The UFC 149 card has suffered terribly because of injuries to so many of the fighters. Fortunately, there are still plenty of great fights on the card. The fight I want to focus on is a middleweight collision between the explosive Hector Lombard and “The Barbarian” Tim Boetsch.
This is an interesting fight for a number of reasons. It is Hector Lombard’s UFC debut after coming over from Bellator. There, he was the undefeated middleweight champion.
How will he react coming to the UFC? Will he dominate or fold under the pressure?
Both of these men have fight stopping power in their fists. Consider Boetsch’s last fight against Yushin Okami. Lombard has also been stopping opponents for a long time, most recently Trevor Prangley. Both of these men hit hard. It is all up to who times their shots better.
Another big question with this fight is who will impose their game plan better. Boetsch has good wrestling and will use this to get the fight to the ground if the stand up isn’t going his way. Lombard, on the other hand, was an Olympic judoka for Cuba. Judoka do their best work from the clinch and Lombard has outstanding takedown defense because of this.
Both of these fighters are explosive talents. I think that Lombard has the advantage in this fight. If Boetsch is losing the stand up exchanges and can’t get the fight to the ground, I see Lombard’s excellent counter punching and ferocity taking over the fight and earning him a KO or TKO victory.
I can’t say for sure who is going to win this fight. In MMA anything can happen. I can predict one thing with complete certainty. This will be a three round fight and there is no way it will go the full time. This is a fight not to be missed!
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