00:00Any opinion on Ige and Martinez with Martinez being a minus 450 favorite?
00:07Yeah, I mean, it's kind of crazy to see Ige as such a massive underdog.
00:13But he is dropping down in weight.
00:16Generally speaking, when fighters of an older age drop down in weight,
00:20it does not go well for them, at least in their first fight.
00:24Ige's been on a bit of a rough run lately.
00:27And again, he's another guy who's fought some of the best guys in the division up at featherweight.
00:33So dropping down in weight class seems to make sense.
00:36But I do worry a little bit.
00:38I feel like Ige's volume is not really great.
00:41Martinez is a very good technical fighter.
00:44He's hard to hit.
00:45So if Ige's not really putting out a lot of output, I just don't see a path for him to
00:51win this fight.
00:53Martinez is one of these up-and-comers at this weight class.
00:57And I think he's just going to be able to stick and move and just be the better fighter here.
01:03So as much as I'd love to say Ige's a live dog,
01:06I just don't see a path outside of him catching him with something big.
01:10And that extra 10 pounds of a weight cut at such a light weight class,
01:15Bantam weight, 145 to 135,
01:18that's a 10-pound difference at a light weight class.
01:22So for an aging guy that's been in a lot of wars to cut that weight, it does concern me.
01:28So I think Martinez gets it done in this spot.
01:32But, you know, Ige, he's tough as nails.
01:34So we'll see what he looks like on the scales.
01:35If he looks good, you know, he's certainly live.
01:39But just overall, I just, I haven't liked his volume recently.
01:44Just, he just hasn't looked like the same guy that he was, you know, three, four years ago.
01:49We know we saw him get a nice win over Sean Woodson around two years ago, which was, which was
01:54pretty good.
01:56But outside of that, you know, he hasn't looked great.
01:58The volume hasn't been there.
01:59So I have to roll Martinez in this spot.
02:02The total's two and a half.
02:03And I do think, I personally think this fight will go over the two and a half.
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