WEC-36: Hollywood, Florida – Live on Versus

5Dimes.com has released the online betting odds for WEC 36. To maximizes your betting profit, we at www.fighting-mma.com suggest  that do parlay bets for this event to lessen some of the betting lines to go in your favor.

Due to the Threat of Hurricane Ike to South Florida the WEC 36 fight has been rescheduled for November 5, 2008 which leaves more time for Paulo Filho (16-0) to get back into game shape.

The co main event has Brazilian Top Team fighter and top ten middleweight fighter in the world, Paulo Filho fighting tough MMA fighter and 2 time NCAA wreslting champion Chael Sonnen who many thought was beating Filho in their first fight. Chael Sonnen was winning the stand up battle but lost due to a verbal Submission by armbar which he claims he did not say.

The two are back to fight each other as Paulo Filho has just completed his substance-abuse recovery program due to addiction to over the counter drugs. Will the lay off and drug problem affect Filho? Is he the same pitbull fighter that was so intimating throughout his 16 and 0 career? The online sportsbooks are still saying yes as he is a -160 favorite but betting on Chael Sonnen at +130 is a very good value bet. But one thing to remember is that Chael Sonnen has lost 5 out his 9 fights to submissions to top level grapplers like Jeremy Horn, Forrest Griffin, Trevor Prangley and Renato Sobral.

But if you break down the fight

Striking: Chael Sonnen
Wrestling: Chael Sonnen
Grappling: Paulo Filho

The main event has top pound for pound fighter in the world Urijah Faber fighting Mike Brown. Brown is not a bad fighter as this ATT product has wins over Jeff Curran and  Yves Edwards. His loses have come to good fighters like Masakazu Imanari, Joe Lauzon, Genki Sudo, and Hermes Franca. At 19 and 4 Brown is a tough competitor. Remember Faber is not unbeatable he has lost in the past and there are still questions out in the MMA world if he has fought top levels guys yet. However his X Factor is his aggressiveness and overall skill. At -370, I thought the lines would be larger so Matt Brown might surprise a few in this fight.

One dog pick fighter to look at is Leonard Garcia who is a up and coming fighter. He will take on an aging Jens Pulver who may have seen better days. At +155, Garcia has much better grappling skills then Pulver.

The best value bet to make is Donald Cerrone -130. At 8 and 0 he might be a name people will be talking about in the next couple of years. He has all of his 8 wins all by submissions which means on the ground he is very dangerous. His opponent Rob “Razor” McCullough’s 3 of 4 loses have come by submission. At -130 this best bet to make in relationship to the MMA betting odds.

All WEC 36 betting lines below

Mike Brown +300 
Urijah Faber -370 

Chael Sonnen +130 
Paulo Filho -160 

Leonardo Garcia +155 
Jens Pulver -185 

Danillo Villefort +195 
Jake Rosholt -245 

Donald Cerrone -130 
Rob Mccullough EV

If you would like to place a wage for WEC 36 or another MMA or UFC event go to 5 Dimes which is on the only online sportsbook with mixed martial arts parlays and prop bets. 

 
 

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UFC 88 Breakthrough Prop Bets

UFC 88 Breakthrough sports betting props bets are now out at 5 Dimes.com
5 Dimes is the only online sportsbook to offer UFC betting proposition bets, and they have just released exotic wagers for the UFC main event between Chuck he Iceman Liddell and Rashad Sugar Evans.

Many online sports bettors are not giving Evans a chance in this fight but he has been training hard with Georges St Pierre at his Pre UFC camp in Montreal Canada.

Fighting-mma.com UFC betting prediction for this fight was with the online sportsbook odd makers in that Liddell would win this fight but the staff handicapped that this fight would go the distance.

If you bet this UFC prop bet at 5 Dimes to go all three rounds and the distance the betting adds are Liddell/Evans goes distance +100. If you did a parlay in addition to this bet it would offset the large -255 on the Liddell bet.

As a UFC bettor the odds are just a little too steep to wager on Liddell at -285. If you want to wager on Liddell he will win this fight but there are much better UFC bets to lay your money on to get a better betting return. As a wager I would lay my money on a UFC prop bet for this fight to go the distance. Rashad Evans is a very game fighter with good cardio and will be well coached by Greg Jackson. Evans will stick and move in and outside of Liddell range.

