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“If you want to be wrong, follow the masses” Socrates

Every year, months prior to the NFL regular season, I preach to anyone who will listen on the aspect of applying discipline into one’s sports betting.

Sportsbooks and shows that are the voice for the Books (Sportsgrid, VSiN and the like) are harping at listeners from the Super bowl to the Hall of Fame game about early ‘value’ bets in the NFL because there is nothing to speak of that holds anyone’s interest in the dog days of summer.

Forget that those dishing the releases are bumblers that are unaware of how square they are or they are simply journalists who must fill dead time who are aware that talking anything but NFL will have listeners turning off their program!

Beside tying up one’s money for months, there is little to NO benefit in firing early.

Take for example all the pukes that were all over the Rams over season wins and played them for the division, conference and/or SB this year?

Now Stafford is injured and no one knows how badly this will affect him, his team and the few imbeciles that thought firing on an ‘over’ months before the season was smart.

Players please use your head and some common sense!

Simply understand that what Socrates stated so many years ago is correct:

“If you want to be wrong, follow the masses.”

So forget jumping early NFL bets now, be patient, be businesslike and if you must throw a wager out there early, please make certain it is an Under or for a team to NOT win a division because until the pre season is completed (it is now completed) it is folly to try to get in front of Overs and positive happenings for a team.

With Under wagering or with wagering on a team to NOT accomplish something those injuries, trades and retirements can only contribute to your bottom line, not destroy it!

Word to you Momma!

 

Posted on Author Lou Categories Profitability, UFC

UFC FN Shanghai: Chinese wreckers

From the epic production that was the violence filled UFC 319, to a more boutique Fight Night event we go!  This week’s UFC FN Shanghai will kick off at Midnight PT with the preliminary card then at 3am PT the main card will drop.

There are twelve bouts from this Shanghai fight card currently scheduled, a large cage will be in use and a full hose crowd of Chinese fight fans eager to enjoy mixed martial arts battles will be present, they’re as passionate as any fanbase anywhere.

We’ll see five bouts where there exists a greater than five-year age difference between combatants. This is important to understand as athletes with six years of youth advantage historically realize a 62%-win advantage.

There are six local Chinese athletes featured on the card, and they face a smattering of athletes from across the globe and in almost each case the local/regional athlete is presented with advantage, because they face opponents five or more years elder than they.

In four of the five fights where there is a five year or greater age difference …lo and behold it is the local Chinese athlete that are the beneficiary of that advantage.

There are five ‘big boi’ fights where men weighing 170 pounds or more compete. These fights often end in or with a finish.

The UFC knows exactly what it’s doing (presenting local area athletes with a relatively advantageous opponent situation) when it exports its product outside the U.S. as their zeal to expand the brand  is unquenchable.

Last week I rode with the defending Champion middleweight Dricus du Plessis believing he would bully his opponent, the favored Kamzat Chimaev in their title bout. I could not have been more incorrect. Chimaev made DDP look like he had never competed in a wrestling competition as well he made me look like I have not been handicapping fights for some forty-five plus years!

On we go!

Mingyang Zhang -340 vs. Johnny Walker +290 Light Heavyweight (205lbs) main event

Brazilian Walker was training in Ireland and has now moved his training to Las Vegas’ Xtreme Courture. Walker is the thirteenth ranked fighter in the division. He is a brown belt in BJJ and an extremely dangerous, powerful striker. Walker is highly athletic and unusually structured for a light heavyweight talent.

Finding athletes who are keenly coordinated, nimble afoot and that carry natural God given power are rare in combat sports, but Walker has the tools to destroy any adversary in any fight and at any time.

Walker’s 6’5” frame coupled with his dynamic litheness are facets opposing fighters all struggle with for Walker is aggressive, able to move with fluidity and he’s extraordinarily strong and powerful with all his striking weaponry.

What Walker struggles with is something that a fighter is never able to overcome or improve, and this shortcoming has cost Walker his positionwith in the elite of the division because of this shortcoming.

His shortcoming is his lack of ability to take a flush fist to the face.

Since 2023 Walker’s realized a 0-2-1 mark in the UFC. His lack of ability to evade power strikes is a shortcoming he must address one way or another because if he could employ his athleticism to more effectively evade incoming power punches he would be better suited to realize success and dynamic., violent success at that.

At the heart of the issue for Walker is his inability to absorb legitimate light heavyweight striks to his head. Since 2019 Walker has lost six of eleven fights and in all six losses he was knocked unconscious.

Trying to navigate a ‘balsa wood beak’ in today’s light heavyweight division of the UFC is close to an impossible task which is why Walker, who is well equipped in all aspects of mixed martial arts is the sizable underdog he is to this relatively novice athlete Zhang who has but three UFC battles under his belt.

In fact, it is my judgement that Walker’s been placed in this position to serve as ‘patsy’ for Zhang in this fight because Walker’s lack of ability to take a knock to the nose feeds right into Zhang’s strength which is power striking.

In the aforementioned Mingyang Zhang we have a relatively new, developing UFC talent. Zhang is used to being the taller, longer athlete in the cage so for this fight he will have to navigate Walker’s size, length, kicking acumen, experience, and profuse punching power.

Zhang’s a fighter who began to refine his Sanda* fighting style/expertise in a Shaolin Monastery as a youth developing his craft. Eventually he earned a blue belt in BJJ to go with that expertise and today Zhang arrives to this fight the next big, hyped athlete in the UFC from China.

While Zhang is a heavy favorite for this battle, I believe that Walker’s experience, his size, length, and razor-sharp striking style will provide him plenty of opportunity to shine in this fight.

The ultra-athletic Walker, must evade the slow, telegraphed power strikes from Zhang who is nowhere near as nimble afoot or athletic as Walker.  Walker stands in great position to be able to defeat a man much less athletically equip than he, however, should Walker incur one or more power strikes from Zhang, he is liable to crumple to the floor like a dropped bag of sand.

The price screams for me to give Walker a chance in this spot but Walker’s porcelain chin forces me to think twice about backing him.

Total in this fight: 1.5Rds Under -300

That total verifies that one man is going to potentially bludgeon the other…. which man Clobber’s and which man gets clobbered I am not certain, but what I am feeling confident about is the Over and more particularly the prop ‘fight starts round 2’ which will be out later this week.

