{"id":277121,"date":"2010-02-04T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-217701:1"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:45:34","slug":"ufc-109-picks-vegas-style-make-or-break-for-two-ufc-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277121","title":{"rendered":"UFC 109 picks, Vegas-style: Make or break for two UFC legends"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC is showing it has a heart and eye toward creative matchmaking. Matt Hughes and Renzo Gracie will fight April 10. During the summer, it’s Chuck Liddell-Tito Ortiz III and this weekend two guys that fans wanted to see fight starting about 1998, finally enter the Octagon together. Randy Couture is 46 and Mark Coleman is 45. Couture is considered a freak while many look at Coleman on his last legs. That’s got to be why the sportsbooks have installed Couture as an obscene minus-500 favorite. <\/p>\n

Watch Dave Farra from RawVegas.tv<\/a> break down the big fights on the card with myself and Ben Fowlkes from Cage Potato<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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UFC 109 odds (Courtesy Venetian Resort Hotel Casino<\/a>):<\/strong>
We’ll post official plays on Saturday morning following the weigh-ins. <\/p>\n

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Mark Coleman (+350) v. Randy Couture (-500) – Light heavyweight
Chael Sonnen (+350) v. Nate Marquardt (-500) – Middleweight<\/a>
Paulo Thiago (+170) v. Mike Swick (-200) – Welterweight<\/div>\n
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Dan Miller (+260) v. Demian Maia (-340) – Middleweight
Frank Trigg (+115) v. Matt Serra (-145) – Welterweight
Justin Buchholz (+220) v. Mac Danzig (-300) – Lightweight
Ronny Torres (+110) v. Melvin Guillard (-140) – Lightweight
Rob Emerson (+130) v. Phillipe Nover (-160) – Lightweight
Brian Stann (+140) v. Phil Davis (-170) – Light heavyweight
Tim Hague (+120) v. Chris Tuchscherer (-150) – Heavyweight
Joey Beltran (+450) v. Rolles Gracie (-700) – Heavyweight<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UFC is showing it has a heart and eye toward creative matchmaking. Matt Hughes and Renzo Gracie will fight April 10. During the summer, it’s Chuck Liddell-Tito Ortiz III and this weekend two guys that fans wanted to see fight starting about 1998, finally enter the Octagon together. Randy Couture is 46 and Mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}