Couture a slight fave in UFC 105 main event
One of the year’s most anticipated Mixed Martial Arts fights takes place Saturday when Randy Couture faces Brandon Vera in the main event at UFC 105 in Manchester, England.
The legendary Couture will likely get a title shot with a win over Vera in Saturday’s light heavyweight bout (2 pm ET, SPIKE TV).
betED.com MMA Betting Odds have Couture as a slight -115 favorite, while Vera is barely the underdog at -105.
Couture (Overall MMA Record: 16-10) returned to the Ultimate Fighting Championship circuit last fall to face Brock Lesnar in a heavyweight championship bout at UFC 91.
In that match, Lesnar knocked Couture down and, after a series of blows, scored a TKO victory at 3:07 of the second round.
Couture’s last fight was in August when he went up against former UFC interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102. The spirited scrap resulted in a unanimous-decision win for Nogueira.
Vera is 11-3 in his MMA career, including seven wins by knockout.
Vera’s last fight was also at UFC 102, where he battled Krzysztof Soszynski (after his original foe, Matt Hamill, was forced out after training injury. Vera won by unanimous decision.
One fight that may get as much attention as the main event is one between England’s Michael Bisping (17-2) and Denis Kang (32-11-1).
Kang is a -130 favorite while Bisping is a +110 dog.
There’s also an All-British fight with Paul Taylor taking on John Hathaway.
Hathaway will be putting his undefeated record on the line against Taylor, a “Fight of the Night” regular.
