Dana Whites Contenders Series predictions: Week 1 UFC full card picks, best bets
The best sporting event on Tuesdays returns tonight with Dana White’s Contender Series.It’s lower-level MMA talent, but live fights are happening nonetheless and can be wagered on a weekday.For those unfamiliar, UFC President Dana White selects an unknown number of fighters each night and signs them to a UFC contract.His call is clear: the fights must be entertaining, and violence is encouraged.
The entire card begins at 7 p.m.ET and will be broadcast on Paramount+, with a short five-card bout list for tonight.At heavyweight, the big boys are going to go at it, with Matt Adams not winning any modeling competitions when he’s in the octagon.
Adams’ fights aren’t pretty.He’s 5-foot-11, 235.5 pounds and really needs to wrestle to score a victory.
As an underdog (+400), it will look that way when these two stand in the octagon on Tuesday.Anthony Wint is a more serious athlete and will look a lot better in the octagon.Oddly enough, Adams will probably have better cardio, but Wint is the far superior athlete and I suspect he wins this fight early.THE PLAY: Wint wins by KO/TKO (-286, BetRivers)Hailing from Mexico, Fabrizio Escarrega isn’t the most athletic guy in the world, but he has your prototypical toughness that we’ve seen from fighters before him.
Escarrega (9-1) only has one loss, and it came from an injury to his arm while fighting in 2023.Abe Alsaghir (8-0) is only a slight underdog coming in at +125, though his opponent will be tough to finish.I’ll take the fight to go the distance coming in at +255.THE PLAY: Fight goes the distance (+255, FanDuel)Bilal Hasan is a massive prospect and is a -3500 favorite in this fight.The expectation is that he rolls over his opponent, and I think that’s about right; he’s going to be an interesting fighter to watch on the UFC roster.Target Hasan to win here by knockout (-450) – his opponent’s only loss has come by knockout while Hasan has a really impressive spinning wheel kick KO on the regional sce...