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Speaker 1: The Action Network Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Action Network podcast. This is your UFC

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Speaker 2: Fight Night two to four betting preview. Brendan Lasjeen back

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Speaker 2: with you on the Action Network Podcast, joined by Action

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Speaker 2: Network senior writer Sean Zarillo and former professional MMA fighter,

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Speaker 2: MMA analyst at the Action Network Billy Ward. UFC Fight

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Speaker 2: Night two oh four takes us across the pond the

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Speaker 2: two Arena in London. This is the first UFC event

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Speaker 2: in London in three years. We have twelve fights on

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Speaker 2: the card, six on the main card, six prelimbs. Our

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Speaker 2: main focus here on the podcast for the next twenty

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Speaker 2: minutes or so the main event. Of course, we'll get

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Speaker 2: to the guys fight of the night. We have underdog plays,

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Speaker 2: favorite props, a look on the DFS slate with Billy,

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Speaker 2: and of course best bets. So we start with the

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Speaker 2: main event. Alexander Volkov at plus one ten. You can

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Speaker 2: find odds anywhere. Of course, we're looking at MGM right now,

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Speaker 2: eight and three in UFC this year. Tom aspinall at

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Speaker 2: minus one thirty. He's four to zero in UFC fights

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Speaker 2: this year. This is a heavyweight fight. Sean will go

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Speaker 2: to you first. What is your opening thought? And how

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Speaker 2: are you approaching this particular fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go against the heart and go against

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Speaker 3: one of my favorite fighters or prospects in Tom Aspinall,

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Speaker 3: and take Alexander Volkov here at plus one ten, projecting

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Speaker 3: him around fifty one percent. I think he should be

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Speaker 3: favored now. Ospinaal is very talented, very fast hands, tons

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Speaker 3: of power. He's a big kid too, and he's a

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Speaker 3: dangerous scrappler if he gets this fight to the mat.

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Speaker 3: But we haven't really seen him have success pass the

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Speaker 3: seven minute mark, and that goes back to his regional days,

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Speaker 3: just thirteen professional fights in his career, so Volkov more

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Speaker 3: than thirty professional fights. In addition to Aspinall's experience any

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Speaker 3: space better competition, so Aspinall coming up in competition and

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Speaker 3: doing something he's never done before. Typically, when a fighter

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Speaker 3: starts their first twenty five minute fight, they're very established

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Speaker 3: a pace for fifteen minutes. Aspinall's never had to do

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Speaker 3: be seen how he's gonna fare if this fight gets extended.

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Speaker 3: And Volkov is a very likely opponent to extend the fight.

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Speaker 3: Been in twenty five minutes about six times, very familiar

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Speaker 3: with main events, as I said, very familiar with top

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Speaker 3: level opponents. And if Aspinall can't get him out of

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Speaker 3: there early, Volkov should eventually pick up steam as this

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Speaker 3: fight goes. Should make use of his link advantage, frontkicks

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Speaker 3: over and over. Expect him to win minutes on volume

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Speaker 3: Aspinall I think should have some six early success. Maybe

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Speaker 3: he even knocks Volkov down, he steals the first round,

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Speaker 3: maybe the second round. You could look to jump in

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Speaker 3: on Volkov live after round one, round two. I do

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Speaker 3: expect him to drown Aspinall late. I'm also taking Volkov's

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Speaker 3: late props. Round three is plus eighteen hundred, round FoST

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Speaker 3: hundred sprinkle each of those take Volkov on the money line,

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Speaker 3: and I'm also betting the fight to end inside the

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Speaker 3: distance minus one fifty at bet MGM. I projected that

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Speaker 3: line closer to minus one eighty five. Aspinall early Volkov late,

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Speaker 3: I do expect his fight to end inside the distance.

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Speaker 2: Billy, how about yourself? How are you approaching the main event?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty much with Sean here. I don't plan

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Speaker 4: on betting this pre fight. If I had to, I

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Speaker 4: think I would go with Ospinall by knockout at plus

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Speaker 5: But I'm with Sean. I'm looking to live bet this.

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping Aspinall comes out as hard as he normally does,

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Speaker 4: kind of gasses himself out, but wins round one or

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Speaker 4: on the Volkov side. If that line gets even better.

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Speaker 2: Aspinall has won seven straight fights overall, all by stoppage,

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Speaker 2: as this fight gets underway on Saturday. Let's move to

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Speaker 2: our favorite underdogs. Billy will go to you first on

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Speaker 2: your favorite dog for the car.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my favorite dog is definitely Paul Craig.

