{"id":818464,"date":"2026-07-22T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818464\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:22:21","slug":"mma-underdog-pick-of-the-week-ufc-abu-dhabi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818464\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Underdog Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UFC train rolls on. UFC Oklahoma City was a fairly exciting card (I went 11-1, thank you very much), and the UFC hopes for the same this weekend in Abu Dhabi. For my MMA Underdog Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi, I\u2019ve got a live dog from the prelims. Let\u2019s get it on, c\u2019mon!<\/p>\n

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MMA Main Card Pick of the Week: UFC Abu Dhabi
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Anything can happen in an MMA fight, especially in the heavyweight division with the amount of power athletes that size can generate. So going in on a heavyweight dog is a solid strategy. That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing this weekend in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Thomas \u2018The Train\u2019 Peterson<\/a> is heads and shoulders better on the feet than grappling specialist Valter Walker, who has submitted four straight opponents. However, what makes Peterson a live dog is the fact that he is also a very strong grappler with good takedown defense. He should (hopefully) be able to dictate where this fight takes place (on the feet, please) and use that to his advantage to get his hand raised.<\/p>\n

UFC Abu Dhabi Underdog Pick: Thomas Peterson ML (+163)<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019d like even more info to help make your MMA and UFC picks and predictions for UFC Abu Dhabi, check out the 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 train rolls on. UFC Oklahoma City was a fairly exciting card (I went 11-1, thank you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[686,49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-818464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-blog","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818464","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=818464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}