Lone’er Kavanaugh -205 vs. Charles Johnson +180 Flyweight (125lbs.)

Kavanaugh from England is 9-0 professionally and 2-0 in the UFC. Kavanaugh is short, squat, powerful and well rounded for he can wrestle.

Johnson arrives to China off a loss in his last bout after rattling off four straight UFC wins prior. He has numerous physical advantages in this fight. He is the taller man by five inches; he sports a three-inch reach advantage with both legs and arms. Johnson also owns advantage in level of competition faced and of course UFC experience.

Once the bell for this fight rings the test for Kavanaugh will be to penetrate Johnson’s length/striking to earn his way inside the pocket where he can mute Johnson’s striking prowess while doing damage to the longer taller fighter via his power striking and kicks.

For Johnson, this fight is all about distance and whether he can maintain it appropriately and by all means keep this fight standing so he can execute a plan that entails ‘painting Kavanaugh’s fence’ as the shorter Englishman attempts to work his way inside.

These two men are Flyweight athletes vying in a large cage which often means a decision fight. Proof of that statement is evidenced by this fight’s total which is currently lined 2.5rds Over -335!

That total attests to the fact that this fight will be like watching two wasps warring in a mason jar. At the end of the day, Johnson’s experience, size, and length make the difference here as well he can be captured as an underdog.

Johnson +180

The ‘Bout Business’ Podcast will have all my final releases available sometime Friday before mid-day PT. Remember fight fans this card kicks off in the wee hours of Saturday morning PT so be prepared to enjoy a little OJ with your Omaplata!

Thank you for reading and enjoy the bouts!

*Sanda is a Chinese form of mixed martial arts that combines kicking, striking, and grappling.

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UFC 319 Du Plessis vs. Chimaev: Collar tie on Clark

This week’s event is called UFC 319, and it will be one of five final PPV events for the UFC as in 2026 the platform for UFC events will be Paramount and CBS in essence killing the antiquated PPV model for a much more lucrative opportunity. There is much to comment upon here but that will be saved for another time.

Saturday UFC fight fans will witness a terrifically matched main event of Middleweight stalwarts where champion Dricus Du Plessis a South African faces number three ranked Khamzat Chimaev, a Russian grappler who many regard as the most dangerous athlete on the roster.

The fight card kicks off with early preliminary action at 3pm PT, regular prelims start at 5pm PT and the PPV portion of the card drops at 7pm PT.

There are currently thirteen scheduled bouts for this fight slate. Five of those bouts are comprised of men weighing 170lbs. or more so focus on those fights for the higher probability of finishing potential.

There are five fights where the youth advantage is at least six years or greater and two fights between athletes who compete against one another and are at least thirty-seven years old. The geriatric bouts!

Last week my suggested parlay position lost bringing results for this column to 16-18 -.47u for the year.

Let’s get back into the black this week!

Khamzat Chimaev -230 vs. Dricus Du Plessis +195 Champion Middleweight (185lbs.) title

Chimaev is a Russian demolition man decorated with a brown belt in BJJ and considerable wrestling prowess. He fights/trains between Sweden and the UAE. Chimaev hit the UFC like a lightning bolt a few years back, winning fights in devastating fashion between two weight classes, welterweight, and middleweight.

He’s aggressive and overwhelming early in fights and while he has shown immense potential thus far in his UFC career, his recent past has been marred by health issues, inactivity and a lack of legitimate competition in the middleweight division outside of his last victory, a walloping of Robert Whittaker who had been a perennial top five athlete in the division for a decade as well a former champion of the division.

Chimaev’s other two middleweight wins were against Kevin Holland a fighter made for Chimaev, then former middleweight champion Kamaru Usman a welterweight himself who moved up to fight Chimaev and took the Russian to an ultra-close majority decision despite taking the bout on very short notice and travelling around the globe to vie against the young Russian. Tlast October’s defeat of former champion Whittaker.

Chimaev, in previous fights, has shown himself to be complete monster in the first two rounds before he begins to wear signs of fatigue. I’m certain he’s addressed the matter but suffice it to say that this champion is a legit hulking middleweight and he will not tire.  Those glimpses of fatigue from Chimaev against undersized foes like Gil Burns and Usman is a contributing factor to how I handicap this battle..

Chimaev faces elite middleweight competition in this fight and a man with drive perseverance and pride. Without question Champion Dricus Du Plessis is a much more dangerous opponent to Chimaev than anyone Chimaev has competed against in battle and in practice.

South African Du Plessis, a second-degree black belt in kickboxing, he has an unconventional, awkward, uneven approach to his fighting. He is a massive sized man, he is dynamically strong, has great cardio and is as tough and durable as any fighter on the roster.

What Du Plessis is not is nimble footed, slick, fast, or precise with his striking which favors him in this fight for he’ll not need to call upon any of those skills to best Chimaev as Du Plessis will attack the bully and try to steal his will with aggressive blunt force forward pressure.

Du Plessis lives by the adage that ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’ so the Du Plessis plan in any fight but most especially in this one, will be to take the fight directly to Chimaev and execute a pulverization of said adversary until he succumbs.

This is a fight that one must watch from the beginning for Chimaev will look to dominate Du Plessis early with his forceful, smothering, grappling acumen and try to overwhelm him, in essence he’ll attempt to drown the champion with the force of his grappling/wrestling pressure.

For Du Plessis, he has little intention of evading and buying time to take Chimaev deep into this fight rather he wants to overwhelm Chimaev in his own strategy, by attacking him from the opening bell.

Yes, I believe Du Plessis will look to bully the bully for this approach has shown promise in the past against the lesser experienced Chimaev especially after the first five/ten minutes of fighting when fatigue begins to creep in and is able “to make cowards of us all.”

Chimaev has had but one fight since October of 2023 and while he has likely improved his weaponry specifically his cardio capability in the months leading up to this fight, his lack of live octagon work in the last eighteen months must be mentioned.

Meanwhile Du Plessis has faced and earned victory in nine straight UFC bouts, four of them title defenses and against the elite of the MIDDLEWEIGHT division. In the time that Chimaev has had one bout, DDP’s competed in three different title defense fights.

