UFC Fight Night 14 Betting

BetCRIS.com has just released the online UFC betting odds for the free Spike TV show that will air to combat the Affliction pay per view event. UFC president Dana White is hell bent on disrupting the Affliction event and making organization fail before it begins with UFC Fight Night 14

Affliction Banned has assembled a group of talented fighters especially in the heavyweight division which is one of the UFC’s weakest divisions like Tim Sylvia, Pedro Rizzo, Josh Barnett, Ben Rothwell, Andrei Arlovski, Aleksander Emelianenko and the former pound for pound fighter in the world Fedor Emelianenko. This momentous MMA event is one of the best line ups in a long time with many disgruntled stars who have no love for the UFC fighting in Affliction like Matt Lindland and Josh Barnett.

Affliction MMA has also agreed to a partnership with Donald J. Trump at a press conference held in Trump Tower. Trump addressed the press and outlined his involvement with Affliction and their entry into the world of professional mixed-martial-arts.

Despite the inroads by the Affliction clothing line to enter in to MMA Dana White has countered by putting on a free show the exact same night for free.

After his announcement at the TUF 7 Finale BetCRIS.com has put the onlein betting odds for the free UFC event on July 19, 2008

The UFC betting odds include: 

James Irvin +450
Anderson Silva -650

Kevin Burns +275 
Anthony Johnson -345

Hermes Franca +120
Frank Edgar  -150

The great dog pick to make is Kevin Burns over Anthony Johnson. Both fighters have about  the same record and since Anthony Johnson is more well known he is a huge advantage but Kevin Burns is a tough fighter who beat Roan Carneiro by triangle choke.

Burns is a better grappler and has way better skills on the ground. Don’t miss this bet at BetCRIS.com for a good payout at +275

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The Ultimate Fighter 7 is ready to premier to night on Spike TV and online sports betting sportsbook Bookmaker.com has just released the TUF 7 UFC betting odds for tonight’s fight.

Bookmaker.com release the initial fights odds for some fights but now all fights betting odds have been set up. The latest odds for the rest of the fights include:

There are some interesting lines for online sports bettors as TUF season 7 fighter Matt Brown is a +135 versus Matt Arroyo who was on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra. This is a great UFC dog pick to make as I don’t know why the online books have Arroyo as the favorite. He has only 4 fights (3-1) and one of his loses has already come to Matt Brown by TKO. I predict the same results as Brown is more experience and a heavier striker.

Dante Riviera is also a heavy dog against Matthew Riddle but Riddle is still very young and inexperienced. Rivera is 10 and 2 while Riddle has no MMA fights. The TUF show showed has immature Riddle is and in front of a big stage he will not perform well. At +180 this bet is a steal. 

Surprisingly TUF finalist Amir Sadollah is the underdog to CB Dollaway who he already beat him in the semi finals. I would stay away from this bet and bet on CB Dollaway as he was dominating the fight but made a mistake before getting arm barred.

Amir Sadollah +140 
CB Dollaway -170 

Dante Riviera +180 
Matthew Riddle -220

Matt Brown +135 
Matt Arroyo -165 

Cale Yarbrough +305 
Tim Credeur -375 

Rob Yundt +135
Rob Kimmons -165

To place a bet on these fights or the any other fights below go to Bookmaker.com for all TUF 7 bets

Kendall Grove +175
Evan Tanner -215 

Luigi Fioravanti +350
Diego Sanchez -450 

Jeremy Stephans +155
Spencer Fisher -195 

Dustin Hazelett +170
Josh Burkman -210 

Marvin Eeastman +115
Drew Mcfedries -145 

Jeremy Horn -130
Dean Lister EV

UFC TUF 7 Betting at Bookmaker.com

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Dana White Announces July 18 Frees Card

Dana White has just countered the July 19, 2008 Affliction event with a shot of his own. He will hold a free card on Spike on July 19 to offset the Affliction pay per view show. The free pay per view show will have the current pound for pound mixed martial arts fighter in the world, Anderson Silva fighting for the first time as a light heavyweight. He will be fighting James Irvin. Irvin (14-4-1) is a hard puncher who needed just eight seconds to knock out Houston (The Assassin) Alexander in April at UFC Fight Night 13.

