The Bloody Elbow team has made its own predictions for UFC 234, also it’s a clean sweep for Robert Whittaker to shield his middleweight title by beating Kelvin Gastelum, while everyone is backing Israel Adesanya over Anderson Silva from the co-main occasion. To put it differently, congrats to Gastelum and Silva in their wins on Saturday.
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Notice: Predictions are entered throughout the week and collected the day before the event. Explanations behind every pick are not required and some authors elect not to do so for their own reasons. By way of instance, if Phil Mackenzie entered all of his predictions on Wednesday without incorporating in any explanationshe has no idea if he is going to be the only one siding with one fighter for any specific fight.
Robert Whittaker vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Anton Tabuena: 2 former welterweights fighting for the middleweight belt. Will this convince individuals that intense weight cutting actually is not worth the trade off in performance? Probably not, but this ought to be an entertaining bout either way at least. I think this is going to be even closer than what the chances state, but I believe Whittaker is just slightly better just about everywhere, so he must take this. Robert Whittaker by choice.
Mookie Alexander: Gastelum absolutely has a chance here. He has powerful hands, insane durability — maybe not that Whittaker’s durability is to be scoffed at by any means — and superb cardio. However, he is not likely to be able to shoot Whittaker down (or at least hold him there), and Whittaker has way more depth to his attacking striking. His leg kicks in particular can slow Gastelum down, and now I think he cuts better angles and combines his attack choice and goals more effectively than Kelvin. It’ll be a close fight through the opening couple of rounds but Whittaker will come on strong in the following rounds and get the win. Robert Whittaker by decision.
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