UFC Singapore (UFC Fight Night 132) is upon us, and it goes down tomorrow (Saturday, June 23, 2018) from the Kallang, Singapore at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The main card will air on the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 8 a.m. ET while the preliminary card will be broadcasted on UFC Fight Pass at 4:30 a.m. ET.
Donald Cerrone vs. Leon Edwards in a welterweight bout will headline this event while Tyson Pedro vs. Ovince Saint Preux in a light heavyweight bout will serve as the co-main event.
Rounding out the four bout main card is Jessica Eye vs. Jessica-Rose Clark in a female flyweight bout and Li Jingliang vs. Daichi Abe in a welterweight bout.
Teruto Ishihara vs. Petr Yan in a bantamweight bout will headline the preliminary card portion of this event.
According to oddsmakers, Edwards is a -210 favorite over Cerrone, who is a +175 underdog. Other odds for the main card include Preux being a +105 underdog against Pedro, who is a -125 favorite. Here are the full betting odds:
MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass/8 a.m. ET) Leon Edwards (-210) vs. Donald Cerrone (+175)
Tyson Pedro (-125) vs. Ovince Saint Preux (+105)
Jessica-Rose Clark (-135) vs. Jessica Eye (+115)
Li Jingliang (-340) vs. Daichi Abe (+280) PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass/4:30 a.m. ET) Petr Yan (-475) vs. Teruto Ishihara (+380)
Tomorrow morning (Sat. June 23, 2018) the UFC will be live from Kallang, Singapore for a great mixed martial arts (MMA) card.
In the main event former UFC lightweight title challenger Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone will take on up-and-coming 170-pound prospect Leon Edwards. Edwards is looking to put himself on the map with a victory over Cerrone.
The co-main will see light heavyweight prospect Tyson Pedro take on former interim 205-pound title challenger Ovince Saint Preux. You can check out the full UFC Singapore fight card, start time and information on how to watch here below:
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass, 8 A.M. ET):
Welterweight: Donald Cerrone vs. Leon Edwards
Light heavyweight: Tyson Pedro vs. Ovince Saint Preux
Women’s flyweight: Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Jessica Eye
Welterweight: Daichi Abe vs. Li Jingliang
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass, 4:30 A.M. ET):
Bantamweight: Teruto Ishihara vs. Petr Yan
Featherweight: Felipe Arantes vs. Song Yadong
Featherweight: Rolando Dy vs. Shane Young
Welterweight: Hector Aldana vs. Song Kenan
Welterweight: Shinsho Anzai vs. Jake Matthews
Women’s strawweight: Yan Xiaonan vs. Viviane Pereira
Tomorrow morning (Sat. June 23, 2018) the UFC will be live from Kallang, Singapore for a great mixed martial arts (MMA) card.
In the main event former UFC lightweight title challenger Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone will take on up-and-coming 170-pound prospect Leon Edwards. Edwards is looking to put himself on the map with a victory over Cerrone.
The co-main will see light heavyweight prospect Tyson Pedro take on former interim 205-pound title challenger Ovince Saint Preux. You can check out the full UFC Singapore fight card, start time and information on how to watch here below:
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass, 8 A.M. ET):
Welterweight: Donald Cerrone vs. Leon Edwards
Light heavyweight: Tyson Pedro vs. Ovince Saint Preux
Women’s flyweight: Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Jessica Eye
Welterweight: Daichi Abe vs. Li Jingliang
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass, 4:30 A.M. ET):
Bantamweight: Teruto Ishihara vs. Petr Yan
Featherweight: Felipe Arantes vs. Song Yadong
Featherweight: Rolando Dy vs. Shane Young
Welterweight: Hector Aldana vs. Song Kenan
Welterweight: Shinsho Anzai vs. Jake Matthews
Women’s strawweight: Yan Xiaonan vs. Viviane Pereira
Leon Edwards is gearing up for the biggest fight of his professional mixed martial arts (MMA) career tomorrow morning (Sat. June 22, 2018). Edwards headlines UFC Singapore with longtime veteran Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. In a recent interview…
Leon Edwards is gearing up for the biggest fight of his professional mixed martial arts (MMA) career tomorrow morning (Sat. June 22, 2018). Edwards headlines UFC Singapore with longtime veteran Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone. In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, Edwards admits that Cowboy is a legend of the sport but says he has never […]
Longtime UFC veteran Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is one of the biggest fan favorites in the mixed martial arts (MMA) community.
