UFC FN 44: Swanson vs. Stephens

Date: Saturday, June 28th
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass): 18:30 LP.net / 4:30pm PST / 7:30pm PST
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1): 19:00 LP.net / 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card (Fox Sports 1): 21:00 LP.net / 7pm PST / 10pm PST
Live Streams: http://www.vipbox.tv (All MMA events are listed under the UFC button. Press the UFC button and you'll see the event in the list.)





Main Card (Fox Sports 1)

Cub Swanson (20-5) vs. Jeremy Stephens (23-9) (Featherweight)
Kelvin Gastelum (8-0) vs. Nicholas Musoke (12-2) (Welterweight)
Cezar Ferreira (7-3) vs. Andrew Craig (9-2) (Middleweight)
Ricardo Lamas (13-3) vs. Hacran Dias (21-2-1) (Featherweight)
Clint Hester (10-3) vs. Antonio Braga Neto (9-1) (Middleweight)
Joe Ellenberger (14-1) vs. James Moontasri (7-1) (Lightweight)

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

Colton Smith (3-3) vs. Carlos Diego Ferreira (9-0) (Lightweight)
Johnny Bedford (19-10-1) vs. Cody Gibson (11-4) (Bantamweight)
Marcelo Guimaraes (8-1-1) vs. Andy Enz (7-1) (Middleweight)
Ray Borg (6-1) vs. Shane Howell (13-7) (Flyweight)

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Oleksiy Oliynyk (48-9-1) vs. Anthony Hamilton (12-2) (Heavyweight)

Other

- Rani Yahya was expected to face Johnny Bedford in a rematch from their bout at UFC Fight Night 39. However, Yahya was forced out of the bout and replaced by Cody Gibson.
- Myles Jury was scheduled to face Abel Trujillo at the event. However, Jury pulled out of the bout with an injury and was replaced briefly replaced by Frank Trevino. Subsequently, Trevino's originally scheduled opponent on the card, Joe Ellenberger, was briefly linked to bouts with newcomers Johnny Case and Bryan Barberena. However, Case and Barberena were removed just days after being announced as well and were eventually replaced by another newcomer James Moontasri. Then on June 9, Trevino pulled out of the bout and Trujillo was removed from the card entirely.
- A welterweight bout between Sean Spencer and Luiz Dutra was official for this card but had to be scrapped due to an injury.

I'm on a break from school starting this Friday, so I'll probably do some research on a couple of these fights I'm not sure on, like Ellenberger vs. Moontasri.

First thoughts:

• Swanson > Stephens
• Gastelum > Musoke
• Craig > Ferreira
• Lamas > Dias
• Hester vs. Neto (dunno)
• Ellenberger vs. Moontasri (dunno)
• Ferreira > Smith
• Gibson > Bedford
• Guimaraes > Enz
• Borg > Howell
• Oliynyk vs. Hamilton (dunno)

Large bet on Swanson $690 at -230. Not too impressed with Stephens when it comes to fighting standup guys with good technique.

Cub is gonna wreck him, loved the line that came out at like -190... ill still take it at -230, unfortunately by fight day when I bet itll prolly be -275ish

I think my only bet here will be Cub swanson (he is far better than Jeremy), so I will bet him a lot more than I normal do.

Fury's $200 free roll: https://www.kountermove.com/join/2772...-night-44-swanson-vs-stephens-T-free/

Sorta changed my mind on Colton Smith, this other guy doesn't even have tko/ko on his record and he had an 8 week camp with Jackson and they're hyping his improvement. I'll maybe put a bet on him as a 2-1 dog.

On June 26 2014 17:01 PuertoRican wrote: Fury's $200 free roll: https://www.kountermove.com/join/2772...-night-44-swanson-vs-stephens-T-free/

MMA Oddsbreaker $250 free roll: https://www.kountermove.com/join/2772...-night-44-swanson-vs-stephens-T-free/

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Kelvin Gastelum came in two pounds heavy and weighed 173 pounds on his first attempt. He had two hours to make the 171-pound limit. However, he got no lighter than 172.75 pounds. He’s been forced to surrender 20 percent of his purse to opponent Nicholas Musoke, who weighed 171 pounds.

Prelims start in 50 minutes.

My bets so far (pre live-betting):

+ Show Spoiler +

Looks like Bookmaker will be "juicy" tonight. They still had u1.5 rounds at +115 after Borg took his back the first time. Easy half unit win.

lmao at the Bedford stoppage. Easy money on Gibson.

Fuck me close fight, thank god I actually thought Jeremy won

Yeah, Swanson vs. Stephens was a good fight. Too bad Stephens hurt his hand in the 2nd round and didn't throw it the same way afterwards.

Today was easily my best day of betting ever, and this week is also my best week ever. I made +13 units from tennis, and +14 units from UFC. Could have been up more, but I ended up donking away 6.8 units in the Gastelum/Musoke and Stephens/Swanson fights via live betting.