The Octagon Yields to T-Mobile Center at Las Vegas for Saturday night’s 11-fight UFC 239 card.
The series features a pair of title fights, together with MMA’s best-ever fighters around the men’s and women’s side defending their respective belts.
Jon’Bones’ Jones is set to shoot on Thiago Santos at the primary event. Jones was a -600 favorite at most novels as of Tuesday, but the Westgate SuperBook had Jones in -850 late Friday afternoon. Santos was a +575 underdog at the Westgate. Quite a few overseas stores had Jones in a cheaper price in the -650 area. The total has been 2.5 rounds (‘beneath’ -135,’over’ +105) at most spots.
Jones (24-1-1 MMA, 18-1-1 UFC) has had his hands increased 25 occasions in 26 career conflicts. His only”reduction” 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 in UFC 214 was overturned and changed into a no-decision when Jones tested positive for the PED turinabol.
Jones appears — for now at least — to be on the ideal track outside the cage lately. This will be his third battle in a span of six months and one week, marking his most action since 2011-12. He has indicated he wants to fight three or more times in 2019.
Jones is away from a unanimous-decision triumph over Anthony Smith in UFC 235 in March. He dominated Alexander Gustafsson using a third-round KO success at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 of 2018. Before those two victories, various suspensions and arrests allowed him to compete just four times in a span of more than five years.
Jones has cleaned the light-heavyweight division during his career. At a five-fight stretch from March 19 of 2011 to Sept. 22 of 2012, he won the belt and successfully defended it four occasions. All five of these wins came over former winners — Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans and Vitor Belfort. Only Evans travelled the distance with Jones during this span.
Santos (21-6 MMA, 13-5 UFC) is 8-1 in his previous nine struggles since February of 2017. He has ripped six fight-night bonuses in this stretch. The 35-year-old Santos competed at middleweight his entire career until moving up to 205 pounds to face Eryk Anders in the UFC Fight Night 137 headliner at Sao Paulo past September.
Anders took the fight on six days of notice when Jimi Manuwa pulled his departure with Santos because of an injury. The former University of Alabama football player needed to fly to Brazil and make weight in quick purchase. Plus, he was heading up a weight class for the very first time in his career.
The scrap was a slugfest that got Battle of the Night honors. Regrettably, Anders collapsed because of exhaustion when trying to walk back to his corner when the third round ended. The referee immediately known as the fight to give Santos a TKO victory.
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