WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone Betting Odds

by Nick Thomas on Jan 23, 2009 9:03 AM EST in News Comment 21 comments

Are up:

Jamie Varner -165

Urijah Faber -550

Danillo Villefort -130

Jose Aldo -800

Anthony Njokuani -255

Hiromitsu Miura -355

Dominick Cruz -355

Scott Jorgensen -165

Blas Avena -125

Charlie Valencia -250

Donald Cerrone +135

Jens Pulver +400

Mike Campbell EV

Rolando Perez +600

Benson Henderson +205

Edgar Garcia +285

Ian Mccall +285

Frank Gomez +135

Jesse Lennox -105

Seth Dikun +200

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-800 holy crap lol

by dbcb on Jan 23, 2009 9:07 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

wow at the -800 line.

Can’t believe the line for Varner is that even.

by lbk on Jan 23, 2009 9:57 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

What direction did you expect the numbers to be at, IMO I think Cerrone has a very good chance of beating Varner, if I wasn’t such a chickenshit with my money I’d put a bet on Cerrone.

by pr0cs on Jan 23, 2009 10:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Varner is going to absolutely destroy Cerrone.

by lbk on Jan 23, 2009 10:37 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I dono man, he didn’t really look all that great against McCullough, in fact I’d say he was sort of handed the win in that fight.

by pr0cs on Jan 23, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

How did he not look great? He finished Razor. Something nobody has done before.

by lbk on Jan 23, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ditto

I’d like to know how he didn’t look great. He beat McCullough at his own game.

by Razreshat on Jan 23, 2009 10:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i havent seen the fight in a while, but wasn’t he pretty well rocked when he took a “time out”? if that hadn’t been allowed, i think the outcome of the fight COULD have been different. that being said, i still see him beating cerrone. mccullough dropped cerrone several times in their fight, and i think varner will either do a better job of capitalizing on it when he does the same thing, or just straight up knock him out. either way, i think it’s gonna be an exciting fight.

by woooburn on Jan 23, 2009 10:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He took a hard shot...

…hard enough to lanch his mouth piece, but they were on opposite sides of the cage when Varner asked to get his mouth piece back and he didn’t seem in any way impaired. He went back to talking the fight to McCullough.

by Razreshat on Jan 23, 2009 11:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah but Varner was being smart. It’s not his fault the ref didn’t know what to do in that situation. As a fighter, you do everything you can to win a fight. Varner did that.

Varner has better stand up than Cerrone and better wrestling. Don’t see where Cerrone beats him in this fight.

by lbk on Jan 23, 2009 11:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I got no problem taking Jens at that number.

You kidding me? The guy’s a knockout artist. He connects once, square with that big left hand – just once – and you’re paid times four.

Not saying I think Faber will lose, just saying it might be worth the stretch for that kind of money, given what we know about Jens.

Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion

by The Kittitas Kid on Jan 23, 2009 11:18 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Jens is shadow of that fighter. You see him against Garcia? He looked awful.

by lbk on Jan 23, 2009 11:21 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, and he hit faber several times in their first fight, and couldn’t rock him. only way i see him winning this, is if urijah is already looking past him, or gets caught trying to be flashy like he did against mike brown.

by woooburn on Jan 23, 2009 11:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, but you can't just consider what Jens did in his last fight,

you also have to consider what Faber did, which is GTFO. And while doing some stupid maneuver, too.

If he can get knocked out with a hook/uppercut under a spinning back-elbow, he can get knocked out with a straight left hand down the pipe from a guy who has boxed professionally in the past.

I stand by it. Worth the stretch.

Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion

by The Kittitas Kid on Jan 23, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know what GTFO is, either.

But he did GKTFO. That’s what I meant.

Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion

by The Kittitas Kid on Jan 23, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He ran into a punch. Could certainly happen to anyone, but the chances of it happening to him again are pretty low.

by lbk on Jan 23, 2009 11:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, but are the -400 low?

Plus, there’s a reason they’re getting away with this rematch, and it’s not because the first fight was a blowout.

True, Pulver connected and didn’t knock Faber out. But Faber didn’t finish Pulver either. Even though I had him winning every round, Faber gave Pulver a full 25 minutes to try to land a big shot, and got away with it.

Can he afford to give him another 15?

I just think Pulver has a better than -400 shot of busting his grape. If it was -250, I wouldn’t give it another thought.

Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion

by The Kittitas Kid on Jan 23, 2009 12:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs