John Dodson vs Merab Dvalishvili 8/15/20 - UFC 252 Picks & Predictions
John Dodson is coming to this fight here standing at 5’3” and 135 pounds. However, Dodson has a reach that is sitting at 66 inches. The overall record for Dodson is not that good so far with a 22-11 record in his career thus far.
The fighting stance that has been used by Dodson is more of the orthodox stance. Dodson is heading into the fight here as a striker. His last 5 bouts have been problematic for him with a 2-3 record so far. Dodson has lost 2 bouts by unanimous decision, 1 by split decision. He has ended up with a win by a split decision, but one by a TKO/KO win.
Merab is coming to the fight here standing at 5’6” and 135 pounds. The reach that Dvalishvili is coming into the fight here is sitting at 68 inches. The overall record that Merab is getting so far is actually sitting at 11-4 so far.
When it comes to his fighting stance Merab tends to use the orthodox stance. Merab is another fighter that is coming into the fight here as a good fighter for the striker style. The last 5 bouts for Merab have ended up being 4 wins and 1 loss. All of the wins were unanimous decision wins, but the loss ended up being by a TKO/KO loss.
Dodson has not had any good luck going lately and has looked rather terrible actually. In the fight here he is only averaging 3.3 strikes a minute landing them at 41.19% in his career. This compared to Merab who comes in throwing 4.01 strikes a minute and landing 39.93% of those strikes. The number of strikes thrown is almost even in the fight, but Dodson has not looked good lately and has lost quite a few fights that he could have won. Look for this one to go the distance, but the winner will be Merab. UFC 252 Fight Winner Prediction, Merab Dvalishvili.
