BKFC Clearwater, FNC 34, Jungle Fight 156: weekend predictions

UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi has its own coverage, so this one is about the other three. Friday night has bare knuckle in Florida, Saturday afternoon has a lightweight headliner in Skopje, and Saturday night has two tournament finals in São Paulo. Between them they put 34 bouts on, with first bells 23 hours apart.

Only the BKFC card has odds in our data, and the market is thin, drawn from one or two sportsbooks per bout. I use those lines below as a read on where opinion sits, nothing more. Odds here are information, not betting advice.

BKFC Clearwater: Reber vs Street is close to a coin flip

BKFC Fight Night Clearwater goes first, at 8 p.m. ET on Friday at the OCC Road House, and Clearwater is on Eastern time, so that is the local clock too. Nine bouts are left after Crystal Van Wyk vs Noelia Vasallo came off the card this week, and every one is scheduled for five two-minute rounds.

Ryan Reber is No. 2 in BKFC's official bantamweight rankings, and the split in his record is the cleanest stat on the card: he is 8-0 in BKFC fights without a title on the line and 0-2 in fights with one. He is also 39. Justin Street, 33, has a different split. Both of his BKFC losses came at featherweight, in 2024. At bantamweight he is 3-0, and he finished the last of those, Ronny Hauser, in the fourth round in June.

There is a common opponent, and he is the problem for both of them. Justin Ibarrola, the man ranked one place above Reber, knocked Reber out in the third round last December and outpointed Street over five rounds in September 2024. The belt itself stayed put last Saturday: Jamel Herring kept it with a split decision over John Dodson at BKFC 95. A win here keeps Reber in line behind Ibarrola. A win for Street, who is not in the top five, puts him in the conversation.

The market cannot separate them. Reber opened at -130 and sits at -125, Street has held at -110, and once the margin is taken out that is about 51 percent to 49. Four of Reber's eight BKFC wins went to the cards, and I think this one does too. Street is the better finisher of late, but Reber has never lost a fight like this one in this promotion. Prediction: Reber by decision.

The co-main has the bigger price, and it runs the other way from what the résumés suggest. Michael Larrimore, 28, fought Herring for the belt in May and lost a decision, yet he is the +140 underdog against Nate Morrow, who has one BKFC fight. Morrow, 31, opened at -200 and has come in to -184, about 61 percent. The case for him is volume: he has won eight straight across MMA, boxing and bare knuckle since a December 2022 decision loss, and one of those wins avenged that loss. The case for Larrimore is the first minute. His three BKFC wins took 22 seconds, 61 seconds and 86 seconds. The case against him is also the first minute: Keith Richardson knocked him out in 21. Prediction: Morrow by KO.

One line has flipped. Mike Heckert and Rickie Mcconnico opened even at -120 each. Heckert has drifted to -112 and Mcconnico is now the slim favorite at -122, even though his only BKFC fight in our records is a five-round loss to Frankie Solomon on the April card in this building. That loss came at middleweight, and this fight is at welterweight, which may be what the market is reading. Heckert's two BKFC wins were both stoppages. Prediction: Heckert by TKO.

The biggest favorite on the card is Sam DeLao at -373 against Chris Keirn in the prelims, about 73 percent.

FNC 34: Eskiev's streak against a younger finisher

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FNC 34 at Boris Trajkovski Arena starts at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, which is 7 p.m. in Skopje. No odds have been posted for any of the 11 bouts.

Lom-Ali Eskiev (24-7) is 34 and has not lost since KSW 80 in March 2023. The best name in the four-fight run since then is Ivan Buchinger, whom Eskiev stopped in the first round of the OKTAGON 60 main event in September 2024, and OKTAGON had him third in its lightweight rankings by May 2025. Marko Bojković (10-2) is nine years younger and has been on FNC cards since FNC 11 in May 2023. His first five FNC wins all ended inside two rounds, the quickest in 17 seconds. The last two went longer: a third-round TKO and then a full three rounds against Piotr Niedzielski in May.

That shift is the question. Bojković learned to win late after two losses in 2025, which is a good sign for a 25-year-old. Eskiev has lost by strikes twice in his career, to Arman Ospanov's flying knee in 2019 and to Robert Ruchala in the fifth round of a title fight, and both of those men were working at a level Bojković has not yet faced. Over three rounds, I like the veteran who ended three of his last four in the first. Prediction: Eskiev by TKO.

The card has been reshuffled since the bouts were first ordered, and the heavyweight fight now sits second from the top. Todorche Cvetkov (12-6) and Miljan Rovcanin (7-5) both arrive with professional boxing records and no professional MMA fight in our records. Cvetkov, from North Macedonia, has lost four of his last five boxing bouts, all four inside the distance. Rovcanin's losses have come against Agit Kabayel, Jared Anderson, Arslanbek Makhmudov, Alexey Papin and, by disqualification, Alexander Dimitrenko, which is a heavier schedule than Cvetkov has seen. Prediction: Rovcanin by KO.

Jungle Fight 156: two finals and two eight-fight streaks

Jungle Fight 156 at Ginásio do Ibirapuera starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday in São Paulo, 7 p.m. ET. The card has grown to 14 bouts, and the two finals of the Fight do Milhão tournament sit on top. No odds here either.

The welterweight final is a meeting of two winning streaks of exactly the same length. Ernane Pimenta, 28, has won eight straight since his only loss in June 2023, and all eight ended by TKO, none of them past the third round. Fabricio Martins, 37, has also won eight straight, since a draw in March 2024, six of them inside the distance. Martins got through the tournament with a unanimous decision over Martin Farley at Jungle Fight 149 and then the stoppage of Matheus Araujo in June. Araujo is back on this card too, against Rafael Silva.

Martins has 35 professional fights to Pimenta's 11, and I have gone back and forth on how much that is worth. Experience matters most when a fight goes long, and nothing in Pimenta's last eight has gone long. Prediction: Pimenta by TKO.

The women's strawweight final pits Nágila Bruna (7-1) against Bianca Sattelmayer (14-13). That record undersells Sattelmayer, who is 7-1 since March 2023, the one loss a decision against Wiktoria Czyżewska at KSW 108 in July 2025. Six of those seven wins went to the scorecards. Bruna, 33, has finished two of her last three with submissions, in the second round of the semifinal and the third round at Thunder Fight 54 in December. She also has a 5-2 kickboxing record, which matters against an opponent who wins on volume over 15 minutes.

The same semifinal night left a loser on this card too: Regiane Borges, submitted by Bruna in August, meets Dayane Cardoso, whom Sattelmayer beat by unanimous decision at SFT 56 in May 2025. So both finalists have already beaten someone on this undercard. If Sattelmayer gets to the final bell, she has the habit of winning there. I think Bruna gets her down first. Prediction: Bruna by decision.

Make your picks

Each card has its own pick'em, and every one of these picks is on the record from now: BKFC Clearwater, FNC 34 and Jungle Fight 156. Results go up on each event page as the fights end. Which of the two eight-fight streaks in São Paulo survives Saturday night?