The UFC returns to its latest event from a strange natural year of wrestling with a welterweight at the top of the chart.
UFC Fight Night 183 will take place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card is transmitted to ESPN +.
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In the main event, former welterweight title challenger Stephen Thompson (15-4-1 MMA, 10-4-1 UFC) faces Geoff Neal (13-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC). Neal is a small favorite at BetMGM at -125, but he is Thompson with a slight 8-6 lead from our 14 editors, writers, videographers and radios.
In the feature, featherweight champion Jose Aldo (28-7 MMA, 10-6 UFC) meets Marlon Vera (18-6-1 MMA, 10-5 UFC) in a bantamweight bout. Aldo is the -150 favorite in the book, but Vera, with little bitch, has an 8-6 lead.
Also on the main card, Michel Pereira (24-11 MMA, 2-2 UFC) faces Khaos Williams (11-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) with welterweight. Pereira is a slight favorite at -120, but Williams is the biggest favorite of our selectors at 11-3.
Rob Font (17-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC) faces Marlon Moraes (23-7-1 MMA, 5-3 UFC) with rooster weight. Moraes is a -155 favorite, but the options are a dead heat between 7 and 7.
And to open the main card, Greg Hardy (7-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) faces Marcin Tybura (20-6 MMA, 7-5 UFC) as a heavyweight. Hardy is a favorite of -130 and has an advantage of 8-5 selections.
In the consensus selections of MMA readers Junkie, Thompson (58%), Vera (52%), Williams (67%), Moraes (80%) and Hardy (58%) are the options.
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