From http://www.fighting-mma.com/mma-matchups/2008/ufc-88-betting-chuck-liddell-rashad-evans.php

If you are feeling lucky you can bet on the fight to be a draw at +5000. Hey stranger this have happened and remember that Evans has also drawn in the past with Tito as UFC 73 - Stacked

UFC 88 Prop Bets

Chuck Liddell -255

Rashad Evans +215

Liddell/Evans goes distance +100
Fight won’t go distance -130

Liddell wins inside distance +123

Liddell wins by 3 round decision +231

Evans wins inside distance +847

Evans wins by 3 round decision +323

Liddell/Evans draw +5000

Liddell wins in round 1 +415
Any other result -525

Liddell wins in round 2 +545
Any other result -790 

Liddell wins in round 3 +635
Any other result 

Evans wins in round 1 +1450
Any other result -2750

Evans wins in round 2 +2700
Any other result -6000

Evans wins in round 3 +3800
Any other result -9200

Liddell/Evans starts round 3 -168
Fight won’t start round 3 +138

Liddell/Evans starts round 2  -385
Fight won’t start round 2  +295 

For all other UFC 88 money line bet check out the latest odds from 5 Dimes

Matt Hamill +200 
Rich Franklin -240

Yoshiyuki Yoshida +195 
Karo Paryisyan -235

Rousimar Palhares +175
Dan Henderson -210

Martin Kampmann +132 
Nate Marquardt -152 

Roan Carneiro -110 
Ryo Chonan -120

 
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The final online betting lines are out at online sports betting sportsbook 5 Dimes for the upcoming UFC 87 Seek and Destroy that will headline top 170 welterweight fighter Georges St Pierre versus American Kickboxing Academy fighter Jon Fitch. The online UFC betting odds are distinctly in favor of GSP at -345 but there are many online UFC betting props for this particular MMA fight. If you want a UFC handicapping prediction for this fight go to http://www.fighting-mma.com/mma-matchups/2008/ufc-87-online-betting-georges-st-pierre-jon-fitch.php

Other UFC props in bet you can wager at 5 Dimes include the other two UFC main event fight for the Kenny Florian versus Roger Huerta and the Heath Herring and WWE star Brock Lesner fight. 

With the UFC event fast approaching the rest of the fighting betting odds have been released. One fight that stands out is the Dan Evensen versus Cheick Kongo fight. Evensen is a heavy handed fighter that has a good ground game and getting the underdog betting odds at +400 might be too hard to pass up. The staff at fighting-mma.com like this bet and getting it at +400 is a great bet to make. Lay some money on this fight for a great payout as Cheick Kongo is still a one dimensional fighter.

Another great underdog bet to make is Tamden Mccrory to beat Luke Cummo. We have no idea why Luke Cummo is the betting favorite. The only explanation we can figure out is that Cummo was on the reality show and he is getting favorable odds because he was on the TV show. Hat same explanation can be said for the Ryan Thomas and Ben Saunders fight as well. Because Ben Saunders was on the TUF show he is getting favorable betting lines. Though he should be a favorite in this fight getting Thomas at +240 is a steal.

For all other UFC 87 betting lines see the odds below

Dan Evensen  +400 
Cheick Kongo  -550 

Steve Bruno  +255  
Chris Wilson  -335 Tamden Mccrory  +100  
Luke Cummo  -130

Jon Jones  +200  
Andre Gusmao  -240

Ryan Thomas  +240  
Ben Saunders  -280  

Rob Emerson  +260  
Manny Gamburyan  -320 

Jason MacDonald  +230
Demian Maia  -270

Kenny Florian  -155
Roger Huerta  +135  

Florian/Huerta goes 3 round distance  +160
Fight won’t go 3 round distance  -210 

Heath Herring  +210 
Brock Lesnar  -250 

Herring/Lesnar goes 3 round distance  +310
Fight won’t go 3 round distance  -430 

Georges St-Pierre  -345 
Jon Fitch  +285

St-Pierre/Fitch goes 5 round distance  +320  
Fight won’t go 5 round distance  -425
St-Pierre wins inside distance  -180
St-Pierre wins by 5 round decision  +479 
Fitch wins inside distance  +391 
Fitch wins by 5 round decision  +1170
St-Pierre/Fitch draw  +7000  
G.St-Pierre wins in round 1  +423 
G.St-Pierre wins in round 2  +445 
G.St-Pierre wins in round 3  +640  
G.St-Pierre wins in round 4  +785  
G.St-Pierre wins in round 5  +975
J.Fitch wins in round 1  +1485
J.Fitch wins in round 2  +1500
J.Fitch wins in round 3  +1800 
J.Fitch wins in round 4  +2100 
J.Fitch wins in round 5  +2450
Any other result  -4900 

For all other UFC 87 betting lines see the odds below

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WEC 35 will be on full display this weekend and BetCRIS has just put out the only betting lines for the event that will be held on August 3rd at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas.

