UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Arlovski – Idiot’s Guide to the FS1/Fight Pass Prelims

this May 8, 2016 at the Ahoy Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The Line Up

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)Lightweight Rustam Khabilov vs.Chris Wade Middleweight Magnus Cedenblad vs.Garreth McLellan LightweightYan Cabral vs.Reza Madadi Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)Flyweight Kyoji Horiguchi vs.Neil Seery Welterweight Leon Edwards vs.Dominic Waters FlyweightYuta Sasaki vs.Willie Gates

The Odds

Chris Wade+175 Rustam Khabilov-210  Garreth McLellan+255 Magnus Cedenblad-310  Reza Madadi+155 Yan Cabral-175  Dominic Waters+210 Leon Edwards-250  Kyoji Horiguchi-600 Neil Seery+450  Ulka Sasaki +130 Willie Gates-150

The Rundown

LightweightRustam Khabilovvs.Chris Wade

Khabilov is a long from slam knockout debut home. Even though his stock has fallen a bit, he scored a solid win over Norman Parke in his last outing. Parke may be unspectacular as an entertainer, but he’s technical and savvy. It’s a good win. Now he’s facing Wade, who is 4-0 in the UFC and finally getting the high-ish profile fights he deserves. As good as this fight is on paper, I don’t know that it’s the most crowd pleasing. Neither guy is the most enthralling of strikers, but they approach their strikes in different ways: Khabilov interesting in the punctuated eccentricities of spinning kicks and randomly timed overhand rights, while Wade opts for the predictable utility of punch transition wrestling. I’m close to favoring Wade for his ability to neutralize Khabilov’s rhythm. With his activity and strength, he has the ability. I just feel like Khabilov has the better overall aptitude to dictate the pace.

MiddleweightMagnus Cedenbladvs.Garreth McLellan

Cedenblad has quietly pulled together a nice and not so little win streak in the UFC, going 3-0 in his last three after losing to Francis Carmont. His quality of competition is a little wanting, but you can’t blame him for beating who Silva puts in front of him. He’ll be taking on the “Soldier Boy” who is 1-1 in the UFC. McLellan has gotten by not just on his savage Scandinavian mountain man looks (yes I know he’s South …

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