{"id":41945,"date":"2025-08-04T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41945\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:55:07","slug":"mma-main-card-pick-of-the-week-ufc-vegas-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41945\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Vegas 109"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268818\" data-tgpli-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/egs2304084578_ufc_287.jpg\" alt=\"MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Vegas 109\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-tgpli-  data-tgpli-inited=\"\" data-tgpli-image-inited=\"\" id=\"tgpli-68902ef09191b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One more week of UFC action in the UFC Apex, then the octagon is on the road for UFC 319. And, as is often the case for Fight Night cards in the Apex, we\u2019ve got a blah middleweight main event. Slop. For my MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Vegas 109, I\u2019ve got a winning play for a main card featherweight 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 Vegas 109<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fightcenter\/_\/id\/600054396\/league\/ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs Herandez (aka UFC Vegas 109)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Card Start Time: Saturday \u2013 4:00 PM EST \u2013 (ESPN\/ESPN+)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapology.com\/fightcenter\/fighters\/121190-christian-rodriguez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christian Rodriguez<\/a> has been up and down lately, going loss-win-loss over his last three fights. However, he\u2019s still only 27 years old and has looked better up at featherweight than I originally expected him to.<\/p>\n<p>For a bit there, the UFC was using \u2018CeeRod\u2019 as a prospect killer, but not this week, as Rodriguez is lined up against a grizzled veteran in Andre Fili, who he is 7.5 years younger than. Plus, Rodriguez is solid in all aspects of the sport, and I think he can be better than Fili wherever the fight takes them.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Vegas 109 Main Card Pick: Christian Rodriguez ML (-240)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SGPN Daily Content for Aug 3rd, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/08\/02\/mlb-nrfi-and-yrfi-picks-august-3rd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MLB NRFI &amp; YRFI Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/08\/02\/underdog-fantasy-dfs-picks-for-august-3rd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Underdog Fantasy Daily DFS Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/08\/03\/degens-only-play-of-the-day-mateusz-misiak-over-przemyslaw-blocho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Degens Only Play of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/08\/01\/best-bet-for-saturday-august-2nd-ufc-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daily Best Bet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/08\/02\/sgpn-prop-bet-for-sunday-august-3rd-mlb-prop-play\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prop of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com\/2025\/08\/02\/wnba-predictions-preview-for-sunday-august-3rd\/\" 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 Vegas 109,\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":"One more week of UFC action in the UFC Apex, then the octagon is on the road for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,7285,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-41945","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\/41945","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=41945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}