One of the top welterweight fighters in the world will be fighting and if you don’t know Condit he is a force despite not much limelight. The fight of the night will be Brock Larson versus Carlo Prater. At 22-2-1 Larson is like Condit and one of MMA’s best kept secret but he will be fighting a tough Carlo Prater who is 23-5-1. The MMA betting odds have Larson as a huge betting favorite at +255 and if might be worth a wager for two similar fighters.

If there is an underdog bet to be made however, Marcus Hicks +135 is a good bet to make. Hicks is 8 and 0 in the and won his last 3 WEC fights. I really don’t know why Varner is a favorite in this fight. I would lay a large chunk on Hicks to win this fight.

The MMA betting lock of the night is the 5 and 1 Xtreme Couture fighter Dave Terrel taken on 2 and 2 fighter Blas Avena. At -165 this is the best WEC betting lock. Another great bet to make is to wager on Todd Moore -205. Though the gambling lines are not as good as the Dave Terrel fight he is well worth the investment on a fight he should easily win.

For all MMA betting lines check out the online betting BetCRIS odds below.

Hiromitsu Miura +425 
Carlos Condit -575 

Steve Cantwell +285 
Brian Stann -355 

Marcus Hicks +135 
Jaime Varner -165 

Damacio Page +190 
Brian Bowels -240 

Josh Grispi +145 
Micah Miller -175 

Carlo Prater +255 
Brock Larson -315 

Blas Avena +135 
Dave Terrel -165 

Shane Roller +165 
Todd Moore -205 

Greg Mcintyre +160 
Mike Budnik -200 

Scott Jorgensen +155 
Kenji Osawa -195

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Thought UFC 88 Breakthrough won’t happen until September 6, 2008 at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia that has not stopped the online sportsbooks oddsmakers from putting on the online UFC betting lines for this event.

The main event has Chuck the Ice Man Liddell and former UFC light  heavyweight champion taken on Rashad Evans, the winner of the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighter 2 reality show. Evans is coming in asa ahuge underdog even though he has wins over Hector Ramirez, Brad Imes, Sam Hoger, Stephan Bonnar, Jason Lambert, Sean Salmon, Michael Bisping and went to a draw against former light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz.

Chuck Liddell is coming off the biggest win of his life at UFC 79: Nemesis over Wanderlei Silva but before hat he was on a 2 fight losing streak. Is the Iceman back? Well the online sportsbook say that he is.

5 Dimes is the only online sports betting site that has some early online betting odds and for the Liddell fight and the betting lines for the Rich Franklin versus Matt Hamill fight. Though most online sportsbooks have these betting lines, 5 Dimes is the only sportsbook that has put out UFC 88 prop bets.

Some interesting UFC prop bets include +458 if Liddell wins by decision. If you are going by the odds makers and think Liddell will win why not make a prop bet for the Iceman to go the distance?  Betting +458 instead of -265 is a better bet if you think Liddell will win the fight but will win by decision.

If you are a real gambler you might want to try betting the fight might go a draw. Laying $100 to win +7500 might be a streak but stranger things have happened. Evans has gone the distance 6 times out of 14 fights and drew once.

Below are the 5 Dimes online betting lines for UFC 88 Breakthrough

 
 

Chuck Liddell -265
Rashad Evans +225

UFC 88 Prop Bets

Liddell/Evans goes distance +210 
Fight won’t go distance -270  
Liddell wins inside distance -148
Liddell wins by 3 round decision +458
Evans wins inside distance +455
Evans wins by 3 round decision +498 
Liddell/Evans draw +7500
Fight not a draw -20000

Matt Hamill  +157
Rich Franklin  -200 

The fight card has been announced and the line up includes:

Main Card

Light Heavyweight Bout:  Chuck Liddell vs.  Rashad Evans 
Light Heavyweight Bout:  Rich Franklin vs.  Matt Hamill 
Welterweight Bout:  Karo Parisyan vs.  Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Middeweight Bout:  Dan Henderson vs.  Rousimar Palhares

Preliminary Card

Lightweight Bout:  Thiago Tavares vs.  Kurt Pellegrino 
Welterweight Bout:  Matt Brown vs.  Dong Hyun Kim 
Light Heavyweight Bout:  Tim Boetsch vs.  James Lee
Welterweight Bout:  Roan Carneiro vs.  Ryo Chonan

UFC Parlay and UFC prop bets at 5 Dimes for UFC 88 Breakthrough

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EliteXC is capitalizing on the rematch between The Hands of Steel Scott Smith 13-4 versus Robbie Lawler 15-4-1 and on July 26th, 2008 at EliteXC: Unfinished Business the rematch will take place at the Stockton Arena in Stockton California.

