UFC Vegas 27 - Font vs Garbrandt Predictions & More

UFC Vegas 27 brings us a Fight Night card with 13 fights, with a mixed bag in terms of quality of fights and name power. The main event is a fun striking battle at bantamweight between Rob Font and Cody Garbrandt. This will be an enjoyable one to watch, more on this one later. The co-main event between Yan Xiaonan and Carla Esparza is a necessary one in the women’s strawweight rankings, but not exactly a fight to be excited for. There are a couple fights on the card lacking the projected viewing enjoyment like this one, but there are some very fun ones too. The Edmen Shahbazyan vs Jack Hermansson fight that we were forced to wait for takes place on this card. That one will be a lot of fun and we will see what adjustments Shahbazyan has made as he turns from prospect to contender. We will also see if Hermansson is able to bounce back from his loss to Marvin Vettori. Bill Algeo is also fighting, which is always fun. The other fight to highlight is the Claudio Silva vs Court McGee fight. It really could be a clunky one, but I am intrigued nonetheless. 

On the betting side, we will have four plays. They will all be right around pickem risk level so the profit this week will come from quantity of wins. I am a fan of the plays, let’s dive into them. 

Fight is five rounds at 135 lbs and is -260 to end inside the distance. 

Fight is at heavyweight and is -325 to end inside the distance. 

Fight is at 145 lbs and is +145 to end inside the distance.

Fight is at 170 lbs and is +125 to end inside the distance. 

👊 Carla Esparza via decision over Yan Xiaonan

👊 Felicia Spencer via submission over Norma Dumont

👊 Raulian Paiva via decision over David Dvorak

👊 Edmen Shahbazyan via KO over Jack Hermansson

👊 Chris Barnett via KO over Ben Rothwell

👊 Bruno Silva via submission over Victor Rodriguez

👊 Josh Cuibao via decision over Yilan Sha

👊 Yancy Medeiros via decision over Damir Hadzovic

👊 Damir Ismagulov via decision over Rafael Alves