The welterweight bout between former The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 7 contestant, Matt Brown (7-6), and undefeated Korean import, Dong Hyun “Stun Gun” Kim (10-0-1), has been promoted to the televised portion of the UFC 88: “Breakthrough” pay-per-view (PPV) main card thanks to Karo Parisyan pulling up lame at the eleventh hour and bowing out of his fight with Yoshiyuki Yoshida.
Brown — who was eliminated from the show by eventual tournament winner Amir Sadollah via triangle choke in the semifinals — bounced back to defeat Matt Arroyo via technical knockout at the TUF 7 Finale last month. It was just his second win in his last five fights and the first inside the Octagon.
That makes him essentially perfect within the eight-sided cage (1-0) just like his opponent when it comes time to throw down in the “Peach State.”
Kim stopped Jason Tan in his inaugural Octagon appearance at UFC 84: “Ill Will” back in May, pounding out his opponent with elbows in the final frame. The promising DEEP veteran will look to keep his perfect record intact and climb the welterweight ladder one rung at a time.
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i really dont see anything that brown can do to kim but who knows? this is mma! cant really place a bet on kim at -450 though yikes!
Yeh Kim is a HEAVY fav with everyone, although a small bet on Brown with those odds might be warranted, just incase of a lucky punch, injury or freak incident.
Agreed, all i forsee is kim takedowns/elbows. Also if you think the lines are ridiculous for this check them out for Silva-Cote: -1150/+650. I couldn’t stop laughing coz i keep picturing cote “pressing the action”!
i wasnt going to order this event until now. i cant wait to watch stun gun, I just ordered the ppv and bet $900 on stun gun to win $200
Stun Gun is already better than:
Swick
David
Burkman
Rumble
He may even be able to beat koschek already….but in about a year or a year and a half, he will make for a great challenge for GSP!
jeez 900 to win 200, thats not a very smart bet… i guess you are pretty sure about your boy kim there… i hate betting favorites
Brendan: A smart bet has nothing to do with how much your likely to win and everything to do with how sure you are that it will win.
brendan, I hate betting favorites to, but Kim isnt loosing. PERIOD!
Brown is going to get tossed around the cage like a lil biatch!
True. Stun Gun is one sick mofo!!I don’t see anythin’ that Brown could bring on the table to dislodge this up and comer! Go Korea!![even if I ain’t Korean, hehe!!]
I played alot of poker for years and one of the golden rules was to never overbet the pot… example: pot is 100$ and you lay a 300$ bet down, well essentially youre risking 300$ to only win 100$ one of the worst mistakes in poker… but i guess sports betting and poker are two different animals and i guess i have alot to learn about sports betting
I like Kim, he’s got talent. I hope he beats Brown, i can see him winning by tko in the 2nd round.
I hope Brown wins he just needs to throw caution to the wind and let it all hang out and he might get lucky, but I am going to call Kim
Kim is good! He beat the uk fighter Terry Etim and looked great! Brown isnt that good imo.
yea I agree brown’s only chance is to be unpredictable and try and do something off the wall that no one would ever think of.
I don’t remember Stun Gun beating Terry Etim. That must be Jason Tan you’re talking about because all the other guys Stun Gun has beaten were either Korean or Japanese, not English.
he might have beaten a filipino or two lol
they should have moved up the pellegrino/tavares fight or the macdonald/lambert fight. would have much rather seen one of these two.
they’re trying to set up Stun Gun to be the 170 Japanese Sensation! WATCH!
*korean…
South Korean thath is…North Koreans suck! LMAO!
they’re trying to set up Stun Gun to be the 170 Japanese Sensation! WATCH!
yea u are right about that one.
in my last comment I meant to say I am also agreeing with bass.
i agree with bass
i am hoping they only added this fight to see stun gun win quick so they can add a swing fight to the fights tonight
I’m happy my feLLow Korean brotha is getting shown some love by the UFC..lol
He needs to borrow the Dongbar for epic win.
he has a gay entrance!
not that id tell me that to his face! lol
Stun Gun is a striker and Matt is a striker that has never been knockout all his losses are via submission or decision the odds would favor Matt Brown to pull an upset. Like stun gun on this one but would not be surprise if Matt Brown pull an upset .
i thought brown only made it to the quarter finals not semi!!!