The Bloody Elbow team has made its picks for UFC on ESPN 9, and most of us are going with Gilbert Burns to beat Tyron Woodley in the main event. As for the co-main, we’re leaning towards Blagoi Ivanov to beat Augusto Sakai.
Tyron Woodley vs. Gilbert Burns
Mookie Alexander: Woodley is 38. Dudes can just get old and stay old real fast in sports. Burns offers up virtually none of the same problems that Usman presented. Can he effectively pressure Woodley without eating that bomb of a right hand? That said, if he can set a pace on Tyron then I think it’ll actually unravel Woodley’s cardio, which I feel has largely been hidden as an issue because he has done such a great job of dictating the pace.