UFC president Dana White said the Silva-Irvin card will take place in Las Vegas July 19, the same night as clothing company-turned-promoter Affliction holds its Affliction Banned show in Anaheim.  Affliction names its show Banned in response to the UFC putting a stop to fighters wearing Affliction gear at UFC events. However, many UFC stars are sponsored by Affliction clothing like Chuck Liddell, Sean Sherk, Georges St Pierre, Matt Serra and Michael Bisping. 

  That means the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter will be fighting the same night as the former pound-for-pound top fighter Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko. The UFC will be taking away a lot of potential pay per view buyers from the Affliction card whose main event includes Fedor versus former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia. The event is huge as a lot of big name MMA start will be fighting for Affliction like Josh Barnet, Matt Lindland, Pedro Rizzo, Aleksander Emelianenko, Andrei Arlovski, Matt Lindland, Josh Barnett, Vitor Belfort, Renato Sobral, Terry Martin, Mark (The Machine) Hominick and Mike Pyle.

Though the main event has been announced, Dana White has not announced the under cards except for Lightweight Frankie “The Answer” Edgar fighting Hermes Franca. A free event will definitely hurt the pay per view buys. The war is definitely on as the UFC show will be shown free on Spike TV, compared to $39.99 to watch Affliction on pay-per-view.

Though Dana White won’t admit it this means he is very scared of Affliction MMA as opposed to other MMA organizations like EliteXC as he has never done anything so drastic to derail another organization.

Now that the gloves are off it is only the mixed martial arts fan that will benefit which is reminiscent to the wars of the WWE and the WCW between Vince McMahon and Ted Turner.

Odds for the free event have not been released but check out Bookmaker.com and BetCRIS.com. These are the two online sportsbooks with the first online mixed martial arts betting lines.

The Affliction online betting lines have been released

Tim Sylvia +320 
Fedor Emelianenko -400 

Pedro Rizzo +280 
Josh Barnettt -350 

Fabio Negao +320 
Matt Lindland -400 

Mike Whitehead +215 
Renato Sobral -275 

Paul Buentello +260 
Aleksander Emelianenko -320 

Brett Cooper +240
Mike Pyle -300

Bet at Bookmaker.com and BetCRIS.com today

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Dream.4 has come and gone and the reuslt are in

Jacare puts on a dominating performance over Jason Miller and Melvin Manhoef and Zelg Galesic punch their way to the semi finals. Gegard Mousasis showed htat his victory over Denis Kang was not a fluke as he dominated Yoon Dong Sik in the stand up for a Unanimous Decision

The reults are:

Melvin Manhoef defeats Kazushi Sakuraba via TKO round 1

Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza defeats Jason Miller via Unanimous Decision

Zelg Galesic defeats Kin Taiei via TKO (arm injury) round 1

Gegard Mousasi defeats Yoon Dong Sik via Unanimous Decision

Hideo Tokoro defeats Darren Uyenoyama via Unanimous Decision

Ralek Gracie defeats Gadzhiev Alavutdin via Submission round 1

Alistair Overeem defeats Lee Tae Hyun via Knockout round 1

Shinya Aoki defeats Katsuhiko Nagata via Submission round 1

The finals will be held at Saitama, Japan in the Saitama Super Arena on September 23, 2008

Check out Boomaker.com for Dream.5 and Dream.6 online betting odds

For a detailed MMA analysis and review for of the fight go to

http://www.fighting-mma.com/dreams/dream4-mixed-martial-arts.php

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BetCRIS.com has just released the mixed martial arts online betting odds for the upcoming MMA event put on by EliteXC called Return of the King on Hawaii June 14th.

EliteXC will try to capitalize on their extraordinary event on prime time television. CBS’s inaugural MMA broadcast dominated its time slot in all key young men and young adult demographics throughout the entire telecast. The audience peaked at 6.51 million viewers from 11:30-11:51 PM which featured the night’s main event between Kimbo Slice and James Thompson

The next event is an EliteXC 160 pound title fight between KJ Noons and veteran Yves Edwards. Edwards is the favorite despite being the challenger in this fight but as a mixed martial arts bettor I like Edwards’s chances in this fight as he has better striking skills and better ground skills. His last fight versus Edson Berto, Edwards landed an amazing knee to the head. Edwards is a very exciting fighter that takes risks and will be able to surprise KJ Noons.

