UFC 239 – Best Bets
The Octagon Yields to T-Mobile Center in Las Vegas for Saturday night's 11-fight UFC 239 card.
The show comes with a pair of name fights, together with MMA's best-ever fighters on the men's and women's side defending their respective belts.
Jon'Bones' Jones is set to take on Thiago Santos at the primary event. Jones was a -600 favorite at most books as of Tuesday, but the Westgate SuperBook had Jones at -850 late Friday afternoon. Santos was a +575 underdog at the Westgate. Quite a few offshore shops had Jones at a less expensive price from the -650 neighborhood. The total was 2.5 rounds ('beneath' -135,'over' +105) at most spots.
Jones (24-1-1 MMA, 18-1-1 UFC) has had his hands raised 25 times in 26 career fights. His only"loss" was a disqualification for illegal 12-to-6 elbows at a blowout win over Matt Hamill on Dec. 5 of 2009. His third-round knockout win over Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 was overturned and transformed to a no-decision
when Jones tested positive for the PED turinabol.
Jones seems -- for now -- to be on the right path outside of the cage lately. This is his third fight in a period of six months and a week, marking his most activity since 2011-12. He's indicated he wishes to fight at least three occasions in 2019.
Jones is off a unanimous-decision triumph over Anthony Smith at UFC 235 at March. He dominated Alexander Gustafsson using a third-round KO victory at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 of 2018. Before those two victories, various suspensions and arrests enabled him to compete just four times in a period of more than five decades.
Jones has cleaned the light-heavyweight division during his career. At a five-fight stretch from March 19 of 2011 to Sept. 22 of 2012, he won the belt and successfully defended it four times. All five of those wins came over former champions -- Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans and Vitor Belfort.Just Evans travelled the distance with Jones during that span.
Santos (21-6 MMA, 13-5 UFC) is 8-1 in his past nine struggles since February of 2017. He has ripped six fight-night bonuses in this stretch. The 35-year-old Santos competed at middleweight his entire career until moving around 205 lbs to face Eryk Anders in the UFC Fight Night 137 headliner in Sao Paulo past September.
Anders took the fight on six days of note if Jimi Manuwa pulled his bout with Santos because of an injury. The former University of Alabama football player had to fly to Brazil and make weight in quick order. Plus, he was heading up a weight class for the first time in his profession.
The scrap was a slugfest that earned Fight of the Night honors. Unfortunately, Anders collapsed due to exhaustion while attempting to walk back to his corner once the third round finished. The referee immediately called the struggle to give Santos a TKO victory.
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