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The main event of UFC on ESPN this Saturday night in Las Vegas is a pair of Top-10 bantamweights in Pedro Munhoz and Frankie Edgar in a five-round battle live from the UFC Apex facility.
Edgar is 23-8-1 in MMA, and is the former UFC lightweight champion from 2010-12. He held the belt at 155 lbs., since he lost it has been competing at 145, and drops to 135 for the first time here. Even though he’s never fought at this weight he enters ranked #8 in the division, and if he makes weight he’ll be the rare fighter that goes this far down late in his career. At age 38 and fighting out of Toms River, New Jersey, he lost his only two fights in 2019: A unanimous decision loss to Max Holloway for the featherweight title, and a first-round KO by Chan Sung Jung also at featherweight.
Munhoz is the favorite and ranked #5 at bantamweight. “The Young Punisher” is 18-4-1 in his career, with a UFC mark of 8-4-1. He’s very active in the octagon, averaging 5.29 significant strikes per minute, while absorbing 6.17 as well. With 13 career stoppages (five KO’s, eight submissions) and having never been finished himself, the Sao Paolo, Brazil native had won three in a row before falling to Aljamain Sterling in June of last year.
Here are the betting odds at DraftKings Sportsbook for Pedro Munhoz vs. Frankie Edgar at UFC Fight Night on August 22nd:
Money line odds
Frankie Edgar: +200
Pedro Munhoz: -250
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