UFC on Fuel TV 1: Predictions, Odds and More
The UFC will head to Nebraska this week when it presents UFC on Fuel TV 1 from the Omaha Civic Auditorium. Headlining the evening’s fight card will be a welterweight bout of some significance as Diego Sanchez meets Jake Ellenberger.
Sanchez, who was once known as “Nightmare,” but now goes by “Dream”, comes into the fight on a two-fight winning streak, taking home Fight of the Night honors in both of those bouts. In fact, Sanchez has become quite accustomed to cashing Fight Night bonus checks as of late, taking home four in his last six fights. In his last 10 UFC bouts, Sanchez has gone 6-4.
Ellenberger has heard his name being mentioned as a future welterweight champion, and his 53-second destruction of former Strikeforce champion Jake Shields in September of last year only caused that talk to increase. Since losing his UFC debut to Carlos Condit, Ellenberger has put together five straight victories, with four of those coming via KO or TKO.
The evening’s co-main event will see Stefan Struve face off against Dave Herman in a heavyweight contest. Struve enters the fight coming off a Submission of the Night victory over Pat Barry on Oct. 1. For his part, Herman’s last fight was a Fight of the Night victory over John-Olav Einemo at UFC 131.
Another fight of note will see the highly touted heavyweight prospect Stipe Miocic, who will face Phillip De Fries in Omaha. Both fighters are unbeaten heading into their bout with Miocic sporting a 7-0 record and De Fries going 8-0-0-1.
The main card of the evening will be broadcast on Fuel TV beginning at 8 p.m. ET. The preliminary card will stream on the UFC’s Facebook page.
The UFC will travel to Omaha, Nebraska for the second time in the history of the promotion when they present UFC on Fuel 1 from the Omaha Civic Auditorium on Wednesday, February 15. The two headlining bouts will be Diego Sanchez vs. Jake Ellenberger and Stefan Struve vs. Dave Herman. Below you will find predictions for those fights.
Diego Sanchez vs. Jake Ellenberger: First things first, I will be totally shocked if we see anything but an all out stand up battle in this one, but then again I expected the same from Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit and we all know how that turned out. The key for Ellenberger will be the pace of Sanchez. If Ellenberger allows Sanchez to set and control the pace he may find himself on the losing end in this one. What could be Sanchez’s downfall in this bout is his willingness to stand and brawl. He’s always shown that he can take a punch, but at some point that ability turns into a liability and this may very well be the fight where Sanchez suffers his first “true” KO or TKO loss. Ellenberger has 17 KO wins in his career, I’m going to go out on a limb on this one and predict he makes it 18 on Wednesday. Ellenberger by second round TKO.
Stefan Struve vs. Dave Herman: Dave Herman made his UFC debut at UFC 131 ending John-Olav Einemo’s night via a second round TKO, earning “Fight of the Night” Honors in the process. Struve also took home a Fight Night bonus in his last bout stopping Pat Barry via triangle choke. Struve has been a slow starter in many of his bouts and Herman must take advantage of that. Watch for Herman to force Struve into a brawl early on exploiting that weakness and ending the fight early. Herman by first round TKO.
The UFC will travel to Omaha, Nebraska for the second time in the history of the promotion when they present UFC on Fuel 1 from the Omaha Civic Auditorium on Wednesday, February 15.
The ten fight card will consist of a five fight preliminary card that will be streamed on the UFC’s facebook page as well as a five fight main card that will be broadcast on Fuel TV.
Below you can find the early odds for the main card fights followed by the five fights that will appear on the preliminary card.
Main Card Odds:
Jake Ellenberger favorite (-345) over Diego Sanchez (+275)
Dave Herman favorite (-150) over Stefan Struve (+120)
Aaron Simpson favorite (-122) over Ronny Markes (-108)
Stipe Miocic favorite (-400) over Phillip De Fries (+300)
TJ Dillashaw (-300) favorite over Walel Watson (+240)
Preliminary card (odds not available)
John Albert vs. Ivan Menjivar
Jonathan Brookins vs. Vagner Rocha
Sean Loeffler vs. Buddy Roberts
Anton Kuivanen vs. Justin Salas
Bernardo Magalhaes vs. Tim Means



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