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UFC 86 winners and losers, Vegas style
sports.yahoo.com - 7/4/2008
UFC 86 winners and losers, Vegas style
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QUINTON JACKSON (-270) v. FORREST GRIFFIN (+210) - Odds courtesy of The Venetian Hotel Casino Las Vegas Should the line be this big? Griffin is criticized for not having the same resume as Jackson. But a deeper look at Jackson's run in Japan shows his ledger is dotted with lots of wins over smaller, less powerful Japanese fighters. The game has also come so far in the last four years, I ...

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Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap — ... July 5, 2008 – 9:10 am by fightlinker [image] Steve Cofield points out some interesting action on one of the betting lines: Ricardo Almeida went from being an underdog to the favorite: PATRICK COTE (EVEN) v. RICARDO ALMEIDA (-130) Who knows more about the game, the oddsmakers or the bettors? Normally, I’d laugh at this question. If the public is overwhelmingly on one side, goes against it. They don’t build billion dollar casinos because the sports books lose consistently. But with MMA betting it’s a little different. It’s a very new, unfamiliar sport to many sports book ...

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