Prediction: Toss up (Value is on Seaman)
On paper, Wellmaker looks like the real deal—and he is. The power he carries isn’t just raw. It’s efficient, controlled, and laced with serious precision. He’s not out there winging wild hooks; he’s landing clean counters in motion, adjusting his strike placement depending on his opponent’s movement mid-exchange. That’s high-level stuff. The way he shifts angles and subtly changes range in the pocket is what makes his knockout shots land with the kind of timing that ends fights.
He’s also made strides in his grappling. You can tell it’s something he’s been drilling. But you can still see the mental load. In grappling exchanges, he’s thinking—pausing, adjusting—and that hesitation, even if it’s slight, is where someone like Saaiman can create chaos.
What Saaiman brings is speed, pace, and a far more fluid overall game. He throws more volume and is relentless. He’s not waiting. He’s going first, second, and third, constantly pressuring, constantly forcing reactions. That volume forces even composed fighters to bite on feints, get stuck backing up, and that’s when Saaiman starts to take over. He’s also got a more natural grappling flow. While Wellmaker is still piecing together transitions and reactions, Saaiman blends his strikes and level changes together with instinct—he’s not thinking as much, he’s just acting.
The concern with Saaiman, and it’s a real one, is his striking entries. He’s fast and aggressive, but he often rushes into range without any setup—no feints, no layered attacks, just straight-line entries with his chin there to be countered. And that’s exactly the type of pattern Wellmaker eats for breakfast. He doesn’t need many openings—he needs one clean read, and he has the timing and composure to sit back and punish those entries with something sharp. Saaiman’s habit of crashing into range recklessly is exactly what has gotten him clipped before, and against someone like Wellmaker, that could end the night quick.
But that’s where the value play on Saaiman comes in. You’re getting him at plus money in a fight where his style—speed, cardio, and chaos—could break a still-developing fighter like Wellmaker. If he can avoid getting clipped early and turn this into a pace-heavy war, his advantages start compounding: higher volume, better scrambling, and the ability to drag Wellmaker into deeper waters where that thinking process in grappling and defense gets exposed. He doesn’t need to be perfect—he just needs to stay alive early and keep the pressure up.