{"id":88003,"date":"2014-02-28T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=88003"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:00:32","slug":"fighting-odds-chris-weidman-opens-as-225-favorite-over-lyoto-machida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/fighting-odds-chris-weidman-opens-as-225-favorite-over-lyoto-machida\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Odds: Chris Weidman Opens as -225 Favorite Over Lyoto Machida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/video-weidman-corner-exposed-good-fk-him-heard-after-silva-leg-break\/chris-weidman-png-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80130\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80130\" title=\"Chris Weidman PNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chris-Weidman-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chris-Weidman-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chris-Weidman-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chris-Weidman-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big news of the day was that Vitor Belfort is out of UFC 173 and Lyoto Machida is in. Machida will now fight Chris Weidman at UFC 173 on May 24, 2014, for the UFC middleweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbook.ag\/livesports\/mma-boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportsbook<\/a>, we have the opening betting lines for the title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman- -225<\/p>\n<p>Lyoto Machida- +180<\/p>\n<p>Lyoto has enjoyed success after moving down to 185. He knocked out Mark Munoz and late last year and put on another great performance in his unanimous decision win over Gegard Mousasi earlier this month. Now he will look to take the belt from Weidman, who is undefeated and coming off of his second straight victory over Anderson Silva.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine this fight not being exciting, so who do you have winning?<\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/ryan-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan C. Miller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The big news of the day was that Vitor Belfort is out of UFC 173 and Lyoto Machida is in. Machida will now fight Chris Weidman at UFC 173 on May 24, 2014, for the UFC middleweight title. Thanks to Sportsbook, we have the opening betting lines for the title fight. Chris Weidman- -225 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":80130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[2969,220,563,11,649,15,7462,16,1057],"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>Fighting Odds: Chris Weidman Opens as -225 Favorite Over Lyoto Machida | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/fighting-odds-chris-weidman-opens-as-225-favorite-over-lyoto-machida\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighting Odds: Chris Weidman Opens as -225 Favorite Over Lyoto Machida | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; The big news of the day was that Vitor Belfort is out of UFC 173 and Lyoto Machida is in. 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