Another day, yet another accident — in actuality, this time there were two. For the current MMA Odds and Ends, I will record the two fights that were changed and give my thoughts on each of these. Mark Eddiva vs. Levan Makashvili, UFC Fight Night 66 Alex White was forced to pull from 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 at Pasay, Philippines. Eddiva is 1-1 in the UFC with a surprise decision win over Jumabieke Tuerxun and also a TKO loss to Kevin Souza. He’s really outperformed expectations inside the Octagon and overall is a fairly solid grinder who can bang a little. Makashvili, meanwhile, is a grinder-type who is making his UFC debut. He was supposed to fight Nik Lentz back at UFC Fight Night 60, however, the struggle was cancelled in the last minute when Lentz got sick. This is a difficult one to predict. I’d assert Makashvili is the fighter and also the better prospect of the pair, but Eddiva gets got the UFC experience and he’ll be fighting in his home nation of Manila here. Eddiva isn’t the type of fighter that will get much respect from the betting public, but he is pretty solid and I think he sets up a good fight against Makashvili. I would anticipate a close line for this one having a small lean towards Makashvili since he has a little more hype surrounding himbut it’s a struggle I think can go either way. Jake Collier vs. Ricardo Abreu, UFC Fight Night 68 Due to an injury to Daniel Sarafian, Ricardo Abreu needed a new opponent and the UFC called upon Jake Collier to combat him UFC Fight Night 68, which takes place June 6 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Collier is 0-1 at the UFC using a first-round knockout loss to Vitor Miranda in his debut. He had been doing very well in the struggle and then at the end of this first round faded badly and compensated for it using a KO defeat. Abreu, on the other hand, is undefeated at 5-0 in his career and defeated Wagner Silva via entry in his UFC debut. However, the struggle was a year ago and that he hasn’t fought since, so he’ll have some ring rust going into this one. That is another tough one to call. I think 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 indicates, but he has a good chance of picking up a win in this fight. It is a close one, though, one which could go either way, and I hope the line to reflect that.

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