UFC 132 Picks

UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber II

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena
Broadcast: Pay-per-view and Spike TV and Facebook

MAIN CARD

• Champ Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber (for bantamweight title)
• Wanderlei Silva vs. Chris Leben
• Ryan Bader vs. Tito Ortiz
• Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim
• Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

• Melvin Guillard vs. Shane Roller
• Rafael dos Anjos vs. George Sotiropoulos

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)

• Brian Bowles vs. Takeya Mizugaki
• Aaron Simpson vs. Brad Tavares
• Anthony Njokuani vs. Andre Winner
• Jeff Hougland vs. Donny Walker

 

While the mma world is still talking about the whole Nate Marquardt fiasco, there is actually another mma event taking place this weekend!  Though it seems like the more interesting wager is to Bet on What did Nate Marquardt do? Turns it was a failed Hormone replacement test in which he failed weeks in advance, and he gave indications to both the commission and Dana White that everything would be ok by the time UFC on Versus 4 took place.  Sorry Nate, Fail.

The main event is a rematch 4 years in the making when both Urijah Faber and Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz were still very green.  Cruz has since gone on and win every single fight presented to him.   This will be a very hard fight to bet on, both are very similar in talent.  One thing you should definitely bet on is fight distance, as this fight will surely go 5 rounds.  Both fighters have gone full distance more often than not in the past few years.  Though Urijah has looked good in his 2 fights in this division, I would still give Dominick the edge in the debut Bantamweight championship fight in the UFC.

Wow Wanderlei Silva versus Chris Leben, don’t blink has these two will be throwing down.  Silva looks to be fully committed at the middleweight level now and showed it with a nice win over Bisping.  Leben lost his last fight badly to Brian Stann.  Though he will be looking to rebound, it wont be enough, he hasn’t faced another banger quite like Wandy in a long time.

Ryan Bader vs Tito Ortiz is looking more like Tito’s retirement match, at least it should be.  Tito is too stubborn to acknowledge that he has lost his edge, but has the heart to go out fighting.  Bader is the wrestler that Tito once was, and will get back to winning ways easily here.

Another very close fight on this card will be the matchup of Carlos Condit and Dong Hyun Kim.   After losing his UFC debut to Martin Kampmann, Carlos Condit has looked unstoppable beating a very tough trio in Jake Ellenberger, Rory MacDonald, and Dan Hardy, convincingly.  Dong Hyun Kim on the other hand is still unbeaten in his mma career at 14-0-1, most recently topping Nate Diaz.  Though Kim is good, he just doesn’t seem to have to X factor or even the ability to finish as Condit does.  If Kim does pull off the win, it will be by decision, but I can see Carlos getting very close to a title shot with his win here.

Both Matt Wiman and Dennis Siver are on 3 fight win streaks with one of them about to end on July 2.  Siver’s wins have been more impressive though, especially the last fight beating the previous perfect George Sotiropoulos, and looked very good in the win.  Now it’s time for these 2 to stop being gatekeepers and push to the next level, I believe it will be Siver victorious here.  His combination of striking and submissions is crazy.

UFC 132 Fight Odds

• UFC 132 •
Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber	-150 +120	-150 +120	-140 +120	-150 +120	1.75 2.30
Melvin Guillard vs. Shane Roller	-275 +215	-280 +220	-270 +230	-280 +210	1.32 3.10
Ryan Bader vs. Tito Ortiz	-500 +300	-550 +375	-500 +400	-500 +300	1.24 5.00
Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman	-135 +105	-130 +100	-125 +105	-130 EV	1.83 2.16
Chris Leben vs. Wanderlei Silva	+155 -185	+155 -185	+155 -175	+155 -185	2.50 1.65
Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim	-125 -105		-105 -115	-125 -105	2.02 1.94
Andre Winner vs. Anthony Njokuani	+ -		+ -	+ -	1.90 1.01
Brian Bowles vs. Takeya Mizugaki	- +	+ -	- +	- +	1.01 1.01
George Sotiropoulos vs. Rafael Dos Anjos	- +		- +	- +	1.40 2.40
Aaron Simpson vs. Brad Tavares	- +	- +	- +	- +	1.01 2.40
Donny Walker vs. Jeff Hougland	- +		- +	- +

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