We're Back With Another LineStar Weekly Knockout!

Written by LineStar contributor, combat sports enthusiast, and practitioner, Chris Guy.

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Special Weekly Knock Out shout-out goes to Paulo Costa.  After all the telenovela dramatics, he showed up and straight scrapped against Marvin Vettori and went five hard rounds—something I didn’t think he was capable of.  Also, shout-out to Etch A Sketch for donating one of your classic models to Costa’s training camp.  The improved game plan was noticeable and adhered to until the final bell, even though it briefly looked like someone dropped and erased it late in the first round.

Main Card

Glover Teixeira (+235 ) vs Jan Blachowicz (-300)

Teixeira: DK: $7.6k | Blachowicz: DK:$8.6k

This is a story about two journeymen who set off on two distinct perilous paths in search of the same talisman.  Since 2014, when Glover Teixeira first fought for the UFC light heavyweight belt against Jon Jones, he has been on a Bilbo Baggins-like journey through the heart of Mordor to get back to a title shot.  He braved treacherous pitfall after treacherous pitfall to earn his current humble position at the precipice of glory.  

After the Bones Jones fight, Glover bushwhacked his way across a vast light heavyweight division like Kit Carson with only the clothes on his back for refuge and only the fire in his belly as sustenance.  A 10-4 record and a current five-fight winning streak have brought Glover Teixeira within a T-Rex’s reach of his Holy Grail, his golden challis, the UFC light heavyweight belt.  

The man standing in Teixeira’s way is Jan Blachowicz whose journey began at the bottom of a dry well after starting his UFC career 2-4 and being on the verge of being cut from the roster.  Blachowicz was left for dead and to the devices of his own tormented mind in a darkness rivaled only by nonexistence.  But Blachowicz pushed past the limitations of his mangled body and inched his way out of the depths, scaling the wall one bloody fingertip at a time like Samara Morgan until he reached the top of the light heavyweight division.  

Check out this list of Blachowicz dubs since 2017: Corey Anderson, Jacare, Luke Rockhold, Nikita Krylov, Jimi Manuwa, Jared Cannonier, Ilir Latifi, Dominick Reyes, and most recently, Israel Adesanya.  His lone loss in the last four years was to Thiago Santos, a third-round TKO.  Jan’s big for the division, long, durable, and crafty enough to make up for disadvantages in speed and athleticism.

Jan fought Adesanya to a virtual stand-up stalemate but turned the tide of the fight in the late rounds when he adjusted his game plan and used his wrestling.  He was able to control Adesanya on the mat and rode the top position to a decisive win against the previously unbeaten fighter.  The ability to adapt mid-fight and throughout their careers is a trait both Blachowicz and Teixeira have in common.  

The key for Jan against Glover will be avoiding grappling exchanges and controlling range on the feet.  The only place Teixeira can win this fight is on the mat; he can’t stand and exchange with Jan for any prolonged periods of time and will be looking to close the distance and initiate the clinch.  Blachowicz tends to blitz with repetitive left-right combos while charging forward, and Glover likes to use such aggression to level change and score takedowns.  To keep Glover at bay, Jan needs to use short combinations from the outside and uppercuts behind straight punches to discourage level changes.

At some point in every single Glover Teixeira fight, he looks like he’s walking on hot coals and on the verge of collapse.  Almost immediately, Glover looks like an unstable Jenga tower; you never know which grazing or missed punch will send him leaning and toppling over.  Glover’s just a natural drowsy fighter and a danger to himself when eating soup like the narcoleptic girl in Deuce Bigalow.  The good news is, Glover is fully aware of this and has accepted the limitations of his chin.  His inability to take a punch led him to change his style from relying mostly on his boxing to relying heavily on his wrestling/grappling.

Glover used to have heavy hands and unrelenting pressure on the feet and would force his way on the inside and unload with short chopping hooks.  But those days are long gone.  He no longer has the hand speed to get inside, and he mostly has to commit to eating punches to close the distance to initiate the clinch or a single leg.  But when Glover gets the fight to the mat, he shines, and very few fighters can match his grappling prowess.  It’s like fighters just quit when Glover gets on top of them.  They take their pogs and slammers and go home.  Suddenly they don’t want to win as badly as they once thought they did.  Anthony Smith can tell you a story about the time Glover apologized to him for whooping Anthony's ass while in the middle of whooping Anthony's ass.  