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Speaker 4: I think he's up to plus one sixty five some

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Speaker 4: So he's gonna make this a ground fight one way

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Speaker 4: to him. I think he probably gets a takedown. Krylov's

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Speaker 4: skinny guy. Guys like that they've got more limb to

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Speaker 4: So I really like his money line at where it's

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Speaker 5: Beats him up.

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Speaker 4: But four to fifty is pretty long. Not'stre a guy

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Speaker 2: And Sean you have you have similar thoughts to Billy

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Speaker 3: The one underdog money line where I'm showing value for

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Speaker 3: I do think there's value on his side. That said,

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Speaker 3: there is a better way to play him to win

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Speaker 3: underdogs I did look at on this card, Smil I'm

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Speaker 3: to rock Himov and Kazula Vargas considered making both of

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Speaker 2: Paul Craig unbeaten in his last five fights, and as

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Speaker 2: Billy mentioned, you can get him over on Draftking at

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Speaker 2: plus one sixty five. Our fight of the night for

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Speaker 2: the guys, they are looking to Dan Hooker at plus

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the coman in the main event on this card,

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Speaker 3: both fights, the underdog is the rightful favorite. Have Hooker

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Speaker 3: Preferred way to play this fight. We'll touch on that

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Speaker 3: at the end of this podcast. But to me, Dan

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Speaker 3: Hooker returning to featherweight should be absolutely massive in the cage,

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Speaker 3: At times. We'll just stand there and not throw enough volume.

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Speaker 3: It tends to get a little frustrating. He would have

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Speaker 3: lost his last fight against the beeke YUSUF if he

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Speaker 3: Allen in that fight, so it was very sweaty. But

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Speaker 3: Dan Hooker higher level of competition. Alan taking a step

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Speaker 3: to me, Dan Hooker not only the experience, but also

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Speaker 3: the skill and the size advantages give me Dan Hooker.

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Speaker 2: He is the older fighter in this matchup, big time finisher,

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Speaker 2: all action approach or some of his strengths. Billy Allen

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Hooker's age because that's a

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Speaker 4: that doesn't always end that well. You know, the speed

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Speaker 4: know he made weight, no problem, but he is super

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Speaker 5: Advantage that definitely helps with the takedowns.

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Speaker 4: So when we've got power, as Sean mentioned, you know,

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Speaker 4: I like, you know, the guy who's coming up and

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Speaker 4: trending in the right direction. Whereas Hooker's lost three of

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Speaker 3: And I think that's where our opinions slightly diverge. I

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Speaker 3: don't really see Alan having that grappling success. Would you

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Speaker 3: say Billy. If Alan doesn't hit a takedown, would you

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Speaker 3: say Hooker is more likely to win the fight?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, I think he gets one or two. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I'm worried generally going against these

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Speaker 3: going to see some pretty biased scorecards on Saturdays. So

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Speaker 3: not going to have too much invested against the Brits.

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Speaker 3: If anything, I'd want to be taking their decision props.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something. I mean, Hooker hasn't lost to

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Speaker 2: our Action Network MMA analysts Sean Zarillo and Billy Ward.

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Speaker 2: Shawn's been looking forward to this. We now explore the

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Speaker 2: prop market for the big fight night in London. Sean,

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Speaker 2: let's go prop market time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good card for prop betting, not as good for

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Speaker 3: money lines or totals. So Billy talked about Paul Craig

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Speaker 3: being our favorite underdog of the night, which I fully

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Speaker 3: agree with. But I think the better way to play

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Speaker 3: Craig is by inside the distance plus three thirty at DraftKings.

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Speaker 3: I make this line closer to plus two hundred. I

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Speaker 3: would say it finishes around eighty percent of his wing condition.

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Speaker 3: The market's saying it's closer to sixty percent fifty five percent.

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Speaker 3: Completely disagree with that. Craig has been to the decision

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Speaker 3: once in his career. All of his wins are by

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Speaker 3: a good under one and a half rounds bet. But

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Speaker 3: Craig inside the distance plus three thirty cry Loov, even

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Speaker 3: if he doesn't get taken down, it's likely that he

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Speaker 3: tries to take Craig down at some point. He's attempted

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Speaker 3: eighteen takedowns in his last three fights. If he keeps

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Speaker 3: the feet, but he really seems to want to wrestle late,

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Speaker 3: and that's probably a bad idea. Diving into Craig's guard.

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Speaker 3: He'll throw up triangles, I'll hammer you with elbows, I'll

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Speaker 3: do a variety of things in his guard which are

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Speaker 3: So instead of taking that plus one sixty on Craig's

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Speaker 3: at plus three thirty submissions odds as Billy mentioned plus

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Speaker 3: four to fifty as well, and the one other prop

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Speaker 3: I want to mention Corey McKenna inside the distance plus

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Speaker 3: three thirty three, but at MGM also plus seven to

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Speaker 3: fifty by submission. I think those are terrific odds a

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Speaker 3: finish this fight with one takedown Billy favorite prop.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned the inside the distance on

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Speaker 4: Craig notes that gives you a little bit of insurance

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Speaker 5: But uh no, I'm going way off the rails with this.

