{"id":10248,"date":"2025-07-21T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10248\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:43:08","slug":"mma-main-card-pick-of-the-week-ufc-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10248\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266936\" data-tgpli-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/egs230310049t_powerslap.jpg\" alt=\"MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-tgpli-  data-tgpli-inited=\"\" data-tgpli-image-inited=\"\" id=\"tgpli-687dd3c5b43ce\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The UFC octagon is on the move again this week, leaving the Smoothie Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and heading across the world to the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, this coming Saturday for UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs de Ridder (aka UFC Abu Dhabi). For my MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi, I\u2019ve got a winning play for the main card\u2019s opening fight. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Go here for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/ufc-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC picks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fightcenter\/_\/id\/600053545\/league\/ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs de Ridder (aka UFC Abu Dhabi)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Card Start Time: Saturday \u2013 3:00 PM EST \u2013 (ABC\/ESPN+)<\/p>\n<p>There are some long odds for many of Saturday\u2019s main card fights, but that\u2019s not the case for the light matchup between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/bouts\/998269-ufc-fight-night-nikita-the-miner-krylov-vs-bogdan-czarevitch-guskov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ukrainian Nikita Krylov and Uzbekistan\u2019s Bogdan Guskov<\/a>. And we\u2019re going with the moderate favorite, the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Miner\u2019 has many advantages in this fight, including the superior experience, the better striking (although with a little less power), the better chin, and by far his biggest advantage \u2013 his grappling. Krylov shoots lots of takedowns in his fights, and Guskov has shown an inability to keep on his feet \u2013 he\u2019s been taken down in three of his four UFC fights.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Abu Dhabi Main Card Pick: Nikita Krylov (-180)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SGPN Daily Content for July 20th, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/19\/mlb-nrfi-and-yrfi-picks-july-20th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MLB NRFI &amp; YRFI Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/19\/underdog-fantasy-dfs-picks-for-july-20th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Underdog Fantasy Daily DFS Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/19\/nba-summer-league-predictions-preview-for-sunday-july-20th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBA Summer League Daily Bets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/18\/wnba-predictions-preview-for-saturday-july-19th-all-star-game-best-bet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WNBA Best Bets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/19\/best-bet-for-sunday-july-20th-mlb-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daily Best Bet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/19\/sgpn-prop-bet-for-sunday-july-20th-mlb-prop-play\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prop of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t Forget About our Free Picks Pages Too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/nba-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBA PICKS \u2013 UPDATED DAILY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odds.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/college-basketball-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">COLLEGE BASKETBALL PICKS \u2013 THE PICKS POWERHOUSE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/nhl-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NHL PICKS \u2013 LET IT SLIDE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/soccer-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SOCCER PICKS \u2013 KICK IT ON THE PITCH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/nascar-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NASCAR PICKS \u2013 FEEL THE THUNDER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/ufc-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UFC PICKS \u2013 TAKE DOWN CORPORATE GAMBLING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like even more info to help make your MMA and UFC picks and predictions for UFC Abu Dhabi,\u00a0check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/podcasts\/mma-gambling-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Gambling Podcast<\/a>. They\u2019re dropping episodes five days a week to make you the smartest guy\/gal at the bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC octagon is on the move again this week, leaving the Smoothie Center in New Orleans, Louisiana,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,7285,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-10248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blog","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}