Another day, another accident — in fact, this time there were just two. For today’s MMA Odds and Ends, I will list the 2 fights that were altered and give my thoughts on every one of these. Mark Eddiva vs. Levan Makashvili, UFC Fight Night 66 Alex White was forced to pull out of his struggle with Mark Eddiva in UFC Fight Night 66, also Levan Makashvili will now take on Eddiva on extremely short notice since the card happens May 16 at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Philippines. Eddiva is 1-1 in the UFC with a surprise conclusion win over Jumabieke Tuerxun and also a TKO loss to Kevin Souza. He’s actually outperformed expectations inside the Octagon and overall is a pretty good grinder who can bang a bit. Makashvili, meanwhile, is a grinder-type who’s making his UFC debut. He was supposed to fight Nik Lentz back in UFC Fight Night 60, but the fight was cancelled at the last minute when Lentz got sick. This is a tough one. I would argue Makashvili is the fighter and the greater prospect of this pair, but Eddiva has the UFC experience and he’ll be fighting in his home nation of Manila here. Eddiva isn’t the kind of fighter that will get much respect from the betting public, but he’s pretty solid and I think he puts up a fantastic fight against Makashvili. I’d expect a close line with this one having a slight lean towards Makashvili since he has a little more hype surrounding himbut it is a fight I believe could go either way. Jake Collier vs. Ricardo Abreu, UFC Fight Night 68 Because of an injury to Daniel Sarafian, Ricardo Abreu had a new opponent and the UFC called upon Jake Collier to fight him at UFC Fight Night 68, which takes place June 6 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Collier is 0-1 at the UFC with a first-round knockout loss to Vitor Miranda in his debut. He had been doing very well in the fight and then in the conclusion of this initial circular faded badly and compensated for it with a KO conquer. Abreu, on the other hand, is undefeated at 5-0 in his profession and conquered Wagner Silva via submission in his UFC debut. However, the fight was a year ago and he hasn’t fought because, so he will have any ring rust heading into this one. This is another tough one. I believe Collier is the better fighter of the two, but he’s not a person to be reliable with your hard-earned cash after we saw what happened in his UFC debut. I really don’t think Abreu is like his record suggests, but he has a good chance of picking up a win in this struggle. It is a close one, though, one that could go either way, and that I hope the line to reflect that.

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