This Saturday night mixed martial arts action returns to its spiritual home of Las Vegas for 12 high-quality match-ups. Headlining UFC Vegas 75 will be an enticing middleweight match-up between the No. 3 and No. 4 contenders for the UFC Middleweight Championship, Marvin Vettori and Jared Cannonier.
With a decade between them, Vettori heads into this bout as the far younger fighter. However, 39-year-old Cannonier has shown that Father Time hasn’t got the better of him yet with big wins over Sean Strickland and Derek Brunson recently. Will the veteran continue to defy his biological clock or can Vettori stake his claim for another title fight by winning in Vegas on Saturday?
Bookmaker William Hill has all the latest odds as we break down the best bets to make on UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: June 15th, 11:30 P.M. (GMT)
One glance at the outright betting odds ahead of UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier and fight fans will know this is not a main event to be missed. Bookmaker William Hill has the two men as a dead heat in the odds, with each fighter paying 1.91 for a win on Saturday night.
Digging a little deeper, Marvin Vettori winning by decision is the most favoured outcome at 2.50. However, the next two most likely ways of this fight ending are both at the hands of Jared Cannonier, with the American paying 3.25 for a knockout and 3.50 for a decision. Neither man is particularly likely to win by submission with both of these sitting at 8.00 for Vettori and 26.00 for Cannonier.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: June 15th, 11:30 P.M. (GMT)
This will be a fascinating fight. For starters, there are the stakes—Cannonier at the end of his career and Vettori facing a decline in his stock if he loses for a third time in five fights. But mainly the styles of these two combatants will make for some real entertainment.
Marvin Vettori has an endless gas tank and will be playing towards a decision win here. He’ll enter with a plan and look to take the legs of Cannonier (literally and figuratively), picking up points however he can to win on the judges’ scorecards against a tired opponent.
Jared Cannonier, on the other hand, will be looking to knock Vettori out, plain and simple. He’s one of the premier knockout artists in the middleweight division and will know his best chance is to put Vettori out cold rather than try to outlast him.
As a result, we should see an excellent game of cat and mouse unfold. We say back Vettori to navigate this one with trademark gritty persistence to claim a scrappy decision win is the best bet to make ahead of this weekend.
