Betting: UFC 276 Preview
Minty Bets is joined by Kevin Iole to preview the upcoming UFC 276 card on Saturday, July 2nd.
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MINTY BETS: UFC 276 takes place this Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm Minty Bets, and joining me to give us his best bets is Kevin Iole. Kevin, in the middleweight title bout, we've got Israel Adesanya, minus 400, versus Jared Cannonier, plus 300. I'd love to know your best bet on this one, but I think you're going to go with Adesanya, am I right?
KEVIN IOLE: I am going with Izzy. I'll tell you what, he's a tough guy to go against. And this fight, I think it really matches up very well for him because Cannonier doesn't have the other dimensions to his game that some of the fighters that he fought has. You think of a Yoel Romero with that wrestling or a Marvin Vettori, big, burly guys that maybe could get Adesanya to the ground and neutralize his striking.
Jared Cannonier himself is a striker, and so he's going to be playing into arguably the best striker in the UFC's hands. So to me, I like Adesanya in this one. I see Adesanya winning this fight.
The question to me, Minty, is does it go the distance or not. And that's going to be an interesting one. In this last-- Adesanya's last couple of fights have been distance fights. I actually think he's going to finish him this time around. I really do. And so I'm going to go with Adesanya to win by knockout in this one.
MINTY BETS: All right. Now in the featherweight title bout, we've got Alexander Volkanovski at minus 190 versus Max Holloway at plus 155. I'm kind of leaning Max here. What do you think, Kevin?
KEVIN IOLE: Well, this is a tough one. I have gone back and forth on this. This is the third time that they fought. Max was the champion when they fought in 2019 at UFC 248. And Volkanovski just basically kicked his legs off and won the title from him. They met a little while later in Abu Dhabi. And most people, including me, Minty, thought that Max had won that one. And that brings us now back to this particular fight.
But I think I'm going to lean Volkanovski here, and not with a lot of conviction. I think really if I'm putting my own money down, I might pass this one. But if I'm going to make a pick, I'm going to take Volkanovski because I think he has matured. And he's shown he knows how to neutralize, to a certain degree, Max's great striking.
He has good striking of his own. And his submission game is very good. His wrestling is good. I think he has more ways to win this fight than Max does. So I will go with Alex Volkanovski to win, although not with a lot of conviction.
MINTY BETS: To recap Kevin's picks, he's got Israel Adesanya by knockout and Alexander Volkanovski to win. Bet $10 and win $200 in free bets by signing up at BetMGM.com/YahooVIP. New customers only. Must be 21 and older. Terms apply.