Another day, yet another injury — in actuality, this time there were just two. For the current MMA Odds and Ends, I will list the 2 fights which were altered and give my thoughts on every one of them. Mark Eddiva vs. Levan Makashvili, UFC Fight Night 66 Alex White was forced to pull out of his struggle with Mark Eddiva at UFC Fight Night 66, also Levan Makashvili will now take on Eddiva on extremely short notice as the card takes place May 16 at Mall of Asia Arena at Pasay, Philippines. Eddiva is 1-1 at the UFC with a surprise conclusion win over Jumabieke Tuerxun and also a TKO loss to Kevin Souza. He’s really outperformed expectations within the Octagon and overall is a fairly good grinder who can bang a bit. Makashvili, meanwhile, is a grinder-type who’s making his UFC debut. He was supposed to combat Nik Lentz back in UFC Fight Night 60, but the fight was cancelled in the last minute when Lentz got sick. This is a difficult one to predict. I’d argue Makashvili is the fighter and the better prospect of this pair, but Eddiva has the UFC experience and he’ll be fighting in his home country of Manila here. Eddiva is not the type of fighter that will get much respect from the betting public, but he’s pretty solid and I think he sets up a fantastic struggle against Makashvili. I’d anticipate a close line with this one with a small lean towards Makashvili because he’s got a little more hype surrounding him, but it’s a struggle I think could go either way. Jake Collier vs. Ricardo Abreu, UFC Fight Night 68 Because of an injury to Daniel Sarafian, Ricardo Abreu needed a new opponent and the UFC called upon Jake Collier to fight him UFC Fight Night 68, which takes place June 6 at Smoothie King Center at New Orleans, Louisiana. Collier is 0-1 at the UFC using a first-round knockout loss to Vitor Miranda in his introduction. He had been doing really well in the fight and then in the conclusion of the initial round faded badly and compensated for it using a KO defeat. Abreu, on the other hand, is undefeated at 5-0 in his profession and conquered Wagner Silva via submission in his UFC debut. On the other hand, the struggle was a year ago and that he hasn’t fought since, so he will have some ring rust heading into this one. That is another tough one. I think Collier is the better fighter of the two, however he is not a person to be trusted with your hard-earned cash after we saw what happened in his UFC debut. I don’t think Abreu is as good as his record indicates, but he’s a fantastic chance of picking up a win in this struggle. It’s a close one, though, one that could go either way, and that I hope the line to reflect that.
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