Glover’s keys to victory: Avoiding prolonged exchanges on the feet and selling out for takedowns.  The unlikelihood of Teixeira successfully navigating around Jan’s power shots for twenty-five minutes is the reason he’s coming in as the (+220) underdog.  That and practically every round begins with Glover doing the Dougie while hula hooping in a pair of retro roller skates.  He’s usually only one follow-up shot away from unconsciousness but always manages to get hold of the opponent and drag them to the ground as they wade in for the finish.  You can make the argument that Glover is most dangerous when he’s hurt and trying to catch invisible butterflies with a catcher’s mitt he’s not wearing.

Fantasy Value: Glover’s value is in a submission, specifically, a head and arm or rear-naked choke.  The problem will be getting the takedown and surviving Jan’s freakish power in the process.  The value for Blachowicz is in an early TKO finish.  I see an uppercut or lead-leg high kick hidden behind a 1-2, bringing about Glover’s ultimate demise.  We’re streaking again after another main event dub last weekend when Marvin Vettori stayed busy enough to earn a decision win against Paulo Costa.  This doobie here is to three in a row; Jan Blachowicz via TKO, round two.  On wax.

Winner: Jan Blachowicz | Method: TKO Rd.2

Cory Sandhagen (+175) vs. Petr Yan (-220)

Sandhagen: DK: $6.9k | Yan: DK: $9.3k

Technically, Aljamain Sterling holds the undisputed bantamweight strap after pulling off a 007 Basquiat heist that will echo in the halls of epic robberies for all of eternity.  In other words, you have to do some Simone Biles gold medal Olympic floor routine mental gymnastics to justify Aljamain Sterling holding the belt.  I say that to say this: It’s funny how things have a tendency to work out.  In basketball, they say, “the ball never lies.” In MMA it’s, “the ass-whoopin' never lies.”  Aljo was on his way to catching a beating but saw the exit light at the end of the UFC Apex tunnel.  He was hit with an illegal knee to the head and pretended he was JF… pretended he couldn’t continue, knowing the belt would be forfeited over to him in the event that he couldn't continue.

But in the end, we get the championship fight we always wanted, Petr Yan vs. Cory Sandhagen.  Sandhagen had a victory over T.J. Dillashaw forcefully removed from his arms at gunpoint while standing at a urinal in a Southern Nevada Valero.  So technically, the rightful title fight always was Yan vs. Sandhagen.  And here we are.

Petr Yan is sneaky, crazy good.  He’s a sleeper who never closes his eyes; he doesn’t blink, he doesn’t even close his eyes when he sneezes.  Yan has some of the craftiest takedowns you’ll see at this level.  He took over the fight against Sterling with trips from the clinch, catching kicks, and low calf kicks that he turned into sweeps all in one motion.  Petr ties you up with a collar tie or Thai plum and kicks your leg out from under you.  It sounds juvenile and a little first grade-ish, but Yan is slick and executes them with the effectiveness of traditional level change takedowns.

On the feet, Petr Yan is a technical, precise boxer.  Yan’s hands are quick and sharp, and he uses his jab like a professional boxer.  Yan will give many different looks with his jab, changing levels from targeting the head to the chest and the stomach.  After a barrage of jabs, Yan will come over the top with his right hand.  That’s called “setting it up.” 

When Yan fought Aldo for the vacant belt, Aldo destroyed Yan’s legs with calf kicks.  Petr’s stance makes it difficult for him to get out of the way or check kicks.  His lead leg points slightly inward, making it near impossible to lift in time to defend.  Cory Sandhagen has excellent distance kicks, and attacking the legs will be pivotal in slowing Yan down.  For Yan, the key will be dominating the clinch, mixing in takedowns and brief ground and pound.

Cory Sandhagen is a slick striker who fights with his hands low and uses range twofold, defensively to stay outside the opponent’s strikes and offensively to attack from outside the pocket.  He crouches in his stance and likes to bait opponents into counters by sticking his head out, trying to elicit strikes so he can pull-counter.  On the mat, he has a solid ground game with an active guard, in which he creates scrambles and can use submission attempts to get back to his feet.  Sandhagen fights long and needs to dominate the fringe of the pocket and use volume to stifle Yan’s quick pocket entries.  

