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Khabib Nurmagomedov is a -335 favorite versus Justin Gaethje (paying $300 for every $100 bet) Saturday night for UFC 254.
Yahoo Sports calls this one a "fight for the ages".
“I respect this man, because he doesn’t want to be an interim champion,” Nurmagomedov said of Gaethje in an interview with Yahoo Sports. “He wants to be a real champion. Of course, everybody loves the UFC belt and it was a good way to promote this next fight versus me, but anyway, if you’re champion, you don’t want to be interim champ.”
From Yahoo Sports:
All indicators are that the Nurmagomedov-Gaethje fight will put up a monster number on pay-per-view. Nurmagomedov’s win over Conor McGregor in 2018 set a UFC record that still stands with 2.4 million PPV sales. His last outing, a submission of Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 on Sept. 7, 2019, sold over 1 million.
“I don’t want to get too cocky here and I still have two weeks left here on Fight Island,” White told Yahoo Sports on Oct. 14, “and let’s not forget that it’s 2020, the craziest [expletive] year on the planet. I got two weeks to go. If we get through these last two weeks and don’t have any problems or don’t have anything crazy happen, this will absolutely, positively be the biggest year in UFC history.”
- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com
