👊 Conor McGregor vs Dustin Poirier III | UFC 264 Picks & Preview (7/8)
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Ian Parker to dissect and preview UFC 264: Conor McGregor vs Dustin Poirier III
UFC superstars Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier will settle their rivalry with a much-anticipated trilogy fight at UFC 264 on Saturday, July 10. Their battle will close the show at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas before a full-capacity crowd. The main UFC 264 fight card is set for 10 p.m. ET.
Both former champions have knocked each other out, with six years passing between their first two meetings. McGregor is a slight -115 favorite (risk $115 to win $100), while Poirier is priced at -105 (risk $105 to win $100) in the latest Poirier vs. McGregor odds at William Hill Sportsbook. Before you make your UFC 264 picks, make sure you see what the ultimate MMA insider, Ian Parker, has to say.
A former fighter who's been in the industry for 15 years, Parker has managed some of the world's best, including former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman, Costas Philippou and Gian Villante. Parker trained alongside UFC Hall of Famer Matt Serra. Now, Parker breaks down fights and makes betting picks for the Voice of the UFC, Jon Anik.
Parker is coming off a mind-boggling 2020 season. On the Anik & Florian Podcast, Parker went an astounding 58-14, returning $9,465 to $100 bettors who followed him. He hit 11 of his 17 underdog picks and 19 of 30 main events. Overall, Parker nailed an astonishing 81 percent of his plays.
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| 0:00.0 | What's good, everybody? We have brought the show on the road this week. I could not be more excited. Welcome |
| 0:15.2 | into our MMA-only episode of the Early Edge. And this week, the biggest UFC card of the year. That's right. |
| 0:23.7 | It's Dustin Poirier and Connor McGregor three, the trilogy. And we gave you a great preview last |
| 0:29.3 | week. And hopefully you got some of those plays in as the numbers are changed. We've got a full |
| 0:34.2 | show of picks. So let's bring in the hottest MMA handicapper in the world today. |
| 0:40.1 | And that's not hyperbole. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm not exaggerating. |
| 0:42.8 | This man, Ian Parker, is dissecting and busting books everywhere. |
| 0:49.2 | Ian, how are you, sir? |
| 0:50.9 | I'm great. |
| 0:51.8 | This is going to be a killer weekend of fights. |
| 0:53.5 | The card is excellent from top to bottom. |
| 0:56.2 | And with the main event being the trilogy, I couldn't be happier with this card. |
| 1:00.2 | And the UFC has made it back to the Teabomwell Arena in Las Vegas. It is sold out. It's a huge number. |
| 1:05.2 | The crowd is going to be red hot. And they have, it's hard to make fights like this very often with two big stars but we have it this |
| 1:13.8 | week and both fighters look healthy they look in shape so let's get into it and start right now |
| 1:18.8 | now the early prelim start at 6 p.m. Eastern time then you got the prelims and then the paper |
| 1:23.4 | view starts at 10 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN pay-per-view. All right. First fight that you like. Brad |
| 1:29.9 | Tavares, take it out of Mari Akhmadav, middle-weights, early prelims. Tavares is a minus 165 favorite. |
| 1:37.7 | What do you like in this fight? I'm going to go with the Hawaiian Brad Tavares here. I like the camp he comes |
| 1:42.9 | with with his coach Eric Nisick. In his last fight against, Shoeface, we saw a different Brad Tavares. We saw the |
| 1:48.5 | takedown defense against one of the best jujitsu practitioners in the world. We saw his |
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