Quick Picks: UFC Fight Night – Lawler vs. Dos Anjos


With winter well and truly set in, the UFC heads to snowy Winnipeg, Canada this Saturday night for their latest FOX broadcast. Former champions Robbie Lawler and Rafael Dos Anjos meet in an exciting main event while the rest of the fairly well put together card features great fights like Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Mike Perry and Glover Teixeira vs. Misha Cirkunov. Here are my picks for the event.

Welterweight – Robbie Lawler vs. Rafael dos Anjos: Lawler via TKO

Featherweight – Ricardo Lamas vs. Josh Emmett: Lamas via decision

Welterweight – Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Mike Perry: Ponzinibbio via early KO

Light Heavyweight – Glover Teixeira vs. Misha Cirkunov: Teixeira via submission

Light Heavyweight – Jan Błachowicz vs. Jared Cannonier: Cannonier

Middleweight – Julian Marquez vs. Darren Stewart: Stewart

Welterweight – Chad Laprise vs. Galore Bofando: Laprise

Flyweight – Tim Elliott vs. Pietro Menga: Elliott

Lightweight – John Makdessi vs. Abel Trujillo: Trujillo

Middleweight – Alessio Di Chirico vs. Oluwale Bamgbose: Bamgbose

Welterweight – Jordan Mein vs. Erick Silva: Silva

Welterweight – Nordine Taleb vs. Danny Roberts: Taleb

Bet of the week

Glover Teixeira to win at 6/4

Start times

Early Prelims – Fight Pass at 9.30pm

Prelims – Fight Pass & BT Sport 3 at 10pm

Main Card – BT Sport 3 at 1am

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