Volkan Oezdemir vs. Aleksandar Rakic – Preview & Matchup Analysis

UFC Fight Night 165: Edgar vs. Korean Zombie is scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 21, 2019, in Busan, South Korea. In the main event, Volkan “No Time” Oezdemir will take on Aleksandar Rakic in the Light Heavyweight bout. You can view the full UFC Fight Night 165 card.

In this post, we will break down Volkan Oezdemir vs. Aleksandar Rakic matchup. Let’s take look at the fighter’s ages, their height, records, reach, fight stats and more below ⤵

The 34-year-old, Volkan Oezdemir is coming in with a 16-4-0 record. Oezdemir will be fighting for the first time since a win via KO/TKO against Ilir Latifi at UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2 in August.

Rakic, meanwhile, is coming off a KO/TKO win against Jimi Manuwa on August 10, 2019 at UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith and holds a 12-1-0 record.

Volkan Oezdemir has an orthodox fighting stance with a 75″ reach. The 32-year-old, Aleksandar Rakic is an orthodox fighter with a 78″ reach. An orthodox fighter stands with their left side forward and jabs with their left hand, the southpaw fighter is the opposite, southpaw stands with their right side forward and jabs with their right hand. In most cases, orthodox fighters are right-handed, if you are left-handed, then you fight southpaw.

Oezdemir comes in with 46% striking accuracy, he typically lands about 5.04 significant strikes every minute. His opponent, Rakic fires at 52% accuracy, landing about 5.25 significant strikes per minute. Volkan Oezdemir also has a 22% takedown accuracy and on average gets around 0.48 takedowns every 15 minutes, compared to Rakic’s 1.29 takedowns and 88% takedown accuracy.

Aleksandar spent on average 8:43 minutes in the Octagon and Volkan has an average fight time of 8:52 minutes.

This looks like an interesting matchup, at least on paper. UFC Fight Night 165 is live in , who do you think will win, Volkan or Aleksandar? Sound off in the comments.

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