UFC Fight Night 155: De Randamie vs Ladd Betting Preview, Odds & Prediction

Two of the top four Rated women’s bantamweight competitors meet in the main event of UFC Fight Night 155 fight card on Saturday, July 13th

Can Aspen Ladd or Germaine de Randamie secure a shooter against the bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes of UFC women?
Can the height and reach advantages of De Randamie thwart the high offensive output of Ladd signal?
The UFC yields to California’s capital city for the first time in almost three years to get Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 155 struggle card. In the headlining bout of the event, which takes place in Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center and streams on ESPN+, former UFC women’s featherweight titleholder Germaine de Randamie faces the up-and-coming Aspen Ladd. The competition is being billed by the UFC as a title eliminator.

Germaine de Randamie vs Aspen Ladd Odds
Fighter Odds at Bovada
Germaine de Randamie +145
Aspen Ladd -175
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De Randamie vs Ladd Recent Fights
De Randamie hasn’t been really active over the past few years. She won the inaugural women’s featherweight title with a decision over Holly Holm at February 2017 and then defeated former women’s bantamweight title challenger Raquel Pennington in November of last year. That fight went to the scorecards.

As for Ladd, she’s fought four times since January 2017, racking up wins against Sijara Eubanks in Invicta FC and the UFC. She defeated Lina Lansberg and ex-Invicta FC bantamweight champ Tonya Evinger beneath the UFC banner. Bonus awards were won by ladd because of her two recent victories.

De Randamie vs Ladd Skill Sets
De Randamie was a champion kickboxer prior to making the full-time transition to MMA. That experience shows in her fighting style. She has great power, fantastic control of space, and with her background in muay Thai, she’s not someone to trifle with at the clinch, where she could land hefty knees into the body and control her opponent’s body position via the Thai plum. The ex-champ’s advantages from the striking department and her reach should allow her to operate her jab efficiently and when Ladd does rush in, de Randamie could very well grab her using a counter punch or elbow.

There are concerns about Ladd, worries she addressed after her May win over Eubanks. “This was a fistfight/brawl, which was partly my fault,” she admitted. “I should’ve listened to my coaches better. I just feel like I have so much more to operate on.”

Ladd wishes to avoid getting in a brawl with de Randamie. She will also need to avoid getting caught with kicks at space from de Randamie. Ladd is a strong striker and may pour on the quantity as her typical of 5.68 significant strikes landed per minute suggests. Ladd may want to initiate the fight seeing how she fares with her status striking. If she struggles in that section look for her coaches.

Ladd can lay down deep ground strikes and de Randamie has struggled when she finds on the mat. Ladd’s takedown accuracy is an impressive 80%, so she ought to have the ability to get de Randamie into the ground, where the ex-champ’s advantages will be entirely negated.