UFC Fight Night picks & predictions for Brad Tavares vs. Jun-yong Park on 7-20 anticipate a close fight that also sees Tavares' continued downslope.
Brad Tavares vs. Jun-yong Park is among the featured bouts at this weekend's UFC Fight Night and our UFC picks like it to be relatively close. Tavares is not at the peak of his powers and while Park is flawed, this could easily go his way.Journeyman Tavares has seen better days. So much so that it is unlikely the veteran can turn away the challenge of the talented, but flawed Park.Father Time is calling for Brad Tavares.
Jun-yong Park does a little bit of everything. He's a decent striker who mixes in takedowns, has solid submissions, and can set an aggressive pace and stick with it for the full distance. He is coming off a split-decision loss to Andre Muniz, where he won the striking battle but got taken down 11 times. That ended a four-fight winning streak where he won three consecutive bouts by submission.
The one thing that Tavares still does well is that he is great at stuffing takedowns. Park definitely won't if Dricus Du Plessis couldn't take him down. However, I expect Park to save his energy and keep this a striking match. Tavares is the better technician, but with his lack of striking power combined with his declining physical skills, he has to hope Park makes the tactical error of trying to wrestle with him and wastes his energy that way.
There used to be a time when Tavares would have won fights like these, but we’re getting further from those days with each passing performance. I’m going with Park to come out with a win and add to Tavares’ decline.Park and Tavares’s average fight times exceed 10 minutes, and neither of them has shown the kind of striking power that could seriously trouble the other.
In all honesty, Park is only slightly better than Tavares in most categories despite the veteran’s decline. This fight will come down to either Park outworking him or Tavares stumping him and slowing his activity down. I don’t see Park running away with this fight, so my best bet is that the fight goes the distance.
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