UFC 224 Preview, Picks: An Exciting Card With Appetizing Betting Opportunities

It’s simple for fans and sport bettors to miss UFC 224 while awaiting CM Punk’s redemption struggle at UFC 225, the winner. champion match-up at UFC 226 and also the rumored Georges St-Pierre vs. Nate Diaz bout at UFC 227.
That would be a mistake.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is becoming an exciting battle card with interesting alternatives for gamblers seeking to parlay prelim fights with main-card bouts. The actual cash on this card is going to be made by betting on stoppages, decisions or even the over-under on rounds; not on digging to discover underdogs to lose money on.
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UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington, Preview, Betting Picks: Nunes vs. Pennington, Souza vs. Gastelum, Okeinik vs. Albini and much more UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington, Preview, Betting Picks: Nunes vs. Pennington, Souza vs. Gastelum, Okeinik vs. Albini and much more Let’s start with the card’s most important event women’s bantamweight title fight between Amanda Nunes (-1400) and Racquel Pennington (+800). Pennington enters UFC 224 on a four-fight winning streak, with her final loss coming by split decision to former bantamweight champion and current featherweight rival Holly Holm.
That streak of success will jump off the page to people expecting to wager on a name underdog to mad a champion that nonetheless has a lot to prove, but if you dig deeper you find that Pennington’s streak is a bit of a mirage.
“Rocky” has just ceased two of her last 10 opponents. The two of those competitions, Jessica Andrade (strawweight) and Ashlee Evans-Smith (flyweight), are now competing in weight reduction classes. Pennington had a split decision to defeat Bethe Correia, which isn’t a great vote of confidence for all those expecting she will conquer Nunes.
Pennington’s latest wins were against Elizabeth Phillips and a deflated Meisha Tate — both also coming by decision. The cherry on top of the”don’t fall for the underdog story” cautionary tale is the fact that Pennington has not happened since November 2016 and is being thrust to this title battle.
The winner Amanda Nunes has been much more striking in her last 10 fights, which explains why she is such a heavy favourite.
Since the Start of 2016, Nunes retains two wins within Valentina Shevchenko, a first-round entry of Miesha Tate and Sara McMann, along with a totally demolishing knockout of Ronda Rousey.
Actually, the only people to take Nunes past the first round of a struggle was Shevchenko and Cat Zingano, who stopped Nunes with strikes in UFC 178.
Nunes has grown a lot since then and also the smart money points at her quitting Pennington in two and a half rounds that’s presently in -135. In the event the rounds scare you, but want to still put money on Nunes, subsequently Nunes by TKO in +120 is a much safer way to play with it. (Note: all likelihood herein come from William Hill.)
There’s a risk with this wager. Pennington has only been stopped once in her career, coincidentally also at the hands of Cat Zingano. For those with their hearts set on gambling the puppy, Pennington dropping by decision (Nunes by UD in +325) is the very best bet since the figures say that an upset isn’t happening on Saturday night.
Speaking of live puppies, the UFC 224 co-main is where imaginative bets can result in cashing a hefty ticket.