UFC 260 predictions: Who’s picking Francis Ngannou to take Stipe Miocic’s title?

By Matt Erickson |

March 26, 2021 1: 00 pm

The UFC is serve in Las Vegas this week, and the heavyweight title is on the motorway on the top of the card in a colossal rematch.

UFC 260 takes situation Saturday on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The necessary card airs on pay-per-behold following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

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Within the important thing event, heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic (20-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC) puts his title on the motorway towards Francis Ngannou (15-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in a rematch from a battle from bigger than three years ago. Miocic received that battle by unanimous decision, but no matter that, Ngannou is a -125 favourite at BetMGM. It’s the reverse from our 13 editors, writers, videographers and radio hosts, though. From them, it’s Miocic with an 8-5 edge.

Within the co-feature, Vicente Luque (19-7-1 MMA, 12-3 UFC) is a -250 favourite towards passe welterweight champ Tyron Woodley (19-6-1 MMA, 9-5-1 UFC), who has dropped three straight. Luque has a colossal picks lead at 10-3 from our workers people.

Additionally on the card, Thomas Almeida (22-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) takes on Sean O’Malley (12-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) in a bantamweight bout. O’Malley is the finest favourite on the card at -300, and he’s a terminate to-unanimous plot terminate at 12-1.

Miranda Maverick (8-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) takes on Gillian Robertson (9-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) in a ladies folks’s flyweight bout that turned into delayed a pair of weeks. Maverick is a -160 favourite, but Robertson has a colossal 9-4 lead from our pickers and the brink in our reader picks, as correctly.

And to open the important thing card, Jamie Mullarkey (12-4 MMA, 0-2 UFC) will test out for his first UFC pick towards Khama Worthy (16-7 MMA, 2-1 UFC) in a delicate-weight bout. Worthy simplest is a -135 favourite – but he’s our simplest unanimous plot terminate on the important thing card at 13-0.

In the MMA Junkie reader consensus picks, Miocic (68 p.c), Luque (72 p.c), O’Malley (67 p.c), Robertson (53 p.c) and Worthy (78 p.c) are the picks.

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