Betting wise after looking at the online betting lines the only underdog I like in this fight is Ron Waterman. Dave Herman is 10 and 0 and a very heavy striker but has no experience fighting big tie fights and against high level opponents. All of his fights have been KO’s in the first round against not very high level caliber fighters. His one fight against Mario Rinaldi (a better fighter) was a doctor’s stoppage in theh the round.

Ron Waterman is a heavy puncher and has very good submission skills. He KO’ed Mario Rinaldi in the first round and has fought some big names like Cro Cop, Ricco Rodriguez, Roger Gracie, Kevin Randleman, and Jimmy Ambriz. Watermans’s wreslting background will prove too mch for the hard hitting Herman.

I think the online sports betting sites are just looking at their records rather than analyzing who they have fought to determine the online betting lines

Take Waterman for a good payday at +125

If you want to place a bet on EliteXC Return of the King go to BetCRIS.com.

KJ Noons Even
Yves Edwards -130

Mushin Corbbreynick+370
Nick Diaz -450

Tony Bonell +200 
Murilo Rua -250

Dave Herman -155
Ron Waterman +125

Wayne Cole +220
Rafael Feijao -280

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Dream.4 Online Betting Odds Released

Online mixed martial arts sports betting sites BetCRIS.com and Bookmaker.com have just released their online MMA betting odds for the upcoming Dream.4 in Japan that will take place on June 14 in North America.

Cro Cop was suppose to face off with Ralek Gracie but pulled out of this special grappling match. Alexandre “Cacareco” Ferreira has been pulled off the DREAM.4 fight card due to visa issues that prevent him from entering Japan. He was scheduled to face Russian fighter Alavutdin Gadzhiev. Ralek Gracie will replace Cacareco and take the MMA fight on short notice.

Gadzhiev enters the bout off of a stoppage victory over eccentric Japanese fighter Hikaru Sato at Pancrase Shining 2. Gracie’s last MMA action saw him armbar Katsuyori Shibata at K-1 Hero’s 9.

Now that the online betting lines are out there are some surprises. I am surprised that Gegard Mousasi is such a big favorite. Yoon is also a very dangerous striker and has a good ground game. I think Mousasi got lucky against Kang and will get beat in this fight. Place your money on Yoon for a big payday.

Also Jacare is a huge favorite but he is still unproven in MMA. Jason Miller is a great all round fighter and I would lay al lot of an upset of Jacare.

One bet to stay away from is the Shinya Aoki fight. At -800 that is just too much to lay on.

Look at both BetCRIS.com and Bookmaker.com for the rest of the online MMA betting lines.

Melvin Manhoef -115 
Kazushi Sakuraba -115

Dong Sik Yoon +135 
Gegard Mousasi -165

Ronaldo Souza -160 
Jason Miller +130

Taiei Kin +180 
Zelg Galesic -220

Katsuhiko Nagata +600
Shinya Aoki -80

To read the matchup reports  for all Dream.4 fight go to http://fighting-mma.com/articles/2008/dream4-middleweight-grand-prix-second-round.php

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Top Ten Brazilian Jujitsu Grapplers

1) Alexandre “Xande” Ribeiro

Right now he is the best grappler in the world. He just beat Roger Gracie at the World’s in California in the absolute division and he is a smaller body. Xande Ribeiro was the big name of the event, conquering the absolute after defeating Roger Gracie by 4 to 2, points earned by two takedowns, while Roger scored with a sweep.

Xande Ribeiro became blackbelt open class champion for the second time. Ribeiro has fought and won at every major level and after securing a win over Roger Gracie there is no doubt he is the best BJJ fighter in the world right now.

He was named as the Submission Grappler of the Year by onthemat.com

2) Roger Gracie

Roger is perhaps the biggest, strongest fighter in BJJ today. As a member of the Gracie family he has been doing BJJ since he was in diapers. The son of Reyla Gracie (who is the daughter of Carlos Gracie) and Mauricio Motta Gomes, one of the six Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts of Rolls Gracie, he has Jujitsu in his blood. His dad MOttoa Gomes was a six time BJJ world champion and most commonly known as one of the “Famous Five”

Roger is a big strong fighter that over powers his opponents. Hew has one at every level in BJJ and in 2005 he took first place in the 88–98kg and Open-weight categories by submitting all eight opponents ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship.

