Sinead Kavanagh vs. Sara Collins Betting Analysis and Prediction

Dublin, Ireland, is back on the MMA schedule for Bellator 299. With a great card full of some of the most talented fighters on the Bellator MMA roster.

In the featured bout slot on the main card, Sinead Kavanagh will perform in front of her hometown crowd against Sara Collins in a women’s featherweight bout.

Read more for the Kavanagh vs Collins betting analysis and prediction before making your bets this weekend.

Sinead Kavanagh vs. Sara Collins Information

Sinead Kavanagh vs Sara Collins

Location of the fight: 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 23. 4:00 PM ET main card start

How to Watch: Showtime | Paramount+

Last Fight Record

Kavanagh is coming off an impressive unanimous decision win over Janay Harding at Bellator 291 in February.

Collins is looking to keep her undefeated record going. Coming off a spectacular first-round submission over Pam Sorenson at Bellator 293 in March.

Sinead Kavanagh vs. Sara Collins Betting Analysis

Sinead Kavanagh

Kavanagh is a Dublin-native professional mixed martial artist with a record of 9-5 with four finishes, all coming by TKO/KO. At the age of 37, she is a very experienced martial artist. Who trains at the famous SBG Ireland gym alongside Conor McGregor and his team of coaches.

She is a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is currently ranked in the top 10 of the Bellator women’s pound-for-pound list. Kavanagh is listed at 5’5” with a 65” reach.

Sara Collins

Collins is an undefeated Australian mixed martial artist with a professional record of 4-0, with two of those wins coming by submission. This will only be her second appearance in Bellator and her 5th professional fight at the age of 33. She is listed as 5’7” with an unknown reach.

Bellator surprisingly doesn’t have much information on her, but she’s obviously an exciting prospect if they give her this fight in Dublin against a crowd favorite.

Updates

No injuries have been reported to Bellator MMA.

Sinead Kavanagh vs. Sara Collins Betting Preview

The Kavanagh vs Collins betting analysis can only be so helpful when you want to make Bellator predictions. You need to take the time to look at the betting lines and watch the fight tape on both of these women to be able to make the best pick possible on Saturday.

According to Bellator odds, Kavanagh is coming into fight week as the -160 betting favorite over the +130 Collins. There are no other betting lines available this early on in fight week. But keep a lookout on your local sportsbooks for more prop betting lines being released as fight night gets closer.

From watching the tape, Kavanagh fights out of the orthodox stance and loves to let her hands go. She is very tough and has a lot of power in her hands. Her game plan will most likely be to keep the fight standing and hurt her opponent with her hands.

At this point in her career, Kavanagh will probably only see opponents who want to take the fight to the ground.

Collins Takes Bellator by Storm

Collins is the new prospect on the block and has an impressive win under her belt in her Bellator debut. She looks strong in grappling exchanges and has some legit Judo skills that she looks to use in just about every fight.

She’s really strong against the fence and will try to find overhooks into an outside trip of hip toss right into a dominant position.

Sinead Kavanagh vs. Sara Collins Betting Prediction

If you look at the Kavanagh vs Collins betting analysis and betting preview, it seems like this fight might be pretty close and a tough fight to call. Collins is a younger athlete and seems very strong. Which could lead to her being able to control the fight by wrestling.

• But the official prediction of this women’s featherweight bout is that Kavanagh will get her hand raised.

The reasoning behind this pick is the Dublin crowd being behind Kavanagh and the ability she has in her defensive wrestling.

She is tough enough to survive if she makes a mistake and ends up on the ground in a bad position. The energy from 3Arena will propel her to let her hands go and push herself across the finish line.

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