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Lopes vs Garcia is one of the better underdog research spots on the card.

Lopes has the résumé, schedule edge, and submission danger.

But Garcia has the clearest striking edge in MMA Index Matchup Read.

The overlap is interesting:

Garcia is a headshot-heavy striker, and Lopes has shown vulnerability there.

That makes the fight pretty clean:

Lopes likely needs to drag Garcia into grappling exchanges.

Garcia needs to keep it standing, push pace, and make the striking edge matter.

Seems more like a coinflip than a real advantage to the -150 favorite Lopes, which would make Garcia the value side.

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The O’Malley number looks less crazy when you start looking for Zahabi’s actual win condition.

The usual upset path against Sean is control/wrestling.

Zahabi has landed 1 takedown in his 10-fight UFC career.

If this stays mostly striking, he’s giving up reach, 7 years in age, and O’Malley is the cleaner striker with the better finishing profile.

On paper, that’s a tough night at the office for Zahabi.

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@UFConParamount @paramountplus Cannot wait 💪

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A potentially historic matchup.

The market has been at a dead heat on Pereira vs. Gane, at pretty close to even odds since the fight opened.

MMA Index Matchup Read has striking, wrestling, submission, pace and form all basically even.

Pereira’s edges: finishing, schedule, activity.

Gane’s edge: athleticism + tale of the tape — a natural heavyweight with heavyweight experience.

Pereira has 8 UFC KO wins, and his single most-likely market outcome is KO at +130.

Gane has never been knocked out. But he has been knocked down, and his two title-fight losses came with real questions: decision-making vs Ngannou, and the quick collapse against Jon Jones.

If the matchup is deadlocked everywhere else, Pereira’s power and poise in big moments may be the separator.

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The O’Malley value case makes sense.

The upset path against Sean is control/wrestling, and Zahabi hasn't shown he has that in the UFC.

If this stays striking, it’s hard to find a real win path for Zahabi.

Sub-20% win probability for Zahabi feels right, which makes O'Malley a value.

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@ufc Absolute superstar

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The market is pricing Topuria by KO around 3x more likely than Gaethje winning by any method.

Topuria KO: −210
Gaethje any method: +376

But the interesting part is that Ilia has more career submissions than KOs — and the matchup data shows a bigger edge for him in the grappling/submission layer than in pure striking.

Does Ilia chase the highlight-reel KO, or remind everyone he entered the UFC with a serious grappling base?

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@BussinWTB Derrick Lewis: "I promise you I'm knocking him out"

Can't wait for this one.

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@fightsdotio @Home_of_Fight He's going full chimaev

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The matchup here looks lopsided on paper.

There’s basically nothing this version of Justin does better than Ilia, and the common-opponent thread is brutal:

Oliveira and Holloway both finished Gaethje. Topuria later knocked out both.

Hard to find many clean win conditions for Gaethje outside of a Leon Edwards-Usman type hail mary.

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@SpinninBackfist I was told Poatan was fat.

Looks like 251 lbs of locked in.

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@TheArtOfWar6 What's the Zahabi win condition realistically?

Seems like takedown or bust, and we've never seen that out of Zahabi - he's landed 1 takedown in his 11 career UFC fights.

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@JacobCookeMMA Garcia +135 💪

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@dfs_numbers Sounds like a perfect night to over-research a Sunday card.

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This has to be the most under-discussed angle on the card.

Heat/humidity/delays don’t show up in most models, but they will absolutely affect pace, cardio, recovery, and late-round decision-making.

Elevation fights are the closest obvious comp — not the same, but one of the only examples where conditions have changed how a fight plays out.

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@BKenyon_ @jedigoodman Agree. Lewis's gas tank is always a concern, not sure how it holds up under any sort of wrestling pressure in 80+ degree weather.