3) Ronaldo de Souza

Ronaldo de Souza or Jacaré as his is best known for his aggressive style in grapping. Jacaré is one of the top submission grapplers in the world, being the 2004 and 2005 Openweight World Jiu-Jitsu Champion and 2005 ADCC Absolute Division runner-up only losing to Roger Gracie. In 2006, Jacare drew with UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture in a grappling contest.

Right now Jacaré has been focusing on mixed martial arts and has stepped back from Brazilian Jujitsu. If he was only doing BJJ he would certainly be the top spot.

4) Andre Galvao

Is known for his base and incredible balance. He is very quick and fast when he grapplers but is very patient. Once Galvao has your back he is one of the best finishers in the game. He has great half guard sweeps. At the 2008 Pan Ams he won the middleweight black belt division as well as the Brasa black belt also won the absolute division as well.

5) Antonio Braga Neto

Neto is the 2008 Brazilian JJ Champion in the Superweight division. He is a very big fighter but surprisingly agile and quick on his feet. This year seems to be his coming out party and he is one of the best BJJ fighters to watch out for.

6) Robert Drysdale

Robert Drysdale has Brazilian roots. Born in the US, his family he moved to Brazil in 1987 at the age of six where he first got the taste of Jujitsu. He received his Black Belt in 2004 from the famed Leo Vieira from the Brasa Jiu-Jitsu Club in São Paulo, Brazil. He became the 2007 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship Open Division ADCC, submitting Marcelo Garcia.

7) Marcelo Garcia

He is one of the smallest people on the list but his technical skills are among the best. His rubber guard and ability to take on and beat bigger opponents is a testament to how great and technically sound a fighter he is. Garcia is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Fabio Gurgel of Team Alliance, and is considered by many to be one of the top jiu-jitsu and submission grappling fighters. He has five world championship titles in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, two of them as a black belt (in 2004 and 2006). He lost in 2007 to Robert Drysdale in the absolute division of the ADCC. Despite his small size he has beaten some of the best in Jujitsu like Renzo Gracie, Rolls Gracie, Pablo Popovitch, Kurt Pellegrino, Ronaldo “Jacare” Desouza, Ricco Rodriguez, Jake Shields, Shinya Aoki, Chris Brennan, Renato “Babalu” Sobral, and Mike Van Arsdale.

Rafael Lovato Jr.

Rafael became the youngest American to ever receive a black belt in BJJ at the age of 21 in 2004. Many consider Rafael to be the top American BJJ competitor, and one of the best in the world. He is the first American to submit a Gracie in a BJJ competition at the black belt level. He is a 2x Pan-American Champion and an American National Champion at the black belt level.
 
9) Sergio Moraes

Sergio Moraes’ star is on the rise. At the recent 2008 World Championship, the Alliance fighter took on Rickson Gracie’s son Kron and put a beating on him. He was up substantially in points before tapping him out.

10) Tarsis Humphries

With recent showings at the Mundial, Pan Ams and now ADCC is he getting the recognition he deserves. Humphries is a young black belt at 23 years old and fights for Alliance in Sao Paolo; run by “the general” Fabio Gurgel. He trains with Marcelo Garcia and is the best thin g coming from the Fabio Gurgel camp. At the recent 2008 Pan Ams he fought Andre Galvao for gold but got a shoulder injury during the match.

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Cro Cop Withdraws from Dream.4

Mirko Cro Cop has just withdrawn from his grappling match against Ralek Gracie to give more recovery time to his nagging injuries according to Croatia’s Dnevnik.hr.

The two were suppose to meet in a Gracie special rules grappling match at Dream.4. Gracie wanted to have a grappling match as he did not want to get in a real mixed martial arts match that would follow Gracie rules. The son of Rorion Gracie the creator of the UFC wanted to protect his career and have a grappling match with no striking that would have been a definite advantage in his favor since Cro Cop is not known for his striking.

Cro Cop has apparently called of the special grappling match because he wanted to be 100% for his July 21, 2008 DREAM 5 main event against K-1 superstar Jerome LeBanner. If Cro Cop wanted to be in full health so he has called off his grappling match in order to heal his injuries. In early May, Cro Cop suffered a minor knee injury during his training

Cro Cop and LeBanner have actually competed against one another during a K-1 event in 1996, which the Croatian won via unanimous decision

Now word yet from DREAM officials if Gracie will be given a last-minute replacement or if the grappling bout will be canceled altogether.

