UFC 101 odds and betting lines

Betting on BJ = waste of money. Kenny is going to frustrate poor Penn into making mistakes and Florian is one of the best at capitalizing on mistakes. Too much hype around BJ’s boxing skills…he beat up a wrestler pretending to be a boxer with stumps for arms. Kenny has a slight reach advantage and he’ll mix it up on the feet and won’t be coming straight forward like Sherk did. BJ does have a great jab though and he’s got some nice combos to follow it up but Kenny has better footwork than BJ’s recent LW opponents. Kenny’s striking is underrated…he may not have KO power but he’s very technical and he’s more accurate than Sherk or Stevenson or Pulver.

I promise you buster that BJ wont lose this fight!

Interesting. Penn’s odds have improved since I last checked. Grove/Almeida and Sadollah/Hendricks are sooo tough to call.

When has Kendall ever shown he has potential to be a top 10 MW VM? His win over Tanner was nice but he hasn’t done much since winning TUF. I see Big Dog getting a hold of one of Kendall’s long limbs and tapping him in this one.

His win over Belcher was very impressive and he smacked the bejesus out of Jason Day. Being 6’6" in the MW division gives you a reach advantage over everyone. With that reach advantage and muay thai skills along with his pretty decent BJJ (but he lacks wrestling) Kendall has the tools to be Top 10 in the UFC MW division. However, he seems to lack the drive, determination, and maturity to actually be a factor in the MW division.

Yeah, those were solid wins against decent strikers but he also got creamed by Cote and Rivera. He has some solid tools and his reach gives him advantages but you’re right about his wrestling being pretty weak and his drive is very questionable. I just don’t see him doing anything against the cream of the crop in the division like Marquardt, Okami, Bisping, Hendo, Silva, Wandy, Cote, Maia, Leites, Akiyama, Palhares…even Leben. That’s 12 guys that I can’t see him beating unless he shows me something in this fight to prove otherwise. There are more that could be added to that list. He needs to get the hunger…not the munchies.

THios event is easy to bet on. yOU odnt let the odds scare you, and you bet bj penn! SIMPLE AS THAT!

Sane can be said with Leites and Anderson, but I know for sure that bJ will win

I like almeida. He knows he has to improve his takedowns and his striking isnt as bad as it looked against Cote. Cote hits hard, almieda wasnt comfortable striking in that fight and I dont blame him. Kendall has good takedown defense, but I think Almieda will surprise us and show some craft ju jitsu trips in this fight. All else fails, pull guard.

I am surprised by the odds. Kendall has good value, but I have a feeling those limbs are going to get snapped!

Yes, but stupidly ventured, nothing kept.

Guys that act like they are just throwing around cash on fights (and underdogs, huge underdogs!) in this economy, and act like they have tickets to every event (when they are bank to buy and travel to etc) while they sit on here all day and apparently dont work, sound ike and look like fools. It use to be “i like this guy, i like this guy, see you guys on here after the fights and good luck with your picks, yep you too.” now its “anyone wanna buy all these tickets i baught in advance for these luxery box seats and im throwing down 1,000 on the biest underdog of the year against a guy on the p4p list since 3 fights into his career . . .” GET REAL!!! WE DONT BUY IT, OR AT LEAST I DONT, YOU DONT hAVE TO ACT LIKE MR’CASHINSTIEN TO IMPRESS US WHEN WE ALL KNOW YOU CANT EVEN AFFORD THE PPV AND ARE WATCHING IT ON JUSTINTV . COM. WEENIES!

hahahaha so what you are saying is that if i would have said i was betting 5 dollars on bj that would be ok, but the fact i’m betting more on kenny , it’s not??? i agree with the luxury box seats and dropping thousands on dumb bets, but this is not a dumb bet! Kenny is on a 6 fight win streak and holds a record of 8-1 !! he is not at all a bad fighter, he is the legitimate #1 contender for a reason!! yeah bj is good, but his head is to big, his ego is what kills him, despite the odds kenny has a very good shot at taking this one! Forrest/silva just depends on how crazy forrest gets if he fights the smart fight like against rampage he will win, if he just goes out swingin like against bonnar/jardine he will get dropped rather quickly!! Silva hasn’t really had a “fight” in awhile , so it will be interesting to see how well he does against someone who isn’t just gonna lay on his back the entire fight!! this bet is not that far fetched in my eyes!!

yep, the odds say Kennys a lock!!

if my previous post ever comes through i meant bj is 8-1 in ufc LW and kenny is 9-2 in the ufc

add ludwig and gomi to that . . . what is he now?

and besides he’d be 8-1-1 dude, do some research. 10-1-1 in the LTWT division. Beating guys like Sherk, Pulver, Gomi, Ludwig, Thomas, Stevenson, Serra, Uno . . . Beating Sherk/Gomi is 10 times the work Kenny has ever put in at LTWT and if BJ wasnt bust persuing bugger and badder dudes for most of his career im sure he would have racked ’em up at LTWT including Florian by now. Get real.

