UFC Jacare vs Hermansson 2019 Live Stream Fight Night 150
Jacare vs
Hermansson : The Bloody Elbow staff has made its predictions for UFC
Fort Lauderdale, and unsurprisingly it’s a clean sweep for Ronaldo Souza
over Jack Hermansson in the main event. If the curse is real and
Hermansson wins, then I don’t know what to say. Meanwhile, the majority
of us are picking Dimitrii Smoliakov over Greg Hardy, because why not?
Note: Predictions are entered throughout
the week and collected the day before the event. Explanations behind
each pick are not required and some writers opt not to do so for their
own reasons. For example, if Phil Mackenzie entered all of his
predictions on Wednesday without adding in any explanations, he has no
idea if he’s going to be the only one siding with one fighter for any
given fight.
Ronaldo Souza vs. Jack HermanssonMookie Alexander: It’d be amazing if Hermansson won this, it’s just hard to see how it happens. He has fought back from adversity (see: Thales Leites fight) and has beaten ground specialists like David Branch and Gerald Meerschaert by choking them out. Jacare is a different beast altogether. Not only can Souza win this on the feet with his improved and legitimately dangerous power-based kickboxing, you know that he’s going to be insanely hard to outgrapple. Props to Hermanssson for stepping up, but Jacare should be able to get this done and get his damn title shot. Ronaldo Souza by submission, round 1.
Victor Rodriguez: The closer we get to this fight, the more I feel that Hermansson has that gleam in his eye of the underdogs of days past that knew something we didn’t. People like Holm before Rousey, or Werdum before Fedor. He should get some great strikes in, but he sure as hell ain’t submitting a guy that gutted it out with a broken arm against Roger Gracie. I worry a bit about Jacaré’s striking defense, but can’t pick against him here. Ronaldo Souza by submission.
Phil Mackenzie: Do people deserve second chances? Yes. Do they deserve those second chances when they’ve shown no remorse, when corporate and media institutions go out of their way to gloss over the whole thing? On a more blunt competitive level, do visibly terrible MMA heavyweights who are a combined 0-3 in the UFC deserve co-main events? Everything about this fight blows so I will root for the only outcome that makes it not awful. Get ‘em, Lifeguard. Dimitrii Smoliakov by KO, round 3.
Victor Rodriguez: We all remember Hardy’s last fight, right? Because it absolutely sucked, but the UFC’s treating them shoving Hardy into another co-main event slot like it’s some kind of primo quality bout that you definitely can’t miss. I’ll say it again — Hardy’s done absolutely nothing to deserve this platform and position. If Allan Crowder — a fighter that is by all indications seems to be a nice guy that loves what he does but has no business being in the upper ranks of the sport — can wait for Hardy to gas out after two minutes of action to rally back and style on him, it’s not unreasonable to think Smoliakov can do the same by fighting smart and actually having an overall decent MMA game to make it work.
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