Featherweight Championship bout: Cris Cyborg Santos vs. Jan Finney
Odds: (-2000 Cyborg /+1000 Finney )
In the co-main event, Women’s champion Cris “Cyborg” Santos will defend her title against tough competitor Jan Finney. Finney’s record is not spectacular, but she is riding a four fight win streak, and after what Cyborg has done to her other opponents, Finney deserves respect just for taking this fight.
Finney, a serviceable striker with a decent ground game, has had mixed results as a professional, but is currently riding a nice wave of momentum. It is safe to say, though, that she has never fought anyone even close to Cyborg’s level, but such a woman does not even exist. Not to take anything away from Finney, but Cyborg has already cleaned out the top of the women’s division, and so now they are having to fish for anyone even willing to fight her.
Cyborg is almost scarily dominant, combining absolutely crushing Muay Thai with pretty good takedowns and submissions. Obviously, her best work is done on the feet, but she has also proven that she can rearrange an opponent’s facial features from top position on the ground.
Finney deserves all the respect in the world for stepping up and taking this fight, but she is doomed from the get-go. Cyborg is far more physically imposing, not to mention better at pretty much every aspect of the fight game, so this is going to be a brutal, one-sided destruction. Cyborg by T/KO, round 1.
Prediction: Cris Cyborg via first round T/KO.
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