Never heard of him, never seen him fight. I was surprised to see Boetsch being the underdog. Planning on betting on boetsch. So how good is this phillipou guy?
He's shown pretty great TDD against McGee and Fukuda but I believe Boetsch can get takedowns from the clinch. Phillippou has very good hands and footwork. Has some noticable power, but nothing devastating has been seen so far.
His TDD was very good against Fukuda and McGee. But Boetsch for the most part has a different wrestling game when it comes to MMA. Costa avoids double-legs/single-legs pretty well but I don't recall how he's looked in the clinch
Sick name. I favour Costa by decision, but wouldn't be too surprised if Boetsch pulled it off via unimpressive performance
You don't know what you're talking about. Fukuda has good takedowns and failed on every attempt. McGee also failed on every attempt to take Philippou down. Combined I believe they went 0 for 16 in takedowns against Philippou. Amazing how remarkably efficient and effective that awful TDD is of his.
Untested striker with a lot of hype fighting a gritty veteran wrestler. Pretty obvious how this is going to turn out.
Fukuda is also a gritty veteran wrestler. Shouldn't he have won against Philippou then if that's what you're suggesting?
I've bet a house on Tim Costa isn't that good, he gets tired quickly and didn't have too much power Tim is always the underdog, but he made it through Okami (even though he was beat inside out for two rounds) and Lombard (even though non of them actually did much), so he'll definitely beat Costa
Both are at -115. So even odds. No favorite. In case anyone is wondering, -115 means you would have to bet 115$ to win 100$. Bet is same for both fighters. Also, JDS used to be a nice bet at around -100 but apparently people were betting heavy on him cause it's now -230 jds and cain is at +170
As I can recall Boetsch was the favorite not the underdog and Phillipou is on a 4 fight winning streak if that answers your question.