No online mixed martial arts betting lines have been placed for this fight or any other Dream.4 online betting lines but BetCRIS.com will certainly be the first sports betting sites with Dream.4 betting odds.

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TUF 7 Betting Lines Announced

Though we have to wait to see who will be fighting for the TUF Season 7 UFC six figure contract, Boomaker.com has already released the TUF 7 online UFC betting odds for the event to be held on June 21, 2008 that will be held at the Palms Las Vegas and broadcast live on Spike TV.The semi final fights are set and Tim Credeur will fight Jesse Taylor in one semi-final match and C.B. Dollaway will fight Amir Sadollah in the other semi-final match.

The fights are set and the fights announced. Some of the UFC match ups online betting lines have not been announced for the following fights:

Matthew Riddle vs  Dante Rivera 
Matt Arroyo vs.  Matt Brown 
Rob Kimmons vs.  Rob Yundt

However Bookmaker has the early online betting lines for the following UFC fights

Kendall Grove +175 
Evan Tanner -215 

Luigi Fioravanti +350 
Diego Sanchez -450 

Jeremy Stephans +155 
Spencer Fisher -195 

Dustin Hazelett +170 
Josh Burkman -210 

Marvin Eeastman +115 
Drew Mcfedries -145 

Jeremy Horn -130 
Dean Lister EV

Early UFC handicapping reports by the fighting-mma.com staff see a great underdog bet for the Dustin Hazelett versus Josh Burkman fight.

Bet on TUF 7 at Bookmaker.com today

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How bad is Kimbo Slice?

Wow did EliteXC do everything they could so Kimbo Slice (their bread and butter) to win last Saturday night in front of prime time television on CBS. Kimbo Slice might have won the fight but there were 3 instances where it looks like the ref Dan Miragliotta was doing everything he could to make Kimbo win. Honestly it looked like the fix was in.

As we all know combat sports have always been on the up and up.

Right now Kimbo Slice is keeping EliteXC alive and if he lost against James Thompson the organization has nothing left but a side show circus clown that is known for fighting in alleyways. That’s not mixed martial arts but brawling. Slice needed to win and EliteXC needed him to win, so EltieXC would not be considered a joke organization. If Kimbo lost, the organization and the league’s creditability would be gone so why not push the fight in favor for Kimbo.
 

One thing that is for sure and that is Kimbo Slice is not a real MMA fighter and he resembles a Houston Alexander; a one dimensional fighter. Kimbo was popularized by the Internet but his skills are so unproven. He was badly exposed by Thompson who lost his last two fights by KO.

If you are a true mixed martial arts fan you like the sports for it art and skill and not for its brutality. Kimbo Slice has no business being a headliner. He reverts the sports back 15 years to the days of just street brawlers. MMA is much better than this and having Kimbo in MMA is not good for the industry. Dana White is right in the fact that Kimbo has no business in MMA and would not be able to beat any top level fighters in the UFC.

Also let’s not applaud Kimbo for battling from sleeping in the streets and bathing in the ocean like Mauro Ranallo stated. He career has been basically a bodyguard for hire for a Miami-based pornography production/promotion company responsible for a number of popular adult subscription websites, such as MILF Hunter.

Now for the conspiracy theory.

First Dan Miragliotta has not been refereeing big time fights for a long time now. First and foremost he is no John McCarthy, Yves Lavigne, Herb Dean or Steve Mazzagatti and he does not have the experience or time refereeing big time fights.

In the first round James Thompson had Kimbo Slice in a tight guillotine choke and it looked like he tapped four times to Thompson’s side. Thompson even said he tapped as he screamed it to Dan Miragliotta.

In the second round James Thompson had Kimbo on the ground and in side control and was maneuvering for punches or a submission and again Dan Miragliotta stood up the fighters prematurely when Thompson was working. Standing the fighters up gave the definite advantage to Kimbo Slice. Why wasn’t Thompson allowed to fight on the ground when he had a dominate position and not stalling.

And finally in the third round the fight looked like it was prematurely stopped after Kimbo popped hit Thompson and burst his cauliflower ear.

All I can say is hat Kimbo is perfect due to Dan Miragliotta and the EltieXC. What’s next for Kimbo? How about learning how to fight first. We should not be cheering this person; we should be ashamed we are actually watching him.

Kimbo Slice needs to learn and what mixed martial arts truly is and so should us fans. The fight was bad and embrassing for mixed martial arts.

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