While many are satisfied Alex Pereira will destroy Khalil Rountree, one MMA legend is totally satisfied the contender will end ‘Poatan’ through KO.
The gentle heavyweight championship will likely be on the road at UFC 307 on October 7, contained in the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Chael Sonnen picks Khalil Rountree to KO Alex Pereira at UFC 307
Next weekend, Alex Pereira will defend his 205-pound throne towards Khalil Rountree, in a struggle a portion of the MMA group views as a foregone conclusion.
Blessed with thunderous energy, the Brazilian has rendered unconscious a plethora of fight sports activities stars, with a substantial variety of followers anticipating his streak to proceed towards his American adversary.
However, Chael Sonnen believes the general public has received it utterly and totally improper, insisting that Rountree could have his hand raised.
He’s even gone so far as to say, he’ll render the UFC pound-for-pound quantity two, unconscious.
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In a video revealed on his YouTube channel, he stated: “[Khalil] Rountree is going to whoop him. Rountree is going to win this fight. Rountree has never found himself in a fight where someone is coming at him with kickboxing, and he did not cover and boom, boom, boom (mimics shots) and put him down.
“There is a built-in narrative that Rountree can’t go with him, that he shouldn’t be put in this position, that Rountree is being brought in to protect Pereira from [Magomed] Ankalaev. Rountree is not his best until someone is coming after him. That’s exactly the way Pereira fights.
“Alex is going to enter that Mike Tyson-type club, where guys toss it in the back and look for the nearest door to jump through. But I don’t think Rountree is going to do that.
“I fully understand how we have 4/1 odds favoring the guy that I’m telling you isn’t only going to lose, he’s going to get knocked out.”
Chael Sonnen predicts Jon Jones vs Tom Aspinall will occur
It appears to be like like selecting Rountree over Pereira isn’t the one unpopular prediction Sonnen has made in latest instances.
While the world would like to see Jon Jones lastly put his UFC heavyweight title on the road towards interim champion, Tom Aspinall, most have resigned themselves to the doable actuality that the struggle won't ever occur.
However, ‘The American Gangster’ is satisfied that the 2 MMA superstars will ultimately cross paths within the cage.
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