Only one major UFC card in February and it is Saturday night from Perth Arena at Australia (fight is Sunday Down Under) since 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. Here’s a peek at the principal fights. The UFC made its introduction in Australia with UFC 110 in February 2010. The organization’s first card in Western Australia, will be its 12th in the country. Let us take a look the very best UFC 221 gambling odds for this Saturday.
UFC 221 Betting Odds, Picks & Predictions UFC 221 Betting Odds: Rockhold (+135) / Romero (-160) The Cuban Romero is your No. 1 competitor at the middleweight division and the American Rockhold the No. 2. Rockhold is -140 in Mybookie.ag with Romero at +120 and an over/under of 1.5 rounds. So who’s the champion? Australian Robert Whittaker, but he was forced to pull out against Rockhold because of injury — the main reason why the card is in Australia was because of Whittaker. “I have gone into many struggles hurt,” Whittaker said this week. “I moved to the Yoel Romero fight with a torn MCL, I went to multiple fights with broken hands, and that is never deterred me. And during my prep and also my camp, I did my hamstring — I’d blow my hamstring outside — but I was ready to work on it. We just worked around it, threw it on the wall, no explosive type of stuff, then I got an abscess infection. That absolutely knocked me out of the playground.” While he was previously able to train his hamstring injury, the disease ended up departing”The Reaper” bedridden for many weeks, and Whittaker considers the weakening of his immune system may have led to his consequent battle with chickenpox as well. Chickenpox in adults can be quite serious, even deadly.
When Was the Last Time Robert Whittaker Fought?
Whittaker continue fought in July, beating Romero by unanimous decision. He has not faced Rockhold. Georges St-Pierre won the middleweight title this past year over Michael Bisping in UFC 217 but vacated it since he couldn’t defend it in because time owing to his own health issues. Whittaker subsequently won the interim belt Romero. A former UFC winner, Rockhold is coming off a TKO win over David Branch in September. Rockhold lost his name to Bisping at UFC 199 in June 2016. In terms of striking differential (the difference between significant strikes landed per minute 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. Additionally, he has 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 rated No. 5 in the branch and Blaydes No. 9. However, Blaydes is a -160 favorite and Hunt +135. Hunt was recently cleared to go back to competition. Citing”medical concerns,” Hunt was pulled out of November’s UFC Fight Night 121 headliner at Sydney, a decision had been made later Hunt confessed to memory loss and slurred speech in a piece he composed for PlayersVoice.com.au titled,”If I die fighting, that’s fine.” Hunt, already with one lawsuit against the UFC, threatened another in the aftermath of the promotion’s decision to pull him from UFC Sydney. He called UFC President Dana White that a”bald-headed prick” at a scathing Instagram post. Hunt maintained this suspension was punishment for the civil lawsuit he filed against the company, White and Brock Lesnar regarding Lesnar’s failed test at UFC 200. Hunt’s final fight occurred in May at UFC Fight Night 110, where he defeated Derrick Lewis via TKO at a slugfest”Fight of the evening ” After enduring a TKO loss to high contender Francis Ngannou within his promotional debut, Blaydes, a 26-year-old former collegiate wrestler, has since won four consecutive fights. Three of those wins — over Cody East, Adam Milstead and Oleksiy Oliynyk — arrived via knockout. Blaydes has completed seven of the eight career wins by knockout or technical knockout.
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