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UFC 284: Quick Picks & Predictions

I’m running a bit behind this week with the content schedule, but there was no way I’m missing getting picks and predictions out for tomorrow’s UFC 284 PPV card. Although this event lost multiple major fights, including ones featuring Robert Whittaker and Kai Kara-France, there are still 13 fights remaining on the UFC’s first card…
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UFC Vegas 68: Lewis vs Spivac Picks & Predictions

Weigh-ins are in the books, and we have an official fight card for UFC Vegas 68 tomorrow night, which will be headlined by Derrick Lewis and Serghei Spivac in a clash of ranked heavyweights. All 24 fighters on the card successfully made weight, so we will have 12 fights tomorrow night. Keep in mind that…
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UFC Vegas 68: Quick Preview & Fighter Spotlight

If you’re looking for my thoughts on this weekend’s UFC Vegas 68 event and haven’t checked our WagerWire page, you might be wondering why there hasn’t been any content posted for this week. While it’s true that I haven’t posted anything here on OddSmokerMMA for this weekend, I have two posts that I have written…
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UFC 283 Texeira vs Hill: Quick Picks & Predictions

The weigh-ins for UFC 283 are officially in the books, and somewhat shockingly, we have all 15 fights holding up and all 30 fighters made weight for tomorrow night’s card in Rio de Janeiro. We are going to dive right in with the quick picks and predictions for tomorrow night’s stacked lineup right now: Daniel…
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WagerWire Fighter Spotlight: Jailton Almeida (UFC 283)

As part of a new series that I recently started for UFC events at WagerWire, I’ll be writing a feature that shines a spotlight on one fighter for each card who I feel deserves a little bit of extra time in the limelight during their fight week for one reason or another. Usually, these Fighter…
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UFC Vegas 67: Complete Picks & Predictions

We haven’t even made it through the weigh-ins for our first UFC event of 2023 and this card has already been decimated by cancellations, last-minute lineup changes, and opponent swaps. The card is now almost entirely different than when it was originally announced, however, there’s still plenty of great fights to look forward to on…
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New Main Event for UFC Vegas 67 After Gastelum Withdraws

News emerged yesterday that there is a last-minute change being made to the main event of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 67 card with Sean Strickland stepping to replace Kelvin Gastelum. Gastelum was forced to withdraw from the fight with a nasty looking “mouth injury”, so the UFC turned to Sean Strickland, who will now step in…
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UFC Vegas 67: Updated Card & Order Change

We are finally within range of the first UFC fight card of the new year with UFC Vegas 67: Imavov vs Gastelum just 10 days away! While most people will be thrilled just to have UFC fights return after a four-week hiatus over the holidays, the excitement was dampened a bit when it was announced…
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UFC 284 Lineup Taking Some Big Hits, Multiple Fights Dropped

When the UFC announced their return to Australia in February to host UFC 284 from Perth, they did so with plans of filling the top of the lineup with popular fighters who are from the region. While the promotion appeared to have succeeded with their goal when fights started to get announced for the event,…
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UFC 283 Texeira vs Hill: Updated Card & Early Thoughts

The UFC wanted to start branching back out and hosting more events outside of the UFC Apex in 2023 and the promotion is wasting no time getting started on their goal for the new year. The second event on the promotion’s first quarter calendar to start the new year will be UFC 283, which is…
