Chris Cyborg's Epic Return to the MMA Spotlight & Predictions

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00:00All right, so let's move on to the Chick Featherweight fight with Cyborg, Chris Cyborg back at it.

00:11Yeah, you want to talk about legends.

00:13There is no one better probably in the women's division ever.

00:16Maybe you talk about Amanda Nunez because she did beat Cyborg when she had that brief

00:19run in the UFC, but Cyborg, the 39-year-old, is 27-2.

00:23Her only loss in MMA is to Amanda Nunez, but Checo's tough.

00:28She's only 30, although she's had 27 pro fights.

00:30People might remember her from her run-ins with Kayla Harrison when she was in the PFL.

00:34She lost those first two, got revenge in the last one before Harrison left the PFL, and

00:39now has won her last 10 fights in a row over the last couple of years.

00:42So she's been on a roll, but again, not fighting the level of Chris Cyborg.

00:45Cyborg is actually an underdog in this one, if you can believe it.

00:48Plus 116, I'm sorry, you're going to give me plus money with the baddest women to ever

00:52step in the cage?

00:53I'm going to take it, for sure.

00:54And you can even get Eric KO, TKO, to win by that at plus 240.

00:58I mean, there's no way that you're going to give me plus money with Chris Cyborg and I'm

01:01not going to take that shot.

01:02Honestly, she is going to kill this chick.

01:07I mean, she is the devil.

01:10You don't mess with this chick.

01:11She can beat up men.

01:12All right, what about the middleweight fight with Johnny Eblen and Fabian Edwards?

01:18They fought before.

01:19Yeah, they both had one fight before, after their first fight that they fought for.

01:24Eblen's title.

01:25Eblen is the Bellator middleweight champion.

01:28And it was an interesting fight, very cautious.

01:30Both guys kind of using a lot of kicks, not a ton of punches in the first two rounds.

01:34Eblen is a big wrestler.

01:35He was trying to take Edwards down.

01:37Edwards is good to fight those takedowns, obviously, with the experience of being Leon

01:41Edwards' brother.

01:42He has high-level training partners.

01:44But then all of a sudden, the third round, Eblen catches him with a nice right that drops

01:47him, jumps on him, and finishes him off.

01:49I don't see it going the same way.

01:50I see that Eblen wins it, and the book does, too.

01:52Minus 400 favorite.

01:53And that's dropped down from where it was.

01:55It was like minus 650 to start.

01:57People are taking a shot at Edwards.

01:58I'm not.

01:59I'm going with the champion, Eblen.

02:00I think he wins it again.

02:01But this time, I think it goes back to where both these guys are more comfortable.

02:04Long-distance fight, going the distance, where it's going to end in points of minus 115 either

02:09way.

02:10You know, if you look at the total rounds, it's set at four and a half.

02:12So obviously, the book thinks this is going far as well.

02:14You could also get a little bit less, you know, money that you're laying out there if

02:18you're going to go Eblen and four, five, or by decision, a minus 110.

02:21That sounds like a really good fight, Dan, if it goes four and five.

02:25Better than the other ones.

02:26Let's move on to the last one that you're going to be betting on, which is the McKee-Hughes fight.

02:35Yeah.

02:36A.J. McKee, a guy that we've known and had on this show before, this time in Bellator,

02:39former champion down in Featherweight.

02:41He's fighting Paul Hughes.

02:43He's a tough guy.

02:44You know, there's an Irish fighter.

02:45He's got 12-1 for his career record.

02:47But again, it's who have you fought?

02:49You have not fought the level of A.J. McKee.

02:51And it's a short line for A.J. McKee, minus 176.

02:54You know, I've talked to Ian Parker, who does a lot of the betting on PFL.

02:57You see him on other networks.

02:59He thinks it should be three to one, and it's only minus 176.

03:03I'll take that.

03:04If you really don't like laying the juice, you want a different way in order to get some

03:08better money value, then you go McKee by points for me at plus 155.

03:12But even at 176, you're getting value, because it should be three to one, maybe four to one,

03:15because Hughes has not fought anyone on the level of A.J. McKee.

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