MMA Saturday Night!
Here we go!
Bellator & UFC Predictions, Bet Considerations, and DFS rundown.
We have ourselves somewhat of a MMA marathon Saturday night with Bellator and UFC stacked late into the night. Bellator 290: Bader vs Emelianenko 2 leads things off and will fire off at 6pm ET with prelims on YouTube, followed by the main card on CBS. Heavyweight champ Ryan Bader will put his strap on the line and face off against MMA legend Fedor Emeliankenko, in what is the final fight in Fedor’s 23 year professional career.
After the Bellator warm up, and we’ve all poured one out for Fedor, UFC Fight Night will get rollin’ at 10pm ET on ESPN+, with the main card starting roughly around 1am. Live from the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. So what’s up with the late start? Well the card was originally slated to take place in Seoul, South Korea, but plans were scrapped after “The Korean Zombie” suffered an injury unable to compete. With the original card built around the Zombie, the UFC opted to shift gears and put his stunt double Derrick Lewis in the main event slot, where he’ll face off against Serghei Spivac in a heavyweight fight slated for five rounds in the small cage.