Ailin Perez

He states he is "forced to side with Perez" (quote, 5 words) on volume/output grounds, and explicitly separates his fan preference for Dumont from his pick -- an admission of bias, not a hedge on the win.

An aggressive, high-volume striker who compensates for limited polish with constant forward pressure and good knee strikes. She is a strong, grappling-centric fighter with a good bodylock takedown and relentless top pressure, prioritizing volume and damage over tidy positioning -- which can cost her position, though it has not been a big problem for her.

States his pick for Perez twice in a row, with a clear mechanism - Chiasson's weight-cut-driven cardio problem versus Perez's strong gas tank - and Chiasson's one real threat (the cage push) explicitly hedged as hard for her to land.

A decent striker - not her main game, but she brings real forward pressure with good knees and volume to close into her preferred range: grappling. A solid grappler who loves the bodylock off a knee strike to get takedowns, advances position well, and brings nasty top pressure. She is willing to posture up and throw ground-and-pound even at the risk of giving up position, banking on her cardio outlasting her opponent's.

Leans toward Rosa, arguing her volume standing will matter more than whatever grappling time Perez manages to grab, but openly grants a real path for the underdog and says he wouldn't fault anyone taking the value on the other side -- a genuine hedge on the winner, not merely on style or margin.

A decent striker who comes forward behind steady output and uses knees as her sharpest tool, though grappling is actually her path to winning fights. A capable grappler with a reliable bodylock and constant pressure from top, forever advancing position -- but willing to posture up and fire from there, which the analyst says is exactly what lets her top control slip.

He calls it his least confident pick on the card, despite liking the takedown path.

A decent, relentlessly forward striker who lands sneaky stepping knees, and a good, high-pressure grappler who willingly trades top control to posture up and land damage because that is what gets rewarded on the scorecards. Her pace is described as very good and said to wear opponents down over a fight.

Picks Perez's pressure, volume and body-lock grappling to get Edwards down and keep her there; the only caveat raised is scorecard/judging risk, not doubt about who should win.

Shorter, stockier bantamweight whose forward pressure, volume and body-lock takedowns the analyst frames as her biggest weapon. Not called a highly skilled grappler, but her willingness to posture up and land ground strikes even at the cost of giving up position is the stated path to a decision win.

Extensive skill-for-skill case -- he repeatedly says she is better everywhere and calls her definitely the pick -- with no hedge on the win itself; a disclosed fan-bias aside (admitting he favors her personally) comes only as a closing addendum after the full analytical case, so it is recorded as a discount factor rather than the basis of the pick.

A decent, aggressive forward-pressure striker who mixes knees in behind her punches. Decent grappling with a very high volume of takedowns (around 12 attempted in her last fight), but she lacks top control, instead always looking to advance position and posture up for ground-and-pound. Cardio described as 'insane', an off-ladder term.

Repeated 'for now, that might switch'; plans to play the point spread on the opponent as a hedge on his own pick.

The younger, more aggressive fighter -- decent volume striking with knees mixed in, and a decent, pressure-based grappling game built around the body lock and advancing position. The analyst's pick, with a plan to hedge using the point spread on the other side.

He names Perez directly ('taking Perez here for... I'm gonna take Perez') but explicitly flags low confidence ('not... confident') on a live underdog price.

The more aggressive fighter of the pair, moving forward, mixing knees with punches, and leaning on her wrestling and grappling, which the analyst says is where she excels in most matchups. He picks her off the strength of a good showing in a prior short-notice fight and an explicit, if modest, confidence call.

Names Egger twice, but each time softened with 'probably' attached to the win itself, not just the method; backed by substantive reasoning (experience edge, tougher opposition faced), which keeps it off coinflip.

UFC debutant who has looked dominant against weak regional opposition -- the analyst says her wins look easy but carry little weight because her opponents were not good. Called a fun, exciting fighter to watch both in and out of the fight. Facing a step up in competition level for a debut.