Welcome back to the Sherdog Pick 'Em league, where this week, we will pretty much rise or fall together, with Bellator 225 that doesn't offer a whole lot of suspense -- at least on paper. However, we might have said the same thing last week ahead of UFC 241, but then a couple of pretty good upsets rocked the Pick 'Em league, with none of the 21 pickers getting even four out of five picks right. (For what it's worth, the main card betting favorites went 1-for-5 on the night.)
Now that Javy Ayala has dropped out at the last minute and been replaced by Timothy Johnson, the four remaining fights include one unanimous choice, Tyrell Fortune, and two fights with a single dissenting pick, as contributing writer Kevin Wilson is the only one to pick Taylor Turner to defeat Alejandra Lara and the unnamed knucklehead who writes these blurbs is the only one picking David Rickels to hand Yaroslav Amosov his first career defeat -- and Minakov had been a unanimous pick to beat Ayala as well.