Only one important UFC card in February and it’s Saturday night from Perth Arena at Australia (struggle is Sunday Down Under) since Luke Rockhold requires on fill-in challenger Yoel Romero for its interim middleweight belt. It is the only title fight on the card. Per usual, the main card will begin at 10 p.m. ET and on pay-per-view. The prelims are on Fox Sports 1. Here’s a peek at the main struggles. The UFC made its introduction in Australia with UFC 110 in February 2010. The company’s very first card in Western Australia, will be its 12th in the nation. Let’s 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 also the American Rockhold the No. 2. Rockhold is -140 at Mybookie.ag with Romero in +120 and an over/under of 1.5 rounds. So who’s the winner? Australian Robert Whittaker, but he was made to pull against Rockhold because of injury — the most important reason the card is in Australia was due to Whittaker. „I have gone into several fights injured,“ Whittaker said this week. „I went to the Yoel Romero fight with a torn MCL, I moved to multiple fights with broken hands, and that’s never deterred me. And through my homework and also my camp, I did my hamstring — I’d blow my hamstring out — but that I was willing to work on it. We just worked around it, threw it on the wall, no explosive sort of stuff, then I got an abscess infection. That absolutely knocked me out of the park.“ While he was formerly able to train around his hamstring injury, the infection ended up leaving“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 severe, even fatal.
When Was the Last Time Robert Whittaker Fought?
Whittaker continue fought in July, beating Romero by unanimous conclusion. He has not faced 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 because time owing to his health concerns. 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 title to Bisping in UFC 199 in June 2016. Concerning striking differential (the difference between significant strikes landed per minute and important strikes absorbed per minute) Rockhold has a substantial advantage over Romero. His striking differential in the UFC is plus-2.50, while Romero’s is now plus-0.77. But during his UFC career, Romero has scored six knockdowns at a rate of 0.78 knockdown per 15 minutes. Rockhold just has two knockdowns via eight-career UFC fights. In addition, 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’s a heavyweight bout with New Zealand’s Hunt ranked No. 5 at the branch and Blaydes No. 9. However, Blaydes is a -160 favorite and Hunt +135. Hunt was recently cleared to return to competition. Citing“medical issues,“ Hunt was pulled from November’s UFC Fight Night 121 headliner at Sydney, a conclusion had been made later Hunt admitted to memory loss and slurred speech in a piece he composed for PlayersVoice.com.au titled,“When I die fighting, that is fine.“ Hunt, already with one lawsuit against the UFC, jeopardized another in the aftermath of the advertising’s choice to pull him from UFC Sydney. He called UFC President Dana White a“bald-headed prick“ in a scathing Instagram post. Hunt maintained this suspension was punishment for its civil lawsuit he filed against the business, White and Brock Lesnar regarding Lesnar’s failed evaluation at UFC 200. Hunt’s last fight occurred in May in UFC Fight Night 110, where he conquered Derrick Lewis via TKO at a slugfest“Fight of the Night.“ After suffering a TKO loss to high contender Francis Ngannou in his promotional debut, Blaydes, a 26-year-old former collegiate wrestler, has since won four successive fights. Three of those wins — over Cody East, Adam Milstead and Oleksiy Oliynyk — came via knockout. Blaydes has finished seven of the eight career wins by knockout or technical knockout.
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