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UFC Fighter Focus (June 19) – Ige, Vera, and Choi

June 17, 2021
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UFC 263 was this past Saturday and it was a good show; a little anticlimactic at the end there after Brandon Moreno became the first-ever Mexican born UFC World Champion. That part was cool but then we got to see Izzy Adesanya play with his food for close to 25 minutes.

I personally wasn’t that upset because we had Israel on a method of victory play in our true pay per view main event fashion.

I thought we were getting good value on this one to go the distance at (+165) so why not?

That is a magic number for main event method of victory plays and I don’t look for it but when I see it, warmth fills my heart and it is hard to resist. The event was a good one overall, though, but I want to look ahead to this coming Saturday’s action.

There aren’t a lot of big names competing on this card and from a betting perspective, at least on the surface, it is more or less a hot mess.

Please Note:
Low level heavyweights and low level women will be fighting and there are 8 fights on the schedule with favorites with betting odds no higher than (-150). That means that more than 60% of Saturday’s event has fights with implied probabilities of 60/40 at the widest.

We have our work cut out for us but I busted out the microscope for a while last night and I think we have some strong positions. I don’t think we should attack the entire card head on but there are angles.

Let’s bring a couple of the fight card’s stronger mixed martial artists into focus and also look at their betting odds to see if we want to make a play on any of these savages.

Dan Ige will be headlining the event and 50k will, of course, be looking for yet another knockout of the night bonus to add to his wall and bank account. The Korean Zombie, though, will be standing across from him on Saturday, and right now the online sportsbooks have this one as a dead heat pick’em at (-110) for each combatant.

I personally don’t agree. I understand that they don’t want to count out The Zombie but uncle mo is certainly not on his side while he has been riding shotgun with 50k for a couple of years now.

Seung Woo Choi is coming off one of the biggest wins of his career against Yousuff Zalal. The South Korean striker looked incredible and he has some serious size and thickness to be a 6 foot tall 145er.

He will be fighting almost his physical twin, though, in Julian Juicy J Erosa at UFC Fight Night this Saturday. Juicy J is 6’1 and a southpaw but the two men will have a virtually identical reach of 74”.

Juicy J has a massive edge in the experience department as this will be his 35th professional mixed martial arts bout while the South Korean star, Choi, is making that walk for just the 14th time.

I give Choi a technical advantage on the feet and I imagine both fighters will be more than happy to keep this one standing. Who will be on the front foot is a question I wish I had the answer to.

Finally, I want to look at Marlon Chito Vera’s fight with Dangerous Davey Grant. Davey is a bad man and can’t be underestimated, especially coming off of two consecutive knockout victories. This is in the 135 pound division also to put the accomplishment into perspective.

You don’t see many guys getting slept at Bantamweight and Davey Grant has certainly proven to be Dangerous enough to do it. Against Marlon Chito Vera, though, it isn’t going to be easy.

Chito is on quite the tear himself…but he lost his last fight, you say? Yes, he did but he lost to Jose Aldo, the former GOAT at Featherweight, 10 pounds up. And Marlon was in position to win that fight with Jose tiring. It took the perfect game plan and execution in the third round by Aldo to get the takedown and keep Chito there for the remainder of the fight.

If those two were fighting 5 rounds, I think it would have possibly ended differently. When Marlon Vera gets going downhill and you are tired, lawd have mercy on your soul because he isn’t going to stop until he gets enough.

This fight is a rematch, though, and Davey Grant the underdog in this matchup was the clear winner, out striking Chito 72-27 for a unanimous 3 round decision victory. Chito was still in his embryonic stage then. It was 6 years ago and now Davey has eclipsed the 35 mark so things are different.

BetOnline.AG has some solid odds on all three of these fights. Let’s get in depth with each of these three fighters as well as their chances to win on Saturday in the absolutely scorching Las Vegas Valley.

My friend just told me it was 116 F yesterday.

I don’t really miss that. Vegas is my favorite town in the states for a lot of reasons but triple digit temperatures is not one of them.

