Prediction: Michal Oleksiejczuk via TKO<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oleksiejczuk doesn\u2019t waste time feeling things out\u2014he comes forward immediately, cutting off the cage and forcing his opponents into exchanges where he can capitalize. Dumas, on the other hand, is most comfortable when he has space to work at range. He likes to pick his shots from the outside, but that style falls apart when someone consistently stays in his face like Michal does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of Dumas\u2019 biggest flaws is his habit of dipping his head whenever opponents close the distance. Instead of circling out or framing properly, he instinctively tries to push his opponent away with extended arms. That kind of defense doesn\u2019t make opponents hesitate or reset\u2014it just leaves him open for counters, especially against someone like Michal, who thrives in close-range chaos. Michal is the type of fighter who will see that tendency and exploit it over and over again, ripping shots to the body and head while Dumas scrambles to reset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unless Dumas chooses to wrestle, this should be an easy night for Michal. The one glaring weakness in Michal\u2019s game has always been his defensive grappling. If opponents have the ability to take him down and control him, they usually take that route. Dumas does have some wrestling in his arsenal, but it\u2019s not something he commits to often. If he\u2019s stubborn about striking with Michal, he\u2019s going to get walked down and overwhelmed quickly. His only real path to victory is to lean on his grappling early and go for the finish, but if he hesitates or allows Michal to dictate the pace, it\u2019s only a matter of time before he gets broken under the pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prediction: Michal Oleksiejczuk via TKO Oleksiejczuk doesn\u2019t waste time feeling things out\u2014he comes forward immediately, cutting off the cage and forcing his opponents into exchanges where he can capitalize. Dumas, on the other hand, is most comfortable when he has space to work at range. He likes to pick his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}