UFC 296 Edwards vs Covington free bets, tips and odds on bet365
UFC 296 takes place this weekend with the main event Leon Edwards vs Colby Covington battling for the welterweight title.
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Edwards has 21 wins and three losses in his career at the age of 32 is just three years younger than Covington, but is taller with a longer reach which could be the big difference.
The Jamaican born fights out of Erdington, Birmingham and gives the Brits a great fighter to follow in the welterweight division.
While he can win by a knockout blow, most of his wins have come from going the distance against his opponents.
But his head kick to Kamaru Usman back in August 2022 saw him claim the Performance of the Night while winning the Welterweight Championship in Round 5 means he cannot be underestimated at any given point.
His three losses have come by way of disqualification and twice by decision, having never been knocked out or by submission.
In his rematch with Usman in March 2023, he won in London by unanimous decision, even with a point deduction for holding onto the fence of the Octagon.
Notably though, he hasn't lost since strangely enough facing Usman, back in 2015 and is on a streak of 11 bouts undefeated.
'Chaos' on the other hand, has won just four via knockout, four by submission and nine by decision from his 20 bouts.
The American fighter has lost once by each result - losing to, you guessed it, Usman in both November 2021 and December 2019.
Prior to that Covington had only lost to Warlley Alves via submission back in December 2015.
His unanimous decision victory over Jorge Masvidal earned the accolade of Fight of the Night in March 2022 and it's been a fairly long absence for the American since his last fight, but he could be back better than ever.
Main Card
- MAIN EVENT: Leon Edwards vs Colby Covington - for UFC welterweight title
- Alexandre Pantoja and Brandon Royval - for UFC flyweight title
- Shavkat Rakhmonov vs Stephen Thompson
- Vicente Luque vs Ian Machado Garry
Preliminary card
- Josh Emmett vs Bryce Mitchell
- Irene Aldana vs Karol Rosa
- Cody Garbrandt vs Brian Kelleher
- Casey O'Neill vs Ariane Lipski
Early preliminary card
- Alonzo Menifield vs Dustin Jacoby
- Tagir Ulanbekov vs Cody Durden
- Andre Fili vs Lucas Almeida
- Martin Buday vs Shamil Gaziev
- Randy Brown vs Muslim Salikhov
UFC 296 will take place on Saturday, December 16.
The action is being held at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The preliminary card will get underway around 11:30pm UK time before the main card at 2am, with the main event then around 5am.
And then the main card will be shown live on TNT Sports in the UK. Full details on how to watch the event can be found here.
talkSPORT will have updates throughout fight week while talkSPORT.com will be on hand for the best of the reaction.
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