Manot Fiorot vs. Rose Namajunas Betting Analysis and Prediction

With another Paris event coming this weekend on the UFC schedule, let’s take a closer look at the co-main event between rising flyweight contender Manot Fiorot and former strawweight champion Rose Namajunas. The rising contender will host the former champ and welcome her into the flyweight division in her home country of Paris.

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Manon Fiorot vs. Rose Namajunas Information

Manon Fiorot vs Rose Namajunas

Location of the game: Accord Arena, Paris, France

Date and Time: Saturday, September 02. 3:00 PM ET main card start

How to Watch: ESPN+

Last Fight Record

Fiorot is coming off an impressive decision win over Katlyn Chookagian at UFC 280 last October.

Namajunas is looking to bounce back from losing her title to Carla Esparza last year at UFC 274.

Manon Fiorot vs. Rose Namajunas Betting Analysis

Manon Fiorot

Fiorot is a French martial artist with a professional MMA record of 10-1 with six TKO/KOs. She is on a 10-fight winning streak after losing her professional debut in Cage Warriors back in 2018. She is a black belt in Karate and a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

“The Beast” is 33 years old and fights out of the southpaw stance with incredible kickboxing skills. Fiorot is an example of a world-class kickboxer turning to MMA to be able to make a living with her skills.

Now, with all of her skills increasing, she’s lighting up the stat book in the UFC with an average of 6.58 significant strikes landed per minute while only absorbing 3.14.

To go along with those dominant striking numbers, she adds an average of 1.69 takedowns per 15 minutes in the octagon and has an impressive 83% takedown defense.

Rose Namajunas

Namajunas was seemingly the next women’s superstar in the UFC after her KO win over Zhang Weili to win the strawweight title. Now, after one of the most negatively received title fights in the sport’s history, “Thug” Rose looks to start a new journey at a higher weight class.

Namajunas is a 31-year-old American fighter with a professional MMA record of 11-5 with two KOs and five submissions. She will be the smaller woman in the cage on Saturday standing at 5’5″ and being a natural strawweight.

Updates

No injuries have been reported to the UFC.

Manon Fiorot vs. Rose Namajunas Betting Preview

The Manon Fiorot vs Rose Namajunas prediction is arguably the toughest one to make on the entire card. To get a better idea, let’s look at the available betting lines for this co-main event bout.

The hometown favorite is also the betting favorite, coming in at -185 to get her hand raised and beat the +155 underdog Namajunas. This is an interesting moneyline because of how much Namajunas has done in the sport. And her current age suggests she is still in her prime.

This bout is favored to go the distance at -180, with Fiorot coming in with +275 to get a finish and Namjunas is +375 to do the same, according to UFC odds. It’s going to be tough to finish each other because both women are such savages and so tough inside the octagon.

From Grappler to Striker

From a technical view of this matchup, it seems like it’s going to be a very technical chess match in the octagon. Fiorot has the striking advantage with her power and experience, but Namajunas is also a world-class MMA striker. Will Thug Rose have the advantage in an MMA fight?

Namajunas became super famous after her KO wins, but she was originally an elite grappler. She made a habit of strangling her opponents until she started being coached by Trevor Whittman and learning the ins and outs of MMA striking.

Manon Fiorot vs. Rose Namajunas Betting Prediction

Making UFC predictions for fights of this level is pretty much impossible to be consistently successful at. Even though there is a -180 betting favorite, it feels like this bout is dead even.

• The official Manon Fiorot vs Rose Namajunas prediction is that Fiorot will get her hand raised.

It’s going to be too hard to bet against her rise and momentum, especially in front of the French crowd.

The power and speed of Fiorot are going to be surprising in front of Namajunas. Namajunas has crazy-fast speed, but Fiorot might prove to be the more dangerous striker and will damage Namajunas much more than Namajunas damages her.

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