Muslim fighting Elizeu Zaleski Dos Santos this Saturday

[Azeroth Adventurer]

He will be fighting on the prelims against Elizeu Zaleski Dos Santos who is 22-6. Muslim is 16-2 and only lost once in the UFC and is on a 3 fight win streak with 1 of them being a first round KO against Nordine Taleb

He's won 12 of 16 fights via KO/TKO so there's a good chance that the fight will end in a finish because Elizeu also has 14 wins via KO/TKO

How do you think the fight will play out? I'm curious to see how Muslim does and where he goes from here if he gets another win

 

[AminoAcid]

Wait his name is actually Muslim?


Thought TS was about to get a yellow card for a second..

 

[LHWBelt]

If it's only stand up? Muslim takes it. If Dos Santos mixes in takedowns and at least the threat of them consistently he has a good shot. 50/50 fight imo

 

[Azeroth Adventurer]

Wait his name is actually Muslim?


Thought TS was about to get a yellow card for a second..

He's been in the UFC since 2017

 

[Martialbeef]

EDS looked absolutely atrocious against Leech. Don’t think I’ve watched his most recent fight

 

[MartiniSIDe]

From the title I thought Elizeu Dos Santos was a fighting Muslim

 

[Natesblackshirt]

Muslim gets KO’ed

 

[TheMessiah]

I thought you meant the Dos Santos dude was Muslim and i was like is he a convert?

 

[Grapplefest]

Muslim Salikhov's stand up is much better, Elizeu is mainly flash. You need grappling to beat Salikhov.

 

[moosaev]

From the title I thought Elizeu Dos Santos was a fighting Muslim

Muslim is indeed a Muslim

 

[blaseblah]

EDS looked absolutely atrocious against Leech. Don’t think I’ve watched his most recent fight

He won but looked unimpressive doing it

 

[moosaev]

Muslim Salikhov's stand up is much better, Elizeu is mainly flash. You need grappling to beat Salikhov.

Elizeu has tricky stand up, I wouldn’t sleep on it. He’s also a decent finisher we he has you in trouble. I’m picking Salikhov via 2nd round tko.

 

[Grapplefest]

Elizeu has tricky stand up, I wouldn’t sleep on it. He’s also a decent finisher we he has you in trouble. I’m picking Salikhov via 2nd round tko.

His stand-up didn't look too tricky against Jingliang, who's stand-up is much worse than Salikhov's

 

[WHALEWOLF]

Should be a good one. Im pumped for that one as well as Volkan vs Jiri

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

EZ Dos Santos has looked horrible as of late - maybe there are some injuries or personal stuff we don’t know about, but the killer who was on a 7-fight win streak is not the guy I recognized in his last fight (low confidence, controlling to win).

Maybe the Leech fight messed him up mentally, UFC was stacking the deck against all non-Asian fighters on that card it seems.

Looking at the card history:

-Andrade obliterated inside a minute (rushes in and gets clipped/finished immediately)
-EZ looks slow and gets finished late by Leech
-Krantz brought in on short notice and insta-murked

When the UFC books in a country it seldom visits you do not want to get that call if you aren’t from there. You are just a pawn for them to “grow a market” with.

 

[Post 2 Decision]

When Muslim fought Rick Rainey, who was more explosive?