The first match between the two was a no contest for an Unintentional foul to a poke in the eye by Lawler on Smith. Both fighters will once again compete for the EliteXC middleweight championship. Like the first fight Robbie Lawler will be coming into the fight the favorite at -220 at Bookmaker.com. However the online MMA betting odds still have Smith as a huge underdog at +180.

Justin Eilers will try to become the EliteXC heavyweight champion as he will face Bigfoot Brasilero Antonio Silva who at 10 and 1 is a huge betting favorite at -550. The 6′4 265 pound heavyweight is very light on his feet and is very agile for a super heavyweight. He trains at American Top Team which means his overall MMA game will be tight.

The one underdog pick sports bettors might like to wager on will be the Brian Caraway versus Wilson Reis fight. Brian Caraway is going into the fight as the underdog +120 despite being 10 and 2 with 9 submissions. He will be fighting Wilson Reis who is 4 and 0 with 23 submissions. This will be a ground battle and Caraway’s experience should prevail despite being an underdog.

The fight of the night will be Nick Thompson versus Jake Shields. Thompson is the underdog despite being on a 12 fight winning streak. If you like to gamble this might be a great dog pick to make at +280. If will be tough as he will be fighting top ten welterweight Jake Shields who has wins over Hayato Sakurai, Akira Kikuchi, Dave Menne, Ido Pariente, Renato “Charuto” Verissimo, Mike Pyle Carlos Condit, Yushin Okami, and Jeremy Jackson. He is currently on a 9 fight winning streak, finishing his last 4 opponents in the first round.

Sheilds is a three time Grapplers Quest Advance Champion, Pan American Games Jiu Jitsu Champion, Pan Am Open Advance Submission Champion, Gracie Open Superfight Champion, and finished 3rd place at the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in 2005. He also has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu by Cesar Gracie in February of 2007.

Bet on EliteXC at Bookmaker.com

Scott Smith +180 
Robbie Lawler -220 

Thomas Denny +450 
Nick Diaz -600 

Nick Thompson +280 
Jake Shields -350 

Christine Cyborg +150 
Shayna Baszler -180 

Justin Eilers +400 
Antonio Silva -550 

Travis Galbraith +370 
Rafel Feijao -450 

Brian Caraway +120 
Wilson Reis -150

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Most online sportsbook have betting odds for the next UFC 87 Seek and Destroy but not all sportsbook have online UFC betting props like 5 Dimes does.

The up coming UFC does have some interesting bets like MMA newcomers Brock Lesner coming into the fight as a huge favorite over mixed martial arts veteran Heath Herring. If you read the UFC handicapping betting report for this fight you might want to wager on Herring at +190.

One of the most interesting bets is the UFC prop bets is the Georges St Pierre versus Jon Fitch fight. The online props betting odds to go the distance is +400. GSP went the distance with Jon Fitch’s teammate Josh Koscheck at UFC 74: Respect. Fitch fights like Koscheck’s style and is much better so going the distance is a really good bet to make at +400. To coincide with that bet a great UFC prop would be GSP winning by decision.

If you bet on the fight going the distance why not bet on GSP to win the fight by going the distance.

If you bet $100 on the fight to go the distance at +400 and bet $100 on GSP winning the fight by 5 round decision at +601 that $200 you wagered on will net you $1001 plus your $200 back.

That’s a UFC prop betting I would make which is a better bet to make than placing a straight up bet on GSP at -310.

For all UFC prop bets check out the odds below.

