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MiddleEasy passes along the helpful info that at least one online sportsbook, 2betdsi.com, is offering a prop bet on who will win the Strikeforce Heavy…
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FEDOR EMELIANENKO +160 [opened at +125] ALISTAIR OVEREEM +200 JOSH BARNETT +400 ANDREI ARLOVSKI +900 FABRICIO WERDUM +1400 [opened at +700] ANTONIO SILVA +1800 [opened at +900] SERGEI KHARITONOV +2000 [opened at +1400] BRETT ROGERS +2200 [opened at +1900] SHANE DEL ROSARIO +3000 [opened at +2400] VALENTIJN OVEREEM +3500 [opened at +2600] LAVAR JOHNSON +4000 [opened at +3200] RAY SEFO +4500 [opened at +3600] FIELD (any fighter not listed, which would include Chad Griggs and Gian Villante) +5000
(Good ol’ Sean McCorkle. Trolling to the bitter end. / Photo courtesy of the UFC 124: Weigh In pics gallery on CombatLifestyle.com)
UFC 124: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck II goes down tonight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, and CagePotato will be liveblogg…
UFC 124: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck II goes down tonight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, and CagePotato will be liveblogging the pay-per-view broadcast beginning at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT. To help get you in the proper spirit, Ben Goldstein and Doug "ReX13" Richardson have returned to squabble over all the important storylines. Does Josh Koscheck have any chance at an upset? Are UFC fighters becoming boring overall? Which of UFC 124’s lightweights are dead weight? Who gives worse gambling advice, Ben or Doug? Do us a favor and slog through this painfully long column, then let us know your own thoughts in the comments section.
Assuming we both think GSP is going to rout Josh Koscheck on Saturday, what does Koscheck need to do to earn your respect in this fight?
BG: Well, he’ll have to avoid getting finished, first of all–
RX: Word.
BG: –and he’ll have to win at least one of the five rounds. That doesn’t seem like a lot to ask–
RX: HA!
BG: –but nobody’s been able to take a round from GSP since — wait for it — Josh Koscheck kind-of won the opening frame of their first meeting at UFC 74, over three years ago. Seriously. If Kos can avoid a 50-45 shutout on all three judges’ cards or an ugly TKO loss, he will have done better than Matt Hughes, Matt Serra (in their rematch), Jon Fitch, BJ Penn, Thiago Alves, and Dan Hardy. That would be a hell of an accomplishment.
So how can he pull it off? Koscheck only holds one real advantage over the champ: Punching power, which he’s used to flatten guys like Yoshiyuki Yoshida and Frank Trigg. Kos just needs to stuff St. Pierre’s takedown once in a while, and then put his fist on Georges’s chin, as he so confidently promised on TUF. A hard shot, well-placed, will wobble GSP — maybe enough to allow Josh to score a takedown of his own. Obviously, I don’t see that happening consistently in the fight, but if it even happens once, I will lose my shit.
Steve Cofield of Cagewriter.com and ESPN Radio is back to host MMAFix UFC 123 Betting Odds. Guest analysts, Damon Martin of MMAWeekly.com and Larry Pepe of ProMMARadio.com weigh-in on the 3 most talked about odds on the UFC 123 Main Card including:
AVERAGES:
Quinton Jackson: +200
Lyoto Machida: -260
Matt Hughes: +140
BJ Penn: -170
Tim Boetsch: +425
Phil Davis: […]
Steve Cofield of Cagewriter.com and ESPN Radio is back to host MMAFix UFC 123 Betting Odds. Guest analysts, Damon Martin of MMAWeekly.com and Larry Pepe of ProMMARadio.com weigh-in on the 3 most talked about odds on the UFC 123 Main Card including:
AVERAGES:
Quinton Jackson: +200 Lyoto Machida: -260
Matt Hughes: +140 BJ Penn: -170
Tim Boetsch: +425 Phil Davis: -600
Watch the full video for your best bets on UFC 123:
Well, we’ve got a big UFC event coming up this weekend, which means you should all head over to fightpicker.cagepotato.com (or apps.facebook.com/fightpicker) and make your predictions for UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin. Congrats to FightPicker Grandmaste…
Of course, if you had some balls you’d bet actual money on the fights, and not silly-ass "PotatoChips." As usual, we’d like to help you win some cash for Saturday’s event — or at the very least not take heavy losses. Betting lines are below, courtesy of BestFightOdds.com; if you don’t know what this stuff means, read this first.
MAIN CARD Brock Lesnar (-130) vs. Shane Carwin (+140) Yoshihiro Akiyama (-200) vs. Chris Leben (+185) Chris Lytle (-195) vs. Matt Brown (+160) Krzysztof Soszynski (-218) vs. Stephan Bonnar (+195) George Sotiropoulos (-195) vs. Kurt Pellegrino (+160)
SPIKE TV PRELIMS Brendan Schaub (-295) vs. Chris Tuchscherer (+264) Ricardo Romero (-145) vs. Seth Petruzelli (+120)
PRELIMINARY CARD Goran Reljic (-155) vs. Kendall Grove (+145) Gerald Harris (-245) vs. Dave Branch (+200) Daniel Roberts (-170) vs. Forrest Petz (+145) Karlos Vemola (-160) vs. Jon Madsen (+150)
(Keith Jardine: The love child of Michael Berryman and this thing. Photo courtesy of ESPN)
You know what time it is, Potato Nation — it’s time to steal some money from your girlfriend’s purse and wire it to a shady off-shore gambling site in th…
You know what time it is, Potato Nation — it’s time to steal some money from your girlfriend’s purse and wire it to a shady off-shore gambling site in the faint hope that A) You’ll win your bets, and B) They’ll eventually send you your profits. Lots of luck, suckers! As tradition dictates, here are the betting lines for Saturday’s TUF 11 Finale, courtesy of BestFightOdds.com
Court McGee (-180) vs. Kris McCray (+175) Matt Hamill (-138) vs. Keith Jardine (+125) Aaron Simpson (-334) vs. Chris Leben (+292) Spencer Fisher (-175) vs. Dennis Siver (+163) Jamie Yager (-105) vs. Rich Attonito (+105)
John Gunderson (-245) vs. Mark Holst (+285) Brad Tavares (-205) vs. Seth Baczynski (+200) Kyle Noke (-185) vs. Josh Bryant (+170) Chris Camozzi (-125) vs. James Hammortree (even) Travis Browne (-185) vs. James McSweeney (+155)
So how can we beat the bookmakers on Saturday? Pull up a chair and I’ll lay it all out for you…
If things have seemed quiet around here the last few months, it’s because we have been hard at work behind the scenes. One of the major projects underway was completing part of our data collection project, encompassing every fight in modern UFC history. We are proud to announce that every UFC fight from UFC 28 until today has now been scored and entered into our database. We are working with strategic partners to deploy all of this data to the MMA community. While we’re not able to show all the numbers to you right away, over the course of the coming days and weeks, we’ll be sharing some interesting facts with you that could only be ascertained using this rich, comprehensive data set.
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