King Green and Mauricio Ruffy meet Saturday in the principle card opener of UFC 313 at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. Take a look at this fast breakdown of the matchup from MMA Junkie analyst Dan Tom.
Final occasion: 2-3
UFC most important playing cards, 2025: 17-13-1
King Inexperienced vs. Mauricio Ruffy UFC 313 preview
Inexperienced (32-16-1 MMA, 13-11-1 UFC) has traded wins and losses over his previous few outings, and comes into this one following what he described as a “blooper” submission loss to Paddy Pimblett at UFC 304. Within the battle prior, Inexperienced picked up a unanimous resolution win over fellow grizzled veteran Jim Miller at UFC 300. … Ruffy (11-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) enters on a six-fight successful streak, and appears to keep up his undefeated run within the UFC. The Dana White’s Contender Sequence veteran stopped Jamie Mullarkey in his debut and adopted that with a unanimous resolution over James Llontop to go 2-0 in his debut 12 months.
King Inexperienced vs. Mauricio Ruffy UFC 313 knowledgeable choose, prediction
The paid portion of the cardboard kicks off with a possible light-weight warfare between Inexperienced and Ruffy.
It’s good to see the UFC matchmakers get again to Joe Silva’s tried and true technique of opening most important playing cards with light-weight fights.
On this case, Ruffy will look to make up for misplaced time and doubtlessly increase his inventory with a win over the always-fun Inexperienced.
A fighter with a criminally underrated fashion, Inexperienced has quietly been among the best shoulder rollers in MMA (notably in his prime). And if MMA judges have been higher about correctly awarding clear counters and bodywork, then Inexperienced’s report may arguably look a bit completely different.
If this battle have been a couple of years in the past, I’d most likely choose Inexperienced to provide Rufft a veteran lesson by drawing out his pictures and countering him together. However between Inexperienced’s suspect sturdiness after his near-murder by the hands of Kerry Hatley to Ruffy’s energy and proprioception, followers of the American could also be in for a tough night time.
Regardless that I not-so-secretly hope I’m fallacious, the choose is Ruffy to interrupt down Inexperienced with leg kicks and counters with the intention to pressure a stoppage in Spherical 2.
King Inexperienced vs. Mauricio Ruffy UFC 313 odds
The oddsmakers and the general public are closely favoring the Brazilian fighter, itemizing Ruffy -500 and Inexperienced +360 through FanDuel.
King Inexperienced vs. Mauricio Ruffy UFC 313 begin time, the way to watch
As the principle card opener, Inexperienced and Ruffy are anticipated to stroll to the cage at roughly 10:10 p.m. ET. The battle will stream on ESPN+.
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