Now that UFC Fight Night 141 is almost here, the card has shaped up to have quite a few interesting matchups.
While the card is more focused on local talent performing, the main event and the co-main event both feature excellent bouts which have a lot of interest focused on them.
While the main event is between two former rivals in the shape of Curtis Blaydes and Francis Ngannou meeting for the second time in their careers, the co-main event features Alistair Overeem and the debutant, Sergey Pavlovich.
Lower down the card in the two other main card fights, Vince Morales is a late step-in replacement for Frankie Saenz who had to step away from the fight due to injury. The same counts for David Zawada who stepped in for Elizeu Zaleski Dos Santos who had to pull out due to another injury.
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In this article, we will be taking a look at the fights from both the Preliminary and the Main Card from the night. Thanks to Oddsshark for providing the betting odds and favourites for this card.
Before taking a more detailed look at the main card odds, we are going to look at all the odds and the favourites from the Undercard for UFC Beijing.
UFC Fight Night 141 - Preliminary Card
Welterweight - Kenan Song (-110) vs. Alex Morono (-110): Favourite -
Heavyweight - Hu Yaozong (+110) vs. Rashad Coulter (-138): Favourite -
Bantamweight - Liu Pingyuan (-250) vs. Martin Day (+200): Favourite - Liu Pingyuan
Middleweight - Kevin Holland (-450) vs. John Philips (+350): Favourite - Kevin Holland
Bantamweight - Louis Smolka (-220) vs. Sumudaerji Sumudaerji (+180): Favourite - Louis Smolka
Women's Flyweight - Wu Yanan (+300) vs. Lauren Mueller (-400): Favourite -
Women's Strawweight - Zhang Weili (-500) vs. Jessica Aguilar (+380): Favourite - Zhang Weili
Women's Strawweight - Yan Xiaonan (-450) vs. Syuri Kondo (+350): Favourite - Yan Xiaonan
With the Preliminary Card out of the way, let's take a look at the main card now.
The main card has a four big fights for everyone to look forward to.
In the main event there is the fight between Francis Ngannou and Curtus Blaydes where the two face each other for the second time in their careers in vastly different situations. Whereas the first time they met Blaydes was a newcomer to the UFC he has sine developed and become one of the best fighters in the Heavyweight Division. On the other hand, it is Ngannou, who after losing to Stipe Miocic and Derrick Lewis in a row is in a downturn.
Could this fight turn out differently for Blaydes and offer him the redemption that he has been looking for, making 2018 a year for Ngannou to forget?
Curtis Blaydes (-225) vs. Francis Ngannou (+188): Favourite - Curtis Blaydes
Alistair Overeem (+110) vs. Sergey Pavlovich (-138): Favourite - Sergey Pavlovich
Song Yadong (-550) vs. Vince Morales (+400): Favourite - Song Yadong
Li Jingliang (-175) vs. David Zawada (+150): Favourite - Li Jingliang
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