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O'Malley vs. Yadong Prediction
By TairaSZN_
O'Malley vs. Yadong Prediction
Sean O'Malley🇺🇸 (18-3) fights on the outside from Southpaw or Orthodox, switching stances and feinting to create and maintain space for his fast, accurate, and powerful high volume combinations that include double jabs, rear straights to the head and body, right hooks, lead crosses, overhands, uppercuts, and front kicks. His clinch game isn't insanely polished, but he can sprawl from the position, which is notable because of Song's occasional shots to close distance. Defensively on the feet, he keeps his hands low and relies on his head movement and reach advantage to lure opponents into pull counters and overall negate pressure, though he can still be low kicked if his stance switching isn't on point. Song Yadong🇨🇳 (22-8-1) will come forward using jabs to set up hooks and outside leg kicks to force stance switches, to make his powerful and fast high volume flurries that include crosses to the body to lower the guard, slip hooks, uppercuts, and open-side body kicks against Orthodox fighters easier to land. In the clinch, he can land short but strong hooks and elbows but normally uses it to get off the cage. In this matchup, I think he'll know to exit quickly to avoid being punished with long strikes of Suga in that position. Defensively, he uses a high guard along with good slips and overall head movement to stay safe, but it's not as effective against high-volume strikers who can break his momentum and, because of that and Song's tendency to trade against people with better range management, my pick is Suga by (DEC)
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