the people who miss Way it just helps them out with their
- 57:06wrestling more so, or even defensive wrestling. But I hope this fight stays
- 57:12more so because I think that the field will be on Cop and I just
- 57:15I want to fade this fight mostly. I just I don't like the volume
- 57:22from Cop. I also don't think he's going to be looking to wrestle,
- 57:23especially in this matchup. Maybe he lands one takedown, possibly two throughout the
- 57:29course of fifteen minutes, but I think Cop is in play for that knockout.
- 57:31We probably needed to come in round one, like you said, So
- 57:36with my MMM, maybe I'll max him at twenty percent just to match that
- 57:40round one inside the distance line. But with my handbills, I'm really trying
- 57:46to fade Cop. I am going to pick him though, to get a
- 57:50knockout because I think the first fight was close, but he was really more
- 57:54so coming on strong towards the end, and there were some parts where I
- 57:58was like, man, I feel like I had money on Nikolao, so
- 58:00I was like sweating the Nickelau side, but I was like, damn,
- 58:02I'm about to lose this fight. I'mbout to get knocked out. And I
- 58:05still think Cop might have even won that fight. But let's say he did
- 58:08win the fight. He scored fifty eight DraftKings points and that's not going to
- 58:13cut it, especially at nine k And then on the other hand, Nicolao
- 58:16did win, but he only scored seventy one. That's not even ten X's
- 58:21seventy two hundred dollars salary here, So I don't see any real upside for
- 58:25Nickelau here. I guess it would be a submission. But even if he
- 58:29wins, I'm not expecting much more than that seventy one that he scored last
- 58:31time. So I don't have much interest in Nicolao. He's in play as
- 58:35a live dog, sort of like a Taylor Lapalis, but I like him
- 58:38more because he's looking to get the fight to the ground where Lapolis is looking
- 58:42to strike. So I'll get a little bit of Nicolau I said basically the
- 58:46same thing, max him at probably twenty percent in MMM two, but with
- 58:51my handbills, I'd rather get away from it, go to underdogs who I
- 58:53think have higher ceilings. So it's like a twenty percent max on both,
- 58:58but I'd prefer to be closer to zero than twenty. I'm thinking, yeah,
- 59:02I love it. A late knockout probably makes it a close first or
- 59:07second round, and then he comes on land some big shots and then ends
- 59:10up putting them away at some point. I'm in agreement for sure. And
- 59:15yeah, this is an interesting point because he has and I wrote it up.
- 59:19I'd feel more confident that he'll let his hands go. But if you
- 59:22look at last fight against Flipe nos Hantos, there's those Tontos really doing the
- 59:27forward pressure and making cop fight in that one, because you just go one
- 59:30fight prior. So last fight was September ninth of last year, the other
- 59:35one December seventeenth to twenty twenty two. David DeVore. He only landed fifty
- 59:38eight significant strikes to Devorax thirty three, so he was fine playing that game,
- 59:44doubling him up, landing the bigger shots and winning a decision there and
- 59:47then you go earlier in the career, the Nicolu fight, the Pentosia fight,
- 59:52stared in the mirror, knocks out oday with fifteen seconds left in the
- 59:55round, only landing nineteen before that, this August fight, in the the
- 1:00:00Felipe fight, he definitely let his hands go there and he put it on
- 1:00:05z August. Two knockdowns, fifty three significant strikes through four minutes. But
- 1:00:08I'm more confident than earlier in his career he'll let his hands go. I
- 1:00:13could still see him Nikolau just being more passive, circling around a cop,
- 1:00:16not going for it completely. But if you think he will, He's another
- 1:00:21guy in the upper tier to mix around at a fraction of the ownership as
- 1:00:23Nolan ank Ali of stuff like that last fight on the card, that's the
- 1:00:29comin event. Please say it does stay. If it doesn't, of course,
- 1:00:31projections, ownership, slate plan, everything will be updated to reflect that
- 1:00:37last fight. Main event time another rematch. The last two fights of the
- 1:00:42night are rematches and Magamat Ankeli of Johnny Walker ninety four hundred, Ankli of
- 1:00:47sixty eight hundred Johnny Walker Ankleib minus five fifty Walker plus four hundred this fight
- 1:00:54is minus five one hundred to finish and looking at the odds, ank a
- 1:00:58Live minus three hundred inside the distance, Johnny Walker plus five point fifty an
- 1:01:02Kaalia plus two hundred and round one. So this fight was it took place
- 1:01:08a little while ago, pretty actually pretty recent, ank Ali, nothing was
- 1:01:13really going on in a round one, they're trading some punches. Anklve did
- 1:01:17secure takedown, he landed an illegal knee. I think at Live I said
- 1:01:22he was gonna be a future champ. He's so boring. He kind of
- 1:01:24the judges took that away from him against Yan, and I think Dana does
- 1:01:29want anything but him to be the future champ. But I mean, he
- 1:01:32keeps winning fights besides the Paul craigfight he threw away. He's a good wrestler.
- 1:01:37It's a steady striker. He's not a DraftKings guy though. So at
- 1:01:42ninety four hundred, I still like him because I think he knows he needs
- 1:01:45to be aggressive. He needs a finish fights to like show Dana something.
