China’s light-heavyweight destroyer Mingyang Zhang will welcome former LFA middleweight champion Ozzy Diaz to Macau on Saturday. Zhang, aka ‘the Mountain Tiger,’ is a fast starter who has never won by decision and is currently on a ten-fight finishing streak.
Mingyang “Mountain Tiger” Zhang(15-6) vs Tuco Tukkos(7-2)
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His power is truly scary, even for light-heavyweight, and he also possesses the offensive grappling to submit foes after he hurts them.
Zhang’s second UFC fight fittingly comes against someone similar to himself, as Ozzy Diaz also tends to make like a bat out of hell and attack his opponents fiercely from the opening bell. Diaz has never won OR lost by decision, so he will not be the man to drag ‘the Mountain Tiger’ into a drawn out fight which tests his cardio
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Rather, Diaz vs Zhang will turn into a car crash almost instantly as they both press forward. Zhang does have more dynamic tools but has also faced lesser competition, and may fold again when facing stiff tests.
I tentatively will pick Zhang to win, but his status as more than a 3-to-1 favorite is ridiculous, as nobody knows who will fall first, though ‘the Mountain Tiger’ may possess a slight edge in the durability department, at least early in fights. This one will not get out of the first round.
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