On paper, the UFC 300 headliner should provide the kind of fireworks befitting the tricentenary card in Las Vegas this Saturday night. Both Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill are frightening knockout artists and it would be a major surprise if both men were to see out the 25 minutes. Hill was champion before having to relinquish the belt due to his Achilles injury , a vacant title claimed by Pereira against Jiri Prochazka. The bookmakers have Pereira as a narrow favourite but it is always revealing to see how fellow top UFC fighters past and present are predicting the fight. Interestingly, the majority of them are going with the underdog, including Michael Bisping, who said on his YouTube channel : 'I believe Alex Pereira loses the belt on this one.
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