{"id":307652,"date":"2019-03-28T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=307652"},"modified":"2019-03-28T23:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:25:15","slug":"jon-jones-and-valentina-shevchenko-open-as-gargantuan-betting-favorites-over-santos-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-and-valentina-shevchenko-open-as-gargantuan-betting-favorites-over-santos-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones and Valentina Shevchenko open as gargantuan betting favorites over Santos, Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The oddsmakers don&#8217;t have a lot of faith in Thiago Santos. For all the Brazilian&#8217;s ferocious, fight-altering power, he&#8217;s being effectively counted out by the bookies ahead of his UFC 239 showdown with seemingly unbeatable UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The online bookmaker <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/\" target=\"_blank\">BetOnline<\/a>\u00a0has labelled Jon Jones as a huge -800 favorite, which means you&#8217;d have to successfully bet $800 to win $100 (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/3\/28\/18285918\/valentina-shevchenko-jon-jones-open-as-overwhelming-favorites-in-newly-booked-title-bouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Fighting (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). Santos, meanwhile, is a near 6-1 underdog at +575. That means that a successful $100 bet on him would earn you $575.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same bookmaker has also released odds for the upcoming flyweight title fight between champion Valentina Shevchenko and challenger Jessica Eye. Shockingly, Shevchenko has been pegged as an even bigger favorite than Jon Jones at -1250 (bet $1250 to win $100). Eye, on the other hand, is sitting at +825 (bet $100 to win $825).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon Jones and Thiago Santos fight at UFC 239, which goes down July 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valentina Shevchenko and Jessica Eye will do battle roughly a month earlier, at UFC 238 on June 8 in Chicago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think of the opening odds for these two fights? Have the odds makers got it right? Join the conversation in the comments section below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 3\/29\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oddsmakers don&#8217;t have a lot of faith in Thiago Santos. For all the Brazilian&#8217;s ferocious, fight-altering power, he&#8217;s being effectively counted out by the bookies ahead of his UFC 239 showdown with seemingly unbeatable UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. 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