Armen Petrosyan vs Rodolfo Vieira Prediction: We don't expect the most spectacular fight

Prediction for the UFC Fight Night 231 Armen Petrosyan vs Rodolfo Vieira match which will take place on November 5th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Armen Petrosyan has achieved success in MMA without having any reasonable skills for fighting in the parterre. But in the UFC, the level is entirely different, and Armen is working hard on this aspect - and the results are already visible; he has learned a lot.

As an amateur, Petrosyan won the World Thai Boxing Championship and many major international Muay Thai and kickboxing tournaments. As a professional, he became the AMC Fight Night champion by knocking out Artur Aliskerov in 2020.

Then, as an underdog, Armen knocked out Dmitry Minakov on the liver and defended the belt, and he lost it in a confrontation with Hassan Yousefi. In 2021, Petrosyan triumphed (again by first-round knockout) in the Contender Series and got the right to fight in the world's top division.

He has fought four times in the UFC (three wins and one loss), all of which have been decided by the judges.

Once again, Armen fights with not a top-15 opponent but a Brazilian with alternated wins and losses in the UFC. But Rodolfo Vieira has won all of his wins early (eight by submission and one by technical knockout), so there is no reason to look down on him. Incidentally, before Vieira started competing in MMA, he won the IBJJF Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships four times in his weight class and once in the absolute category.

Interestingly, Vieira came to the UFC straight from the Russian ACA league, where he fought three times and finished his opponents in the first round.

Armen will try to fight smashing his opponent from a distance, and he will be looking for kickdowns from the very first seconds. We don't expect the most spectacular fight. Overall, Petrosyan should have enough skills to defend himself, but it will be challenging - if the Russian takes a couple of rounds on points, it will be a great result.