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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

UFC Fight Night: De Plessis vs. Usman BEST BETS!

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, SportsLine

Sports, Football

4.5779 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

SportsLine experts Hayden Iverson and Danny Brasco break down UFC Fight Night: Du Plessis vs. Usman with their top bets, picks, and predictions. From the biggest storylines to the best betting angles on the card, get everything you need before making your UFC wagers this weekend.

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(0:00) Main Card Storylines/Strategy

(10:05) Parlays and Underdog Picks

(15:25) Prelim Bets

(17:50) Main Card Bets

(20:55) Best Bets

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0:00.0

A lot going on on CBS and Paramount Plus this weekend, including on Paramount Plus, UFC, OKC.

0:11.3

We talk about it with Danny Brasco and Hayden Iverson and gentlemen, before we get into bets across this main card and some of the prelims.

0:18.1

Let's talk about some storylines, and let's look at the main card right now.

0:21.8

We're talking middleweight, Usman versus Duplessi, and here's the tale of the tape here.

0:28.4

It is the main event, and let's talk about a main event storyline, Danny Barrasco.

0:33.6

Well, after Dreykis' last fight, we have to wonder, can he defend elite wrestling? Because in this matchup, that's the big question. Usman, the dominant wrestler at Welterweight, who, you know, pride of his championship run on that style, is now going to look to do that to Dreykis after doing it to Joaquin Buckley at 170 pounds for four rounds in his last fight very successfully. Meanwhile, Durekis is coming off a loss to Hamzaa Chimayev, where he was out of options

0:57.9

from bottom position.

0:59.1

He said he watches that Hamzot fight twice a week.

1:01.7

He vowed to come back a better defensive grappler, and he's got that question to answer,

1:05.5

because if he wants to get back to his belt, that's a hole in his game.

1:08.8

He has to fix, and it's one that Usman is going to

1:10.8

make him address. Yeah, 11 fight win streak snapped in that last fight. Hayden Iverson, what's the main storyline you got? Yeah, I'm glad Danny touched on the stylistics of the fight, because if you look at it, it should be a perfect matchup for Kamar Ousman, going in there and wrestling a guy that just got wrestled up against Hamzaa Chamaia but you got also also talk about the

1:30.5

intangibles. And that's how many

1:31.9

does Kamara Usman have left? How many fights does he have left at 39 when we've talked about

1:36.8

this guy's knee injuries for seemingly five to six years? Now, it seems like he has kind of figured

1:42.4

out how to fight with those those knees. But also, you know, he's 39, you know, his maybe his durability starting to wane. He was on a three-fight losing streak before that win against Joaquin Buckley, which kind of surprised me. I thought three-fight losing streak, former champion, what does he have left to fight for? But he went in there and got a win in a way

2:01.2

where he could probably do the same thing here to drink his DuPlessi. But always the question is, how many fights does he have left in his gas tank? You know, he's kind of been strategic on when he's fighting. He's taking some long layoffs. Now he's coming off another year-long layoff. You never know after a guy takes a year off how he's going to come back.

2:19.3

Yeah, you mentioned the age at 39 and the age gap. We've got even a bigger age gap in this comane. It's Canaan here. It's Leroy Duncan. And Hayden Iverson, your storyline here is that age gap. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, in the main event, the seven-year age gap. So it's not as

2:35.8

big, but you get to 12 years. You look at the statistics behind it as far as how many times that

2:41.1

older fighter wins when there's that big of a gap. It's pretty slim. So that jumps off the board to

2:46.2

me. And when we look at that age gap, you really just have to look at, is Jericho

2:49.9

and here going to be

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