UFC Vegas 39: Dern-Rodriguez - Predictions, Picks & Best Bets with Andrew Gombas
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Coach, Jonathan Coachman, is joined by Andrew Gombas (@BetsandPicksMMA) to dish out the best bets for UFC Vegas 39: Dern-Rodriguez.
Ranked women's strawweight contenders top the card on Saturday's UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez as fourth-ranked Mackenzie Dern meets sixth-ranked Marina Rodriguez in the main event. The main UFC fight card from the Apex facility in Las Vegas is set for 4 p.m. ET.
Dern is a -170 favorite (risk $170 to win $100), while Rodriguez is a +145 underdog (risk $100 to win $145) in the latest UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez odds at Caesars Sportsbook.
Gombas is a former NCAA wrestler who taps into his experience on the mat to help understand and dissect the X's and O's of MMA matchups in a manner that sets him apart from other MMA analysts. He started the MMA handicapping service MMA Knockout Bets in 2018 and has shown a profit every year since.
Last week at UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Walker, Gombas went 7-4 for 2.95 units profit and also hit the main event on Thiago Santos for his plays on SportsLine.com.
Now, he has locked in on UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez from every angle and released his top selections. A successful parlay of these picks would result in a payout of nearly 16-1!
Gombas knows the 28-year-old Dern is a five-year UFC veteran who has been on a roll, winning her last four fights, including three of those by submission. In her last bout in April, she proved her dominance by defeating Nina Nunes by submission at 4:48 of the first round. She is 11-1 in her career with seven wins by submission and four by decision.
Rodriguez (14-1-2) has also been a force, winning her last two fights this year, including a TKO of Amanda Ribas in January and a unanimous decision victory over Michelle Waterson in May. Ribas is the only one to have handed Dern a loss in her career. Rodriguez is in her sixth season as a professional and had began her career with a 10-0 mark.
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| 0:00.0 | What's good, everybody? Welcome in to the early edge MMA style. I, of course, |
| 0:14.9 | and the coach, we are powered by the almighty sports line, the best value in all of sports betting, |
| 0:19.9 | and it's not close. Now, |
| 0:21.9 | you know here at the brand, if there's a UFC card, a Bellator card, a PFL card, hell, |
| 0:26.9 | we'll even throw out contender series picks if we have them right here at the brand. Now, |
| 0:33.1 | we introduce you to a brand new caper a few weeks ago and he's got off to a really, |
| 0:37.2 | really good start. |
| 0:37.9 | And we're excited to have him back this week. |
| 0:40.4 | Let's bring him in right now. |
| 0:41.4 | Andrew Gombus, welcome back to the early edge on a week where the ladies will be in the main |
| 0:48.3 | events. |
| 0:49.2 | What's good? |
| 0:49.9 | It's great to be here, my friend. |
| 0:51.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:52.2 | Ready to dive into this card. |
| 0:53.9 | All right. |
| 0:54.3 | Let's get into it because it's a very, kind of a weird card. |
| 0:56.9 | First of all, you got the women's main event, which is very, very cool. |
| 0:59.9 | They don't have enough of those. |
| 1:01.4 | But it starts at 1 p.m. Eastern with the prelims, then at 4 p.m. Eastern with the main card. |
| 1:07.2 | Very, very important. You don't tweet at us to say, how did I miss that play? |
| 1:11.6 | It's a really, really early start time. |
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