Du Plessis’ fortitude, his size, strength, and experience will all be required in this fight against what many inside the UFC and outside of it regard as a legitimate ‘boogie man.’

I sense that the uber aggression and forward pressure of Du Plessis, provided he is able to navigate this fight into the third round, will eventually drain the energy and will from the front running bully from Beno-Yurt, Chechnya, Russia.

In order to retain his title, Du Plessis must execute the best first ten minutes of fighting since his career started because anything less than that form of effort will find him in the clasp of one of the deadliest submission specialists in the UFC.

Du Plessis +195

This line is slowly rising so use patience and catch the best price possible on DDP.

Total in this fight: 2.5Rds Under -125

Carlos Prates -245 vs. Goeff Neal +205 Welterweight (170lbs.)

Texan Neal is an accomplished striker who has power in all appendages. Neal, also a purple belt in BJJ, is currently ranked eleventh in a division full of absolute killers.

Neal arrives hot off a win over Rafael Dos Anjos after having dropped a couple of bouts to legitimate, elite top ten talent in the division in Shavkat Rakhmonov and Ian Machado Garry.

In twelfth ranked Carlos Prates we have a chain-smoking Brazilian gangster who is a black belt in BJJ and an ultra-aggressive striker with power.

Several factors force me to regard Prates as most dangerous in this spot. He sports height, reach, and age advantages over Neal, he’s the faster more dynamic athlete despite the fact that he has a heater hanging out of his mouth at all times save for the time he spends fighting in the cage.

Once the bell rings for this fight, we will see too aggressive strikers, both of whom have been defeated by Garry, approach each other with the sole purpose of knocking the other unconscious.

Neal will be the slightly more compact power striker where Prates will be the longer, lengthier, more diversely equipped striker who will employ a forceful leg attack to numb the sound, determined Neal, and take away his movement.

This fight has every indication of being an all-out stand-up battle that fight fans should not miss. At the end of the foray I believe it will be Prates who is able to walk away the victor more than likely via finish.

Total in this fight: 2.5Rds Under -165

Edson Barboza -155 vs. Drakkar Klose +135 Lightweight (155lbs)

Brazilian Barboza at thirty-nine moves back up to his original UFC division Lightweight, for this battle of relevance in the UFC.

Klose, his opponent from Phoenix, AZ. is the legitimate lightweight, but he is now thirty-seven himself and enters this key fight off a loss to Joel Alvarez after having won four straight fights in a row.

Both of these men are lethal strikers Klose with heavy hands and more of a direct approach to battle and Barboza with the more diverse striking attack featuring leg numbing kicking acumen.

This fight has finish written all over it but it’s my judgement that it takes one man more than seven minutes thirty seconds to finish the other.

Total in this fight 1.5Rds Over -200

Friday morning the ‘Bout business Podcast drops at GambLou.com.  There all my final releases for UFC 319 may be accessed.

Thank you for Reading and enjoy the fights!

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UFC LV109 Hernandez vs. Dolidze: The Butcher, the Baker…

 

Last week UFC LV 108 held at the organization’s APEX facility saw chalk roll to a 9-2 result pushing favorites in the UFC in 2025 to 64.7%. That percentage is a couple of basis points plus higher than normal yearly averages. I mention this after the most stringent favorite result in years occurred in 2024 when favorites ran above 70%!

As far as this week’s card is concerned, we return to the APEX where fights are still held in the small twenty-five-foot cage. That mentioned, athletes are now able to compete in the newly designed and remodeled facility where the crowds are now slightly larger than the oh so few that were able to view the fights prior to the remodel.

This card is schedule for eleven fights, it has only four battles at Welterweight (170lbs.) or above as well there are eight fights where the age difference is six years or greater with the most obtuse difference being a SEVENTEEN year between Angela Hill and Iasmine Lucindo. We also have a fighter changing weight classes and in this case the athlete is moving UP in weight as opposed to down.

I have talked about the importance of age, and how critical youth is  in UFC outcomes especially when said youth is complimented with size and length.

Advantage in UFC bouts can manifest itself in every way, shape, and form and in this column weekly we try to expose readers to the nuances of those nuances and advantages.

This LV 109 fight card starts at 1pm PST with the prelims then the main card drops at 4pm PST.

Last week Neil Magny +185 displayed how much strength of schedule (opponents faced in previous bouts) can be a great indicator of fighters who may hold advantage once they are allowed to compete with other than an elite world class mixed martial artist.

Magny finished a tough and durable Elizeo Zaleski dos Santos in the second round.

That win pushed digital results to 16-17 + .53u for the year. The goal now to stack wins together in order to finish this 2025 campaign with enhanced bottom line.

This is the eighth year that this column has been fortunate enough to be featured on the VSiN digital magazine, the column has realized bottom line profitability in each year since VSiN began and I plan on this year being no different, so bite down on those mouthpieces fight fans and let’s invest into LV 109!

Anthony Hernandez -320 vs. Roman Dolidze +270 Middleweight (185lbs.) main event

Dolidze is a Georgian fighter who is able to pivot between both light heavyweight and middleweight divisions of the UFC. He is large and capable enough to compete against many 205-pound fighters and still able to make the 185-pound middleweight limit and compete effectively against the middleweights.

Dolidze, a baker by profession, is a very capable grappler, his size/strength make him a force at the middleweight level and his striking is power based. Cardio? Well Dolidze can struggle with his gas tank late in fights, especially at the middleweight level where cutting all that weight can manifest itself in negative fashion.

In this fight Dolidze will attempt to bully Hernandez, back him up and force himself and his will on the slighter fleeter footed athlete. Ideally Dolidze is able to corner Hernandez then unleash a barrage of power body shots, elbows, and knees to the body. This is his path to the upset.

Dolidze will/should choose to work the body in order to take away his opponent’s ability to move. Should he be successful this fight transitions to his favor for he is heavy handed, aggressive and can finish any fighter in the division.

In Anthony ‘Fluffy’ Hernandez, Dolidze has drawn one capable cardio machine.

Hernandez will be giving away size, height and reach to Dolidze so a standing battle surely favors the opponent. However, Hernandez has deft footwork, solid striking acumen, and world class grappling and an unending ability to compete at a frenetic pace for seven rounds let alone the scheduled five rounds for this main event.

