Alistair Overeem vs Augusto Sakai 9/5/20 - UFC Fight Night Picks & Predictions
Coming into the fight here Overeem is coming into the match standing at 6’4” and 253 pounds. He has managed to get a decent 80 inch reach in his career. He has managed to get a lot of matches with a career record of 46-18.
Overeem tends to use more of the orthodox stance. Alistair is coming into the fight here as a striker. In his last 5 bout he has had nothing but KO/TKO endings to his fights. Out of those 5 fights he has been able to do really well. Overeem has picked up 3 wins and 2 losses in the matches.
With Augusto he is coming into the fight here standing at 6’3” and 259 pounds. He does give up a little bit of a reach advantage with only 77 inches as his reach. When it comes to his overall record Sakai has posted a really good 15-1-1 record.
As far as his fighting stance Sakai tends to use the orthodox stance. Sakai is also coming into the fight as a striker. He has ended up getting a really good mark in his last 5 matches as he has won all 5 of them. The wins have come by 2 split decision wins, but he also has managed to get 3 wins by TKO/KO.
With the fight here it will be interesting to see which fighter will come out on top. However, the good money will actually go toward Augusto Sakai. He throws 5.45 strikes per minute compared to Overeem who has ended up with 3.66 strikes per minute. Look for those strikes to make a difference and will wear down Overeem in the fight here. UFC Fight Night Winner Prediction, Augusto Sakai.
