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Fight day is upon us! UFC 251 gets going this evening and it’s a mega-card. The main card features three titles on the line, and also a critical contender’s bout in the women’s strawweight division.
DraftKings Sportsbook has odds for the full card, and they’ve provided us with a look at how the public is betting the fights. The public loves the underdog Jorge Masvidal in the main event against Kamaru Usman. 64 percent of the money bet is on Masvidal, as well as 53 percent of total bets. All it takes is one clean shot for Masvidal to end this, but he’s a sizable underdog for a reason.
The biggest split has the public heavily backing the favored Karol Rosa against Vanessa Melo in a bantamweight bout. 89 percent of the handle is on Rosa. The closest split is in the early prelims flyweight bout between Raulian Paiva and Zhalgas Zhumagulov. Paiva is favored at -180 and getting 55 percent of the handle.
The card starts at 6 p.m., and we’ll keep an eye out for any additional changes to the betting splits. For now, here are handle and total bets splits as of Saturday morning.
UFC 251 betting splits, Fight day morning
| Fights | Odds | % Handle | % Bets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fights | Odds | % Handle | % Bets |
| Rose Namajunas | -215 | 61% | 69% |
| Jessica Andrade | +175 | 39% | 31% |
| Max Holloway | +170 | 58% | 54% |
| Alex Volkanovski | -210 | 42% | 46% |
| Petr Yan | -215 | 68% | 64% |
| Jose Aldo | +175 | 32% | 36% |
| Jiri Prochazka | +129 | 60% | 41% |
| Volkan Oezdemir | -159 | 40% | 59% |
| Leonardo Santos | -167 | 58% | 62% |
| Roman Bogatov | +137 | 42% | 38% |
| Raulian Paiva | -180 | 55% | 57% |
| Zhalgas Zhumagulov | +142 | 45% | 43% |
| Karol Rosa | -250 | 89% | 84% |
| Vanessa Melo | +195 | 11% | 16% |
| Makwan Amirkhani | -215 | 75% | 73% |
| Danny Henry | +170 | 25% | 27% |
| Maxim Grishin | -112 | 63% | 76% |
| Marcin Tybura | -112 | 37% | 24% |
| Muslim Salikhov | -134 | 68% | 57% |
| Elizeu dos Santos | +108 | 32% | 43% |
| Martin Day | -177 | 61% | 59% |
| Davey Grant | +141 | 39% | 41% |
| Jorge Masvidal | +185 | 64% | 53% |
| Kamaru Usman | -230 | 36% | 47% |
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