UFC Vegas 51: Luque vs Muhammad 2, Picks, Odds, & Analysis | The MMA Vivisection Prelims

Zane Simon & Connor Ruebusch are here with the MMA Vivisection PRELIMS CARD SHOW, breaking down a set of 8 bouts on this 14-bout UFC Vegas 51: 'Luque vs. Muhammad 2' Fight Night event.

"This week’s UFC card is... not the kind of thing to get many fans excited. A quality main event rematch between Belal Muhammad and Vicente Luque is perched upon an otherwise indistinguishably interchangeable night of low-stakes contests. Hopefully we get some thrilling highlights out of the card." - Zane Simon

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Here’s a look at the UFC VEGAS 51 fight card, as it stood at the time of recording:

ESPN+ MAIN CARD | SAT. APR 16 — 8:30PM/5:30PM ETPT
14. 170lbs: Vicente Luque (21-7) vs. Belal Muhammad (20-3) — Picks, Both: Luque
13. 185lbs: Caio Borralho (10-1) vs. Gadzhi Omargadzhiev (13-0) — Picks, Both: Omargadzhiev
12. 170lbs: Andre Fialho (14-4) vs. Miguel Baeza (10-2) — Picks, Both: Fialho
11. 135lbs: Mayra Bueno Silva (7-2) vs. Yanan Wu (12-4) — Picks, Both: Bueno Silva
10. 145lbs: Pat Sabatini (16-3) vs. T.J. Laramie (12-4) — Picks, Both: Sabatini
9. 170lbs: Mounir Lazzez (10-2) vs. Ange Loosa (8-2) — Picks, Both: Lazzez

ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5:30PM/2:30PM ETPT
8. 265lbs: Devin Clark (12-6) vs. William Knight (11-3) — At 2:15, Odds 9:19, Picks, Both: Clark

7. 135lbs: Lina Länsberg (10-5) vs. Pannie Kianzad (15-6) — At 9:42, Odds 14:59, Picks, Both: Kianzad

6. 155lbs: Drakkar Klose (11-2) vs. Brandon Jenkins (15-8) — At 16:12, Odds 22:37, Picks, Both: Klose

5. 170lbs: Rafa Garcia (13-2) vs. Jesse Ronson (21-10) — At 23:08, Odds 33:10, Picks, Both: Ronson

4. 265lbs: Chris Barnett (22-7) vs. Martin Buday (9-1) — At 33:31, Odds 45:10, Picks, Both: Barnett

3. 155lbs: Trey Ogden (8-2) vs. Jordan Leavitt (9-1) — At 46:20, Odds 52:45, Picks, Both: Leavitt

2. 115lbs: Sam Hughes (5-4) vs. Istela Nunes (6-2) — At 53:02, Odds 59:00, Picks, Both: Nunes

1. 135lbs: Heili Alateng (15-8) vs. Kevin Croom (21-14) — At 59:46, Odds 1:08:00, Picks, Both: Alateng

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 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie, Chan Sung Jung — Zane went 5/12, and since they agreed on every pick last week, Connor also went 6/12. So far, here are the overall standings: Zane is now 537/846 and Connor is now 522/846.

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