Welcome to the Early Edge UFC 319 preview show brought to you by BetMGM, the sports book, born in Vegas.

I'm Danny Brasco, and I am here with Claudia Belafato to break down an incredible

pay-per-view card. Maybe not pay-per-view anymore, Claudia, because a huge deal's been done with

CBS Paramount and the UFC coming over to this family here, the sports line, early-edge family,

couldn't be more excited. And the pay-per-view model is gone. So hopefully you're seeing a lot

cheaper cost for UFC fans and no more pay-per-views, no more $80 a card, Claudia. And hopefully a lot more of us in the mix covering these cards and breaking them down. I couldn't be more excited for this one. How are you feeling? Man, I'm so excited. This is such a good card. It's out there in Chicago too. I mean, we see

the audience for UFC

grow every year, but I think the addition

of it being, this is such a good card. It's out there in Chicago, too. I mean, we see the audience for UFC

grow every year, but I think the addition of it being in a place like Chicago and having this

big buyout that our company did, which is super exciting, is going to make it that many more

eyes on what's supposed to be a really good card and moving forward a lot of good matchups.

But some good spots here when it comes to value. Some of the past plays we talked about were so chalky. But I actually had trouble trying to decide which dog I like. So it should be a good show, Danny. It's a tight card, a lot of really good matchups. And yeah, in terms of the deal with Paramount, I got to just say, I couldn't be more honored to represent what I feel is the most dynamic sport on planet Earth and have that be at our home now. So super awesome and fantastic card. You're absolutely right. I was pouring over these matchups and racking my brain. I got to delve into it right away with you, Claudia. Let's start on the prelims. We got a 15 fight card. The ultimate fighter finale will play out. We're still waiting for odds to come out on sports books there. But we got to kick it off and some fighters that we know on the early prelims. So, Claudia, what's your first play? Yeah, I'm looking at the lightweight battle between Chase Hooper and Alexander Hernandez. I'm actually going at the market that's alt method of victory

double chance. I did this for a few of the plays today. If we go Jay Super to win by submission

or Alexander Hernandez to win by decision, you can get that at minus 115. So you can call it a

soft play. I'm not picking one guy one way or another, but it gives me a little bit of wiggle room. And you're taking Hooper, who's a heavy favorite, you're bringing that juice way down. And the big storyline around him, Danny, right, is that he's been improving his striking, but we know he wants to get down on that mat as soon as possible. The one edge, though, I'm finding with Hernandez, the reason I didn't just go hooper straight up is Hernandez is tough to get down. He has a 71% takedown defense.

And on the flip side, he's effective getting guys down. He landed four takedowns on five attempts

against Kurt Hallibow in his last fight. His career share of total ground time in control at 65%. Now, he will, of course,

you always have to limit mistakes, but specifically in this matchup, he's going to have to

limit mistakes when he goes down because Hooper will definitely make him pay. But I think he will

make this fight a lot more difficult for Hooper than this line implies. He also sort of has that

spastic, sporadic approach on his feet with lots of blisses, blitzes constantly moving forward,

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