UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny Betting
Welterweight contender hopeful Michael Chiesa (17-4, 11 SUBs) meets veteran Neil Magny (24-7, 7 KOs, 3 SUBs) in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at the Flash Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The card streams live on ESPN+. Also on the card is an absolute banger between longtime veterans Carlos Condit (31-13, 15 KOs, 13 SUBs) and Matt Brown (22-17, 14 KOs, 6 SUBs). Stay tuned for the latest betting odds, prop bets and more at our UFC online sportsbook. Let’s break down a few key storylines of the night.
UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny Odds
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Venue: Yas Island
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Let’s take a peek at the odds and the UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny Odds at BookMaker.eu. We’ll post detailed betting breakdowns during fight week.
Is Edwards-Chimaev the new Khabib-Ferguson? Not quite yet, but the fight’s been twice in two months, with each side catching Covid-19. It’s an excellent, significant scrap that we’ll just have to wait a little longer for.
Stepping into the main event is a very good welterweight contest featuring Michael Chiesa and Neil Magny. After back-to-back losses at 155 to Kevin Lee and Anthony Pettis, Chiesa made the move up to welterweight and has found early success. So far, he’s won three fights in his new weight class, subbing Carlos Condit and scoring decisions over Diego Sanchez and Rafael Dos Anjos.
All recognizable names, all past their primes. It’s time for Chiesa to prove that he’s a player at welterweight by beating somebody that’s still putting in work. The win over RDA was nice, but the former lightweight champ struggles mightily against grapplers like Chiesa.
Neil Magny should provide a much stiffer test - he’s also won three straight, beating Jingliang Li, Anthony Martin and Robbie Lawler. That’s not exactly a murderer’s row, but nobody’s gonna say that Magny is coasting on scrubs either. Though Magny is ranked lower than Chiesa (No. 9 and No. 8 respectively), beating him carries weight.
The UFC odds at BookMaker.eu opened with Magny as a slight -127 favorite, with Chiesa at -103 on the comeback. If anything, we can see Magny dropping to the -140 range as we get closer to fight night - on paper he is the more well-rounded of the two.
The aforementioned Carlos Condit also returns to action, meeting the ultra-aggressive Matt Brown in a favorite for Fight of the Night. Condit comes from a different era - he once fought GSP for the title - but he’s always been a reliably exciting fighter. Both him and Brown are at the “fun fights” stage of their careers, and Brown should be a willing participant in the violent affair. We’re well aware of their willingness to throw defense out the window, bite down on the mouthpiece and start slugging.
We also should mention a very good bantamweight scrap between Jimmie Rivera and Pedro Munhoz. Rivera was title contender as recently as 2018, until he got blasted by Marlon Moraes in just 30 seconds. The defeat was the start of a 2-3 slide after an amazing 20-fight win streak that included a split decision win over Munhoz in 2015. Munhoz slugged his way into the title conversation with a win over Cody Garbrandt in 2019, but two straight losses to Aljamain Sterling and Frankie Edgar has changed that narrative. Both men are vying to keep their top-10 ranking. Our UFC odds opened with Rivera as a -155 favorite, with Munhoz a slight underdog at +124. Makes sense, as oddsmakers tend to favor the stronger wrestler.
UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny Card & Odds
Welterweight - Michael Chiesa +118 vs. Neil Magny -142
Featherweight - Douglas Silva de Andrade +239 vs. Lerone Murphy -298
Women's Flyweight - Roxanne Modafferi +267 vs. Viviane Araujo -337
Bantamweight - Francisco Figueiredo -157 vs. Jerome Rivera +130
Light Heavyweight - Vinicius Moreira +113 vs. Ike Villanueva -137
Women's Flyweight - Manon Fiorot -196 vs. Victoria Leonardo +162
Flyweight - Matt Schnell +113 vs. Tyson Nam -137
Lightweight - Mason Jones +143 vs. Mike Davis -171
Welterweight - Warlley Alves +188 vs. Mounir Lazzez -230
Middleweight - Markus Perez +118 vs. Dalcha Lungiambula -142
Flyweight - Zarrukh Adashev +345 vs. Su Mudaerji -453
Bantamweight - Gaetano Pirrello +316 vs. Ricky Simon -410
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