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UFC 113: Machida vs. Shogun II Prediction and Betting Contests
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May 8, 2010 - 1:00:11 PM

By: Matt Pelkey, MMATorch Columnist

The UFC makes its return to Montreal this Saturday for UFC 113: Machida vs. Shogun II. In the year of the rematches, this one just might be the best. I'm expecting a brilliant fight either way, but its the rest of the card that has me really excited. If you can ignore the fact that if Josh Koscheck decides to be stubborn we might not see a single fight on the main card hit the mat, you'll get a card headlined by a title fight, a #1 contender fight and three stand-ups battles of varying degrees of awesomeness.

At UFC 112, both Prediction Champ Fernando Trejo and Betting Champ Jamie "The Boss" Penick successfully defended their titles and move onto Saturday to battle Kubi and Dablackpanther, respectively. Let's take a look at the full lineup.


PREDICTION CONTEST

I'm pretty sure everyone knows how this works by now, but just in case...Basically you pick the winners of each fight, including method (e.g. KO, submission, decision) and round. The winner is the one who picks the most fights correctly. Ties will be broken by who had the most number of rounds and methods correctly predicted. In case anyone is wondering, only rounds and methods in fights where you predicted the correct winner count.


Lyoto Machida (-200) vs. Mauricio Rua (+160)

Josh Koscheck (-250) vs. Paul Daley (+190)

Jeremy Stephens (+160) vs. Sam Stout (-200)

Kevin Ferguson (-120) vs. Matt Mitrione (-110)

Alan Belcher (-130) vs. Patrick Cote (EVEN)

Joe Doerksen (+400) vs. Tom Lawlor (-600)

Jonathan Goulet (+400) vs. Marcus Davis (-600)

Yoshiyuki Yoshida (-260) vs. Mike Guymon (+200)

Tim Hague (-250) vs. Joey Beltran (+190)

T.J. Grant (+325) vs. Johny Hendricks (-500)

Jason MacDonald (-155) vs. John Salter (+125)


BETTING CONTEST

As you can see, there's a number attached to each fighter. That number represents how much money you can make off each fighter. The way it works is, if a fighter has a positive number he's an underdog. The positive number means if you were to bet $100 dollars on him, you would make the amount of the positive number. For example, if you were to bet $100 on Shogun and he won, you would make back the hundred you bet, plus $160 for a total payout of $260.

If the fighter has a negative number, that number represents how much you would have to bet to make $100 on the fighter. For example, if you bet $200 on Machida and he won, you'd make back the $200, plus a $100 profit, for a total payout of $300.

Each contestant has $1000 in theoretical money. You can bet it on as many fighters as you'd like, but you have to bet on at least three. The most you can bet on a single fighter is $500, and bets have to be in multiples of $100.

I'm setting a deadline of 6 p.m. (EST) Saturday to get all of your picks in.

Note: In the event that one of the #1 contenders fails to show for their title shot, the champ will defend against the next best performer from the previous contest. You've been warned, so bring your A game everybody!

As always you can submit your picks one of three ways: by emailing me at matt6buckeye@hotmail.com, posting them on the message boards, or by leaving them in the comments section right down there. Good luck!




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