Jim Miller vs Roosevelt Roberts 6/20/20 - UFC Fight Night Picks & Prediction
Jim Miller is heading into the fight here with a 31-14 career record. However, in this fight Miller is coming into the fight as the smaller fighter standing at 5’8” and 155 pounds. Miller does not even have a reach advantage as his reach is sitting at 71 inches.
Miller could be in trouble in this fight as he is a southpaw, but also he tends to rely more on the wrestling style of fighting and Roberts does have quite a few submission wins under his belt. The last 5 bouts for Miller have consisted of a unanimous decision loss, a submission loss, but also 3 submission wins so far.
Roberts is coming into the fight as the slightly bigger fighter standing at 6’2” and 155 pounds. However, a significant trait that Roberts has, outside of his energy, is the fact that he is coming into the fight with a 73 inch reach. Not to mention Roberts only has a single loss in his career and is sitting on a 10-1 record.
Roberts is coming into the fight without a real fighting style that he has fallen back on so far. However, Roberts is also coming into the fight as an orthodox stance style of fighter. When it comes to the last 5 matches Roberts has managed to get 2 submission wins, 2 unanimous decision wins, but also picked up his only loss which was a unanimous decision loss.
Jim Miller is not often a fighter that has looked bad, but he has been in a lot of matches which leaves a lot of tape for Roberts to study. Look for the preparation work of Roberts, along with his better overall ability to be the difference in the match here as he is able to simply bring the fight to Miller and not let up at all during the entire fight to lock down the win. Fight Night Winner Prediction, Roosevelt Roberts