UFC Fight Night 78: Main Card Staff Predictions

The UFC returns to Mexico for a six-fight main card Saturday. Monterrey will be the host city, and welterweights headline the action.
This event will also play host to the finale of The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America 2.
Kelvin Gastelum, the No. 15-ran…

The UFC returns to Mexico for a six-fight main card Saturday. Monterrey will be the host city, and welterweights headline the action.

This event will also play host to the finale of The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America 2.

Kelvin Gastelum, the No. 15-ranked welterweight contender, was originally slated to fight Matt Brown in the main event, but an injury sidelined the No. 5-ranked contender. In steps No. 13-ranked Neil Magny. This will be Magny‘s 10th fight since 2014.

Featherweights Ricardo Lamas and Diego Sanchez should provide the biggest fireworks of the night in the co-main event. Sanchez is looking for a big win at 145 pounds, and Lamas is trying to prove his stock as the No. 4-ranked contender in the division.

Here is the main card for UFC Fight Night 78:

  • Neil Magny vs. Kelvin Gastelum
  • Ricardo Lamas vs. Diego Sanchez
  • Jussier Formiga vs. Henry Cejudo
  • Erick Montano vs. Enrique Marin
  • Enrique Barzola vs. Horacio Gutierrez
  • Efrain Escudero vs. Leandro Silva

The Bleacher Report prediction team is here to pick the right winners. Or, at least, some of us are. Craig Amos, Scott Harris, Steven Rondina, Jonathan Snowden and Nathan McCarter are on the call.

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