Sandhagen is the textbook example of an effective flashy striker.  He uses flashy spinning and flying techniques like fundamental strikes.  You can land anything if you know how to set it up.  Cory sets up the flying knee by sliding back in the pocket almost as if in retreat, drawing the opponent’s pressure forward right into the knee.  He set up the spinning wheel kick that knocked out Marlon Moraes by putting a distracting jab in Moraes’s face and using it to spin off of.  Look for Sandhagen to use the flying knee whenever Yan lowers his head and comes forward with aggressive power shots as Sandhagen did to Frankie Edgar.

Have one of these guys on your roster come Saturday night. Both are high output strikers averaging more than six significant strikes landed per minute.  The difference is Yan averages over two takedowns per fifteen minutes and will have more paths to victory.  Although both have finished two of their last three fights, a finish one way or the other would be surprising.  In the end, it comes down to Yan being able to relocate the fight if he finds himself in trouble, and Sandhagen doesn’t have that luxury.  But Sandhagen is still a very valuable underdog.  Petr Yan via decision.

Winner: Petr Yan | Method: Decision

Islam Makhachev (-575) vs. Dan Hooker (+390)

Makhachev: DK: $8.5k | Hooker: DK: $7.7k

Khabib Lite is back.  Islam Makhachev is affectionately known throughout the MMA community as Khabib’s heir apparent, the successor to the lightweight throne.  When it comes to dominant wrestling/grappling, the comparisons to Khabib are numerous for Makhachev.  Islam's takedowns are relentless and never-ending, and his top pressure is crushing.  Makhachev’s signature move is working his way to the back from the body lock position and elevating and slamming the opponent, immediately taking the back.  You have to drill two positions relentlessly when preparing for Makhachev, the body lock position and the leg irons position against the cage.

The major difference between Khabib and Makhachev is pressure.  Islam doesn’t have the suffocating forward pressure on the feet that Khabib does.  Khabib backs fighters up without throwing any strikes, but Makhachev doesn’t have the same menacing presence.  His only real weakness is lack of output, lack of output on the feet and the mat from the top position.  He’s a position over submission grappler but doesn’t use the same aggressive ground and pound as Khabib.

On the feet, Makhachev has the skills to survive with anyone.  He’s a southpaw with heavy power in his dominant side strikes, including a nasty left-round kick.  But, he doesn’t engage enough.  Islam wins fights with superior takedowns and top control and by using panic and desperation against his opponent to advance position and hunt for chokes.  There’s nobody in the division he can’t take down, but he does have one loss on his UFC record, a debut TKO loss courtesy of a spinning back kick from a guy you haven’t heard of.

Dan Hooker just got the Willy Wonka golden ticket.  A win against Islam Makhachev is as impressive a win as you can possibly have in the division, and if it doesn’t earn Hooker a title shot, it will definitely put him in a title eliminator against a big name.  Hooker showed off his own wrestling skills in his last fight against Nasrat Haqparast by controlling Haqparast on the mat for much of rounds two and three.  The problem for Hooker is, even though he’s a solid grappler, compared to Makhachev, he just walked into the gym with a Groupon for a free beginners class. 

The Hangman’s game plan is so simple you could draw it up on Paulo Costa’s Etch A Sketch.  Keep the fight standing.  How can he do that?  By using range and lateral movement and never deviating from either.  Hooker’s kickboxing is elite and among the best in the lightweight division.  Fight ending power, Hooker has it, and he also has the creativity to set traps to maximize it.  Hooker changes levels with his striking mid-combination and mixes in varieties of round kicks to the legs with front teep and snap kicks to the body.  His special move is a standing knee that he uses to counter pressure or offensively behind his strikes.  This guy will knee you in the face while you’re standing completely upright.

This fight will get interesting if Hooker can find a way to extend the stand-up exchanges, especially if he can do so in the third round.  But this should be all Makhachev with takedowns, control, and hunting for chokes.  Rinse and repeat.  I like Makhachev’s chances of scoring a late submission, but I think Hooker can hang on until the final bell.  Islam Makhachev via decision.

