UFC Fight Night 169: Benavidez vs Figueiredo 2/29/2020 Picks, Predictions and Previews

 UFC Fight Night 169: Benavidez vs Figueiredo 2/29/2020 –The Ultimate Fighting Championship is going to hold their next UFC Fight Night event on Saturday, February 29 at the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Ths fight card is available to watch on Pay Per View and it will also be free for UFC Fight Pass subscribers for those who want to watch the game through online live streaming. The main event will feature two flyweights, Joseph Benavides going up against Deiveson Figueiredo. According to UFC Parlay Betting, Benavides is the much-favored fighter to win over Figueiredo. 

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Joseph Benavidez

Joseph Benavidez is a 35-year-old American professional MMA fighter that hails from Sacramento, California. He has been fighting at the flyweight division for his entire career and stables at the world-renowned Team Alpha Male. Benavidez holds a professional MMA record of 28 wins and five losses. Coming to this match, he is on a three-fight winning streak and took victories on Alex Perez, Dustin Ortiz and Jussier Formiga.

Despite his age, he has proven to the world that he still has that knock out power. Two of those three matches were KO victories. He was defeated by Sergio Pettis and lost to a controversial split decision last June 9 of 2018. If not for the loss, he could have been on a 10-fight winning streak. Stepping into the UFC in 2011, he had three defeats just from two fighters and aside from Sergio Pettis and twice from Demetrious “Mighty  Mouse” Johnson.

Deiveson Figueiredo

Deiveson Figueiredo is a professional Brazilian MMA fighter that came from Soure, Para. At age 32, he has a professional MMA record that stands at 17-1 and he hails at Figueiredo Team. Known as Daico or Deus Da Guerra, he was an undefeated fighter that came into the UFC this 2017. He was making a good impression by staying undefeated in his first few MMA fights in UFC. Victories included taking out opponents like Marco Beltran, Jarred Brooks and Joseph Morales.

He suffered his first recorded professional MMA loss to Justin Formiga. It was a unanimous decision by the judges just this March 2019. He went on and fought two more times in 2019 and scored victories against Alexandre Pantoja and Tim Elliott. Figueiredo is a swiss army knife of moves as he finished his matches in creative ways. Eight wins came off from TKOs and six from submissions where he had a variety of go-to moves with the Guillotine Choke as one of his favorite submission holds.