Imagine a dented, old soup can on the shelf. Now picture it in the discount aisle. Those are the soup cans nobody wants, the ones that took a beating. At one point before they fell off the shelf, we all bought in. Now we realize that soup wasn’t ever that good. In boxing, a tomato can is the fighter that takes those beatings. Gets beat up and never recovers. Becoming a shell of their former selves. In MMA and on the Fight Club of Pain, we call them Soup Cans. This is the Soup Can of the week for UFC 318.
Micheal Johnson
Lightweight Michael Johnson enters this weekend with a 24-19 record. Michael Johnson has never really lived up to the hype he surrounded himself with after his first few fights in the UFC. After Nate Diaz put a beating on him in 2015, he’s never been the same. He’s a very inconsistent fighter and doesn’t show up for the big fight. To me, Michael Johnson deserves to be placed on the discount aisle shelf, because he is a Soup Can.
Target him on the sportsbooks, and if you’re feeling lucky, put him in a DFS lineup for a salary saver. That’s if you think he can go the distance with Daniel Zellhuber. That means if you want to be highly contrarian for the DFS slates use him on 10 to 15 percent of your lineups. For betting purposes take the over on rounds but attack Johnson by using Zellhuber.
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