Only one major UFC card in February and it’s Saturday night from Perth Arena at Australia (struggle is Sunday Down Under) since Luke Rockhold takes on fill-in challenger Yoel Romero for its interim middleweight belt. It is the only name fight on the card. Per usual, the principal card will start at 10 p.m. ET and on pay-per-view. The prelims are on Fox Sports 1. Following is a peek at the principal fights. The UFC made its introduction in Australia with UFC 110 in February 2010. The company’s first card in Western Australia, will be its 12th in the nation. Let us have 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 the No. 1 contender in the middleweight division along with also the American Rockhold that the No. 2. Rockhold is -140 in Mybookie.ag with Romero in +120 and also an over/under of 1.5 rounds. So who is the champion? Australian Robert Whittaker, but he had been made to pull against Rockhold due to injury — the most important reason why the card is in Australia was because of Whittaker. “I’ve 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 during my prep and my camp, I did my hamstring — I did blow off my hamstring out — but that I was ready to work on it. So we worked around it, threw it on the wall, no explosive sort of material, and then I got an abscess infection. That absolutely knocked me from the playground.” While he was previously able to train around his hamstring injury, the disease ended up leaving”The Reaper” bedridden for several weeks, and Whittaker believes that the loopholes of his immune system may have resulted in his consequent battle with chickenpox too. Chickenpox in adults can be quite serious, even fatal.
When Was the Last Time Robert Whittaker Fought?
Whittaker last fought in July, beating Romero by unanimous decision. He has not confronted Rockhold. Georges St-Pierre won the middleweight title this past year over Michael Bisping in UFC 217 but vacated it because he couldn’t defend it in because time owing to his own health concerns. Whittaker then won the interim belt Romero. A former UFC champion, Rockhold is coming off a TKO win over David Branch in September. Rockhold lost his name to Bisping at UFC 199 in June 2016. Concerning striking differential (the difference between significant strikes landed per second and important strikes consumed per minute) 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 in a rate of 0.78 knockdown a 15 minutes. Rockhold only has two knockdowns through eight-career UFC fights. Additionally, he’s been on the receiving end of three 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 at the division and Blaydes No. 9. However, Blaydes is a -160 favorite and Hunt +135. Hunt was recently cleared to go back to competition. Citing”medical issues,” Hunt was hauled from November’s UFC Fight Night 121 headliner in Sydney, a decision had been made after Hunt confessed 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 a single lawsuit against the UFC, jeopardized another in the wake of the promotion’s choice to pull him from UFC Sydney. He called UFC President Dana White a”bald-headed prick” at a scathing Instagram post. Hunt maintained this suspension was punishment because of its civil lawsuit he filed against the business, White and Brock Lesnar regarding Lesnar’s failed evaluation at UFC 200. Hunt’s final fight occurred in May in UFC Fight Night 110, where he conquered Derrick Lewis via TKO in 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 the wins — over Cody East, Adam Milstead and Oleksiy Oliynyk — arrived through knockout. Blaydes has completed seven of his eight career wins by knockout or technical knockout.

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