Josh Culibao

Picks Culibao mainly because he can't trust how Ramos will show up, not because Culibao's own path is assured -- his best route needs a specific game-plan adjustment, and the analyst admits real uncertainty about whether Culibao actually makes that adjustment.

Feet-first striker with real power, sharp leg kicks, and comfort in either stance, backed by a secondary grappling game -- decent takedown defense and heavy ground-and-pound -- though his own striking defense is a little suspect. The analyst's favored path for him is to keep the fight standing and ideally mix in a well-timed takedown plus top control around the midpoint.

He audibly flip-flops between both fighters on air, then closes with the root-beer idiom and tells viewers plainly that wagering on this one isn't necessary. Per the standing rule, the idiom plus that stay-off-it advice together mean coinflip, not just caution.

Good striker with real power and a standout leg kick, comfortable switching his lead stance, but absorbs more volume than is ideal against a dangerous puncher. A decent grappler with good takedown defense and heavy ground-and-pound once on top, highlighted by a recent first career submission win.

Takes Murphy but states outright that his confidence is very low; separately, a root-beer wager-caution idiom marks this as a watch-don't-bet fight.

Culibao is a good striker with power and leg kicks who can fight from either stance, and his grappling is improving -- heavy ground-and-pound, good takedown defense, and an expanding submission arsenal shown in his last win. The analyst explicitly credits him with getting better every fight.

The source audio itself is undecided, so this is recorded as an honest ambiguity rather than a forced guess. He narrates switching his lean back and forth several times across the chapter (toward one man, then the other, then back again), and the clause that finally names a winner is too garbled to resolve cleanly in the transcript. Baghdasaryan is the last name he states clearly before that garble, so it is the recorded verdict -- but two separate hedge types sit beside it: plain outcome doubt (he says outright he lacks a confident read on who the better fighter is) and, distinctly, wager caution (the standard idiom plus an explicit refusal to stake money on it). Both are kept apart per COMMON's taxonomy rather than merged. Confidence is coinflip given the repeated switching and the stated absence of a confident read.

Primarily a striker with a reach edge who mixes in some grappling and wrestling; his ground-and-pound is called very heavy, and his boxing carries real power behind a leg kick used to set up his hands. Decent in the clinch/grappling category overall. The clean, non-excluded content on him runs through segs 0-2.