His unending cardio ability is unmatched in the division and perhaps in all of the top weight classes in the UFC.

Hernandez dominates Dolidze statistically for he overshadows him in significant strike differential, take down ability and take down defense, so the Hernandez blueprint for success involves weathering a ferocious early ten minute storm from the aggressive Dolidze then dominating the hulking Georgian as the fight transpires past the first ten minutes and into the ‘Fluffy’ zone.

Hernandez must apply constant movement to create striking angles while simultaneously using said movement to evade the incoming bull rushes from his opponent. Hernandez footwork, cardio and diversity of weaponry prepare him well for this test against a tough, durable fighter who does not possess the athleticism of cardio ability of Hernandez.

At the end of the day Hernandez’ diversity of attack, youth and cardio will be the foundation by which Hernandez wins this bout. I believe a late round finish either ground and pound or submission is in the cards for this fight.

Total in this fight is 3.5Rds. Under -115

Christian Rodriguez -230 vs. Andre Fili Featherweight +195 (145lbs.)

Andre ‘Toucy’ Fili is a decorated veteran of the UFC who has been in the organization for some twelve years with a compiled UFC record of 12-11-1.

Fili is long, tall, and quite experienced but his experience, while an advantage in most fights, has taken Fili years to acquire and at the ripe fighting age of thirty-five, Fili now finds himself groping to remain relevant and active in the UFC.

Fili will be the taller athlete in this matchup as well, the longer, fighter which he is used to. However, Fili’s height once a great advantage to him when younger actually costs him now as his quickness, speed and strike evasion has regressed and ‘tall men’ often get caught with strikes because their chin is left open in frantic exchanges.

In Chistian Rodriguez we get an ascending fighter with speed, quickness, acute grappling acumen and striking prowess. While ‘CeeRod’ is not gifted with profuse power, he is highly athletic and quick, he has great feet which allow him to maneuver freely into attack mode and quickly evade incoming shots.

Rodriguez’ last bout was a close decision loss to Melquizael Costa in which there is no shame. Fili also dropped his last bout to Costa, but he was submitted in the first round.

While each fight is its own entity, the dramatic difference in result against Costa on top of Rodriguez being seven years the younger fresher fighter force me to regard Rodriguez as being in a very desirable spot this Saturday against a name fighter in Fili whose pelt will look quite handsome hanging from the Rodriguez mantle.

This week’s investment: A parlay

Rodriguez -230 parlay to Hernandez -320

1.15u to earn 1.02u

Total in this bout stands 2.5Rds Over -220

Rodriguez is NOT overly powerful, but Fili has shown himself to be susceptible to the KO so tread carefully with this total.

Friday midday PST the ‘Bout Business Podcast drops. Catch my final releases for this fight card at GambLou.com, tap the ‘Bout Business tab to access.

Thank you for reading and enjoy the fights.

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UFC Fight Night Taira vs. Park: Park sparked?

UFC Las Vegas 108 takes place from the APEX facility where a smaller twenty-five-foot octagon will be in use. Few fans can attend these events now but soon enough APEX will be finished with a facility expansion which will allow more fans to be able to take in these quaint, boutique fight slates.

The main event of this card had not one but two cancellations for the originally scheduled flyweight fighter Tatsura Taira who now fights a short notice replacement from South Korea in undefeated Hyun Sung Park.

Park travels around the globe on short notice to take a fight against Taira but for Taira this is also unsettling because he now prepares to fight a third athlete that he has only days to prepare for.

The short notice aspect of this fight is fascinating for Park must mentally prepare to both travel across the globe then make the 126-pound weight limit while Taira, the beneficiary of a full camp, must prepare stylistically for his third opponent.

I mention here often what a fantastic job the UFC does to keep these forty-three to forty-five fight cards each year held together as these athletes get injured, have visa issues, get sick and on occasion side-step opponents. Dealing with the issues, the personalities, and the egos of these fighter’s day in and day out to keep these fight cards interesting for fans should not be underestimated.

Last week we took advantage of a rare two-unit victory with a value laden Russian grappler in Assu Almabaev who dominated pace in his fight against the up-and-coming Peruvian Jose Ochoa. Almabaev opened -400 and we were able to bet him -110 which is why we upped the investment to two units.

We add two units to this year’s accounting for a 2025 tally of 15-17 -1.32u

Tatsuro Taira -300 vs. Hyun Sung Park +260 Flyweight (125lbs.) main event

As mentioned in the opening, Taira takes on Park in a short notice bout for each fighter. That said, it is Taira who is the beneficiary of a full training camp.

Taira enters off a loss to Brandon Royval in which he picked up tremendous amount of experience albeit in a loss but to a legitimate title contender in the division. At 16-1 Taira enters this fight on the bounce and prepared to make amends for his last setback.

Taira is a world class grappler and submission specialist, but he is also a capable striker. His sixteen wins show seven wins via submission, five via the KO/TKO and four decision wins.

That fight against Royval in my judgement makes Taira a forceful figure in the division now based on his fight weaponry, his growing experience, his youthfulness, and his drive.

For the 10-0 South Korean Park, this is a tremendous opportunity to endear himself to the UFC by first, trying to win a battle against a ranked opponent but second and as importantly, to do the UFC a favor by taking a fight across the globe against a highly talented and ranked adversary on short notice.

*As a side note for the UFC to have to settle on the South Korean Park for a fight in Las Vegas, we must understand that there had to be a bevy of local US fighters who said no to taking on Taira in this spot for the UFC.

Park enters this fight 3-0 in UFC competition, but this fight signifies a substantial step up in class because Park has not competed against any gifted let alone world class mixed martial artists prior to this battle.

These fighters are similar in size, but Taira will have height, reach and experience advantages that substantiate his favorite price as I handicap this bout.

Total in this fight: 3.5Rds Under -130

Mateusz Rebecki -205 vs. Chris Duncan +180 Lightweight (155lbs.) co main

Fight enthusiasts best not miss this barn burner!

Polish wrestling talent Rebecki is short, squat, powerful, determined and on the ascent in the division after answering a loss to Diego Ferriera with a most impressive victory over Myktybek Orolbai.

