Natalia Silva - Van Kong: betting tip (cf 2.75) and bets on the fight

Current form 

Natalia Silva approaches the main fight of the evening with an impressive streak. In the UFC, the Brazilian has won eight fights in a row, and her total winless streak has already numbered 14 meetings. Silva suffered her last defeat back in 2017, when she lost to Marina Rodriguez. Since then, the athlete's career has been moving exclusively upward.  In January, Silva beat Rose Namayunas on points. Before that, she also went the full distance in fights with Alexa Grasso and Jessica Andrade. At the same time, the Brazilian is not an expert on early victories. Of her eight victories in the UFC, only two ended before the final bell. In 2023, she stopped Victoria Leonardo with a technical knockout, and a year earlier, she effectively knocked out Teresa Bleda with a roundhouse kick.

Silva is ranked first in his UFC division. Before moving to the big stage, she managed to become the Jungle Fight light heavyweight champion. The 29-year-old Silva has 20 wins and five losses as a professional. She won five times by knockout, forced her opponents to give up seven times, and won seven more by decision of the judges. The Brazilian holds a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a purple belt in taekwondo, which perfectly characterizes her as a fighter with a versatile arsenal.

It is especially interesting to look at the statistics of her recent fights. In the fight with Namayunas, Silva landed 51 significant hits, while Rose responded with only 26 hits with an accuracy of 27 percent. At the same time, the average Namayunas is about 3.5 significant beats per minute. In a standard 15 minutes, that's about 53 hits. However, Silva managed to significantly limit the attacking activity of the American. A similar pattern was observed in the confrontation with Grasso. Alexa landed only 45 significant hits with an accuracy of 32 percent, although her averages allowed her to count about 63 hits per fight.

Current form

Wang Kong doesn't have as impressive a track record in the UFC as Silva yet. But the Chinese woman knows how to turn an ordinary fight into an event and regularly attracts attention not only with the results, but also with her manner of behavior. The general public turned their attention to the Chinese woman after Victoria Leonardo's spectacular knockout in 2024. However, the sequel turned out to be much less impressive. In the next match, Wang was considered the clear favorite, but unexpectedly lost to Gabriella Fernandez ahead of schedule.

After that, the Chinese woman managed to recover and won four consecutive victories by decision of the judges. Among them was a difficult duel with Eduard Moura, before which Wang did not meet the limit of her weight class. The last fight took place in July, when she went the full distance against Tracy Cortez and won by decision. However, the meeting itself turned out to be quite calm and not too rich in dramatic events.

But Wang's statistics in the confrontation with Cortez look very solid. The Chinese woman landed 137 significant blows with an accuracy of 63 percent. Moreover, this is the third match in her career, in which she overcame the mark of one hundred significant hits. The exception remains the meeting with Moura — then Wang dealt only 39 significant blows, but the athletes spent most of the fight in the stalls.

In the UFC ranking, the Chinese holds the eighth position in her weight class. Her professional record includes ten wins and one loss: two successes by knockout, two by submission and six decisions. Wang also became the Kunlun Fight lightweight champion and won the Kunlun Fight 2018 Legend of Mulan tournament. The Chinese woman has a serious base in amateur sports. In 2013, she won gold at the World Wushu Championships in Sanda, and a year later she won the Asian Games. In 2019, Wang won a silver medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships.

In kickboxing, Wang managed to meet with several very famous representatives of martial arts. The Kunlun Fight 76 tournament in September 2018 turned out to be particularly successful for her. In the women's Grand Prix, Wang successively defeated Niamh Kinehan, Neely Block and Zhu Mengjia. All three matches ended with refereeing decisions, and the result was a victory in the tournament. In total, Wang has eight wins and one draw in kickboxing.