Underdog Picks: Karine Silva, Henry Cejudo, and Yan Fights

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00:00What other underdogs are you looking at?

00:03I got a couple other ones.

00:04I got Karini Silva.

00:05She's a plus 150.

00:07She's taking on Macy Barber.

00:09And again, like, you know, three, four years ago, I would say, you know,

00:12Macy Barber, she's an up-and-comer.

00:14She's a fighter.

00:14The UFC was really pushing.

00:16They wanted to, you know, she had, when she came into the UFC,

00:19she was talking about being the youngest champion and blah, blah.

00:22And that, you know, obviously that didn't work out,

00:23but she's had a lot of health issues.

00:26She pulled out of the Rose Namajunas fight.

00:28She pulled out of the Miranda Maverick fight.

00:31She was having seizures in the back.

00:32They were the main event for that card.

00:35On fight night, she couldn't make the walk.

00:38She's had some crazy infections.

00:40She's had, you know, she's had knee injuries.

00:42She's had all kinds of injuries.

00:44And Karini Silva, she's extremely dangerous.

00:47She's good on the ground.

00:48She's well-rounded.

00:50You know, if they're both healthy in this fight, you know,

00:53if Macy Barber is her best self, you know,

00:56obviously she's a very good fighter.

00:58But I just can't trust that her health is going to hold up.

01:01And Karini Silva is just extremely dangerous in the grappling.

01:05And, you know, at plus 150, I think she's live.

01:08And then, again, Henry Cejudo, he got an old dog taking on a young,

01:12up-and-coming prospect, Peyton Talbot.

01:15Peyton Talbot, you know, he set the world on fire.

01:18Contender series came in.

01:19He's knocking dudes out.

01:20Looks like a million bucks.

01:21Then gets out grappled and, you know, fraud check, blah, blah.

01:26And then he comes back against Felipe Lima.

01:28Looks good.

01:29But, I mean, Henry Cejudo, this is his second fight in 2025.

01:33He hasn't fought two fights in a year since, I want to say, 2019.

01:40Cejudo's got great wrestling.

01:41I mean, if Peyton Talbot's wrestling has gotten better, sure.

01:45But against a guy like Henry Cejudo, I mean, Olympic gold medalist.

01:50This guy's the best wrestling he's going to see.

01:52And, you know, Cejudo, he's a champion.

01:54He's a former champion.

01:56He's got that championship grit.

01:58Second fight in a year.

01:59I think he's taking it serious.

02:01I like the shot plus 225 on Cejudo.

02:04Yeah, I'll take that against a very raw young talent all day, every day.

02:10I think we've got about a minute or two left here.

02:14What do you think about Jan?

02:16Jan is a minus 138 favorite against Guskov here.

02:21Plus 110 coming off the loss against Ulberg.

02:24What do you think about that fight?

02:27Yeah, I like Jan.

02:28He's another guy.

02:29He's, you know, if you look back at the record, you know,

02:31the last few fights have not gone well for him.

02:34But you look at the guy he's fought, you know, Ankalyev, five-round fight.

02:38He had Ankalyev barely able to walk.

02:41Ankalyev was able to outgrapple him in the fourth and fifth round to get that win.

02:46And then Poiton, you know, he took Poiton down, was winning that fight.

02:51You know, midway through the second round, he started to gas out.

02:54That fight was at elevation.

02:56Poiton kind of put it on him a little bit, lost that one.

02:59And then kind of a kind of boring fight in his last fight against Ulberg.

03:04It was, you know, they were kind of tit for tat on the feet.

03:07Didn't get the job done.

03:08But again, you know, you look at the competition, Ulberg, you know, Poiton, Ankalyev.

03:14I think this is a big step down for Jan.

03:16And, you know, he's up there in age, so you can't be overly confident in him.

03:21But I do think he gets the job done.

03:23I just think the pedigrees there, I think overall he's going to win this fight.

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