Winner: Islam Makhachev | Method: Decision

Alexander Volkov (-300 ) Marcin Tybura (+235 )

Volkov: DK: $7k | Tybura: DK: $9.2k

I became a Marcin Tybura fan when he broke Greg Hardy like the third of the month.  In his previous eight fights, the only time Tybura had cracked an ass was when his finger slipped through the toilet paper.  He hadn’t had a finish since 2017 and had been getting by on close decision wins.  But Tybura is riding a five-fight winning streak, and a dub is a dub, and unless you’re Aljamain Sterling, you should never apologize for one.  

Tybura is a par-for-the-course striker who can switch stances and offer different looks, but he’s more of a counter striker and has trouble leading the dance.  He’s at his best when he can sit back and let the opponent dictate the pace.  Marcin uses switch-step counters to retreat without giving up the pocket when pressured.  The rear hand becomes the lead hand, and he check-hooks off of it as the opponent enters the pocket.  It’s a sneaky technique and is an effective way to neutralize an aggressive opponent.         

Overall, Marcin has a better ground game than he does stand-up.  If he can work his way to the top position, he has fight-ending ground and pound and choke submissions.  Volkov has Christmas lights takedown defense and was taken down fourteen times against Curtis Blaydes a few years ago.  The path to victory is clear, takedowns and top control.

Alexander Volkov is a long kickboxer who uses his reach well and has a ton of experience fighting big power punchers and neutralizing them.  Volkov has excellent range management, using his jab and front snap kicks to the body to keep fighters stuck in no-man’s land.  He KO’d Walt Harris with a devastating teep to the body that led to Volkov finishing him with punches on the mat.  Volkov chips away with front body kicks more than he attacks the body with his hands.

The fight is simple for Volkov; stay on his feet.  The fact that Blaydes scored fourteen takedowns against Volkov shows Volkov can scramble back to his feet, but that’s also time spent not scoring any offense.  He doesn’t really possess one-punch power, but he’s precise and overwhelms opponents with consistent peppering shots.  Fighters are surprised by Volkov’s deceptive quickness because Volkov has a way of throwing his punches with no tells, providing little reaction time for opponents.

Volkov’s nickname is Drago, but that’s a facetious nickname; that’s like calling me Hunter S. Thompson.  He’s nothing like the man who killed Apollo Creed in the ring, but he’s a sleeper in the division nonetheless.  He lacks power and ground skills, and I think he’s already reached his full potential.  He’s a tough fight for anyone but not quite the championship-contending level anymore.

Volkov’s only loss by finish in the UFC came to Derrick Lewis.  If the fight ends prematurely, it will likely be Volkov getting the finish.  Tybura’s value will be in takedowns and top control with a long shot at a late submission.  This is a complete toss-up, but I’m going to give Volkov the nod.  On wax, Alexander Volkov via decision.

Winner: Alexander Volkov | Method: Decision

Li Jingliang (+380 ) vs Khamzat Chimaev (-550)

Jingliang: DK: $8.4k | Chimaev: DK:$7.8k

Who knew Covid could stuff a takedown?  Turns out, the virus was the only thing that could stop Khamzat Chimaev in 2020.  Last summer, Chimaev was dominating two weight classes simultaneously and fighting every other weekend.  That came to a halt after catching a serious case of Covid and having multiple fights canceled.  It’s been over a year since Khamzat KO’d Gerald Meerschaert in seventeen seconds with one punch.  If Khamzat cracks your ass, you wake up and thank him. Khamzat is the new Chuck Norris.  A poisonous snake once bit Khamzat Chimaev, and the snake died.  Freddy Krueger has nightmares about Khamzat Chimaev.  When Khamzat Chimaev cooks a steak, he just shows it the flame.  And so on.

Khamzat is basically a larger Khabib and has the skills to be the current champion in both the welterweight and middleweight divisions.  His takedowns and ground and pound are scary, and the only real question is his stand-up.  He KO’d Meerschaert, but we haven’t seen Khamzat in extended periods of striking.  None of his fights stay standing for very long.  If there comes a time he can’t find a takedown, can he win solely with his stand-up?  We do know he has KO power, though.  This fight against the scrappy, tough Li Jingliang is just a formality.  Chalk it up as a dub.