Rebecki who uses his sawed-off physique as a weapon possesses a positive strike differential to couple with his unrelenting takedown success for he averages almost four take downs per round as well he fends off 75% of incoming take downs which is impressive especially after that bout against the most formidable wrestling talent Oralbai.

For the Scotsman Duncan, he boasts close to the same staggering success in both significant strike differential as well take downs executed per five rounds. However, what Duncan has struggled with and something that may well be foundational in this fight is his ability to stop takedowns for his success rate is a paltry 37% which is a glaring statistic for anyone confronting Rebecki.

Duncan, should he be able to keep this fight standing will hold height and reach advantages and I will even give him the striking edge, but he must keep this scrap standing because if the unrelenting Rebecki can haul Duncan to the mat, Polish wrestling dominance will be displayed.

Rebecki opened -221 for this matchup and his price has dipped just a bit. This fight will be determined by Duncan’s take down defense for if he can keep this on the feet, he has advantage, but should this fight hit the floor look for the polish Rebecki to flog the Scot.

Total in this fight: 1.5Rds Over -160

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos -210 vs. Neil Magny +180 Welterweight (170lbs.)

Brazilian Capoeira fighting specialist Elizeu utilizes his stout, compact frame to hurl flamboyant, creative, and yet devastating spinning heels, elbows and knees towards opponents understanding that when one lands it destroys.

The issue for the well versed Zaleski is that he is now thirty-eight and 1-2 in his last couple of UFC competitions.

Zaleski still sports a positive strike differential per five minutes of fight time and when Elizeu lands any shot, the target opponent often crumbles for Zaleski invests tremendous energy into every single one of his strike offerings.

Zaleski can grapple and his take down defense formidable for Zaleski is most dangerous and at his best when competing in a stand-up battle.

For Neil Magny this is a foundational fight. Magny arrives to this war having lost three of his last four which on paper should be a red flag, however we must understand who Magny has faced in these last four bouts!

Sure Magny’s lost to Mike Morales, Carlos Prates, and Ian Machado Garry with a win against ascending welterweight Mike Mallot, but those three losses were to elite killers in the division.

So Magny enters desperate and used to facing absolute killers while Elizeo arrives after having been bullied by nominally talented striker Chidi Njokuani.

Based on Magney’s physical advantages of age, height, reach and level of competition faced I must regard him as being more positioned to compete effectively against Zaleski than the current betting line indicates.

In a fight lined 2.5 Rds. Over -185 I really favor Magny’s changes here to compete effectively wherever this fight takes place, on the mat, against the fence or standing.

Magny +180

The ‘Bout Business Podcast drops on Friday morning at GambLou.com, all my final releases for this car may be access there.

Thank you for reading and enjoy the fights!

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‘Sneak-Teep’ Podcast Drops Monday?

This week’s UFC slate has been shaken by the loss of the scheduled main event. Once the card becomes official with new headliners and lines are available, I will post this week’s opening line report.

Thank you for your patience but I can’t handicap confrontation unless official bouts are announced.

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UFC Abu Dhabi: Saturday morning Submissions!

9am PT Preliminary Action drops!

Welcome fight Enthusiasts to the VSiN digital breakdown for UFC Fight Night Abu Dhabi.

This card from the UAE kicks off at 9am PST with preliminary fights then the main card drops at 11am PST, so prepare accordingly for a morning full of mauling’s.

This Fight Night slate is scheduled for twelve bouts. The athletes will compete in the large thirty’ cage and background noise will be prevalent as a raucous Saudi/Muslim crowd will jam into the arena to take in the violence.

There is but one woman’s fight on this card which is notable because it is a rarity to get a female fight when the organization travels to the UAE.

Six of our twelve bouts feature men weighing 170lbs and above and if the trend of the last couple of weeks remains intact, then this card too should produce a flurry of frenetic finishes.

There are fewer aged athletes participating in this week’s slate than in the past couple of fight cards as there are but four fighters aged thirty-five and above. Further, the age spreads on this card have tightened considerably as there are only three fights where there exists an age gap larger than five years…. Again, six years’ youth advantage equates to a 64%-win percentage in the UFC fight enthusiasts.

Last week I captured excellent value in the Dan Ige -175 release as he closed -220 however capturing the best of the number is but one aspect of realizing bottom line profitability in sports gaming. The most important aspect however is having the appropriated fighter perform at their best. While Ige performed well, his opponent performed better and earned victory.

Such is the fight game.

It’s time to make a run!

Robert Whittaker -135 vs. Renier de Ritter +115 Middleweight (185lbs.) main event

De Ritter, three fights into his UFC career, enters this main event ranked twelfth in the division and off three victories against modestly talented UFC competition.

A decorated world class grappler with only decent striking acumen, de Ritter, a black belt in both Judo and BJJ will be efficient in trying to clasp onto his opponent in this (or any) matchup then begin to envelope them with his strength and judo experience.

De Ritters striking is base, the snap on his strikes and his ability to evade strikes is negligible save for the force by which he rushes into opponents to envelope his limbs around them then drag them to the mat.

De Ritter’s plan in any fight is the singular: press opponent against the fence, clutch opponent to maul them down to the mat then gain top position in order to snap a limb, choke the neck, or play the ground and pound game.

This will be the de Ritter blueprint for success as well as the blueprint for his survival because if he is unable to wrangle Whittaker to the canvas, then he is likely to be pieced up by the forceful punches, kicks, elbows, and knees of Whittaker.

Save for a loss to current champion Duplessis in late 2023 which was an off night for Whittaker, Whittaker has defeated all other middleweight threats over the course of the last several years until he faced formidable grappling talent Kamzat Chimaev in his last battle.

Against the world class grappling pressure applied by Chimaev, Whittaker looked lost and overwhelmed and in short time Chimaev grounded Whittaker then ‘neck cranked’ him into submission.

When this fight begins, Whittaker will need to guard against the immediate/aggressive forward pressing onslaught that will come from de Ritter because it is a surety that de Ritter has studied that Chimaev vs. Whittaker tape.

De Ritter will take every measure he can to duplicate Chimaev’s diligent forward pressing aggression, his takedown effectiveness, and submission prowess in order to negate Whittaker’s striking dominance while simultaneously forcing the striker to expend energy defending takedowns as opposed to lighting up the Dutchman with his dukes.

