Levi Rodrigues

He calls it a likely easy fight for Liu Ce on the striking and grappling gap, then settles the pick plainly despite noting Rodriguez's record is thin.

Rodriguez is described as a forward-pressing striker with power and a handful of basic combinations, but the analyst is skeptical of his resume, noting his wins have come against weak competition and that his one loss came against a notably tougher opponent. On the ground he is credited with good pressure from the top but is said to have essentially nothing when he ends up underneath. The analyst calls this a likely easy outing for the opponent.

Picks Liu as the presumed favorite but hedges explicitly ('going out on a limb'), citing that three of Liu's four career wins came against weaker opposition.

Rodrigues carries a 5-1 career record (not enough fights for a last-five) in a bout the analyst calls heavyweight at the open, though the database lists this card's pairing as Light Heavyweight -- reported here, not resolved. His grappling is called only average, with useful pressure if he gets on top but nothing offered from his back. No reliable striking read survives for him this video from material outside an excluded passage (see flags below); his striking tier is held unset rather than inferred.

"extremely low on Franco"

Presses forward with real pop behind his hands and strings shots together cleanly on the feet, and once a bout reaches the floor he applies solid pressure from the top. His record carries a no-contest from a Contender Series bout that was overturned. The analyst notes there is limited tape on him: only five fights, none running especially long, so there isn't a large sample to judge from yet.