Li Jingliang, AKA the male Mona Lisa, AKA the armpit, should be the face of Old Spice deodorant.  Nothing about Jingliang is pretty, but he’s an underrated fighter.  His stand-up is awkward, and he has sneaky power.  In his last bout, Jingliang TKO’d the elite striker “The Ponz” Santiago Ponzinibio.  But the problem for Jingliang against Khamzat will be everything.  Khamzat, a fighter who also competes at middleweight, will have a massive size and strength advantage.  Li’s last loss was to Neal Magny, who overpowered and out-wrestled/grappled him.  That’s a bad sign.

This would be near Buster Douglas vs. Mike Tyson upset levels if Jingliang can pull it off.  But… Khamzat Chimaev via TKO, round two.

Winner: Khamzat Chimaev | Method: TKO Rd.2

Magomed Ankalaev (-300 ) vs Volkan Oezdemir (+235)

Ankalaev: DK: $9.1k | Oezdemir: DK:$7.1k

In 2020, Magomed Ankalaev, Wayne Brady’d his bitter rival, Ion Cutelaba, not once but twice.  He stole Ion’s ham sammich, shot him in the leg, and left him on the curb.  Mr. Franklin’s lonely, Ion.  In the rematch with Cutelaba, Magomed scored his second first-round TKO victory over Cutelaba after dominating the standup exchanges.  In his most recent fight, Ankalaev out-grappled fellow elite grappler Nikita Krylov and will be knocking on title contention’s door with a win over Volkan Oezdemir.

Chimaev is the bigger Khabib and Ankalaev is the bigger Chimaev.  The skillsets are all similar, but Ankalaev’s striking is better than both.  Magomed has versatile takedowns in the center of the cage or against the fence in the clinch, and like Chimaev, Ankalaev’s top control is stifling and accompanied by heavy, aggressive ground and pound. Ankalaev doesn’t have any major holes in his game, and he’s one of the guys to keep an eye on.  This time next year, you might see Ankalaev competing for the belt.  Right now, if they were to fight, Ankalaev would create serious problems for the winner of the main event.

Ankalaev’s only loss came with one second left in a fight he completely dominated against Paul Craig.  With less than ten seconds remaining in the final round, Ankalaev got caught in a Hail Mary triangle attempt, and Megatron came down with it in the endzone.  Paul Craig will be telling stories at the family reunion for years to come about the time he beat Magomed Ankalaev.

Volkan Oezdemir is a boxer with nasty calf kicks and a one-time title challenger against Daniel Cormier.  He has the skills and the power to cause Ankalaev problems on the feet but has shown major holes in his ground game.  Oezdemir’s striking is unique because he uses two crosses instead of a traditional jab and cross.  His stance is squared like Bas Rutten’s back in the day.  When your shoulders are square and not bladed, you effectively have two power hands, which is why Oezdemir has KO power in both hands.  The downside is, the stance limits him defensively, and Oezdemir tends to take a lot of damage.

Can Oezdemir win this fight? Sure.  If he can keep it standing, he can lure Ankalaev into dangerous 50/50 exchanges and catch Ankalaev with a fight-ending hook or overhand.  But Ankalaev will likely only stand with Oezdemir long enough to change levels or clinch.  Put it on wax, Magomed Ankalaev via decision.

Winner: Magomed Ankalaev | Method: Decision

Prelims

Highlighted Matchup

Amanda Ribas (-165) vs. Virna Jandiroba (+135)

Ribas: DK: $8.2k | Jandiroba: DK: $8k 

Jiu-Jitsu vs. Jiu-Jitsu.  These two ladies are two of the top five women’s Jiu-Jitsu players in women’s MMA.  Mackenzie Dern is another one and a common opponent for both Ribas and Jandiroba.  Ribas holds a win over Dern, while Jandiroba lost a close decision in what was mostly a lackluster stand-up affair.

Amanda Ribas’s striking was exposed in her most recent bout against the new title challenger Marina Rodriguez.  After dominating the first round with takedowns and top control, Ribas showed little urgency to repeat her success in the second round and was dropped with a right hand and finished with follow-ups.  When she sticks to her grappling, Ribas has shown she is the best of the best on the mat with possibly only one exception, Carla Esparza.  The only two losses on her record were TKO/KO losses on the feet.  Early randomized controlled trials suggest Amanda Ribas should stick to her ground game.