The foundation question for this fight is simply this: Can Whittaker stop the groundings and keep this fight on the feet?

Where this bout takes place will be absolutely proportionate to who is in control for on the feet de Ritter will have little for Whittaker and on the ground in a grovel it will be difficult for Whittaker to compete with the elite grappling talent that is Renier de Ritter despite the fact that Whittaker’s wrestling is competent.

Whittaker opened -180 for this fight and the money to date has flowed in on the challenger.

Total in this fight: 2.5Rds pick-em

Shara Magomedov -300 vs. Marc Andre’ Barriault +250 Middleweight (185lbs)

Magomedov is a Dagestani fighter who lost an eye sometime during his fighting career. He is a wildly popular fighter in the Muslim world, and I say that because he seems to be unable to compete outside of his home country for reasons not pertinent to this column.

When he does compete it is usually against an opponent hand chosen and designed to provide him with the type of fight that fans wish to see, a stand-up battle.

In Magomedov’s last bout they gave him an athletic, fleet footed and experienced striker in Michael Page and Page painted the slower, more deliberate Magomedov’s fence in a one-sided decision.

Stand up fights provide Magomedov not only a fight he can compete in but one he is likely to win for Magomedov himself is relatively slow, he is susceptible to left hands/kicks because his right eye is the nonfunctioning orbital and he can gas as the fight wears on.

He just needs pedestrian competition for anyone close to elite will paint this man’s fence.

While Magomedov’s appearance makes him look ominous, his fight arsenal scares few competent athletes in the division.

For this fight, the UFC hand-picked a large, slow, hittable fellow striker to compete against Magomedov and that fighter’s name is Canadian ship in Marc-Andre’ Barriault an athlete willing to share the cage with the local favorite and try to springboard up the rankings by earning victory over the local Dagestani fighter.

Barriault, primarily a durable, tough power striker who carries a blue belt in BJJ into his fights arrives to this battle off a win against Brazilian Bruno Silva after having dropped his last three bouts.

Two of those losses were via the KO so it seems clear to me that in this matchup the UFC designed this confrontation to both provide Magomedov with a favorable opponent but an opponent that is relatively stationary and one that will be there for him to batter much to the delight of the Muslim crowd in attendance.

This seems a clear example of a set up fight for Magomedov.

Total in this fight stands 1.5Rds Over -160

Asu Almabaev -110 vs. Jose Ochoa -110 Flyweight (125lbs.)

Ochoa, a power striker from Peru is 1-1 in the UFC. He is aggressive, athletic, and willing to enter the firestorm for striking exchanges at any time.

He is undefeated save for a decision loss to Lone’er Kavanagh, his debut fight into the UFC. Ochoa followed that loss with a very impressive finish win over the durable Cody Durden in his last bout.

In Almabaev we have a talented world class grappler/wrestler from Kazakhstan. Almabaev is well equipped on the feet, and his well-rounded fight arsenal sets him up to be a viable contender in the division for years to come.

Entering this fight off a loss to Manuel Kape is no embarrassment for Almabaev rather it is a badge of honor for Kape, when he competes like he did in his battle against Almabaev, is clearly the top threat to current champion Alexandre Pantoja.

When this fight opened it was Almabaev who came the -400 chalk and while that is a high number the fact that he was favored is what we need to take from the opener.

In fleeting time Ochoa was bet and bet hard into the current pricing on this fight which stands at pick-em.

Ochoa’s striking is stellar, and his strike defense is also above par but his wrestling and especially his take down defense stands at 66% which is quite lacking especially given the competition he has faced.

In this fight it is my judgement that Almabaev will navigate Ochoa into the second round and beyond by mixing in takedowns and effective striking. He will journey the twenty-four-year-old into the later minutes of this fight where his wrestling acumen and cardio will be able to turn the tides on the frontrunning Peruvian puncher.

The value on Almabaev who had decimated four opponents prior to fighting Kape is too much for me to overlook here. Ochoa is ripe and Almabaev has too much experience and wrestling ability for this fight to be lined as it is.

Almabaev -110 2u

Total in this fight: 2.5Rds Over -185

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UFC 318 Poirier vs. Holloway for the BMF Championship

New Orleans, LA. Is the location for this week’s UFC 318, a PPV event featuring fourteen bouts with early preliminary action beginning 3:15pm PT, prelims kick at 5pm PT then the PPV portion of the event drops at 7pm PT.

A large thirty-foot octagon and a house full of overserved swamp rats will cheer for the local athletes of which Dustin Poirier is but two Louisiana natives on the card.

Of the fourteen fights, nine take place at Welterweight (170lbs.) or above and of those nine, eight are placed in the prelims of this card so violence begins early and runs throughout the slate!

Again this week we have some ‘mature’ athletes hitting the cage. The UFC is offering us seven bouts where the age difference exceeds five years.

As discussed last week, the fact that younger athletes particularly in matchups where they are also taller and have limb reach over the opponent hold abnormal advantage especially if the fight plays out to be waged on the feet.

Last week eight of nine younger fighters facing older competitors earned victory with the only exception being Derrick Lewis, who arrived with experience and level of competition faced advantage.

It pays to undertake the appropriate due diligence when assessing these bouts.

The Favorite/Dog count for last week was 8-4 making favorites in 2025 65.2%.

Let’s Fight!

Dustin Poirier +105 vs. Max Holloway -125 Lightweight (155lbs) main event

Trilogy fight

This fight is for the ‘BMF’ title that the UFC created some years ago. Further, this fight is the third between these two men with Poirier, a Louisiana native having won the first two bouts, the first in dominant fashion when Max debuted in the UFC and took the fight on oh so short notice, and the second, for the lightweight title in 2019 when Poirier won in a close decision.

Poirier opened -150 for this fight, but he has now been bet into the underdog position while money has come in on his opponent. Many fight investors are wary when athletes announce retirement BEFORE a fight, and I believe this has much to do with the line movement in this fight.

Poirier is a black belt in BJJ with dynamic boxing credentials, he is the former lightweight interim champion who has competed against the elite of this division for several years.

Poirier will be the older athlete, the shorter athlete, and the athlete with a deficit in arm/leg reach which together and with the retirement announcement help explain why this line has been ebbing toward Holloway.