Its been a rough time for Cerrone lately, however, as he has lost three of his last four Octagon appearances – two of those loses coming by way of TKO. Now, fresh off a first-round victory over up-and-comer Yancy Medeiros, Cerrone is looking to take out yet another young contender.
His upcoming opponent Leon Edwards is one of the more promising 170-pound fighters on the UFC’s roster. The Birmingham native is on a five-fight win streak. He’s taking a huge step up in competition when he main events UFC Singapore tomorrow morning (Sat. June 23, 2018) against former lightweight title challenger Cerrone.
Despite watching Cerrone as a young man, the 26-year-old told MMA Fighting that he’s not much of a fan of Cowboy’s:
“He’s a legend of the sport, but I wouldn’t say I was a fan of his,” Edwards said. “Just [because] his approach to fighting, I think it’s more like a journeyman. I don’t think he cares whether he wins or loses. He just shows up and as long as he fights, that’s good for him.
“To me, I think his approach is more like a journeyman approach. You’re just there to fight, you’re not there to win or lose. I don’t think it bothers him, whether he wins or loses anyway — that’s his approach. But my approach is I want to win every fight and I want to be a world champion. That’s my aim in the sport.”
Cerrone’s chin seems to have dwindled in recent years, which isn’t surprising given how frequently the Jackson Wink MMA product fights. With all that being said, Edwards believes that Cerrone’s best days are in the rear-view mirror:
“I think so,” Edwards said. “He’s a 36-year-old man now and he took a lot of damage in his last, what, six or seven outings. He took a lot of damage. We’ve watched his last four or five fights, and honestly there’s a blueprint there, and I can [execute] it. As far as why he’s really struggling, I don’t know.
“Welterweight is probably just too big for him, or his chin is deteriorating. It could be anything. Like I said, he’s a 36-year-old man. His style of fighting, the way he’s fought, it’s been the same realistically for, what, his last 10 or 15 fights? I don’t think there’s much different in his game, really, that’s changed over the last 10 or 15 fights, from what I’ve seen anyway.
“So people are probably just getting used to what he does and what he throws, and everything else. There’s no [mystery] there.”
Mandatory Credit: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports
Edwards 100 percent believes he’s the better fighter heading into his clash with Cerrone, and is looking to make a statement to the UFC and the welterweight division.
If all goes according to plan, Edwards hopes to receive the same treatment his fellow Englishman Darren Till received after his own victory over Cowboy:
“I think I’m the better fighter,” Edwards said. “My striking, I feel my striking is there. I’m well-rounded, so I feel like wherever the fight goes, I’ll be the better man on the night, so it’s just me going out there and proving it now.
“I feel I need a finish in this fight to prove my case,” Edwards added. “To get to where I really want to get to, I feel a decision won’t be enough for me. So I’m going out there for the finish and having my way.”
You’ll have to get bright and early to watch it, but tomorrow’s (Sat., June 23, 2018) UFC Fight Night 132 from the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore, features some solid MMA action from Asia.
Obviously, the main attraction is the headlining bout between longtime contender Donald Cerrone and rising welterweight Leon Edwards, a potential changing-of-the-guard of the fight for Edwards and another chance for Cerrone to prove the young upstarts can’t claim he’s over the hill just yet.
There’s been a decent amount of trash talk between the two heading into the bout, and the two squared off at today’s UFC Singapore weigh-ins. What transpired was a somewhat strange scene, as Cerrone looked down and shook his head while Edwards appeared supremely pumped. Check it out here:
