UFC on ESPN+ 11 Betting Tips, Picks and Predictions

May was a great month for us. We went 5-2 on prefight bets for a profit of just over 6 units. We also made approximately 11 units of profit in Live Betting for a total combined profit of around 17 units.

We are now up around 30 units in prefight betting in 2019 and up around 70 units in Live Betting. This means we’re already up close to 100 units in the last 5 months across both prefight and Live Betting. I assure you that I will keep working extremely hard to give us the best chance possible of keeping this monster run going.

We now turn our attention to UFC on ESPN+ 11 which kicks off a new month of betting on MMA.

Rostem Akman vs Sergey Khandozhko Betting Tip and Prediction

I wasn’t expecting to have any bets for UFC Stockholm, but today the over / under lines were released, and the betting sites are offering us a good amount of value on one of them.

Last year we made a big profit betting on over 1.5 round lines in fights where the over should have been set at over 2.5 rounds. Unfortunately, in 2019 the betting sites have sharpened up, and we haven’t had as many opportunities to lock in bets like this recently.

The over in the fight between Rostem Akman and Sergey Khandozhko is currently set at over 1.5 at odds of around 1.63 | -154 | 63/100. This is a big mistake by the bookies because I believe there’s a strong chance that this fight goes the distance.

If we just go off the stats, we can see that 8 out of Khandozhko’s last 9 fights have lasted longer than 1.5 rounds:

We can also see that 3 out of Rostem Akman’s 6 Pro MMA fights have lasted longer than 1.5 rounds. This is significant because Akman has faced a very low level of opponent throughout his career:

The stats certainly suggest that it’s very likely that this fight will last longer than 1.5 rounds, but I also believe it’ll last longer than 1.5 rounds based on how both these guys matchup.

If you go back and watch Akman’s pro-MMA fights you can see that he is very methodical in his approach to fighting. He performs like a fighter who is much more experienced than someone with only 6 pro MMA fights, and this is probably because he had an extensive 16 fight Amateur career with the IMMAF.

Akman reminds me of a Tristar type fighter who is technically very good everywhere, but a fighter that doesn’t take any unnecessary risks. He works hard to avoid putting himself in danger. If he’s winning the fight standing, he’ll just chip away at his opponent, and if he has an advantage on the ground, he’ll go for maintaining position as opposed to finishing his opponent with a submission or ground and pound.

Even in some of his past fights where he was dominating his opponent, he preferred to chip away at them and win rounds as opposed to go for the finish. Akman is also very well rounded. He’s got an excellent level of Muay Thai since he trains at Tiger Muay Thai and like so many guys at that gym, he’s very difficult to take down and even harder to hold down.

Sergey Khandozhko is wild and reckless, but he’s not particularly dangerous. On the ground he’s scrappy and often gives up position and standing up he doesn’t carry that much power to hurt his opponents. He also has a good chin and good cardio, which significantly reduces the chances of him gassing early and getting himself into trouble.

We also have to take into consideration the fact that both these fighters are making their UFC debut, so it’s likely they’ll both want to start a bit slower than usual. They’ll want to settle into a rhythm and gain some confidence before opening up. This should help precious minutes tick off the clock, putting us closer to cashing the bet on the fight to last longer than 7.5 minutes.

The way these two fighters matchup suggest that there’s a very good chance this fight goes the distance, which means there’s an excellent amount of value in betting on this fight to last longer than 1.5 rounds.

Reasons for betting on this fight to last longer than 1.5 rounds