{"id":46005,"date":"2025-08-05T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46005\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:09:11","slug":"lerone-murphy-vs-aaron-pico-odds-and-what-to-know-ahead-of-ufc-319-co-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46005\/","title":{"rendered":"Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico: Odds and what to know ahead of UFC 319 co-main event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Pico will still get a big opportunity in his promotional debut at UFC 319.<\/p>\n<p>Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico\u00a0preview<\/p>\n<p>Pico (13-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) originally\u00a0was scheduled to make his octagon debut against No. 1-ranked featherweight Movsar Evloev at UFC on ABC 9 in Abu Dhabi, but the bout was scrapped when Evloev withdrew. Instead, Pico gets No. 6 ranked Lerone Murphy in the UFC 319 co-main event in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Unbeaten in his professional MMA career, Murphy (16-0-1 MMA, 8-0-1 UFC) is on an eight-fight winning streak, and is coming off a main event <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-espn-65-lerone-murphy-043029979.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:win over Josh Emmett at UFC on ESPN 65;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win over Josh Emmett at UFC on ESPN 65<\/a> in April. Meanwhile, Pico hasn&#8217;t competed since a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pfl-vs-bellator-champions-video-200448107.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:first-round TKO of Henry Corrales;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-round TKO of Henry Corrales<\/a>\u00a0in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico\u00a0odds<\/p>\n<p>According to FanDuel, Murphy is a slight +124 underdog against UFC newcomer Pico, who&#8217;s a -158 favorite.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico at UFC 319<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Where:\u00a0United Center, Chicago<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Broadcast\/streaming:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/dOGmjq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN+<\/a>\u00a0pay-per-view<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/05\/ufc-319-lerone-murphy-vs-aaron-pico-mma-betting-odds\/85505630007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico UFC 319 odds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico UFC 319 odds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Pico will still get a big opportunity in his promotional debut at UFC 319. Lerone Murphy vs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[4972,64,63,786,39840,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-46005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-aaron-pico","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-lerone-murphy","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46005","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=46005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}