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Speaker 4: I actually like Ji Herbert by knockout at plus six hundred.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's a huge underdog against Tilperia. I think

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Speaker 4: Tilperia might be a little distracted with this whole beef

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Speaker 4: he's got going with Patty Pimblet and everything they're getting into.

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Speaker 4: And Herbert has an eight inch reach advantage in this one,

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Speaker 4: so I don't think he's necessarily the better fighter. When

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say that's the vast majority of his win

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Speaker 5: It just looks like a good spot for that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no way he wins a decision or you know,

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Speaker 2: Let's move to the DFS side of things. Billy really

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Speaker 2: specializes in this cay So, Billy, we've got the UFC

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Speaker 2: Ospinaal is our most expensive. I checked that our most

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Speaker 2: some expensive fighters on this card. How are you going

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Speaker 2: about we'll start GPPs. How are you going about constructing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the big one with this, I think between Pimblet

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Speaker 5: Of those guys.

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Speaker 4: They'll both be high individually, but given their salaries, it's

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Speaker 4: find savings otherwise, So I really like Luana Carolina down

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Speaker 5: Shore and Paul Craig for GPPs. They're both fairly cheap.

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Speaker 4: You know, we've been all over Craig to get a

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Speaker 4: Their salaries are both pretty reasonable, so whoever gets the

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Speaker 5: Unlike the last couple of cards.

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Speaker 4: Where we've seen real expensive main event favorites not make

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess the question I have is, like we

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Speaker 4: Right, there is, but they get so much more points

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Speaker 4: for ending a fight early by stoppage than they do late.

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Speaker 4: And that's kind of the thesis with these five round

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Speaker 4: only time I really like fading those is when one

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Speaker 5: Because that makes it hard.

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Speaker 4: But when these guys are both was a eighty three

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Speaker 5: Those salaries is almost definitely going to be in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and speaking of cash games, give us some value

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I mentioned Milana Carolina earlier her fight.

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Speaker 4: I think she's a pretty live underdog to win, but

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Speaker 4: Timervaliev for similar logic.

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Speaker 5: That one. I had to look up what the stoppage

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Speaker 4: It is plus one sixty five to stop, so we

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Speaker 4: They're a little bit higher floor.

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Speaker 2: Sean, You got any thoughts on these on these picks,

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Speaker 2: I know built this is more of Billy's wheelhouse here,

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Speaker 3: He mentioned McCann Carolina fight. You know, McCann being from England,

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Speaker 3: I'd say McCann to win by split decision is probably

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Speaker 3: a little careful about Luana Carolina not getting the scorecards.

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Speaker 3: That's that's going to be a gross, ugly fight that

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Speaker 3: is going to be very difficult to score. So the

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Speaker 3: one that really stuck out to me was Pavovic. He's

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Speaker 3: might be might be in my DFS lineups. I think

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Speaker 2: Five fighters with a salary north of nine thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: So there's just a little bit more to work with.

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Speaker 2: It feels like, as Billy mentioned in previous weeks, Okay,

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Speaker 2: our best bets for UFC Fight Night two O four Again,

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Speaker 2: it's at the O two in London, and Sean, we'll

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Speaker 2: start with you best bet for the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we already talked about the coming of van between

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Speaker 3: Dan Hooker. Billy and I disagreed on side, and I

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Speaker 3: think that's okay. This is going to be a really tough, close,

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Speaker 3: the distance two thirds of the time sixty seven percent

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Speaker 3: or minus two hundred implied. You can get a minus

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Speaker 3: one forty at bet MGM. I think that's a terrific

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Speaker 3: and Billy best bet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mentioned him with the DFS, but I'm on Jack

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Speaker 4: Shor's money line. He's about even money. I also like

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Speaker 4: him inside the distance at plus four fifty. He's fighting

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Speaker 4: tim Arvaliev, who if you look up as a record,

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Speaker 4: so that's a no contest now. But Valiev is going

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Speaker 5: And you see that a lot with guys who are used.

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Speaker 4: To be in the one going for the takedown, they

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Speaker 4: But yeah, that's gonna be the money line being my

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Speaker 3: One, taking sure by decision plus two forty at Faeduel.

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Speaker 5: I like that bet as well.

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Speaker 2: Nice, very good. There are a lot of fights on

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Speaker 2: this card folks that have shorter odds than usual weeks,

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Speaker 5: Week, folks.

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