👊 UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum PLUS Bellator 257 Picks & Preview (4/15)

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Jonathan Coachman is joined by Ian Parker to dish out the best bets for UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum and Bellator 257. Use promo code ‘EDGE’ when signing up for a new account at SportsLine.com to get your first 30 days FREE! — ‘Early ‘Edge is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Enable push notifications so you always know when the latest episode is available! Every episode is also available on YouTube, go to youtube.com/channel/UCZmtXolnY7-z9HLiBESjkyQ EVERY PICK BY LARRY HARTSTEIN: https://www.sportsline.com/experts/13773/larry-hartstein/ EVERY PICK BY MIKE MCCLURE: https://www.sportsline.com/experts/15810/mike-mcclure/ Follow @SportsLine on Twitter and Instagram Check us out on YouTube for video podcasts and exclusive content, visit https://www.youtube.com/SportsLine Follow our crew on Twitter: @TheCoachrules, @LarryHartstein and @jacob_hallex You can listen to Early Edge on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Early Edge podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Early Edge podcast." For more betting picks and analysis, visit SportsLine.com To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit CBSSports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is Thursday, April 15th. Welcome into a very special episode of the Early Edge, MMA
0:10.8	style. We told you when we started the show, we're doing everything. UFC, Bellator,
0:16.9	even next week, a little of the PFL. But if you watched this last week, my man, Ian Parker, four and one, including a plus
0:25.7	232 parlay over the course of two days.
0:29.3	This week, once again, we got Bellator, Friday night, 9 Eastern, right in the family
0:33.8	showtime, and then UFC fight night on Saturday, Robert Whitaker against Kelvin
0:39.1	Gasselam, a fight that we were supposed to see a couple of years ago. It didn't materialize,
0:43.4	but we're going to see it now. Let's bring in the star of the show. Ian Parker in the Duck Army,
0:49.6	Ian, we've had to like hose you down. You've been so hot the last couple of weeks. What's up,
0:53.8	man? Yeah, no, listen, let's keep the fire going. When it comes to, like, hose you down. You've been so hot the last couple of weeks. What's up, man?
0:56.6	Yeah, no, listen, let's keep the fire going.
1:00.5	When it comes to MMA, we just got to find the right spots and the right matchups.
1:04.6	And last week, we hit it on the head, and I plan on doing it again this week and every week after that.
1:06.8	We educate and we entertain.
1:29.0	So let's jump right now. We're going to do UFC first, three picks from the UFC fight night, then also three picks from Bellator. And we always, always, always will pick the main event. So let's start with this one. preliminary bout on Saturday UFC heavyweights. Alexander Romanov, the favorite minus 140, taking on Juan Espino coming back at plus 120. What do you like in this matchup? So this is an interesting fight. We don't usually get to
1:34.4	see prospect versus prospect. I believe that Juan Espino is a very good fighter known for his submissions.
1:40.1	However, he's going against a giant athlete in Romanoff. As long as Romanoff can control his cardio and not come blazing out of the gate,
1:47.0	he should be able to get this fight to the ground and dominate too big, too strong, too good of a wrestler.
1:51.1	Give me the big man, Alexander Romanov.
1:53.2	I like too big and too strong.
1:54.5	I love that when I'm on that side of the fence.
1:57.3	All right, fight number two for us. Luis Pena, minus 150, taking on Alexander Munoz,
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