👊🥊 BEST BETS: UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Waterson + Bellator 258 + Canelo-Saunders
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, SportsLine
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Ian Parker to break down and preview UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Waterson, Bellator 258: Archuleta vs Pettis and Canelo Álvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders in boxing.
0:00 - Intro
1:21 - UFC Vegas 26: Rodriguez vs. Waterson
3:24 - Bellator 258: Archuleta vs Pettis
8:25 - Canelo-Saunders
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| 0:00.0 | What's good, everybody. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome in to our weekly MMA-only episode of the early edge. |
| 0:14.9 | I, of course, am your leader of the coach. |
| 0:16.8 | And every single week we do Champions League Champions League golf and also MMA. |
| 0:22.2 | Why? |
| 0:23.0 | Because we're cashing tickets left and right. |
| 0:25.0 | We've got the absolute best MMA handicapper in the world at SportsCine. |
| 0:29.8 | He's my guy, Ian Parker. |
| 0:31.0 | You can follow him on social media. |
| 0:32.4 | Ian Parker, MMA. |
| 0:33.5 | Let's bring him in right now because I've got to tout you. Before we start today, this week, PFL, which is tonight, Thursday when we're taping this, |
| 0:40.9 | we had those picks on the regular early edge, Bellator Friday, UFC Saturday. |
| 0:45.2 | Last week, you were damn near perfect across all the boards. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, we're going to try to keep that going today. |
| 0:51.0 | There's definitely some value, and this is as loaded as it gets for MMA with the three |
| 0:54.9 | organizations. And I guess we have a little surprise after as well. We have a little surprise at the end for |
| 0:59.9 | everybody. By the way, if there are any new MMA betters that are watching right now, we try to keep |
| 1:04.3 | it as simple as possible. Our bench number in MMA is minus 200. That is what we consider a higher odds. Anything over that, anything under that, we feel like we can play. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a little bit different than football, basketball, baseball, and or hockey. |
| 1:18.0 | Just so you know, educate entertainment. |
| 1:20.2 | All right, let's get started with our board. |
| 1:21.7 | Bellator 530 Eastern prelims start on Friday. |
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