{"id":386499,"date":"2021-05-27T16:06:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=386499"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:06:57","slug":"max-holloway-opens-as-massive-favorite-over-yair-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/max-holloway-opens-as-massive-favorite-over-yair-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Holloway opens as massive favorite over Yair Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Holloway has opened as a sizeable favorite over Yair Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/max-holloway-vs-yair-rodriguez-to-headline-july-17-event\/\">In the main event of UFC Vegas 31 on July 17<\/a>, Holloway is set to welcome Rodriguez back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octagon<\/a> in a highly-anticipated fight. Both men are top-three featherweights and have proven themselves to be phenomenal strikers, but oddsmakers are liking the former champ in Holloway to win the fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UFC Fight Night:<br \/>Max Holloway (-350)<br \/>Yair Rodriguez (+275)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ub7mA7AKZs\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ub7mA7AKZs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BestFightOdds (@BestFightOdds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BestFightOdds\/status\/1397935648485564418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>UFC Vegas 31 Odds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Max Holloway (-350)<br \/>\nYair Rodriguez (+275)<\/p>\n<p>Holloway being a -350 favorite means you would need to bet on $350 to win the $100 if he were to win. If you like Rodriguez, a $100 bet would net you $275 if he were to win.<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to see Max Holloway be the favorite as he is someone the public and oddsmakers have backed. He was a -400 favorite against Frankie Edgar at UFC 240, a -230 favorite in the first fight against Alex Volkanovski, a -265 favorite against Dustin Poirier, and nearly a -200 favorite against Calvin Kattar back in January. He has only been the betting underdog five times in his career and has been above -300 10 times in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Yair Rodriguez, meanwhile, has been hit and miss with the oddsmakers as he opened as a +220 underdog against Korean Zombie but ended up closing as a -120 favorite. He&#8217;s only ever been above a -250 favorite three times in his career. However, against Holloway, this will be the biggest underdog he has been in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/max-holloway-believes-calvin-kattar-win-was-the-best-performance-of-his-career\/\">enters the fight coming off a dominant decision win over Calvin Kattar<\/a> back in January. The victory got him back into the win column after back-to-back losses to Alexander Volkanovski. Rodriguez, meanwhile, hasn&#8217;t fought since October of 2019 when he beat Jeremy Stephens by decision. Prior to that, he had the no contest against Stephens and KO&#8217;d Korean Zombie after being dominated by Frankie Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of the odds for the fight between Max Holloway and Yair Rodriguez?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Holloway has opened as a sizeable favorite over Yair Rodriguez. In the main event of UFC Vegas 31 on July 17, Holloway is set to welcome Rodriguez back to the Octagon in a highly-anticipated fight. Both men are top-three featherweights and have proven themselves to be phenomenal strikers, but oddsmakers are liking the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":294352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10147,39610,10302],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Max Holloway opens as massive favorite over Yair Rodriguez | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Max Holloway has opened as a sizeable favorite over Yair Rodriguez for their featherweight main event scrap at the Apex on July 17.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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