UFC VEGAS 41: Costa vs. Vettori, Picks, Odds, & Analysis | The MMA Vivisection PRELIMS SHOW

Connor Ruebusch & Guest Host, Dan Tom from MMA Junkie, are here with the MMA Vivisection PRELIMS SHOW, breaking down a set of 8 bouts on this massive 14-bout UFC VEGAS 41: 'Paulo Costa vs. Marvin Vettori' Fight Night event Preliminary Card.

First of all, this card is just one more off-week card in what feels like years of off-week cards. But, if last week was a 2 out of 10, this week is a 9. Last week’s card was as low as we can go. But hey, this card isn't as bad as all that.

To add to that, let’s just say the prelims are pleasantly surprising. The featured prelim is well-suited for this slot on the card. It is an exciting middleweight bout between ‘The Iron Turtle’ Jun Yong Park and Gregory ‘RoboCop’ Rodrigues. Park is coming into this bout on a three-fight win streak, has good wrestling skills, efficient boxing, a really decent jab and Rodrigues, the black belt, has decent wrestling as well, and a lot of defense training on how to respond to that jab and is on his own three-fight win streak.

For those fans who wish to dive deeper into the MAIN CARD, check out that version of the MMA Vivi which airs at 2pm Central today, Thurs., Oct. 21st., 2021, right here on our SC channel.

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Here’s a look at the UFC VEGAS 41: 'PAULO COSTA VS MARVIN VETTORI' fight card, as it stands right now:

ESPN+ MAIN CARD | SAT. OCT 23rd. 4PM/1PM ETPT
14. 185 lbs - Paulo Costa (13-1) vs. Marvin Vettori (17-4) — Picks, Connor: Costa, Dan: Vettori
13. 155 lbs - Grant Dawson (17-1) vs. Ricky Glenn (22-6) — Picks, Both: Glenn
12. 135 lbs - Jessica-Rose Clark (10-6) vs. Joselyne Edwards (10-3) — Picks, Both: Clark
11. 145 lbs - Alex Caceres (18-12) vs. Seung Woo Choi (10-3) — Picks, Both: Choi
10. 170 lbs - Dwight Grant (11-3) vs. Francisco Trinaldo (26-8) — Picks, Both: Trinaldo
9. 205 lbs - Nick ‘Nicu’ Negumereanu (10-1) vs. Ike Villanueva (18-12) — Picks, Both: Villanueva

ESPN+ PRELIMS | 1PM/10AM ETPT
8. 185 lbs - Jun Yong Park (13-4) vs. Gregory Rodrigues (10-3) — At 3:43, Odds 19:13, Picks, Connor: Park, Dan: Rodriguez

7. 155 lbs - Mason Jones (10-1) vs. David Onama (8-0) — At 21:44, Odds 31:49, Picks, Both: Jones

6. 115 lbs - Tabatha Ricci (5-1) vs. Maria Oliveira (12-4) — At 33:57, Odds 38:09, Picks, Both: Ricci

5. 185 lbs - Laureano Staropoli (9-4) vs. Jamie Pickett (11-6) — At 39:07, Odds 48:05, Picks, Both: Staropoli

4. 155 lbs - Khama Worthy (16-8) vs. Jai Herbert (10-3) — At 49:09, Odds 55:23, Picks, Both: Herbert

3. 125 lbs - Jeff Molina (9-2) vs. Daniel Lacerda (11-1) — At 55:56, Odds 59:49, Picks, Both: Molina

2. 115 lbs - Livinha Souza (14-3) vs. Randa Markos (10-11) — At 1:00:27, Odds Skipped@1:03:19, Picks, Both: Souza | (-122) Souza vs. (+102) Markos - h/t MMA Mania

1. 135 lbs - Jonathan Martinez (13-4) vs. Zviad Lazishvili (12-0) — At 1:03:26, Odds Skipped@1:07:11, Picks, Both: Martinez | (+168) Martinez vs. (-210) Lazishvili - h/t bestfightodds.com

For those of you following the picks made on the show, we started tracking them with the July 13th, 2020 Vivisections for ‘Kattar vs. Ige’... Standings for our last event, UFC Vegas 40: Zane went 5 out of the 9 bouts they picked off this week’s card, Connor also went 5 out of those 9. So far, here are the overall standings: Zane is now 387/625 and Connor is now 378/625.

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