Prediction: Joaquim Silva via KO<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Puelles needs this fight on the ground. His whole game is built around grappling, and when he gets it there, he\u2019s slick, creative, and dangerous. But the problem is how he gets it there. His entries are slow, predictable, and from way too far out. Against someone like Silva, that\u2019s just not going to cut it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silva is built like a brick house. He\u2019s tough to drag down, even tougher to hold there, and if Puelles is shooting those desperate, telegraphed takedowns, Silva is going to see them coming every time. And that\u2019s when Silva\u2019s advantages really come into play. In close, he\u2019s got serious power. When he lets his hands go, it doesn\u2019t take much to hurt people. As Puelles starts to get more frustrated and more desperate to find a takedown, those openings are only going to get wider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The longer this fight goes, the worse it gets for Puelles. He\u2019ll be stuck trying to force shots that aren\u2019t there, leaving his chin right in line for Silva\u2019s power. That\u2019s why I see Silva not just winning, but likely finding the finish. He\u2019s the stronger, harder hitting fighter, with the right tools to shut down what Puelles does best, and eventually that power in his hands is going to end the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prediction: Joaquim Silva via KO Puelles needs this fight on the ground. His whole game is built around grappling, and when he gets it there, he\u2019s slick, creative, and dangerous. But the problem is how he gets it there. His entries are slow, predictable, and from way too far out.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufc-noche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capmma.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}