UFC Fight Night 174: Barrett vs Zalal 08/08/2020 Analysis, Odds and Picks

UFC Fight Night 174: Barrett vs Zalal 08/08/2020 – The Ultimate Fighting Championship is set to push their second fight card for this month and it will be an exciting one with UFC Fight Night 174. The event will happen in Las Vegas, Nevada in the USA at the UFC Apex this Saturday, August 8. Fans can get to watch through Pay Per View or UFC Fight Pass. The biggest fight and draw for this event is a heavyweight bout between two well-experienced fighters in Alexey Oleynik taking on Derrick Lewis. The undercard has some interesting matches to look forward to and one is the featherweight match between Peter Barret and Youssef Zalal. It is seen by UFC Live Betting that Yousseff Zalal is coming in with one of the biggest advantages in this card against Peter Barrett.

With friend of The 300s "Slippery" Peter Barrett @SlipperysWorld making his #UFC debut Saturday night, lets take a look back at some of our blogs w/ the local fighter. #MMA #UFCFightNight

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— The 300s (@The300sBoston) August 7, 2020

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Peter Barrett

Peter Barrett is known as “Slippery Pete” inside the cage and this 33-year-old fighter came from Plymouth, Massachusetts in the USA. He stands at five-foot-nine and this featherweight polishes his skills at the Sityodong Boston fight team. Barrett has a professional fighting record of 11-3 with seven of his victories coming from knockouts. This fight against Zalal will be his first match in the UFC but before that, he earned most of his victories at Cage Titans FC. He got the attention of the UFC when he competed in Dana White’s Contender Series in August 2019. There he earned a victory over Sang Hoon Yoo after three grueling rounds of MMA in which he earned the nod of all the judges.

Youssef Zalal

Youssef Zalal is a very young and upcoming 23-year-old fighter who is known in the cage as “The Moroccan Devil”. He hails from Englewood, Colorado in the USA and this five-foot-ten featherweight trains at the Factory X fight stable. Zalal now possesses a professional MMA record of 9-2 with five wins earned by tapping out opponents through submissions. He has been given his first chance to fight in the UFC in February 2020 and since then he both won the two fights given to him by the organization. His last match happened just this June 2020 when he was put inside the cage with Jordan Griffin in UFC on ESPN 12. The match lasted in a full three rounds but the judges all favored Zalal to win.