Poirier packs profuse power in his strikes/kicks, he is a formidable wrestler and has great durability and cardio. He takes this challenge after realizing a 1-2 record over the last couple of years losing to Justin Gaethje via finish as well Islam Makhachev in the same manner.

Poirier is a pressure fighter will look to force Holloway backwards in this fight, keep him on his heels and attack the longer, taller man with the formidable power of his striking/kicking.

It is inside the pocket, pressed against the fence and in toe-to-toe confrontation that Poirier will hold his greatest advantage for his strength and unrelenting forward pressure factor favorably for him.

Max Holloway the current ‘BMF’ title holder gives the Louisianan Poirier, a former BMF titleholder the opportunity to retire with that BMF belt but make little mistake, Holloway is not doing this for Poirier, rather he’s doing this to destroy Poirier in this third fight and ride off with a win, the BMF belt and a future championship bout in this lightweight division.

Holloway, thirty-three, has fully evolved into the lightweight frame, and he retains his snap, quickness, and his fleet-footed ability all while enhancing the power/effectiveness of his strikes.

Holloway, except for his last battle against Topuria, has been able to evade incoming power punches and land counters off the aggression of opponents then attack once the incoming opponent is harmed.

Holloway’s height, reach and length (arms/legs) position him advantageously in this brawl …. while it remains standing.

Holloway’s significant strike differential per five minutes of fight time stands at +2.4 while Poirier’s ratio stands +.97 significant strikes landed per round. What this highlights is the activity and volume of Max while also displaying the lower volume higher impact/power of Poirier.

Once the bell for round one rings, I expect each man to begin to try to systematically beat the other man down. These men have a total of six rounds against each other in prior competition, so I envision few surprises, few new twists, rather I envision two proud, stubborn warriors each hunting to incapacitate the other.

Poirier has the more daunting task because when these two last tangled Poirier was thirty-one while max was twenty-eight, now thirty-six and on the shelf since June of last year, Poirier prepares for a final confrontation that will take his best effort to win.

Holloway does not enter this battle unscathed! He arrives off a devastating KO at the hands of Ilya Topuria last year in October, so each man enters this battle off a damaging loss.

Two forceful, proud, world class fighters who are as capable mentally as they are physically, men who are intimately familiar with each other will meet in the middle of a thirty-foot cage this Saturday in New Orleans to determine which warrior walks out of the cage with the BMF belt.

In my estimation this is an ultimate competition and one that may not make it to the final bell!

What more could we ask for in a main event?

Total in this fight: 4.5Rds Over -140

Roman Kopylov -250 vs. Paolo Costa +220 Middleweight (185lbs.) co main

Roman Kopylov, fourteenth ranked in the division is a Russian striker with deep background in combat sambo. Kopylov arrives at this fight having earned victory in his last two in a row pushing his UFC tally to 6-3.

His loss two fights back was to legitimate top ten middleweight Fluffy Hernandez is the only thing preventing Kopylov from entering the top ten of this division.

In this fight, he enters with a slight reach advantage and a negligible significant strike differential. Yes, Kopylov accepts just as many significant strikes as he unleashes.

Kopylov is versed in wrestling/grappling but utilizes that skill only when needed because he prefers to use his height and reach to deploy his striking offense on opponents.

Thirteenth ranked Brazilian hotwire Paolo Costa has a size/athletic advantage over Kopylov in this fight besides being the more explosive combatant. Costa is the more experienced fighter because he has competed against numerous top ranked adversaries.

The brazen Brazilian is a paltry 1-4 in his last several UFC competitions albeit against elite competition within the division. Costa’s performances sway between confounding and impressive based upon nothing that I have been able to detect or handicap.

Costa is a true pariah.

When mentally/physically prepared to fight for a full three rounds Costa may be regarded as a legitimate top ten talent in the division.

The issue with Costa is his lack of appropriate mental preparation, his flakey focus and his fleeting fortitude for Costa enjoys all aspects of life that tend to corrode elite fighting talent.

What he has shown a propensity to detest are stringent training, mental discipline, and innate confidence.

What is certain is that Kopylov enters this fight prepared to do anything he can to steal Costa’s reputation and ranking.

What is not certain (in this or any other battle for that matter) is the mental condition and physical conditioning of Costa entering this fight.

For this reason I will choose to watch this bout because there is no way to trust the approach in this or any fight from Paolo Costa.

Total in this fight: 2.5Rds. Over -200

That total indicates Costa competence…. something I am unwilling to invest in.

Dan Ige -175 vs. Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire +145 Featherweight (145lbs.)

Freire, ‘Pitbull’ as he is nicknamed, is a thirty-eight year old legend of mixed martial arts who never had the chance to compete in the UFC until his last fight where they presented him a taller, longer, younger, ranked opponent in number three ranked featherweight Yair Rodriguez who made Pitbull look his age in a unanimous decision loss.

Now Pitbull turns it around just twelve weeks after that one-sided decision loss to Rodriguez.

Pitbull is a warrior and if given the chance to compete in the UFC six years ago he would have been able to display his world-class talent and without doubt would have competed for a title. But at this age, and after the attrition he has incurred from a lifetime of mixed martial arts his skills are waning, his reaction time is slowing and his ability to navigate in front of larger, younger men is waning.

Pitbull’s opponent for this bout is none other than eleventh ranked Dan Ige who notably took the fight last summer against Diego Lopes on hours’ notice and fought an excellent fight in losing a decision.

Ige is afforded advantage in this fight that he rarely realizes in that he is five years the younger fighter, he is an inch the taller man and he holds a six-inch reach advantage.

Add to that the fact that Ige’s been set back each time he fights an elite top ten talent and we have the recipe for a focused driven Dan Ige here who is prepared to utilize his physical advantages as well as his youth and quickness to further expose the proud aged Pitbull in a fight that I see going to decision.

Ige -175 is the favorite in this fight, and I must say that this price is very affordable given the dynamics of this fight.

Ige -175*

*I’ll use Ige -175 as the first leg of a parlay and pair him with a fighter from next week’s slate, D’Mon Blackshear -258 who battles England’s Davey Grant at UFC Abu Dhabi

This one-unit investment returns 1.19u

Total in this fight 2.5Rds over -280

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UFC FN Nashville: Insane in ‘the Train’

This week the UFC takes us to good Ol’ Rocky Top Nashville, Tennessee where a scheduled twelve bout fight card, a large cage, and a room full of tuned up Tennesseans will gather to take in what I believe will be one of the most violent cards of the year.