Georges St-Pierre -310
Jon Fitch +255

St-Pierre/Fitch goes 5 round distance +400

Fight won’t go 5 round distance -550 

St-Pierre wins inside distance -202

St-Pierre wins by 5 rnd decision +601

Fitch wins inside distance +326 

Fitch wins by 5 rnd decision +1207 

St-Pierre/Fitch draw +7500

Fight not a draw -20000 

Rob Emerson +210 
Manny Gamburyan -270  

Jason MacDonald +190 
Demian Maia -270  Kenny Florian -155
Roger Huerta +125

Florian/Huerta goes 3 round distance +280 
Fight won’t go 3 round distance -400 

Heath Herring +190 
Brock Lesner -250

Herring/Lesnar goes 3 round distance +400
Fight won’t go 3 round distance -600

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As the Affliction Banned fight gets closer. Online sportsbooks betting lines for the Heavyweight Championship bout between Fedor Emelianenko versus Tim Sylvia have drastically moved

The opening on line betting lines for the fight opened with Fedor as a -400 betting favorite as almost all the online sport betting sites.

However as the fight draws nearer there has been a lot of movement on the lines as a lot of money has been placed on Tim Sylvia which has pushed the online Affliction Banned betting lines down to -320 in favor of Fedor.

Every though many consider Fedor to be the top pound for pound fighter in the world people are hearing claims that Fedor is overrated like what Dana White stated when he says he has not fought any top level competition in over 2 years.

The Fedor backlash is now pushing the betting lines down as he opened as a huge favorite.

If you want to bet on Tim Sylvia 5 Dimes the online sportsbook now has the lines set at

Fedor Emelianenko -320

Tim Sylvia +260

This is the best online odds in a long time. If you want to bet on Fedor I would do so now as the lines might move higher up.

However if you think Sylvia will win you might want to wait to set if the Fedor supporters jump on this online bet

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Affliction Banned Betting Lines

Online sports book 5 Dimes has just put forth their online mixed martial arts betting lines for all the undercard fights for Affliction Banned that will be held at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on Saturday July 19th.

The main event will have the former pound for pound best MMA fighter in the world Fedor Emelianenko  taking on former two time UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia. 

The online betting odds for the main event fights have been out for months as the MMA clothing line Affliction has been promotion their inaugural organization for months now. 

Online sports betting sites have had the lines out for awhile but now 5 Dimes has put out the preliminary betting odds for the undercards. For a MMA handicapping report for all undercard fights go to http://www.fighting-mma.com/articles/2008/affliction-mma-betting-preliminary-fights.php

Surprisingly the betting odds for the Antonio Rogerio Nogueira  versus Edwin Dewees are so great that betting -1050 just to make 100 dollars is just too much to wager on. Also Vitor Belfort is a huge betting advantage at -325. The best betting value might be the Black Superman Savant Young at +125. For dogs bets he has the best betting odds.

The 5 Dimes betting lines for the under card fights are shown below

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira -1050
Edwin Dewees +600

Vitor Belfort -325
Terry Martin +250

Savant Young +125
Mark Hominick -155

Mike Pyle -370
JJ Ambrose +280 

Justin Levens -215
Ray Lizama +170 

Aleksander Emelianenko -335
Paul Buentello +275

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UFC Fight Night 14 Props Bets

Not many online sports betting sportsbooks have props bets for mixed martial arts betting except for 5 Dimes.

5 Dimes is the only major online sports book that carries MMA parlay bets and MMA prop bets on major events. For the upcoming UFC Fight Night 14, 5 Dimes has online UFC prop bets for the main event fight between the pound for pound best fighter in the world Anderson Spider Silva and James Sandman Irvin.

Irvin is going to have a very tough time since he is a huge UFC betting underdog at +405 at most online sportsbooks. One wild card bet is +10000 if the fight is a draw. www.fighting-mma.com UFC handicap matchup for this fight has Anderson Silva winning by first round KO

“There is not much to say, Anderson Silva is the best pound for pound mixed martial arts fighter in the world and there will be no size disadvantage even though he is moving up a weight division.”

Read full match up report here

5 Dimes has put out a lot of UFC props bets for this fight which include:

Silva wins inside distance -283

Silva wins by 3 round decision +560

Irvin wins inside distance +561

Silva/Irvin draw +10000

Fight not a draw -30000

A.Silva wins in round 1 +210  
Any other result -270 

A.Silva wins in round 2 +290
Any other result -380 

A.Silva wins in round 3 +380 
Any other result -520 

J.Irvin wins in round 1 +1300
Any other result -2150 

J.Irvin wins in round 2 +1700
Any other result -3400 

J.Irvin wins in round 3 +2100
Any other result -4200

To wager on any UFC prop or parlay bet go to 5 Dimes today

 
 

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