185 lbs. Amir Sadollah vs. Johny Hendricks
The third match of the evening is an extremely poor Middleweight matchup that has no business being on the televised card.
Amir Sodollah, winner of the worst season of The Ultimate Fighter, will engage in his second ever professional MMA fight against WEC veteran and former amateur wrestler Johny Hendricks. Sodollah shocked the world by submitting heavy favorite CB Dolloway twice to win The Ultimate Fighter and then seemed to drop off the face of the earth, with all of his fights getting pushed back and cancelled. In the meantime, Hendricks was in WEC actually fighting people, although no one very good.
It’s hard to say what Sadollah is good or bad at, besides that it is safe to say he can execute an armbar. His lack of fight experience is troubling, as is the very long layoff since his last fight. Still, he acquitted himself well against Dolloway, who is a stylistically similar fighter to Hendricks.
Hendricks, who has compiled a perfect 5-0 professional record, has a strong amateur wrestling background and powerful ground and pound. The most important thing for Hendricks is going to be his submission defense. He should be able to get Sadollah down and do some punishment, but he has to be careful of Sadollah, who can clearly fight off his back.
Ultimately, I think Sadollah’s long absence from competition and lack of professional experience are going to cost him in this one.
I see Hendricks taking Sadollah down and putting a hurting on him from top position. Hendricks by TKO, round 2.
