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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Action Network Podcast presented by Fandel I'm

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Speaker 1: your host Brendan Glasheen. Today UFC Betting Preview UFC two

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Speaker 1: to eighty eight going down from the Prudential Center in Newark,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. Joined by Billy Ward, former MMA fighter, one

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Speaker 1: of our great contributors at Action Network. We will get

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Speaker 1: into his luck ratings, which he delivers each and every

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Speaker 1: week for the UFC cards. Billy will decipher whether or

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Speaker 1: not there's an edge in terms of what the line

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Speaker 1: presents for each fight. So we'll dive into that. You

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Speaker 1: And today special guest filling in for Shanzarello. We have

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Speaker 1: Action Network Senior editor Dan Stupp with us today, gents,

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Speaker 1: as we normally do. Dan, I'm sure you know the

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Speaker 1: drill from tuning into the pod and being with us

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Speaker 1: at Action Network. We will decide who we like for underdogs.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into props. We have the Fight of the Night,

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Speaker 1: Burns and Muhammad. We'll break that one down and then

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Speaker 1: we'll finish up with quote unquote best bets, which that's

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Speaker 1: always a unique discussion on this show because we think

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Speaker 1: every bet on UFC pod is the best bet. So

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Speaker 1: but first main event, Al Jamaine Sterling, Henry Sahudo very

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Speaker 1: tight line here, Sahuto Billy is the favorite at minus

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Speaker 1: one twenty. Sterling, the hometown kid makes his return. He's

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Speaker 1: from Uniondale, New Jersey. He's at minus one oh six

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Speaker 1: at FanDuel, which way we lean in here. I know

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Speaker 1: Al Jamaine is not shy to be very outspoken and

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Speaker 1: he's very fired up to be back home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a really fun fight. I know a

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Speaker 3: lot of people have been kind of down on this

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Speaker 3: pay per view, but I think this is a tremendous fight,

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Speaker 3: very intriguing. Sterling is the current hundred thirty five pound champion.

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Speaker 3: Henry Shudo retired in air quotes three years ago as

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Speaker 3: the champion, having never lost it. So, you know, we

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Speaker 3: as the lineal or the legitimate hundred thirty five pound champion.

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Speaker 3: But you know, one of those guys has been out

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Speaker 3: You reference the luck ratings a little bit earlier. I

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Speaker 3: think we could kind of make a case that both

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Speaker 3: these guys have been a little bit lucky to have

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Speaker 3: the record they have. Sterling won one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 3: five pound title with a disqualification against Potter Yan defended

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Speaker 3: it with a very close split decision. I thought it

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Speaker 3: was the right call, but you could certainly make a

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Speaker 3: case that it wasn't. And then his next title defense

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Speaker 3: was against TJ. Dillashaw, who came in with one arm

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Speaker 3: and basically never stood a chance in that fight. Sahudo

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Speaker 3: on his side, he has a couple of real close

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Speaker 3: split decisions and title fights won at one to twenty five,

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Speaker 3: one thirty five. Again, nothing I would say is a robbery.

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Speaker 3: He didn't necessarily deserve to win, but it wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: been a big leap to see him not winning either

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Speaker 3: of those fights. So from a luck rating standpoint, I

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Speaker 3: don't think there's a ton to split this one. So

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Speaker 3: when we have close fights like this, I like to

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Speaker 3: look at and Drillo and I discussed this most weeks.

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Speaker 3: Of the three facets of MMA, who's got an edge

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Speaker 3: in two of them, and that's striking, wrestling and then grappling.

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Speaker 3: Once it gets to the ground. Sterling is so much bigger.

