{"id":14874,"date":"2025-07-23T02:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14874\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T02:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:15:16","slug":"mma-underdog-pick-of-the-week-ufc-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14874\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Underdog Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-267243\" data-tgpli-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/egs2305057600_oneFN10.jpg\" alt=\"MMA Underdog Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-tgpli-  data-tgpli-inited=\"\" data-tgpli-image-inited=\"\" id=\"tgpli-68803d3909441\"\/><\/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 Underdog Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi, we\u2019re visiting Saturday\u2019s main event. Let\u2019s get it on, c\u2019mon!<\/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 Underdog 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>Start Time: Saturday \u2013 Noon EST \u2013 (ABC\/ESPN\/ESPN+)<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that former ONE Championship two-division champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Reinier-de-Ridder-133677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reinier de Ridder<\/a> has done much better in the UFC than I expected, finishing his first three opponents in the octagon. Now he gets himself a main event against former UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>And I think RDR continues his hot run and beats Whittaker. Whittaker is coming off a brutal submission loss in his last fight that caused extensive damage to his jaw. I think the Dutch fighter can hold his own on the feet against Whittaker and use his next-level grappling to win the fight.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Abu Dhabi Underdog Pick: Reinier de Ridder ML (+129)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SGPN Daily Content for July 22nd, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/21\/mlb-nrfi-and-yrfi-picks-july-22nd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MLB NRFI &amp; YRFI Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/22\/underdog-fantasy-dfs-picks-for-july-22nd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Underdog Fantasy Daily DFS Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/21\/best-bet-for-tuesday-july-22nd-mlb-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daily Best Bet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/21\/sgpn-prop-bet-for-tuesday-july-22nd-wnba-prop-play\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prop of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/07\/21\/wnba-predictions-preview-for-tuesday-july-22nd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WNBA Best Bets<\/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":14875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,7285,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-14874","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\/14874","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=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}