Sergei Pavlovich vs Curtis Blaydes Prediction: Everything As Usual

Prediction for the UFC Fight Night 222 Sergei Pavlovich vs Curtis Blaydes fight which will take place on April 23rd. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available. 

The former champion of Russia, Europe, and the World in Unifight, Sergei Pavlovich, came to the UFC in 2018 through the title in Fight Nights Global. The debut in the strongest league in the world did not work out. Nevertheless, it gave him a lot of experience – Pavlovich lost by technical knockout to Alistair Overeem, making many mistakes in preparation (he says about unsuccessful acclimatization). But then everything fell into place – five wins in a row, all by knockouts in the first round.

Blaydes has only lost to Derrick Lewis once in the last four years, but how wonderful it was. Curtis rushed for a takedown (he does it not like guys from Dagestan, but very high) and ran into an uppercut by Lewis, who instantly stopped it. Finishing off was too much and only added work to the doctors. Blaydes was already somewhere outside the real world after the first blow. It's nice to remember this episode before the fight with Pavlovich, but it would be good to remember that he was the only one for several years. Now Blaydes has three wins in a row again, the last two by knockouts, and among the citizens beaten by him, there are many well–known names - Tom Aspinall, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Alexander Volkov, Shamil Abdurakhimov, Alistair Overeem, Aleksei Oleinik.

Curtis Blaydes, like Pavlovich, wins by knockouts, but these are directly opposite knockouts. If Sergei knocks out competitors in the guard, Blaydes knocks them down first and then scores in the parterre, which the submissive never look for. And if we compare him with the previous contenders of the Russian, then he is the strongest wrestler.

No one doubts that Blaydes will now try to reposition the fight to the parterre, but there is one problem – a takedown. It is necessary to get closer to the blow distance. Do you catch what we are hinting at? Moreover, the small UFC APEX octagon only increases the chances.

As for the talk that "we haven't seen Pavlovich in the late rounds, and we don't know how much cardio he does, "we can answer like this – we won't see Pavlovich there this time either.