00:00so here's an interesting one uh tom obviously it's in china but we have a japanese legend
00:05uh on the card who is um 0-2 in the ufc but as you stated earlier this card is
00:13tailor-made for
00:14the asian fighters to showcase themselves and get the wins so and the thing is as the coral
00:21so he lost to tim elliott and he lost to uh to pantoja now he's a minus 270 favorite uh
00:27here
00:28what do you think um what do you think of uh this fight are you gun shy because he's 0
00:34-2 uh so far
00:36or is this a spot for him no i'm not gun shy because he's not fighting a grappler first two
00:43fights in the ufc you know he fought pantoja we know he's he's a grappler he was the champ at
00:48the
00:48time you know he came in right into a title fight against one of the greatest that we've seen in
00:54the weight class and then the loss to tim elliott was you know not great but again tim elliott
00:59high-paced grappler asakura is a striker grinder that's what he does he's asakura is a good striker
01:06and in this matchup he's fighting cameron smotherman who is a young prospect who you know
01:12i kind of had high hopes for early but i don't think he's the greatest and he's mostly going to
01:16be a striker as well so you match up these two strikers asakura to me much better i think asakura
01:23gets the job done wouldn't be shocked if he finished him either smotherman we saw uh recently
01:28he his fight he passed out on the scales we saw him face plant when he stepped off the scales
01:34if he
01:35has a tough weight cut it could get ugly for him so i i think asakura does bounce back in
01:40this spot
01:41big time he's a minus 300 favorite uh over under two and a half right now plus 115 to the
01:48over uh two
01:49and a half under two and a half is minus 135
01:51you
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