BONUS: 🥋Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar Best Bets - Fight Island 7 (1/15)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Let's settle this in the octagon! We're coming at you with a special edition of The Early Edge to preview UFC on ABC: Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar with SportsLine expert MMA handicapper Kyle Marley.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, January 15, 2021. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the Early Edge in our UFC special as we start to expand the brand and expand all the different shows we put under our umbrella. |
| 0:17.2 | And the UFC is back in action after our hiatus over the new year. |
| 0:20.3 | And they head back to Fight Island in Abu Dhabi, |
| 0:22.9 | and so I have found one of the best MMA handicappers in the business. |
| 0:27.1 | And every week that they have a big fight, |
| 0:28.8 | we're going to do one of these special shows. |
| 0:30.9 | Kyle Marley, you can follow them at Big Marley 3 on Twitter. |
| 0:34.8 | And if betters have been following in the last 23 |
| 0:37.5 | months, and here at the show, we're about |
| 0:39.4 | the long play. A hundred dollar |
| 0:41.3 | better with you, Kyle, would have won over $22,000. |
| 0:45.8 | You love the sport. You love |
| 0:47.7 | better. Before we get into the picks, what do you think is the |
| 0:51.1 | biggest thing that people who want to get into |
| 0:53.8 | MMA betting need to understand um so |
| 0:58.2 | what we're doing here on m mabeding we're not just picking fights uh it's easy to say i think |
| 1:03.2 | john jones is going to win this fight but we're working with betting lines where these betting lines |
| 1:08.9 | are implied probability so you might think john j Jones wins a fight 60% of the time. |
| 1:14.5 | But if his betting line is minus 300, that indicates that he should be winning 75% of the time. |
| 1:20.7 | Therefore, there is no value on that play anymore. |
| 1:22.8 | So you have to think about how often you think a fighter is going to win each matchup, |
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