The Octagon Yields to T-Mobile Center in Las Vegas for Saturday night’s 11-fight UFC 239 card.
The series features a set of title fights, together with MMA’s best-ever fighters on the men’s and women’s side defending their individual belts.
Jon’Bones’ Jones is set to take on Thiago Santos at the main event. Jones was a -600 favorite at most books as of Tuesday, however, the Westgate SuperBook had Jones at -850 late Friday afternoon. Santos was a +575 underdog in the Westgate. Quite a few overseas stores had Jones in a less expensive price from the -650 neighborhood. The total has been 2.5 rounds (‘beneath’ -135,”over’ +105) at most areas.
Jones (24-1-1 MMA, 18-1-1 UFC) has had his hands increased 25 times in 26 career conflicts. His only”loss” was a disqualification for prohibited 12-to-6 elbows at a blowout win over Matt Hamill on Dec. 5 of 2009. His third-round knockout win over Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 was overturned and changed into a no-decision when Jones tested positive for the PED turinabol.
Jones appears — for now — to be on the right path outside the cage lately. This will be his third battle in a span of six months and a week, marking his most action since 2011-12. He has indicated he wishes to fight three or more times in 2019.
Jones is away from a unanimous-decision triumph over Anthony Smith in UFC 235 at March. He dominated Alexander Gustafsson with a third-round KO success at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 of 2018. Before those two successes, many suspensions and arrests enabled him to compete just four times in a period of over five years.
Jones has cleaned out the light-heavyweight division during his dominant career. At a five-fight extend from March 19 of 2011 to Sept. 22 of 2012, he won the belt and successfully defended it four occasions. All five of those wins came over former winners — Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans and Vitor Belfort. Only Evans went the distance with Jones during this interval.
Santos (21-6 MMA, 13-5 UFC) is 8-1 in his previous nine struggles since February of 2017. He’s bagged six fight-night bonuses during this stretch. The 35-year-old Santos competed at middleweight his entire career until moving up to 205 pounds to confront Eryk Anders in the UFC Fight Night 137 headliner in Sao Paulo past September.
Anders took the battle on six days of note when Jimi Manuwa pulled out his departure with Santos because of an injury. The former University of Alabama football player had to fly to Brazil and make weight in quick order. Plus, he had been going up a weight class for the first time in his profession.
The scrap was a slugfest that got Fight of the Night honors. Unfortunately, Anders collapsed because of exhaustion while trying to walk back to his corner when the third round finished. The referee immediately known as the fight to give Santos a TKO victory.
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