Josh Barnett and Mighty Mo are longtime members of the MMA/K1 elite. Josh Barnett is known now as the guy who blew a chance to face Fedor in Affliction due to a positive drug test. In this matchup he faces a very experienced kick boxer who was submitted during his last MMA match. I predict that Mighty Mo will want to stand and trade. Josh Barnett has a size and reach advantage and is a good grappler. Josh's best tactics will be to use his reach to frustrate Mighty Mo and then either dive in for the takedown and the arm-snapping submission against a heavier opponent on the ground ( a favorite tactic of smaller fighters in good ol' open weight days of UFC ) or he may want to make a statement and silence critics by knocking out Mighty Mo on the feet. Barnett is more conservative with strategy than he is with steroids so this may be an arm snapping affair.
I watched the DREAM news conference and Barnett looks like a man who understands what a last chance looks like. He will arrive prepared and fight like a wounded animal. In either end game, I predict Barnett will defeat Mighty Mo inside the distance.
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