I say this based on a couple of factors.

First, seven of the twelve scheduled bouts are going to be waged at 170lbs and above where power is abundant and finish rates reflect it.

Second, twelve of the twenty-four athletes on this slate are at least thirty-three years old as well this card features nine fights where there exists a greater than 5-year age gap between competitors.

Fighters competing against one another under a four year or better youth advantage win 59.5% of the time according to the information Reed Kuhn has published in his book Fightnomics.

In these nine bouts Saturday the age difference is not just a year or two…. In the main event there is a 15-year spread, co-main you ask? Fourteen years variance. Those are the most obtuse of the nine matchups but suffice it to say many athletes on this slate enter the cage with numeric advantage.

To date favorites in the UFC stand 65.2% which is on the high end of yearly UFC averages… Let us hope UFC 317’s 9-1-1- result is not reproduced in Nashville for my bankroll cannot take that.

Last week we won with Beniel Dariush as he was simply the better mixed martial artist.

Tallison Teixeira -280 vs. Derrick Lewis +240 Heavyweight main event

Lewis is the all-time knockout king in UFC history.

Now forty years old, Lewis is a rotund athlete with little technical fighting ability. He does possess profuse power in his hands, and he compliments that fight ending power with focused ill intent.

He has competed against the elite of the division for better than a decade and separated the majority of his foes from consciousness because for Lewis, it takes but one Sunday shot to end a fight.

Lewis’s UFC experience, cage IQ and raw street fighting tactics are equaled only by his complete lack of appropriate conditioning for the man is fractionally as effective after six minutes of exertion than before.

Lewis lands the same rate of significant strikes per minute as he accepts, 2.48, and of late his ability to take damage after all these fierce competitions is waning rapidly. Yes, Lewis is chinny.

However, at his best and that is how I believe we see Lewis Saturday, he is an effective finisher. The key for Lewis in this fight will be space for should he be able to work from inside the pocket on the longer taller Brazilian then he stands a great chance of imploding Teixeira with any one of several detonations.

For Tallison Teixeira this will be his sophomore fight in the UFC so disadvantages in experience, foes faced, and adversity overcome cannot compete with what Lewis has experienced.

This Brazilian bomber holds many advantages as he is fifteen years the younger man, he is four inches taller and owns a four-inch reach advantage over Lewis in this bout.

Teixeira brings raw finishing ability applied by a youthful, hulking, aggressive, sometime wild strike hurling twenty-five-year-old, but the kid ends fights.

In his second UFC bout he gets a main event placement, steps well up in class of opponent and fights for the opportunity to earn life-changing money, all of which add complexity to this fight.

Lewis is taking note of it all.

So, in one corner we have a mature, experienced, proud old warrior combatant with natural born power. He is going to take the middle of the cage and in initiate a throw down against a willing, aggressive, young, taller, longer, Brazilian Bomber who will do all he can to unglue Lewis.

There is no give in this fight.

The total in this fight of 1.5 -270 Under is appropriate!

Morgan Charriere 250 vs. Nate ‘the Train’ Landwehr +200 Featherweight

WAR

Nate ‘the Train’ is appropriately named. Landwehr is forcefully aggressive in every engagement during his fights. He forges forward with unrelenting will to engage opponents with one single point of focus: to annihilate.

Landwehr now thirty-seven and sporting a lightly negative significant strike differential can struggle with consistency because of the extremely aggressive approach he takes into each battle.

Take one to give one? Landwehr’s surely game.

Landwehr can grapple yes but his aim is to walk opponents down then shut off their lights simply put.

4-2 in his last six bouts, Landwehr enters this fight off a loss but for this war, he competes in front of his hometown which makes Landwehr, a problem for any athlete in any arena, even more dangerous in this spot.

Landwehr’s opponent is perfectly placed to provide the fans a dangerous opponent for their hometown boy.

Charriere is athletic, fleet afoot, able to effectively evade strikes and throws his kicks/strikes/knees and elbows in volume and from every angle imaginable.

Charriere enters this fight in enemy territory off a loss to Nathaniel Wood that was very close and could have easily gone his way. Sporting a negative strike differential, Charriere would do well to maintain spacing against this down bound train because while Charriere’s damage is done with volume striking, distance maintenance and precision placement, the Train’s damage comes in blunt force collision form.

Simply put Charriere will need time to effectively wear Landwehr down with a volume, precision attack while Landwehr’s approach will be to force Charriere into a flat-footed throwdown where Landwehr’s shortcomings of footwork, quickness and cage cutting become muted and his strengths of power striking from the pocket are magnified.

Every fight on this card is designed to deliver violent effects but of the twelve fights slated for Nashville, this one offers the greatest intrigue because of the style each man carries to the cage.

In the end, Charriere will be too fleet afoot, too quick, and athletic for the forceful Train even though Landwehr fights in front of his people.

Charriere -250

We will use Charriere in a parlay

Steve Garcia -120 vs. Calvin Katter -105 Featherweight (145lbs.)

This will be another complete blood bath as both men are lethal strikers and they execute their striking similarly, with force, power, grit, and determination.

This fight is foundational for Kattar, a blue belt in BBJ as he has dropped his last four bouts in a row but to world class competent UFC competition.

Katter is tough, aggressive and a forward pressing boxer/striker with power in his hands, a granite jaw but porous defense as evidenced by his negative 2.02 significant strike difference per five minutes of fight time.

Garcia, a southpaw enters with tremendous momentum. A striker as well Garcia has not seen the third round in his last four fights finishing competition that is sound but nowhere near as elite as the athletes Kattar has had to contend with.

So, Kattar enters fight one desperate hombre and Garcia, the lefty arrives on the shirttails of tremendous momentum. Garcia’s height, reach, and length advantages will set him up well in this striking affair. Garcia’s southpaw attack will serve him well against the traditional orthodox boxer Kattar.

Garcia -120

Garcia -120 to Charriere -250 parlay returns 1.57u

This fight is lined 1.5 -175 Over

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