Alistair Overeem vs. Francis Ngannou co-headlines UFC 218 this December 2, 2017 at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
One sentence summary
David: Sandpower meets horsepower in this battle of oversized anthropomorphic energies.
Phil: The last generation meets the new generation in a fight which is a couple of dozen ammo belts and pouches away from being a Rob Liefeld splash cover.
Stats
Odds: Alistair Overeem +195 | Francis Ngannou -235
History / Introduction to both fighters
David: After his loss to Ben Rothwell, the narrative that Overeem was an underachiever who couldn’t grow out of the intangibles that plagued him as a LHW seemed like gospel.