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UFC 266 is a loaded card featuring the likes of Australian UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski taking on former title challenger Brian Ortega. Volkanovski is the -175 favorite vs. Ortega +145.
Vokanovski vs. Ortega was initially penciled in as the co-main event at UFC 260 in March.
"The extra paycheck earlier in the year would have been good, but you get to hype up the fight, it can get a little more personal, and the experience on The Ultimate Fighter was incredible,” The featherweight champion said. “It would have been good to fix him up earlier in the year, but it’s doesn’t matter — we got to hype the fight up, now we’re on a crackin’ card, main event, and I’ve even more of a reason to punch him in the face.”
64% of the early action was on Vokanovski.
The Valentina Shevchenko vs. Lauren Murphy, women's flyweight (title), has 76% of the early action on Murphy. She would pay out $1000 on a $100 bet with a win and she is likely BetOnline's biggest liability.
Murphy revealed she loves being the underdog and winning for gamblers. At 15-4 she's done a lot of that. She is the No. 3 fighter in her weight class, so there is obvious value in those 10-1 odds.
From The Lines:
While the odds don’t matter to Murphy, one aspect of sports betting does. She said that it does bother her if friends, family, or people she knows tell her that they’ve made a wager on her to win before the fight.
“I tell my good friends not to tell me if they’ve bet on me because, to me, that does increase pressure.”
She also recounted an incredible story along these lines about her 2020 fight with Andrea Lee. The fight at UFC 247 in Houston ended with Murphy securing a thin split-decision victory. Sometime after the fact, she found out that her coach and cornerman, Alex Cisne, had bet $1,000 on her to win prior to the match. In other words, he was coaching her and sweating his bet on her at the same time.
67% of those betting on Nick Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler were backing Diaz at -109.
- Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com