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Speaker 3: He's got three inches of three and a half inches

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Speaker 3: like it'll be really interesting to see how he makes

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Speaker 3: So I think that's more than enough to give him

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Speaker 3: a striking advantage. So Hudo has some knockouts on his records,

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Speaker 3: but they've really all been set up with the threat

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Speaker 3: of the wrestling. He's not just coming out there and

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Speaker 3: piecing people up with his striking. So Hudo two thousand

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Speaker 3: and eight. You know, gold medalist in wrestling, clearly the

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Speaker 3: better wrestler, but I think Sterling's better once it gets

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Speaker 3: to the ground. He has better submissions, excellent backtakes. So

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Speaker 3: that makes it tough for Suhudo because I don't know

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Speaker 3: He certainly can, but whether it's workout for him once

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Speaker 3: it gets there is a big question. And Suhudo is

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Speaker 3: That's really tough against Sterling because he might have the

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Speaker 3: best back takes in MMA. He you know, backpacked Peter

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Speaker 3: Yan for very large portions of both of their fights.

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Speaker 3: That's just kind of his thing. So of things considered,

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Speaker 3: if Suhudo was fresh and active and we knew he

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Speaker 3: hadn't lost a step, I'd say this line is about right.

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Speaker 3: It would be about to pick them. But we don't

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Speaker 3: know any of those things. He could be a bit slower.

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Speaker 3: He's thirty six, he hasn't fought in three years, He's

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Speaker 3: small for the division. Whatever percent chance you apply to

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Speaker 3: Sudo being not his best self, that's roughly your edge,

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Speaker 3: I think in the Sterling side. So minus one eleven.

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Speaker 3: I like him. Wish I would have got on when

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Speaker 3: you could get a little bit better odds, but it's

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Speaker 3: listen to this, you might get minus one oh five

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Speaker 3: or even money on Sterling. But I'm more than happy

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Speaker 1: Nice. So many questions dan surrounding this fight. Sahuto, the age,

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Speaker 1: the layoff is Billy mapped out there. The other questions

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Speaker 1: about how can he go up against Sterling and his

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Speaker 1: grappling technique, How do you break this one down? And

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Speaker 1: where do you see an edge potentially?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think Billy kind of sold me earlier

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Speaker 4: in the week on Sterling. I think it's the right

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Speaker 4: play here. I think even without the layoff and the

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Speaker 4: Henry Shuda, I think Sterling's the right play here. Like

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Speaker 4: you said, the scrambles, I think some of the submissions

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Speaker 4: as Sahuda probably does have a whole lot of experience with.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, he's an Olympic gold mess wrest Olympic

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Speaker 4: gold medalist wrestler, but he's facing some really funky jiu

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Speaker 4: jitsu that he probably hasn't experienced a whole lot in

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Speaker 4: his career. You know, there's also a stat that's going

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Speaker 4: around this week, and I've mentioned it a few times

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Speaker 4: that when fighters are thirty five or older, they're two

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Speaker 4: and twenty eight in USC title fights at one hundred

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Speaker 4: just underscores that in these lighter divisions, like any you know, anything,

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Speaker 4: you start giving away with age, which is usually your

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Speaker 4: chin and your speed and things like that, the younger

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Speaker 4: I don't bet strictly on kind of the trends and stuff,

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Speaker 4: but I think that's a really telling one. And the

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Speaker 4: the you know guy, The older guys really excel in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and to your point with the lighter weight classes,

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Speaker 3: just making weight is harder the older you get is

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Speaker 3: you know, most of us can attest to. It's just

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Speaker 3: it's harder to keep that weight off and all the

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Speaker 3: damage you're doing to your body with those dehydrations. Everyone

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Speaker 3: is a little bit harder than the last one. You

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Speaker 3: take a guy like Sahudo, who in two thousand and

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Speaker 3: and then continue to do that for essentially his whole life,

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Speaker 1: Okay, main event on pay per view, looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Sterling and Sahudo very very short favorite in Sihudo so

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Speaker 1: we'll find out if that. As Billy said, keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on the price. It could change over the next

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Onto our favorite underdogs. Billy, a lot