Virna Jandiroba is coming off a dominant win against the world-class wrestler Kanaka Murata, a fight Jandiroba dominated on the feet.  Don’t get carried away though, her striking is best suited for the NBA arena circuit.  Her cardio is good enough to go hard for the entire woman-balancing-plates-on-her-head-while-riding-a-unicycle halftime show at Nuggets games.

Jandiroba’s claims to fame are her Jiu-Jitsu and thirteen career submission wins.  Unlike Ribas, Jandiroba has fought Carla Esparza and lost a decision.  On the hierarchy of elite grapplers, Jandiroba is pulling up the rear of the top five.  Much like Mackenzie Dern against Marina Rodriguez, Jandiroba is an elite grappler who struggles to get the fight to the mat.  She lacks traditional takedowns and relies too much on the fence and the clinch.  Virna often gets stuck in kickboxing matches and can only survive with mid-level strikers. Amanda Ribas should control this fight with superior takedowns and top control.  If the fight stays standing, I’d give Ribas a slight advantage for hand speed, but that’s about it.  Ironically, I think Jandiroba’s best shot at a finish is on the feet.  She can supplement lack of technique with aggression and stay in Ribas’s face and cause Ribas problems.  Bust out the Pumpkin Spice Yankee candles and put it on wax; Amanda Ribas via decision.

Winner: Amanda Ribas | Method: Decision

Twenty-Twen-Twen Sleepers

Twenty-Ten-Twen Sleeper

This card is full of big underdogs. If you just looked at some of the odds, you'd think these matchups are mostly mismatches, but that's not the case. I already dropped a Jackson on Cory Sandhagen. His range is a problem for anyone he fights, and I think the stand-up exchanges will be 50/50 against Yan. You better hurry if you want to get Sandhagen around (+200); I wouldn't be surprised to see him close around (+160/150).

If Glover Teixeira gets the fight to the ground, Jan Blachowicz will be in serious trouble. Jan has to get Glover out of there early because Glover is like a Walking Dead extra who can't be killed and just keeps coming. At (+235), Glover has a ton of value and has consistently paid off as the underdog.

Honorable mention: Marcin Tybura. Much like Glover, if Tybura can relocate the fight, Volkov will be a crime scene chalk outline on the mat. Volkov will be pressing the Life Alert button around his neck, begging for immediate emergency services. 

Pick 'Em

Ricardo Ramos (+150 ) vs. Zubaira Tukhugov (-170 )

            Winner: Zubaira Tukhugove

 Method: Decision 

Albert Duraev (-325 ) vs. Roman Kopylov (+250 )

            Winner: Albert Duraev

 Method: Rear-Naked Choke Rd.2

Elizeu Dos Santos (-185 ) vs. Benoit Saint-Denis (+200 )

Winner: Benoit Saint-Denis

 Method: Arm Triangle Rd.2

Shamil Gamzatov (-145 ) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (+120 )

    Winner: Shamil Gamzatov

 Method: Decision

Makwan Amirkhani (+240 ) vs. Lerone Murphy (-310 )

    Winner: Lerone Murphy

 Method: Decision

Hu Yaozong (+190 ) vs. Andre Petroski (-235 )

    Winner: Andre Petroski

 Method: Decision

Magomed Mustafaev (+175 ) vs. Damir Ismagulov (-250 )

    Winner: Damir Ismagulov

 Method: Decision

Tagir Ulanbekov (-360 ) vs. Allan Nascimento (+270 )

    Winner: Tagir Ulanbekov

 Method: Decision

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About Me

My name is Chris Guy, and I’m an avid combat sports enthusiast and practitioner. I’ve been a fan of MMA since the early 2000s when Limewire was still around, and I downloaded Bas Rutten’s Big Book of Combat. In 2004, I started training Muay Thai at City Boxing in San Diego, CA. I competed as an amateur for many years, and I've also dabbled in Jiu-Jitsu. I follow many different disciplines, such as Combat Ji-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Glory Kickboxing, Boxing, and MMA.

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