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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Action Over podcast presented by FanDuel. I'm

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Speaker 2: sean Zerrella, joined today by former professional MMA fighter Billy Ward,

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Speaker 2: who is fighting through an ice storm and joining us

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Speaker 2: via audio only, So we do apologize about the audio,

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Speaker 2: but we are happy to have Billy here providing his

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Speaker 2: analysis as we break down UFC Vegas seventy, going down

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Speaker 2: this weekend at the Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna take you through the card, talk about our favorite underdogs,

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Speaker 2: our top props, and more, and finish up with some

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Speaker 2: best bets. But first we're gonna get you started with

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Speaker 2: the main event and our bets on the main event

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Speaker 2: between to Kita Krylov coming in is a minus one

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Speaker 2: seventy eight favorite, and Ryan spanned about plus one forty

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Speaker 2: five on the comeback at FANDU will be over under

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Speaker 2: set at one and a half rounds and juiced up

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Speaker 2: to that under at a round minus one fifty span

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Speaker 2: a lot of his fights, do you and inside of

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Speaker 2: round one and Billy, you are betting this fight in

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Speaker 2: an angle that has Spanned getting an early finish.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you pointed out most of Spans fights

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Speaker 3: have a tendency to end early, and if you're on

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Speaker 3: the Span side, which I am, there's just no reason

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Speaker 3: to play his money line. Straight up, he's not going

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Speaker 3: to win a five round decision, or he's very unlikely to,

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Speaker 3: and there's a few different ways you can go about it.

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Speaker 3: One of the ones I love the option that FanDuel

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Speaker 3: gives us. They're letting you bet Span in round one,

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Speaker 3: two or three at plus one ninety five, so that

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Speaker 3: covers you across the first three rounds of this fight.

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Speaker 3: We haven't really seen Span go long in any of

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Speaker 3: his fights. I have a lot of questions about his

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Speaker 3: Prefers to just lock up his power guillotine and try

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Speaker 3: to get that, which is great if it were, but

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Speaker 3: minutes to the control time of his opponent. Krylov is

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a long night for Span.

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Speaker 3: But you know, each of those rounds starts on the feet,

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Speaker 3: Span will have a fresh tank of gas at least

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Speaker 3: Span side, I think I like him a little bit

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Speaker 3: better here, just no reason to play the money line.

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Speaker 3: Take his finished props, take his inside the distance, or

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Speaker 3: you know, for even better odds at FanDuel, Span in

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Speaker 3: any of the first three rounds is plus one ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's pretty solid analysis. You know, Span

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Speaker 2: a tough fighter to get a read on, because he

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Speaker 2: He's gotten off the couch, seems to be more active

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Speaker 2: that is, but we have seen him gas out consistently

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Speaker 4: We do know that he doesn't have the best cardio.

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Speaker 2: He is a big light heavyweight, has missweight cutting the

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Speaker 2: So if Krylov can stay healthy, if he can survive

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Speaker 2: Billy and I have a consensus play here, Dantel Mays

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Speaker 2: You talked about Dontel Mays in your luck ratings this week,

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Speaker 2: there shortly as well. But Dontel May's last performance was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you mentioned the luck rating piece. This

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Speaker 3: But that fight against Homdy turns out after the fact

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Speaker 3: And Allen is no slouch as a grappler. He's a

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Speaker 2: I mentioned Alan my decision plus five hundred books where

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's necessarily going to win, but if

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Speaker 2: Our best bets for Saturday Night and underdog play that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is another one where the luck rakings I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I projected Perez a fifty five percent, so I

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Speaker 2: bet for Frankly, I like all these bets about the same,

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Speaker 2: I like Martinez in this spot for a lot of

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Speaker 2: Leavitt is going to get to the positions he needs

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Speaker 2: minus one oh two is his best bet. He likes

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Speaker 2: Tatiana Suarez, both by submission as our top props in

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Speaker 2: Billy is going to span in the first three rounds

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Speaker 2: at plus one ninety five. That'll do it for us

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