Omar Antonio Morales Ferrer vs. Harvey Park
Park is widely considered to be one of the most intriguing prospects in all MMA. He is the reigning LFA lightweight champion and flaunts a 12-2 professional record. “Fightbot” has won nine of his last 10 fights. He has finished all but one of his professional bouts, and in the one outlier, he suffered a compound fracture to one of his fingers, showed amazing toughness by continuing to fight and went on to win a decision. Park, who serves his community as a sheriff’s deputy in Curry County, New Mexico, heads into the event on a three-fight winning streak. The 33-year-old is a tall lightweight, standing 6-foot. He is a stalking counterstriker who draws out his opponent’s attacks with his feints. Once he finds his range, he fires off hard and accurate strikes, with his overhand right being his most dangerous weapon. He stays loose while using great vision to slide away from his opponents’ punches and counter with his own. The Force of One representative likes to batter the legs with powerful inside kicks and punishes the body with powerful hooks. When Park hurts his opponents, he likes to try and finish them with a crowd-pleasing strike, like a flying knee or Superman punch. The father of three is a decent wrestler who gets a majority of his takedowns from body locks. He does not get many takedowns from the outside due to shooting from too far away. He is a dangerous submission threat and has four victories by way of tapout.
Morales enters the bout with Park with at a perfect 7-0. The Bellator veteran was born in Venezuela but currently calls Florida home. The 33-year-old trains with the MMA Masters team but has been inactive recently, fighting four times in five years and only once in the last three years. It is almost impossible to analyze the undefeated fighter’s game because there is so little footage on him available. Morales is an aggressive striker, with hard but wild haymakers accounting for nearly every blow. He will occasionally throw a high kick and also looks to do damage in the clinch or secure a takedown. He appears to be submission threat, finishing his last two bouts via that method.
Park figures to get his hand raised. If Morales comes out like a wild man, he will likely get tagged by a hard shot from the more technically sound fighter. Look for Park to finish Morales early in the bout and nail down a UFC contract in the process.