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UFC 285 Jones vs Gane: Quick Preview & Early Thoughts

It’s finally fight week for UFC 285, which will feature the long-awaited return of Jon “Bones” Jones in the main event as he faces Cyril Gane for the vacant UFC Heavyweight title. Jones hasn’t fought in over three years and will be moving up a weight class for this fight against one of the most…
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UFC Vegas 70 Krylov vs Spann: Picks, Predictions & Best Bets

Weigh-ins are in the books, and after a late scratch during them, we have an official eleven fight card for UFC Vegas 70 tomorrow, which will be headlined by a light heavyweight banger between ranked opponents Nikita Krylov and Ryan Spann. One fight was cancelled on Thursday when Jose Johnson was forced to withdraw from…
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UFC Vegas 69: Quick Preview, Picks, and Favorite Bets

Weigh-ins have been completed and we have eleven fights on deck for tomorrow night at UFC Vegas 69, including the main event featuring Erin Blanchfield vs Jessica Andrade. Outside of that fight and a couple others, I’m not overly excited for this one. This event has taken several hits with fights falling apart and/or being…
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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…
