Julio Arce

He names Arce to get it done and outlast Burns, but he says he is passing on the moneyline given the price and would rather play a Burns first-round-submission prop for value -- wager caution (capped further by the root-beer idiom right after) rather than doubt about who wins.

Arce brings crisp counters, footwork and tight combination punching, plus pretty good striking defense, though he visibly wobbles when he is hit clean. His grappling is decent, anchored by a reliable takedown-stopping game with the ability to shoot his own shot when needed. He is the largest betting favorite on the card despite a long layoff.

Genuine no-pick. He states he switched his lean several times before and during this recording (toward Arce, then Jackson, then back), names Jackson once in passing, and then disavows it outright, declaring the matchup an unresolved 'coin flip', refusing to wager, and admitting on camera he cannot settle on a side. The momentary naming is not treated as the verdict because he withdraws it in the same breath; staged null rather than manufactured from that transient mention.

Renders in the ASR captions as 'RSA'/'RC' throughout -- confirmed the same person by content, not a second fighter. Fights behind a counter-striking, defensive style, mixing up strikes and volume off the counter rather than initiating. The analyst's hesitation in this chapter centers on whether that passive style lets the more powerful Jackson dictate pace.