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Time: Saturday 29/7/2023 at 11.30pm GMT
UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 is a much anticipated MMA event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on July 29, 2023, at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The Poirier vs Gaethje 2 headliner will hopefully live up to expectations and will have been worth the wait.
Main Card:
Dustin Poirier vs. Justin Gaethje 155 lbs
Jan Błachowicz vs. Alex Pereira 205 lbs
Tony Ferguson vs. Bobby Green 155 lbs
Michael Chiesa vs. Kevin Holland 170 lbs
Stephen Thompson vs. Michel Pereira 170 lbs
Prelims:
Derrick Lewis vs. M. Rogério de Lima 265 lbs
Trevin Giles vs. Gabriel Bonfim 170 lbs
Roman Kopylov vs. Claudio Ribeiro 185 lbs
CJ Vergara vs. Vinicius Salvador 125 lbs
Jake Matthews vs. Darrius Flowers 170 lbs
Miranda Maverick vs. P. Cachoeira 125 lbs
M. Semelsberger vs. Uros Medic 170 lbs
Preview and early betting leans:
The main event, This is truly a coin flip in our opinion. Whatever you say about why one fighter will win, easily can be said about the other.
However let’s go with Dustin Poirier ML @8/11
just think that Dustin can go the five rounds and grind out the victory over Justin.
Vergara’s all the way down to 10/17 on some books while just yesterday he was at way better odds.
We think Vergara wins this one fairly easily. In his last fight he almost got finished by Lacerda in a crazy first round, but came back and got the TKO win in the 2nd, showing a ton of heart cause a lot of fighters wouldn’t have made it out of the 1st. Were also higher on Lacerda than most people so and thought that was impressive. Vergara also had a close fight with Ode Osbourne and beat Kleydson Rodriguez.
However, this is more of a Vinicius Salvador fade than anything.
Bagged Medic at 15/8 last night and it’s already down to 13/8 – Get on the dog now.
Semi the Jedi is a wild man and has some power, but Medic has the much more technical striking. Medic is moving up to welterweight for this fight since he’s a short notice replacement, but we think his speed and movement will transfer really nicely there since he’s already pretty big for lightweight.
Kevin Holland ML @4/6, Let’s be honest here this is 100% more of a Chiesa fade than being supremely confident in Holland. Chiesa not fighting in almost two years now while having the cushy desk job for the UFC makes us question where his heart is at in MMA.
Took Pereira @8/5 a few weeks ago assuming the line would be closer to even by fight night and happy to see it is trending that way.
The heart says Ferguson and @11/4 why not.
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