Shannon Clark -460 v Yuneisy Duben 

Duben has quite the resume as the combined record of the fighters she’s faced is 0-0.  That’s right, she’s had 5 fights, and it was the debut fight for every opponent.  Congratulations to her as she’s finished all of them, but it’s not been a tough road.  She has good power, but she’s sloppy, and in fact she got taken down in the first round of her last fight to a really bad fighter.  This is going to be a very rude awakening for her as Shannon Clark is the first opponent she’ll have who will actually be able to fight back, and not only will Clark fight back, she’ll push forward, and land good strikes in the clinch, control Duben and my guess is she’ll get the takedown and then get the finish on the ground.  Clark is really strong, and just submitted a black belt with an insane bulldog choke in her last fight, and Duben ain’t a black belt. Duben is very raw and exploitable, I don’t see her having success in this one.

Austin Bashi -550 v Dorian Ramos 

Bashi is only 22 years old, but he looks like he has his man-body and man-strength, and I think he’s going to be stronger than Ramos in this one which is important because both guys like getting takedowns.  Bashi is very aggressive with his forward pressure, and he loves picking guys up and slamming them so he look for ground and pound or submission.  His striking defense is pretty bad, but Ramos isn’t a great striker so the big weakness that I see in Bashi may not be exploited in this fight.  Ramos likes to take guys down and lay on them, but on the feet he’s pretty week.  I don’t think his striking is good, and I haven’t been real impressed with his wins.  He just doesn’t seem to have the energy or aggression that Bashi does on the feet or on the ground, and I don’t think that changes with him taking this on short notice.  Bashi should overwhelm Ramos here and get the win.

Andre Petroski -320 v Dylan Budka

Budka fought on Contender Series against Chad Honekom, and Chad made it the most boring fight in Contender Series history (he later failed a drug test), and Dana White felt so bad for Budka that he gave him a chance in the UFC, and Budka was horrific.  He took Cesar Almeida down early in the fight, did nothing with it, tried to do the same in the second, but was so tired and bad that he got knocked out by Almeida.  Bottom line:  Budka is awful, and is not UFC caliber, and the one thing he does well…takedowns…is what Petroski can defend.  Petroski isn’t a great striker, his cardio is suspect, but he’s better everywhere than Budka, and we just kind of know who Petroski is and what his ceiling is.  He'll probably have success on the feet before Budka shoots in, but Petroski should be able defend and separate and just wait for Budka to get tired where Petroski can strike or even get the takedown himself.   Budka fighting at 185, and Dana said he should probably be fighting at 170, and he’s actually fought at heavyweight before so this guy can't even figure out what weigh division he should be fighting in.  This should be Petroski's fight to win.