Carlos Condit Will Gogoplata His Way toward the UFC Welterweight Belt
Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim promises to be one of the night's most interesting ground battles, with Condit's BJJ against Kim's Judo.
Condit's shown some good ground-and-pound and some serious knockout power in his outings with Rory MacDonald and Dan Hardy, while Kim has dominated opponents such as Amir Sadollah, Matt Brown and Nate Diaz in his past few outings.
Kim's style should be trouble for most opponents, but stylistically, his smothering top game falls into Condit's notoriously lethal ground game, which is effective off his back as well as from the top.
Before the end of the second round, Kim will take the fight to the ground and attempt to smother Condit long enough to finish with some ground-and-pound, but he will get caught in an attempt at a triangle choke.
Condit will not get the triangle in, but he will have a good amount of wrist control and he will be able to drape his right shinbone across Kim's neck as the Korean tries to slip his arm out without success.
After getting his shinbone across Kim's arm, he'll pull in the head of Kim and force the tap from the Korean, who will remain a prospect but will have to be sent back to the drawing board after suffering a loss by Gogoplata to Condit, who will await the winner of Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz.