UFC 221 Betting Odds, Picks & Predictions

Only one major UFC card in February and it is Saturday night from Perth Arena in Australia (fight is Sunday Down Under) as Luke Rockhold takes on fill-in challenger Yoel Romero for the interim middleweight belt. It is the only name fight on the card. Per usual, the main card will start at 10 p.m. ET and on pay-per-view. The prelims are on Fox Sports 1. Following is a look at the main struggles. The UFC made its introduction in Australia with UFC 110 in February 2010. The organization’s very first card in Western Australia, will be its 12th in the country. Let us have a look the top UFC 221 betting odds for this particular Saturday.
UFC 221 Betting Odds, Picks & Predictions UFC 221 Betting Odds: Rockhold (+135) / Romero (-160) The Cuban Romero is your No. 1 contender in the middleweight division and the American Rockhold that the No. 2. Rockhold is -140 at Mybookie.ag with Romero at +120 and also an over/under of 1.5 rounds. So who is the champion? Australian Robert Whittaker, but he had been forced to pull out against Rockhold because of injury — the main reason the card is in Australia was because of Whittaker. “I’ve gone into several struggles injured,” Whittaker said this week. “I moved to the Yoel Romero fight with a torn MCL, I moved into multiple fights with broken hands, and that is never deterred me. And during my homework and also my camp, I did my hamstring — I’d blow my hamstring out — but I was ready to work on it. So we worked around it, threw it on the wall, no explosive sort of material, then I got an abscess infection. That totally knocked me from the park.” While he was previously able to train around his hamstring injury, the disease ended up leaving”The Reaper” bedridden for many weeks, and Whittaker believes that the loopholes of his immune system may have led to his ensuing battle with chickenpox too. Chickenpox in adults can be very severe, even deadly.
When Was the Last Time Robert Whittaker Fought?
Whittaker continue fought in July, beating Romero by unanimous conclusion. He hasn’t confronted Rockhold. Georges St-Pierre won the middleweight title this past year over Michael Bisping at UFC 217 but vacated it because he couldn’t defend it in due time due to his own health issues. Whittaker then won the interim belt Romero. A former UFC winner, Rockhold is coming off a TKO win over David Branch in September. Rockhold lost his title to Bisping in UFC 199 at June 2016. In terms of remarkable differential (the difference between significant strikes acquired per second and important strikes consumed per second ) Rockhold includes a substantial edge over Romero. His striking differential from the UFC is plus-2.50, while Romero’s is currently plus-0.77. But during his UFC career, Romero has scored six knockdowns at a rate of 0.78 knockdown a 15 minutes. Rockhold only includes two knockdowns via eight-career UFC fights. In addition, he’s been on the receiving end of 3 knockdowns.
Mark Hunt (13-11) vs. Curtis Blaydes (8-1)
UFC 221 Betting Odds: Hunt (+135) / Blaydes (-160) It is a heavyweight bout with New Zealand’s Hunt ranked No. 5 at the branch and Blaydes No. 9. But, Blaydes is a -160 popular and Hunt +135. Hunt was recently cleared to return to competition. Citing”medical issues,” Hunt was hauled out of November’s UFC Fight Night 121 headliner at Sydney, a conclusion had been made after Hunt admitted to memory loss and slurred speech at a piece he composed for PlayersVoice.com.au titled,”When I die fighting, that’s fine.” Hunt, already with one lawsuit against the UFC, jeopardized another in the aftermath of the promotion’s choice to pull him out of UFC Sydney. He predicted UFC President Dana White that a”bald-headed prick” in a scathing Instagram post. Hunt claimed this suspension was punishment for its civil lawsuit he filed against the company, White and Brock Lesnar regarding Lesnar’s failed test at UFC 200. Hunt’s final fight took place in May at UFC Fight Night 110, where he defeated Derrick Lewis via TKO in a slugfest”Fight of the evening .” After enduring a TKO loss to top contender Francis Ngannou in his promotional introduction, Blaydes, a 26-year-old former collegiate wrestler, has since won four consecutive fights. Three of the wins — over Cody East, Adam Milstead and Oleksiy Oliynyk — arrived through knockout. Blaydes has completed seven of the eight career wins by knockout or technical knockout.

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August 7, 2019