UFC 333 predictions: Full fight card picks, best bets for Volkanovski vs. Evloev, Yan vs. Dvalishvili
UFC 333 heads to the Middle East on Saturday for an exciting matinee card.So while the UFC goes head-to-head with college football Saturday, it’s music to the ears of fight fans who don’t want to stay up late for the fights.The entire card begins at 10 a.m.ET.
with the prelims and the main card will go off at 2 p.m.ET.
It is headlined by two title fights with eight of the 14 bouts projected to end inside the distance.The main event and co-main event are overwhelmingly expected to go the full 25 minutes, with each fight priced at least -275 to go to the judges’ scorecards.Alexander “the Great” Volkanovski has been so much fun to watch to watch in his UFC career. The UFC legend has been in the title picture since 2018 and was the champion at featherweight dating back to 2019. He enters his 12th consecutive title fight where he faces undefeated featherweight Movsar Evloev. Evloev has next to no knockout power — he’s never even knocked a fighter down in his UFC career — and won all of his fights by decision.Volkanovski is one of the smartest fighters of our time, with the ability to download and adjust to styles better than anyone we have seen.Volkanovski has seen his durability slowly begin to deteriorate, though.
He’s been knocked down in three of his last four fights and knocked out in two of his last four, including once at lightweight against Islam Makhachev. He shouldn’t, in theory, have to worry about too much power coming from Evloev as he’s never KO’d a fighter before at this level. However, Evloev’s takedown threat does make his striking better.There’s also the Father Time angle with Volkanovski’s chin slowing beginning to go. Still, I’ll take the challenger this weekend on the moneyline, as he’s going to be in better shape and a better athlete thanks to his youth.Evloev is in his prime and undefeated, I suspect he comes away victorious this weekend.PREDICTION: Evloev moneyline (+102, Novig) | Small bet on Evloev by ...