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UFC Struggle Night time options Tyron Woodley vs Gilbert Burns.
Tyron ‘The Chosen One’ Woodley (19-4-1) squares off in a welterweight showdown towards Gilbert ‘Durinho’ Burns (18-3) in Saturday’s UFC Struggle Night time at UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The prelims (6 p.m. ET) and the primary card (9 p.m. ET) can be on each ESPN and ESPN+. When you don’t have cable, right here’s how one can watch the fights stay or on-demand in your laptop, telephone, Fireplace TV Stick, Rokue, Apple TV or different streaming machine:
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Woodley vs Burns Preview
Woodley hasn’t fought since dropping his welterweight championship to Kamaru Usman at UFC 235 in March of 2019, however he doesn’t appear too involved with shaking off any rust, neither is he fearful about proving something to anybody.
“I don’t must show something, to be sincere,” Woodley mentioned this week. “I believe my resume speaks for itself. That is extra simply my likelihood to execute. It’s not that I’ve lacked the talents, lacked the expertise or the preparation, it’s only a time the place I really feel extra dedicated and sharp. I need to go on the market with out even pondering and simply be free and execute. I’m not making use of any further stress that I’ve to do something spectacular. I believe if I combat to my potential, I’m going to do one thing spectacular anyway.”
Burns has gained his final 5 fights, together with wins towards Alexey Kunchenko, Gunnar Nelson and Demian Maia, and he thinks he has the particular edge on this one attributable to his jiu-jitsu abilities.
“I imagine I’m a nasty matchup for Tyron Woodley,” Burns instructed MMA Preventing in a current interview. “I believe I’ve energy in my palms, similar as he does. I imagine I can rise up. I can defend his takedowns, and even when he does take me down, it’s not going to be simple. But when he does take me down, he’s in my world. A variety of you haven’t seen a lot however you noticed some with Demian [Maia], the man that places everyone on the ground and takes the again or places everyone on the ground and takes management, he did that on me and I used to be simply out fast. I’ve my jiu-jitsu, and I’m very comfy with my jiu-jitsu.”
Burns additionally thinks that his newer bouts give him a bonus.
“My final combat was in March. His final combat was in March 2019, and he acquired his ass whooped. I fought in March and I gained. I’m youthful. I’m hungry. I’m preventing the perfect on the earth. I practice with the perfect on the earth. I’m very assured proper now.”
Woodley has responded to every of his three earlier losses by successful the next bout, so maybe Burns shouldn’t really feel too assured.
Different bouts included in Saturday’s UFC Struggle Night time embody:
- Augusto Sakai vs. Blagoy Ivanov — Heavyweight
- Billy Quarantillo vs. Spike Carlyle — 150-pound catchweight
- Roosevelt Roberts vs. Brok Weaver — Light-weight
- Mackenzie Dern vs. Hannah Cifers — Girls’s strawweight
- Antonina Shevchenko vs. Katlyn Chookagian — Girls’s flyweight
- Daniel Rodriguez vs. Gabriel Inexperienced — Middleweight
- Jamahal Hill vs. Klidson Abreu — Mild heavyweight
- Tim Elliott vs. Brandon Rovyal — Flyweight
- Casey Kenney vs. Louis Smolka — Bantamweight
- Chris Gutiérrez vs. Vince Morales