- 1:01:49I think he finally realizes that part. The props are good even if he
- 1:01:53somehow this fight goes a decision. What four or five takedowns eighteen minutes of
- 1:01:58control of time. Like that's all on the cards. I'm not sure how
- 1:02:00long they'll stand with Johnny Walker. So yeah, I'll be playing some ankalia
- 1:02:06again the story of the slate. I'll be mixing and matching these guys up
- 1:02:07here. But I have anklave number two in the tier rankings right now that
- 1:02:13I think are very interchangeable up top. But yeah, no Johnny Walker for
- 1:02:16me. Though he can bink, he can live, he's live for a
- 1:02:21big shot break the slate that way. I think he's probably overhelled though for
- 1:02:23the five rounds. How do you see this fight last one in the night.
- 1:02:28Yeah, I agree, I have these guys pretty similar in ownership,
- 1:02:30and that is pretty much talking me off a Walker. I mean, he's
- 1:02:35definitely got first round knockout, break the slate ceiling. But if he doesn't
- 1:02:39get the first round knockout, I feel like it's gonna get worse and worse
- 1:02:42as this fight moves along. And the only advantages he has would be like
- 1:02:45speed, explosiveness, and one shot power early in the fight anyways, So
- 1:02:51if he's not getting the knockout, I just don't see how he's winning this
- 1:02:53fight even with a low volume Ankliath, He's still the better point fighter in
- 1:02:58this one. He's the better or skilled striker, but his easier and safer
- 1:03:02path to victory would be to wrestle where he really isn't gonna have to worry
- 1:03:06at all about Walker off his back. So I like his wrestling upside,
- 1:03:10and that's what's making me want to be possibly overweight to him. I also
- 1:03:15think he could knock out Walker in any round have upside there as well.
- 1:03:20It's just that his low volume, and if he is winning a low volume
- 1:03:23fight, what's forcing him to go out there and get takedowns when it's five
- 1:03:27rounds. He's probably trying to conserve his energy a bit. It wouldn't shock
- 1:03:30me at all to see Anklive go out there and score seventy nine points in
- 1:03:32a decision win or something like that. So it's definitely not an all in
- 1:03:37main event. But I feel like the field is going to be fairly low
- 1:03:44on this main event compared to others. And when I originally started with my
- 1:03:47ownership, I had these guys down like probably ten percent each, but I
- 1:03:52was too low overall, so I threw all my extra on the main event,
- 1:03:54and that that's what put ank alive up to like the forty percent range,
- 1:03:58but I feel like that's almost to higher range. I could see him
- 1:04:00being closer to thirty percent in this one. And if he is closer to
- 1:04:03thirty percent, then definitely put me down for some leverage. But if he's
- 1:04:08at forty percent, I might not get too much. Maybe I'm at like
- 1:04:11fifty max or so. I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna
- 1:04:13do with this nine K range. I just know that I'm fine mixing it
- 1:04:16around. I'm fine leaving money on the table, and I think if I'm
- 1:04:20not or if I'm not playing any contrarian spots, then that'll be my plan.
- 1:04:29I'll just make sure I'm leaving money on the table, and maybe i'll
- 1:04:31even cap it on the solver at like forty nine seven or forty nine eight
- 1:04:38something like that. Yeah, So I think I think that alive. So
- 1:04:42we have forty and thirty four right now. Again, it might be changed.
- 1:04:46It'll be up on the site shortly after the show. I think that
- 1:04:49live ownership's probably right. If anything, I think you're hot on Walker a
- 1:04:54little bit. Maybe twenty eight twenty five, I don't know. Again,
- 1:04:58you've been way better at ownership than I'm just I always look at it.
- 1:05:00I have my own thoughts obviously going into the show and stuff like that,
- 1:05:03what people will do if I had to guess. So, if anything,
- 1:05:06you're hot on Walker, I think Ankle Lia probably in that forty percent.
- 1:05:10Yeah, I want to say I started at like twenty eight Walker, so
- 1:05:13maybe I do end up going back down to like twenty eight and then put
- 1:05:15that six on the Parsons and then still maybe a little bit more on the
- 1:05:18parsons or something. Yeah, yeah, I know, I think that sounds
- 1:05:21right as well. Either way, I think Walker's gonna be over owned Anklyth
- 1:05:25has he has passed. Like you said, It's definitely not an all in
- 1:05:28fight for me, and especially not playing any Walker in twenty entry below.
- 1:05:31Like maybe I only play forty Ankle Live zero Walker, so over half my
- 1:05:35lineups don't include this fight. There's enough other Ankle Live gets you one oh
- 1:05:41five. That's not a lock to be on the optimal. It's how I'm
- 1:05:43looking at this card with the others in the nine K range. So I
- 1:05:45don't want to make a complete huge stands up top when anyone can get there.
- 1:05:49I'd rather make more stands in that mid tier. Certain fights there be
- 1:05:54more concentrated on dogs this week than I am favorite. So I guess that's
- 1:05:59the story of the slate. What's up going on? Siggy our man three
- 1:06:01and a half pounds as always. Yeah, hopefully that fight does stay on
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