Belal Muhammad

He ties the pick to the early rounds ("if Belal can take any", kept under five words) and immediately adds "maybe he does" lose, right after naming the pick.

A good striker with good volume, good forward pressure, a good body kick and good combinations, but with little in the way of hand power. His grappling is a pressure-based, good game: good takedowns, good mat returns, staying safe on top and good takedown defense. His real separator is pace and cardio over five rounds -- he does not slow down and keeps pressing his game plan regardless of how the fight is going. He is coming off tough losses to top-level competition, including a title fight.

Volunteers unprompted that he genuinely could not settle on a winner, that "the value is on" the opponent, and that he does not "feel confident on either side," then frames his own choice as little more than a coin flip for the video -- an explicit admission of low conviction on the win itself, well beyond ordinary price talk.

As of 2025-11-18, the analyst says he is genuinely developing as a striker even though it is not his primary style: forward pressure, good volume, a nice body kick and good combinations, backed by good boxing, though he still lacks real power. He is a solid grappler who presses forward and shoots takedowns relentlessly, with pretty good (not amazing) control, stays safe on top, and the analyst puts his takedown defense at roughly nine out of ten attempts stopped in the UFC -- very few opponents get him down. Good cardio and pace round him out.

He names Belal as his pick, forecasting a repeat-takedown decision; the language carries no hedge, and he expects Belal to take at least three rounds.

Framed as the grappling half of a striking-vs-grappling clash. Belal lacks real punching power but brings good forward pressure, volume and a solid body kick. His core game is pressure wrestling: heavy top pressure, good takedowns he chains together, and strong top control where he stays safe. His cardio and relentless pace are repeatedly cited as what wins him fights on the scorecards.

states it plainly and repeats it ('I've got to take Belal Muhammad... remember the name folks... he's getting it done'), built on a stated mechanism (pace/volume/cardio over Edwards's low output); a disclosed fan-bias aside ('a lot of people hate the guy, I don't') does not itself hedge the pick, and the only softening is that he expects a competitive, back-and-forth fight.

A pressure wrestler with a drastic wrestling edge in this pairing: good forward wrestling pressure, good takedowns, very good control, and excellent takedown defense that effectively takes Edwards's wrestling off the table. His striking is rated as genuinely good, not just a wrestling afterthought -- high volume, a very good body kick, good combinations and forward pressure -- and his very good cardio lets him control the pace all fight, which is named as the deciding factor.

The clearest root-beer case on the card, by name: he tells viewers to crack open their own root beers because this fight could go either way, and that he personally is not confident enough in it to bet it. He says it is the one bout on his whole notes sheet lacking a pre-made pick, decides live on camera, and lands on Gilbert Burns -- while explicitly flagging that he might still change his mind. His own round-by-round math (a close first round, Burns favored in the middle rounds, Muhammad favored late) does not clearly favor the fighter he names.

A pressure-based wrestler with excellent takedown defense and top control -- once he gets on top he is described as a smothering, tar-soaked 'wet blanket,' very safe there and a hard man to finish from underneath. His boxing is developing with good volume but not real power; even in finishing Sean Brady he did it through sheer output rather than a single hard shot. What wins him fights, in the analyst's words, is insane cardio and the ability to control pace. His one blemish, a no-contest against Leon Edwards from an eye poke, is recorded as a scoring technicality, not a skill issue.

He calls the matchup 'razor thin' and takes Muhammad as the underdog, describing the bet as only 'a small stab,' not real conviction.

A high-level wrestler the analyst credits with a slightly better cage-push than Brady, great takedown defense, high volume on the feet, and standout cardio he calls among the best in the UFC. He notes Muhammad has fought and looked good against recent top competition, with his one blemish being a no-contest against the champion after an accidental eye poke, in a fight the analyst thought Muhammad was losing beforehand.