Robert Whittaker battles Reinier de Ridder to headline UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. de Ridder in Yas West United Arab Emirates on Saturday. The main card begins at 3 p.m. ET from Etihad Arena at Yas Island with the event highlighted by the middleweight bout between fifth-ranked Robert Whittaker vs. Reinier de Ridder. Whittaker is coming off a loss by submission to Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 308, while de Ridder knocked out Bo Nickal in the second round at UFC on ESPN: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo this past May. Whittaker (26-8) is the -162 favorite (risk $162 to win $100) in the latest UFC odds, while de Ridder (20-2) is the +136 underdog (risk $100 to win $136).<\/p>\n
Also on the UFC Fight Night main card is a bantamweight bout between third-ranked Peter Yan (18-5) and 13th-ranked Marcus McGhee (10-1). Yan has won his last two fights, while McGhee has won six consecutive bouts. Yan is a -360 favorite, with McGhee coming in at +285.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before locking in your UFC Fight Night picks, you NEED to see the latest MMA predictions from SportsLine MMA analyst Kyle Marley.<\/p>\n
Over the past three-plus years, $100 bettors who have followed Marley’s picks are up nearly $10,000, and since May 2018, he has returned nearly $21,000!<\/p>\n
The accomplished MMA analyst has provided consistent winners for SportsLine members for the past five years. His accomplishments include hitting five consecutive main-event underdog winners in 2020 following the UFC’s brief pause in action because of the pandemic. He also went 8-6 on his picks at last week’s UFC card. Anyone who has followed Marley could be way up.<\/p>\n
This week at UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. de Ridder, Marley is backing Martin Buday (+250) to upset Marcus Buchecha (-310) in a heavyweight matchup on the preliminary card.<\/p>\n
Marley also has strong picks for Whittaker vs. de Ridder and other bouts on the UFC Fight Night card. He’s also backing a fighter who\u00a0“is almost 40 years old but looks to be in his prime.”\u00a0You MUST see his UFC picks before making any of your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker battles Reinier de Ridder to headline UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. de Ridder in Yas West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-18516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}