Nabeel Bhatti

Strickland will sell that fight on pay-per-view by just being Strickland and doing what he does.

So I don't think it's a disaster in this situation if Strickland isn't used as the stepping stone that he's supposed to be in this situation because he is an underdog here.

And...

I think he is quite a live underdog in this fight because I do see a path to victory here for Sean Strickland.

Obviously, Fluffy Hernandez is on an incredible run and he is expected to win this fight.

He is the quite short 4-11 favourite here.

1-3, minus 300 in some places.

With Strickland as big as 5-2, plus 250.

And I think that is too big.

Obviously, we've just seen Strickland go in there and lose to Du Plessis.

but Fluffy Hernandez isn't Du Plessis.

He's not going to be able to take Strickland down that easily.

And even Du Plessis wasn't able to take Strickland down easily.

Strickland did a very, very good job when it came to stopping those takedowns from Du Plessis.

So here, I don't think it's going to be as comfortable as the odds suggest.

Um,

Hernandez has serious gaps in his defensive striking that Strickland could also exploit.

People are forgetting, they don't look past all of the controversy and know that this is an elite fighter.

He has elite experience.

He's uniquely equipped to limit his opponent's offense.