(Carlos Quintana +120)
Def. not my only play this weekend, I will list more, but I really like Quintana in this one. I'm fully aware Latimore's technically the house fighter as the latest signee of Mayweather Promotions, and his first fight under the banner he took a MD win by the skin of his teeth, but that's precisely why I'm going with Quintana. From fights I've watched of Deandre Latimore, he tends to take his foot off the gas pedal in the second half of the fight. In his rematch with Sechew Powell, he looked good early, but Powell took over the fight in the second half. The recent opponent in that MD win, Milton Nunez, took the fight on three days notice. Latimore was on the verge of taking his man out, but stepped off the gas and in turn was hurt himself, being knocked down in the 9th and 10th rounds. Carlos Quintana has both operated and won at higher levels than Latimore. Latimore's biggest win to date is his KO victiory over Powell in the first fight, which Powell ultimately ended up testing positive for marijuana in the post-fight drug tests. Quintana, it could be arguably said was the one who ultimately laid the blueprint on tall Paul Williams.
Now here's the key piece of information that ultimately swayed me to place the wager on Quintana: all of Latimore's losses have come against fellow southpaws with a longer reach.
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