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Handicapper Lou Finocchiaro (@GambLou) is banking on Anthony Smith to bounce back from a brutal beating against Aleksandar Rakic and likes the fight to go over 1½ rounds.
Handicapper Lou Finocchiaro is backing Ovince Saint Preux (Even) over Alonzo Menifield on the co-main event as one of his best bets on the card.
Stipe Miocic made his case as the UFC’s best heavyweight ever when he defeated Daniel Cormier by unanimous decision Saturday. He has won eight of his past nine fights.
Miocic won the rubber match of the trilogy and retained the heavyweight title with a unanimous-decision victory in the main event of UFC 252.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC 252 on Saturday at the Apex in Las Vegas, with picks from the Review-Journal’s Adam Hill and Heidi Fang:
The former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion might be too old at 41 to fight the fight he must to defeat Stipe Miocic on Saturday.
The former Olympian and two-division UFC champion wants to reclaim the heavyweight title and retire as the greatest champion the division has ever seen against champ Stipe Miocic.
UFC heavyweight Aleksei Oleinik is known as “The Boa Constrictor,” but handicapper Lou Finocchiaro expects Derrick Lewis to knock the head off the snake in Saturday’s main event.
