Mad Bets: UFC 252 Betting Odds
Minty Bets and Kevin Iole discuss the betting odds for the main card of UFC 252, including the Heavyweight Title Bout between Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier. Plus, Sean O'Malley vs. Marlon Vera and Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Junior Dos Santos.
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MINTY BETS: Minty Bets here with Kevin Iole. We are gonna get Kevin's best bets for UFC 252, taking place on Saturday, August 15th here in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is an amazing card with a huge main event, which is a trilogy headlined by Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier.
Before we talk about the main event, Kevin, what are your favorite picks for the bantamweight bout between "Sugar" Sean O'Malley at minus 295 versus Marlon "Chito" Vera at plus 235? Just based on his past fights, I'm seeing a first-round knockout by Sean O'Malley here.
KEVIN IOLE: You're going with O'Malley, OK. I kind of like Chino Vera in this fight. I think this is a really big step up for Sugar Sean. If he passes this test, if he beats Chito Vera, we know he is the real thing.
Vera is a Brazilian jujitsu black belt. If there is a hole in the game of Sean O'Malley, definitely the ground. So if he wins this one, he's the real thing. But I like Marlon Vera by decision in this one.
MINTY BETS: All right, the big dog. I like it. So let's move on to the heavyweight co-main event between Junior dos Santos plus 125 versus Jairzinho Rozenstruik at minus 150. Who you got for this one?
KEVIN IOLE: You know, I'm gonna go with Jairzinho. Because Junior dos Santos, the former champion, I think he has the better boxing overall, but he gets hit a lot. And the one thing you do not want to do when you're fighting Jairzinho Rozenstruik is to get hit.
And so I think Rozenstruik will find a way to land something in this fight and knock Junior dos Santos out. I think Junior has slowed down just enough in terms of his hand speed that he's not gonna have the same kind of power he once had. I look for a Rozenstruik to win this by knockout.
MINTY BETS: Alrighty. And moving on to the main event, a heavyweight title bout between Stipe Miocic minus 105 versus Daniel Cormier at minus 115. I'm thinking this fight doesn't go all five rounds. Kevin, what do you think?
KEVIN IOLE: Well, they've fought twice before, scheduled for 10 rounds, and they haven't gone all five in either of those two fights. So I think you have a pretty safe bet there, Minty. I think this time, I like Cormier to win this fight. He won the first fight by first-round knockout.
The second fight, he won the first three rounds, but you saw Cormier-- or excuse me, Miocic make an adjustment in that fight. And he started going to the body. And it started paying off, and he was able to finish Daniel. I think this time you're gonna see Cormier use what is his bread and butter, which he didn't really use in those other fights, his wrestling. So I think DC is going to use his wrestling.
I wouldn't be surprised if it went the whole way if he uses wrestling a lot. But I think once he gets him down on the ground, we'll see Daniel throwing those elbows. And I could see DC becoming the champion again and the storybook finish, retiring as the UFC heavyweight champ.
MINTY BETS: Beautiful. Should be a really exciting event. Thank you so much, Kevin.
KEVIN IOLE: Thanks, Minty.
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