The UFC stays in Las Vegas this week with a mature ladies folks’s champion within the headliner.
UFC War Evening 206 takes pronounce Saturday on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card streams on ESPN+.
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Within the predominant event, mature ladies folks’s bantamweight champ Holly Holm (14-5 MMA, 7-5 UFC) takes on Ketlen Vieira (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC). Holm is a -260 well-liked at Tipico Sportsbook; the comeback on Vieira is +195. Our 11 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers are taking Holm at a high 9-2 clip.
Within the co-honest, Michel Pereira (27-11 MMA, 5-2 UFC) meets Santiago Ponzinibbio (28-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) in a welterweight combat. Pereira is a tiny -140 well-liked, however it’s Ponzinibbio with a immense 8-3 lead within the picks.
Moreover on the predominant card, Chidi Njokuani (21-7 MMA, 1-0 UFC) takes on Dusko Todorovic (11-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) at middleweight. Njokuani is a -250 well-liked on the making a bet window and a cease to-unanimous capture from our workers members at 10-1.
Tabatha Ricci (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) meets Polyana Viana (12-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC) in a ladies folks’s strawweight combat. Ricci is a tiny -140 well-liked, and it’s cease with our pickers, too. Ricci has the smallest imaginable edge at 6-5.
And to open the predominant card, we have one other contentious combat from a selecting standpoint. Eryk Anders (14-6 MMA, 6-6 UFC) is a +160 underdog to Junyong Park (13-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC), who is a -210 well-liked. However Park has precise a 6-5 lead within the picks.
In the MMA Junkie reader consensus picks, Holm (75 p.c), Ponzinibbio (50.1 p.c), Njokuani (79 p.c), Viana (56 p.c) and Anders (53 p.c) are the choices.
Strive the overall picks above.