Dan Ige

Dynamite…make that 50K Dan Ige has quickly evolved into one of the most exciting fighters in the UFC’s Featherweight Division. The guy is making small incremental improvements from fight to fight. I don’t know if he will ever win the belt but the guy is a for sure a top five gatekeeper and at 145, that is still pretty awesome.

Dan is still a few months shy of his 30th birthday so I think it is pretty safe to say that we have a couple more years of improvement out of 50k so maybe a world title is in the mix for the Honolulu native.

Hawaiian born but 9th Isle living:
Dan Ige puts in his time at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas every day and that gym is just on fire. There are more Hawaiians living in Las Vegas than anywhere else in the States and let me tell you, they train hard and are all about respect.

That is everything to the culture as it is with many. There are infamously a ton of street fights in Hawaii but they are also notoriously fought fair. That isn’t normal for street fights which are essentially always a bad idea.

Dan Ige is a problem, man. I am telling you guys. I think he may knock out the Zombie. He has the hands and the heart to get into anyone’s face and do it. He hung in there with Edson Barboza and won a close decision.

I think he can do it to The Korean Zombie as well because I don’t know if Chan Sung is still that same guy he was. There is also the fact that The South Korean star has taken a lot of damage.

You don’t get to call yourself a Zombie in this sport unless you earn it.

Dynamite has the hands and as you can see here from one of his most recent Instagram posts, he is working on the lethality of all 8 of his limbs.

Dan Ige was one of the first fighters from Dana White’s Contender Series to get a UFC contract back in 2017 and since then, he has worked his way to within one fight from a world title shot.

You can’t ask for too much more than that but if you ask Dan, you might get another opinion.

The man is clearly committed and competitive because you will never get to the position he is in today without a lot of both.

Dan actually lost his first official UFC fight to Julio Arce.
Julio is a very solid fighter and still competing for the promotion with a professional mixed martial arts record of 16-4. I know Dan would like to get that one back one day but he has a Zombie who may or may not be walking him down on Saturday so I am sure that is his focus.

Ige rattled off 6 straight after that and a #1 contender’s matchup with Calvin Kattar was next and even though Dan dropped a unanimous decision to Calvin, I think Kattar was the true loser. This is because of the DRUBBING that Cal took when he fought Max Holloway.

I don’t think a there was a man alive on earth that night who could have hung with Max so I think it is better than Dan took that one step back in order to take several more forward. Kattar will never be the same fighter again.

That guy will never be a title contender in my opinion. You don’t come back mentally from a loss like that. Remember, we said the same about Tony Ferguson two days after his loss to Justin Gaethje and here we are…

Dan Ige rebounded from that loss with an early knockout win over the gifted Gavin Tucker. This was a fight that a lot of the hardcores and handicappers were really looking forward to because the betting odds were as split as all of the experts.

We were on Dan, though, and he shut the Canadian’s lights out early in the first.

I don’t know if he does the same to The Korean Zombie but for even money, I don’t see how you can get behind The Korean Zombie. He just waits too much for a puncher as voluminous and as explosive as Dan Ige.

50K is a pretty slick nickname.

I have to admit a good nickname when I hear it, but Dynamite could be a more accurate description of his style. Explosiveness is how fast the movement gets going. I have never had too much of it but there are those spark plug built guys like Dan that are just little athletic firecrackers.

They can cover distance so quickly and what makes Dan special is that he can do it for the entire fight.

Exploding zaps your energy more than not exploding does so those types of fighters usually gas early but we really haven’t seen it from Dan. That speaks more to his mental conditioning than his athleticism or genetics.

I honestly like everything about this guy’s game except that he is going to struggle against the 5’11” and 6’ fighters of the division that he can’t take down. The fight was really close with Edson Barboza and think about how good he has looked, not just in pictures but the Brazilian’s performances have been better than ever.

Dan Ige has been far far more active than The Korean Zombie and he has looked like the better fighter if you compare their recent performances. Would I invest a lot of dough on Dan here as a heavy favorite? Probably not but he is even money and we also have a line movement on our side.

Some early money came in on the South Korean fighter and that happens. It was silly money, in my opinion, because it was just at (-110) and up to (-130) before the Dan Ige cash came rolling in to get this one back to (-110) for both fighters.

Which sharp move was truly sharp?

