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00:00Now, Ian, we go on to the Welterweight Championship, we got Molotov versus Masayev, both these
00:07Russian fighters, number one, number two, in this tournament, both, of course, undefeated
00:12as everybody has been throughout this tournament to get to this point.
00:16But it seems like, you know, this could be one that might not go the distance.
00:19Is it an over-under situation we're looking at here?
00:21Because both these guys have a lot of KOs on their record.
00:26You know what?
00:27I actually like the underdog here in Masayev.
00:29It's funny because prior to this, I've always been an Umolotov guy.
00:32I thought this would be the year with Magomed, Magomed, Karamov not here because they're
00:35training partners.
00:36But Masayev has been so impressive.
00:40What people don't realize about him is this guy is one of the best kickboxers, you know,
00:45outside of MMA, coming into MMA, and his takedown defense, his sambo, is so good.
00:49Umolotov, when he's relying on his power, when it doesn't happen, we see him go to his
00:53wrestling.
00:54But his wrestling is not transitioning into submissions.
00:57It's more about control.
00:58If he can't get Masayev down, I think Masayev is the better striker here.
01:02He's got enough power.
01:03I don't know if a knockout happens.
01:04If it does, it's going to be later.
01:05But I'm going to take a flyer on the underdog of Masayev here.
01:08I just think that what we see out of him, he fought someone, back-to-back fights, who's
01:13known for their takedowns, known for their constant pressure in wrestling, and the guy
01:16couldn't do a thing to him.
01:18He knocked out his opponent in the first one, won by decision in the second, didn't get
01:22taken down once.
01:23So I have no reason to believe that Umolotov, who is, in my opinion, not as good as a wrestler
01:28as his last opponent, is going to take him down unless he tags Masayev, which Masayev
01:32has got a good chin, very defensively sound, high IQ, striker.
01:36Give me Masayev in this one.
01:37I hope we get really good odds here, because I think this is someone to keep an eye on.