UFC Fight Night Ankalaev vs Walker 2: Building The Perfect Parlay

The 2024 UFC schedule starts this weekend with the first Fight Night event of the year taking place at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. The card is stacked with great matchups from multiple divisions, and it’s headlined by a must-see top contender light heavyweight bout between Magomed Ankalaev and Johnny Walker.

Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 Parlay

• Pick: Jean Silva.
• Bautista potentially to KO Simon
• Expect to witness Ankalaev knock out Walker

Let’s construct the perfect UFC Fight Night parlays for this weekend’s event and start the year off strong, winning a lot of money to build your sports betting bankroll for the year.

Parlay Magic: Tapping into One-Sided Matchups

We will discuss three fights to bet on and put together in a parlay, which means they all need to hit to receive the final payout. UFC expert picks are a good tool to use when betting, but let’s go deeper and understand why these picks are made.

The first leg of this UFC Fight Night parlays will be an easy pick to make. Parlay betting is a very high-risk strategy to play and it’s usually frowned upon by “smart” sports bettors in other sports. MMA is a sport where you can take advantage of parlays. 

You will notice plenty of one-sided matchups with big betting favorites. You can use those favorites as a leg in your parlay, which will only make your payout better with more legs attached.

Leg #1

The first pick from the upcoming UFC fights this weekend is going to be Jean Silva beating Westin Wilson on the preliminary card. Silva is a highly-touted prospect from Brazil who won his fight on Dana White’s Contender Series in September.

Wilson is an American fighter who fights out of Utah. He stepped in on short notice last summer for his UFC debut and suffered a first-round KO loss to Joanderson Brito. He’s a tough dude with enough skills to compete at a pretty high level, but Silva is the better martial artist.

Silva has earned his place, having showcased his skills to the UFC brass, and this marks his UFC debut. The speed and ability of Silva is why he’s such a big favorite and it makes him an easy first leg of this parlay.

• Pick: Jean Silva.

Leg #2

For the second leg of this parlay, consider placing a money-line bet on Mario Bautista to defeat the formidable Ricky Simon. This is Bautista’s first major step up in competition and Simon is one of the most athletic fighters with some of the best wrestling skills out of the entire bantamweight division.

The trust in Bautista comes from how he trains and who he surrounds himself with when he’s outside of the octagon. He trains out of The MMA Lab in Arizona and his main training/sparring partners are world-class bantamweights like Sean O’Malley and Kyler Phillips, with upcoming elite prospects as well.

Bautista is the more dynamic striker and grappler who can create major opportunities by causing a little chaos in the octagon. Expect him to potentially KO Simon with a head kick or catch him in a submission during a wrestling scramble.

Leg #3

The final leg of this perfect UFC Fight Night parlays is a pick from the main event of the weekend. We are going with Ankalaev to beat Walker. Even though the UFC odds have Ankalaev as the -450 favorite, those are perfect odds to add to a parlay.

In their first meeting, it was hard to bet against Walker because of his momentum and confidence growing while going up against Ankalaev who seemed to be losing his magic after his recent performances.

This time around, we are going to see a frustrated Ankalaev who will not want any more outside forces controlling how his career goes. Expect to witness Ankalaev knock out Walker in the first round, appearing as a man on a mission. He’s clearly and arguably the most talented all-around fighter in the light heavyweight division, and he matches up well against Pereira for a title fight. This is his moment to earn that title fight later in 2024.

The Perfect Parlay

Now that you know the three picks (Silva, Bautista, Ankalaev) you can place a single bet on a parlay that includes all of those picks.

If you put them together in a parlay bet, you should get a final UFC bet with odds at around +241. This means if you bet $100 and the bet hits, you get a payout of $340.99 with $240 in winnings.

Remember that parlays are high risk in most sports, but you can use UFC events to manipulate the odds like what we did here basically every weekend on the UFC fight schedule.

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