Dagestan vs. Ireland MMA Showdown: Usman vs. Hughes Fight

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00:00As we get Dagestan versus Ireland as they're building this card up as you see from the graphic

00:06There are a bunch of fights at the top where you have the Dagestani Russian fighters versus Irish fighters

00:12So it's gonna be very interesting to see how this goes down who gets the better of the battles here

00:17you know, of course the legendary battle between a

00:20Different normal going of and Conor McGregor with could be of course in the UFC is kind of what they're playing off here

00:26Now as you have another Nurmagomedov coming in here as a champion Usman the former Bellator champion

00:32Coming in there against the new face of some of the Irish MMA and Paul Hughes. That is the lightweight main event

00:40Title fight I believe we don't know for sure. Of course, Nurmagomedov was the Bellator champ

00:44He hasn't been given a PFL belt yet. Do we know if this is for a PFL belt?

00:47Maybe we'll find that out on Saturday if they give something out there or if these guys have to go into a tournament format

00:52And I try to battle it out to try to get that strap all that is details that we will be finding out

00:57hopefully starting Saturday and in the coming weeks, but

01:01As we said Usman Nurmagomedov the champion Hughes 13 and 1 in MMA gonna be trying to give him his first loss

01:08to an own the PFL

01:1027 year old from Ireland as most of his wins by KO and TKO

01:14First beat Bobby King and Bellator champion series in June then AJ McKee by split decision on the Battle of Giants pay-per-view in October

01:20Number government have undefeated 18 and oh the cousin of Khabib Nurmagomedov

01:25He got one no contest 7 and 0 with one no contest in Bellator that no contest was

01:30The battle against Primus which was a win for him, but was overturned because of something in his drug testing later on

01:38Dagestani Russian, of course coming in here with eight wins by KO six by submission a guy who has wins against Primus

01:45Benson Henderson Patriki pitbull. He is a tough dude. He has coming in there with a well-rounded game overall

01:52While we've seen of course have even some of his guys that he is coach have more of the ground game

01:57And that's just their focus. He's more well-rounded. He could do both

01:59We're seeing that evolution of these Dagestani fighters, and I think that makes him more dangerous. He was a tough guy

02:05You know, we've seen both these guys show up in Dubai already earlier this week. They're ready to go

02:09We've seen the trash talking back and forth for me

02:12If I'm picking this one if I'm looking at obviously the odds favoring Nurmagomedov big-time minus

02:16455 plus 350 as far as the money line goes

02:19I like Nurmagomedov you want to find a different way, you know when the odds come out for the different profits

02:24I like him maybe kind of the double play with the submission or decision

02:28I don't think he's gonna knock out Hughes despite that he's done before we've seen how tough this Irishman is and he uses

02:33That grappling game to try to neutralize some of his opponents like he's against McKee

02:37So I think we can see a lot of ground attacking this one and I'm gonna lean more towards decision

02:41But I'm gonna play it both ways

02:42You know

02:43Maybe a double play if you get it in order to cover both bases as Nurmagomedov I believe stays undefeated