Having two UFC events in one week seems to have made the Bookies lazy because some of the odds on the fights taking place at the TUF 25 Finale are insane. I believe that there are several great opportunities to make money on this card.

I also want to remind you that this weekend is a HUGE opportunity to make money in Live Betting. On Friday and Saturday we have 24 different fights to look forward to and I’m sure we’re going to end the weekend with a massive profit. I hope you join us in our Live Betting Feed during the fights to take advantage of our highly profitable Live Betting Tips.

Don’t forget to keep checking this article regularly for updates because we’ll be adding more betting tips as we get closer to the time of the event.

When I first saw the odds for Drakkar Klose vs Marc Diakiese I was blown away. I believe this is one of those fights where the Bookies have not done their homework and set the odds completely wrong. After watching footage on both Klose and Diakiese I personally would cap Klose at around a 1.44 | -227 | 11/25 favourite, so I cannot believe that he opened up as a 3.40 | +240 | 12/5 underdog.

Drakkar Klose is your typical MMA Lab fighter. He’s not particularly good at anything, but he’s tough, consistent and aggressive. He comes forward, he looks to push you up against the cage and make the fight ugly. These kinds of fighters tend to be Kryptonite for guys like Marc Diakiese who have poor cardio and rely on their explosiveness.

Diakiese is extremely dangerous in the 1st round, but Klose has a great chin and he’s very tough. If he can weather the early storm he should go on to comfortably win this fight in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. There’s a chance that Diakiese has made massive improvements in the short time he has been training at American Top Team, but he relies too much on his explosiveness and his cardio is really bad. ATT would have had to completely overhaul his technique to tighten up this hole in his game and I don’t see them being able to help Diakiese make those wholesale improvements because he has only been training with them for just over 6 months.

It’s always a gamble when we bet against guys like Diakiese who have explosive KO power, but Klose is a nightmare matchup for him and I strongly feel like this is a great bet. I expect the odds to crash hard on Klose over the next few hours, so please lock in your bets ASAP.

Ed Herman was on season 3 of the Ultimate fighter and he’s been in the UFC for 11 years. There are only 3 fighters left in the UFC who competed on the first three seasons of the Ultimate Fighter. They are Michael Bisping, Diego Sanchez and Ed Herman…

Herman has had a good career, but in the last 2 years he has experienced a notable decline in cardio and athleticism. There aren’t many oldschool Ultimate Fighter alumni left in the UFC because Father time catches up with everyone and having watched Herman’s last few fights I can’t help but feel that Father time has been knocking on his door for a while.

Betting on C.B. Dollaway to win this fight isn’t totally risk free because this is his first fight back in 18 months, but Dollaway is younger, more athletic and more skilled than Herman in every single aspect of MMA. If it wasn’t for Dollaway’s long layoff this would undoubtedly be a 5 unit bet. Dollaway’s lay off is a slight concern, but he should still be more than capable of beating Herman.

Before I give you my reasons why I believe Michael Johnson is an excellent bet, I’d like you to see it for yourself. Take a look at some of Justin Gaethje’s most recent fights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51uBIiNwtxU

As you can see, Gaethje is a tough, aggressive, well-rounded fighter, but you should also be able to see that his fighting style is deeply flawed. You can get away with fighting like this against a lower level opponent in smaller promotions like the World Series of Fighting, but in the UFC it is not an effective strategy. There is a reason why guys like Diego Sanchez and Leonard Garcia struggled to compete against more technically skilled opponents throughout their entire careers.

There is no denying that Gaethje has the heart of a Champion and that he is as tough as they come, but Michael Johnson has outstruck super high-level strikers like Edson Barboza and Beneil Dariush. Based on Gaethje’s performances over the last three years, I honestly cannot see any plausible situation where he could cause Michael Johnson a problem.

Gaethje’s style of fighting is only effective when you can apply relentless pressure in the way that someone like Stipe Miocic can. Crowding your opponent and not giving them space to work is an effective strategy in MMA, but Gaethje doesn’t fight like this. Instead, he comes forward flat footed and fights in bursts. He doesn’t cut angles, and he is very poor at managing range and distance. Michael Johnson has some of the best footwork and movement in the UFC’s Lightweight division, and he should be able to dance around Gaethje all night long.

This is a very easy fight for Michael Johnson. If he can weather the early storm, I expect him to dominate Justin Gaethje…