Hawaiians are built different, man. I am telling you guys. Get on the Dan Ige side. The books are going to end up making him the betting favorite by fight time. I have watched multiple videos of close to a total of 50 current UFC fighters 80% of them are on 50K.

They know what’s up.
All we have to say is Dan is 60/40 to win this fight and we can make a 2 unit play. I say 2 units sounds about right here because The Korean Zombie is still a very dangerous man and this one is scheduled for 5 rounds as the main event so a lot can happen.

I like Dan Ige here, though, to get his hand raised and possibly put away The Zombie. You can get Dan for a 4 to 1 payout to get the TKO win but I say take the even money. 2 units on 50K.

PLACE YOUR BETS NOW!

Marlon Chito Vera

We went pretty in depth on Dan 50k Ige so I will spare you my man crushingness on Chito and get right down to business.

This is also important because I don’t know how long his betting odds are going to be at (-200).

I think that is a great spot for Chito here and yes, Davey Grant is Dangerous or else he wouldn’t have the nickname but he is at his most peligroso when he is on the front foot and against a guy like Chito Vera who commands the Octagon, I don’t think Davey will be the one moving forward.

In fact, I think he will be moving straight back and he is a crafty guy who can walk Chito onto something but I love the boxing coach, Jason Parillo, of Marlon and I know he will have the Ecuadorian star as prepared as always.

These betting odds opened up at (-327) for Chito and while that does sound a bit steep considering Davey Grant beat him in their first meeting, I do think Chito should be more than a 2 to 1 favorite.

Chito will wear down the Brit here and possibly get him out of there by the end of the third. I believe Chito has 3 3rd round stoppages under his belt fighting inside of the Octagon and this could be #4.

Davey is a gamer and he won’t quit but the calf kick disabling him is a possibility as well.

That could happen very early. Chito has so many more ways to win. I think he is the better grappler as well so anywhere this fight goes, Chito will have the edge. I don’t mind investing a couple of units on him here to return 1 at (-197).

PLACE YOUR BETS NOW!

Seung Woo Choi

I think the South Korean star is going to show out on Saturday against Juicy J Julian Erosa. I know betting against the Juicy one has never really been a good idea since his second stint with the UFC but I really like the level up we have seen from Choi over the past year.

He has fought some very good fighters and clearly grown from those losses.

He is still just 28 years old and when you make your debut against Movsar Evloev and then have to fight Gavin Tucker right after that, wow, getting your confidence up to fight for your job in your next bout has to be a task!

He did it, though, and even won the fight after that to make a .500 UFC fighter looking to get that winning record and hopefully keep it that way after a win over Julian Erosa. I like the technical ability of the South Korean star in this spot over Julian.

J will have an experience advantage but Choi has leveled up lately and I don’t think Julian has done the same. The comeback win against Sean Woodson was pretty awesome but without that, he has lost 4 of his previous 5 fights.

Not a good look, homie.

Give me Seung Woo Choi here to be the more technical fighter and also muscle some time in the clinch as well.

He will have to worry about the head kick of Julian and the awkward strikes but Choi is pretty defensively sound as he only absorbs less than 2.5 significant strikes per minute and that is with losing 2 of his 4 fights. Solid stuff from the improving South Korean star.

PLACE YOUR BETS NOW!

In Conclusion

These three are primed to get their hands raised on Saturday and even if we hit on just 2 of the 3, we will be far ahead.

Dan Ige is (-110) when I think he wins 2 out of 3 times that he fights the Korean Zombie. Seung Woo Choi is only a (-135) favorite. That is pretty affordable. It would be nice to get him at dog odds but it would be nice if the Vegas Knights won the Stanley Cup also but we will see.

I really wanted to go more in depth today about Marlon Chito Vera but we focused on the main event headliner, Dan Ige. I started out hating on Chito as I bet against him when I shouldn’t have.

I underestimated the WRONG guy and he has now won me over. Am I picking him today, though, as a 2 to 1 dog because of some emotions?

Never!

Okay, maybe there has been some emotion involved in some of our picks but I promise we are minimizing that significantly. Get your plays in now because I think the betting odds will continue to move towards our picks!

PLACE YOUR BETS NOW!

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