*bust = busy

*bugger= bigger

well when kenny wins next week we’ll see who should do their research!! and if you’re sons mom is dating a tool now , what’s that make you?? a bigger tool!!!

i guess my point is, why take a profit loss when you could wait a year and make as much as your 5 most popular ufc’s combined, and settle up on this "best fighter in the world issue . . . without Stink/M-1.

I don’t disagree with you, Adam. But under your scenario, there is no control of the situation. You’re assuming Fedor will sign after the 3 fights are done… that’s a bog assumption and leaves someone else holding the trump card.

I would think Dana White would pay 5 million dollars out of his pocket right now and give it to anyone if they somehow had enough power to stop everyone from asking him “what about Fedor?” at every turn.

JMHO

Does M-1 even promote fights??? Or do they just call themselves ‘promoters’ to force legitimate promotions to ‘co-promote’ for the right to have Fedor on the card? I guess my big question here is what HWs are under contract to M-1 that Fedor could fight in a M-1 event?

They are promoters, and yes they promote fights. How do you “force” people to promote fights for you? Does Oscar De La Hoya “force” fighters to get in the ring with his fighters? Co-promotion is the norm in boxing and has been done forever…it’s kind of masked in American MMA because the UFC so steadfastly refuses to do it. Other than the UFC, most (if not all) other promotions do it. It’s not an M-1 only type of thing.

big assumption lol.

Although maybe it’s a bog assumption too.

lol, thouht the same thing, “did he mean??” “could be either i guess, both have a share of truth to them lol”

To me a true co-promoted event, say between Srtikeforce and Affliction, means each side splits the production costs, each side provides 3-4 fights, then at the end after the fighters and bills have been paid each side takes an amount of the profits proportionate to the amount they invested. M-1 just sounds like they’re saying ‘you do all the work, you front all the money, we’ll take half at the end in addition to Fedor’s salary, and in exchange you get Fedor on the card.’

Reports from Kevin Iole say M-1 knows nothing about how to promote an event. All they want to do is use Fedor to try to hold real organizations hostage and collect a ton of cash for doing nothing.

maybe, i just dont see it. And none of those fighters (besides randy) have much star power here in the USA, like fedor. Frank kind of, pretty popular after Le and diaz kicked his *ss, they’d have better luck with Ken as far as marketing him here. the ood thing is that the USA isnt the only place they play video games so theres a plus . . .

*good thing, not ood thing.

They don’t have to market the fighters if their video game is the shit.

I’m no expert, but the majority of video game players are probably not guys that buy a flat of beer once or twice a month to watch UFC PPV’s…they’re guys who live in their mom’s basement with headsets on while playing whatever fuking video game they can get their hands on…they play the best game.

LMAO!!!! I just pictured this tool my sons mom is dating, every time i go there to get BJ (my son) this guy pops his head out from behind the couch with his headset on like “yo dude!” im like " yo tool, sweet gear!"

"yo dude!" im like " yo tool, sweet gear!"

lmao…I know the type.

Not to mention that the biggest video game junkies in the world are over in Japan. All they have to do is sign up a dozen Japanese fighters…and bingo!!!

“Still in your “no job for me thanks” phase huh, rock on bad *ss, kick that imaginary alien butt, thanks for saving us all, the president will be contacting you with his “thanks” soon too!" . . . Later today when i grab BJ i probably wont be able to not laugh at this guy if he pops out from behind that couch thinking about this conversation.

hahahaha how gay are you naming your son BJ , you truly are a Penn nuthugger!!!! I can not wait until next sunday morning when i can get on here and say hahaha ADAM G BJ GOT F*CKED UP BY KENFLO WHO’S THE CHAMP NOW!! KENFLO BY DESTRUCTION

Yea, my sons name is Jesse, since hes a baby we call him baby jesse or baby j, how gay are you talking about some guys son that you dont even know with a loser name like dragon you fairy, dragon . . . really, dragon . . . Watch you change it as soon as Lyotto loses to ShogunsNutSack, fairweather fan of a fan, tool