This past Saturday night in the main event of UFC 320 , the light heavyweight title was on the line. Magomed Ankalaev (21-2-1, 1 NC) was looking to defend his title for the first time against the man he took it from in former champion Alex “Poatan” Pereira (13-3).

In their first fight, Ankalaev did a great job of fighting with forward pressure and he never really allowed Pereira the opportunity to move forward. We know that Pereira fights much better with pressure than he does off the back foot. After their first fight, Pereira talked about not being close to 100% entering the fight.

Admittedly, I’m a huge Poatan fan. I mean, how could you not be? That said, I just felt like Ankalaev was going to be too much for him in the rematch. Ankalaev has shown the striking ability to be able to st

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