UFC 221 Betting Odds, Picks & Predictions

Just one important UFC card in February and it’s Saturday night from Perth Arena at Australia (struggle is Sunday Down Under) since Luke Rockhold takes on fill-in challenger Yoel Romero for the interim middleweight belt. It’s the only title fight on the card. Per usual, the main card will begin at 10 p.m. ET and on pay-per-view. The prelims are on Fox Sports 1. Here’s a peek at the principal fights. The UFC made its introduction in Australia with UFC 110 in February 2010. The organization’s first card in Western Australia, will be its 12th in the country. Let us have a look the top UFC 221 gambling odds for this Saturday.
UFC 221 Betting Odds, Predictions & Picks UFC 221 Betting Odds: Rockhold (+135) / Romero (-160) The Cuban Romero is the No. 1 competitor at the middleweight division and also the American Rockhold the No. 2. Rockhold is -140 at Mybookie.ag with Romero in +120 and an over/under of 1.5 rounds. So who’s the champion? Australian Robert Whittaker, but he had been made to pull out against Rockhold because of injury — the most important reason the card is in Australia was because of Whittaker. “I have gone into many struggles injured,” Whittaker said this week. “I moved to the Yoel Romero fight with a torn MCL, I moved into multiple fights with broken hands, and that is never deterred me. And through my homework and my camp, I did my hamstring — I’d blow off my hamstring outside — but I was willing to work on it. So we worked around it, threw it on the wall, no explosive type of stuff, then I got an abscess disease. That totally knocked me from the park.” While he was previously able to train his hamstring injury, the disease ended up leaving”The Reaper” bedridden for several weeks, and Whittaker believes that the loopholes of his immune system may have led to his ensuing battle with chickenpox too. Chickenpox in adults can be very serious, even fatal.
When Was the Last Time Robert Whittaker Fought?
Whittaker last fought in July, beating Romero by unanimous conclusion. He has not confronted Rockhold. Georges St-Pierre won the middleweight title this past year over Michael Bisping at UFC 217 but vacated it since he couldn’t defend it in due time owing to his health issues. Whittaker subsequently won the interim belt vs. Romero. A former UFC winner, Rockhold is coming from a TKO win over David Branch in September. Rockhold lost his title to Bisping at UFC 199 in June 2016. Concerning remarkable differential (the difference between significant strikes landed per minute and significant strikes consumed per minute) Rockhold has a significant edge over Romero. His striking differential in the UFC is plus-2.50, while Romero’s is now plus-0.77. However, during his UFC career, Romero has scored six knockdowns at a speed of 0.78 knockdown per 15 minutes. Rockhold just includes two knockdowns via eight-career UFC fights. In addition, he’s been on the receiving end of 3 knockdowns.
Mark Hunt (13-11) vs. Curtis Blaydes (8-1)
UFC 221 Betting Odds: Hunt (+135) / Blaydes (-160) It’s a heavyweight bout with New Zealand’s Hunt ranked No. 5 at the branch and Blaydes No. 9. But, Blaydes is a -160 favorite and Hunt +135. Hunt was recently cleared to return to competition. Citing”medical issues,” Hunt was hauled out of November’s UFC Fight Night 121 headliner in Sydney, a conclusion was made after Hunt confessed to memory loss and slurred speech in a piece he wrote for PlayersVoice.com.au titled,”If I perish fighting, that’s fine.” Hunt, already with one litigation against the UFC, jeopardized another in the wake of the advertising’s choice to pull him from UFC Sydney. He predicted UFC President Dana White that a”bald-headed prick” at a scathing Instagram post. Hunt claimed this suspension was punishment for the civil lawsuit he filed against the company, White and Brock Lesnar regarding Lesnar’s failed test at UFC 200. Hunt’s final fight occurred in May in UFC Fight Night 110, where he conquered Derrick Lewis through TKO in a slugfest”Fight of the Night.” After suffering a TKO loss to high contender Francis Ngannou in his promotional debut, Blaydes, a 26-year-old former collegiate wrestler, has won four successive fights. Three of those wins — over Cody East, Adam Milstead and Oleksiy Oliynyk — arrived through knockout. Blaydes has completed seven of his eight career wins by knockout or technical knockout.