Bellator 301 is set to take place this Friday night on the MMA schedule. One of the most interesting matchups on the card taking place in Chicago is the rematch of the biggest grudge match of the 2022 Bellator year–Raufeon Stots vs. Danny Sabatello. In their first meeting, Stots came away with the split decision, what will change in the rematch?
Stots vs. Sabatello Picks
Bellator 301: Stots to win.
Read more for the official Stots vs. Sabatello prediction ahead of placing your bets on this card.
Stots vs. Sabatello Information
Raufeon Stots vs Danny Sabatello
Location of the game: Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date & Time: November 17, 2023. 10 PM ET main card start
How to Watch: Showtime and Paramount+
Last Fight Record
Stots is looking to bounce back from a KO loss to Patchy Mix earlier this year in the Bellator Bantamweight Grand Prix final.
Sabatello is also looking to bounce back from a tough loss–a submission to Magomed Magomedov in July.
Raufeon Stots vs. Danny Sabatello Betting Analysis
Raufeon Stots
Stots is an American mixed martial artist with a professional record of 19-2 with 4 TKO/KO wins and 4 submissions. He comes from a wrestling background where he won two NCAA D-2 national titles in college. He’s a BJJ brown belt and trains out of Milwaukee under Duke Roufous and has training partners in the Pettis brothers and Gerald Meerschaert.
Stots is 34 years old now and a former Bellator interim champion. He’s listed at 5’7” with an impressive 72.5” reach, fighting out of the southpaw stance.
Danny Sabatello
Sabatello is an American mixed martial artist with a professional MMA record of 14-3 with 3 TKO/KO wins and 5 submissions at the age of 30. This will be his homecoming fight in Chicago, but now he trains at the famous American Top Team in South Florida with a bunch of the best training partners and coaches you can get in MMA.
“The Italian Gangster” is listed at 5’10” with a 69.5” reach and fights out of the orthodox stance.
Updates
No injuries have been reported to Bellator MMA.
Stots vs. Sabatello Betting Preview
As we try to make the most accurate Stots vs. Sabatello prediction possible, we need to preview what the oddsmakers say about this fight and study the film of their first meeting to see what might change this time around when they get locked in the cage together.
Starting with the Bellator odds, the only lines released right now are the money lines for this card. Lots of different sportsbooks have this fight differently, but you can safely assume these lines will close as an EVEN -110 line for both Stots and Sabatello. Keep your eyes open for more lines to be available as we get closer to Friday night.
Now, after watching their first bout from last December, it went exactly like how we thought. Lots of wrestling and not a lot of strikes being thrown. The decision was also super strange because one of the judges had Sabatello winning 50-45 when he virtually didn’t land one clean punch on Stots. Thankfully, Stots won the decision that he deserved.
The physical strength advantage and the overall wrestling advantage go to Stots. It’s going to be very tough to do something different this time around if you are Sabatello. There needs to be more damage dealt by both of these guys if they want to have a clear winner this week.
Stots vs. Sabatello Betting Prediction
Bellator picks are usually pretty straightforward and easier to make than the UFC, but this fight is very evenly matched on paper and it could cause you to overthink your way out of the winning bet.
The official Stots vs. Sabatello prediction is that Stots dominates this fight and gets his hand raised. Let’s be honest, it will most likely be a boring fight to watch. But the truth is that Sabatello isn’t as good as he thinks he is and his Colby Covington schtick won’t work unless he is as elite as Covington with that “boring” style. Stots will land the bigger shots and control the wrestling scrambles this time around.
- Pick: Stots to win.
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