It's hard to replace the excitement and additional electricity that Conor McGregor brings to a UFC pay-per-view, but this main event is a better pure fight. As the odds would indicate, this is a matchup of two titans in the light heavyweight division and the result should be a high-level and highly entertaining fight.

Pereira is the favorite after knocking out Procházka the first time. It's understandable. Pound-for-pound, he's the most powerful puncher in the UFC. Even high-level strikers like Adesanya and Procházka have been bested by his vaunted left hook.

That being said, The Last Samurai appears to be the more well-rounded fighter. He won the first round of their first fight by scoring a takedown and controlling the bout with his grappling.

That's not a side we see from the Czech fighter often, but it's a tool that he has in his arsenal in the rematch.

Whether he decides to deploy it will determine how this fight goes. Procházka is used to getting a little overzealous in his striking. Most do not have the skills to make him pay for it.

He learned in the first fight that Poatan very much does have those skills.

If he can learn from that, dial in his striking and keep Pereira off balance by mixing in his takedowns we have the recipe for a small title fight upset.

Prediction: Procházka by fourth-round TKO