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Speaker 1: of closed lines here, as we said, with this fight,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of the theme for this car. Where

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Speaker 1: are you finding value with the underdog this week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really love any specific underdogs here. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna mention two real quick. Braxton Smith is about one

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Speaker 3: forty fighting park reporter. I'm going to mention him with

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Speaker 3: one of my props. I also I'm going to have

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Speaker 3: a little bit of a sprinkle on Joseph Holmes at

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Speaker 3: plus one thirty two. Holmes is fighting Claudio Hiberio, who's

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Speaker 3: haven't seen him do it yet. Holmes is one and

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Speaker 3: two in the UFC, but you know he's beaten the

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Speaker 3: UFC level competitor at least once. Holmes is also much

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Speaker 3: taller and longer and has the grappling advantage. I'm not

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Speaker 3: sold on him. I don't think Holmes is a great

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Speaker 3: fighter by any stretch, but to get plus money against

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Speaker 3: a guy who's never won a fight in the UFC

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Speaker 3: at that one Dan.

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Speaker 1: Underdog that you might like this week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty chalky this week, and I'll probably be

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Speaker 4: on a lot of favorites and prop bets, but one,

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Speaker 4: because I hate that I like this bet, but Chrome

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Speaker 4: Gracie versus Charles Ordain they opened the pay per view

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Speaker 4: main card. Gracie's coming off of three and a half

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Speaker 4: year layoff, so of course I'm going to back him

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Speaker 4: because that's a very smart play. But honestly, he's older.

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Speaker 4: He didn't look real great in his last fight. I

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Speaker 4: think maybe we're getting a bit of a discount on

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Speaker 4: him just because he did look so terrible. But again,

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Speaker 4: he's a jiu jitsu guy, and he's not just a

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Speaker 4: level jiu jitsu black belt. He really I think just

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Speaker 4: needs to get to this fight to the ground once

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Speaker 4: I think he's going to probably get the submission here.

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Speaker 4: So him at plus one fifty two at fan duel,

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Speaker 4: I think he can get him via submission at plus

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Speaker 4: two thirty. I like those bets.

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Speaker 1: one fight that we have targeted on the main card.

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Speaker 1: It's no surprise that we're targeting Gilbert Burns and Balal Muhammad.

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Speaker 4: I've lost a lot of money betting on Bala Mohammed,

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Speaker 4: I wish it was plus two hundred like Billy's bet,

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Speaker 4: but at plus one seventy, I'm really happy with that bet.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating with the Ramadan angle two is very interesting.

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Speaker 1: Let's explore the prop market over at FanDuel Tons to

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Speaker 1: find when it comes to UFC Billy, where did you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is, you know, almost to prop squad levels

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Speaker 3: Five straight first round victories in the last like eleven months.

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Speaker 3: Reporter three and three in the UFC All three of

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Speaker 3: Park Reporter's losses first round. You know, Park Reporter's kind

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Speaker 3: But we've got one guy with one way to win

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Speaker 1: Dan favorite prop for UFC two eighty eight.

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Speaker 4: I've got a pair of them from the prelims. I

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Speaker 4: By Ko's only minus one twenty. I think that's his

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Speaker 1: All right, as we normally do, we wrap with our

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Speaker 3: Say as I like to say, it's our last bet.

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Speaker 1: give that caveat your final bet today, Billy for UFC

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, fifty one to forty nine.

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Speaker 3: This probably is my best bet on the card, and

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Speaker 3: So Drewover a knockout minus one ten. This one's almost

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Speaker 1: All right, Dan, take us home your best bet.

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Speaker 4: We're coming from the cut from the same cloth. I

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Speaker 4: I like Billy broke it down perfectly. But I think

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Speaker 1: All right, gents, great stuff, Thank you very much. Again.

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Speaker 3: That one's gone. Sorry guys to vote on that one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, still great headline, so if you but for

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Speaker 1: the other fights that are applicable, you can check that out.

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