UFC odds: Mackenzie Dern favored to submit Xiaonan Yan

Check out the betting odds for UFC Vegas 61, which have Mackenzie Dern favored over Xiaonan Yan in the main event.

It’s fight day for UFC Vegas 61, which is going down from a randomly empty APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main event is getting top ranked strawweights going at it when the #5 rated, Mackenzie Dern, meets the #6 rated, Xiaonan Yan. Let’s go see what the betting odds have to say about this one.

The oddsmakers are siding with Dern over Xiaonan here, and do so by a descent margin. Mackenzie is clocking in as a -240 betting favorite, with Yan being offered up with an underdog tag of +200.

The bookies aren’t expecting that a whole 25-minutes will be needed to determine a winner. The prop bet ‘Fight doesn’t go to decision’ is strongly favored here at a moneyline of -220, with a +168 comeback on the ‘Fight goes to decision’ option.

According to the odds, we just might be getting a tap in the UFC Vegas 61 main event. ‘Dern wins by submission’ is sporting a tiny favored position of -110, with the ‘Xiaonan wins by submission’ bet existing at an impossible line of +2600.

As far as knockouts go, Yan has been labeled as more likely than Mackenzie to make that happen. There’s the proposition ‘Xiaonan wins by TKO/KO’ trending at +600, and then ‘Dern wins by TKO/KO’ ranging anywhere from +900 to a staggering +1600.

Check out the UFC Vegas 61 betting odds, courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook:

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