UFC 221 Betting Odds, Picks & Predictions

Just one major UFC card in February and it’s Saturday night from Perth Arena in Australia (fight is Sunday Down Under) since Luke Rockhold takes on fill-in challenger Yoel Romero for its interim middleweight belt. It is the only title fight on the card. Per usual, the principal card will start at 10 p.m. ET and on pay-per-view. The prelims are on Fox Sports 1. Following is a look at the principal struggles. 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 nation. Let us have a look the top UFC 221 betting odds for this Saturday.
UFC 221 Betting Odds, Predictions & Picks UFC 221 Betting Odds: Rockhold (+135) / Romero (-160) The Cuban Romero is your No. 1 competitor at the middleweight division and also the American Rockhold the No. 2. Rockhold is -140 in Mybookie.ag with Romero at +120 and an over/under of 1.5 rounds. So who’s the champion? Australian Robert Whittaker, but he had been forced to pull out against Rockhold due to injury — the most important reason why the card is in Australia was due to Whittaker. “I’ve gone into several fights injured,” Whittaker said this week. “I went to the Yoel Romero fight with a torn MCL, I moved to multiple fights with broken hands, and that’s never deterred me. And during my prep and also my camp, I did my hamstring — I did blow my hamstring out — but that I was willing to work around it. So we just 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 formerly 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 might have led to his consequent battle with chickenpox as well. Chickenpox in adults can be quite serious, even fatal.
When Was the Last Time Robert Whittaker Fought?
Whittaker last fought in July, beating Romero by unanimous decision. He has not confronted Rockhold. Georges St-Pierre won the middleweight title this past year over Michael Bisping in UFC 217 but vacated it because he could not defend it in because time due to his own health concerns. Whittaker subsequently won the interim belt 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 at June 2016. In terms of remarkable differential (the difference between significant strikes landed per minute and significant strikes consumed per second ) Rockhold includes a substantial advantage over Romero. His striking differential from the UFC is plus-2.50, while Romero’s is currently plus-0.77. However, during his UFC career, Romero has scored six knockdowns at a rate of 0.78 knockdown per 15 minutes. Rockhold only includes two knockdowns through eight-career UFC fights. Additionally, he has 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 is a heavyweight bout with New Zealand’s Hunt ranked No. 5 at the branch and Blaydes No. 9. But, Blaydes is a -160 popular and Hunt +135. Hunt was cleared to go back to competition. Citing”medical issues,” Hunt was pulled out of November’s UFC Fight Night 121 headliner in Sydney, a conclusion had been made after Hunt confessed to memory loss and slurred address at a piece he wrote for PlayersVoice.com.au titled,”If I perish fighting, that’s fine.” Hunt, already with one litigation against the UFC, threatened another in the wake of the promotion’s decision to pull him out of UFC Sydney. He predicted UFC President Dana White a”bald-headed prick” in a scathing Instagram post. Hunt maintained this suspension was punishment for its civil lawsuit he filed against the company, White and Brock Lesnar regarding Lesnar’s failed evaluation at UFC 200. Hunt’s final fight took place in May at UFC Fight Night 110, where he conquered Derrick Lewis through TKO at a slugfest”Fight of the Night.” After suffering a TKO loss to top contender Francis Ngannou within his promotional debut, Blaydes, a 26-year-old former collegiate wrestler, has since won four consecutive fights. Three of the wins — over Cody East, Adam Milstead and Oleksiy Oliynyk — arrived via knockout. Blaydes has finished seven of the eight career wins by knockout or technical knockout.

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