This bout was originally scheduled for the preliminary portion of the card but those that bet on UFC 106 will now notice that it is on the main pay-per-view card since the Parisyan-Hazelett bout was cancelled.
UFC betting on Saturday includes a bout between Paulo Thiago and Jacob Volkmann. UFC betting favors Thiago by more than 2-1 in this bout. UFC 106 takes place from Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday and has 10 bouts on the UFC betting card including this matchup between Thiago and Volkmann. It will be the UFC debut for Volkmann while it is the third fight for Thiago. Volkmann has a record of 10-0 in his MMA career while Thiago is 11-1 in the MMA and 1-1 in UFC betting.
UFC 106 will have two of the preliminary bouts on Spike TV with the pay-per-view following those two for those that bet on UFC 106. Thiago is favored in UFC betting and for good reason. He knocked out Josh Koscheck in his UFC debut before falling to Jon Fitch.
Volkmann makes his UFC betting debut coming from the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy. That Academy has produced UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, Sean Sherk, Brock Larson and other fighters. Volkmann has seven first round submissions in his nine wins so if he is able to win this bout it very well could come by submission.
UFC betting is headlined on Saturday by the two features bouts as Forrest Griffin faces Tito Ortiz and Anthony Johnson takes on Josh Koscheck. The other two bouts on the main card for those that bet on UFC 106 have Luiz Cane vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Phil Baroni vs. Amir Sadollah.
The preliminary card in UFC betting has the two bouts on Spike TV being Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders and Kendall Grove vs. Jake Rosholt. The other three preliminary bouts in UFC betting have Brian Foster vs. Brock Larson, Fabricio Camoes vs. Caol Uno and Jason Dent vs. George Sotiropoulos.
The options in UFC betting for UFC 106 should be exciting with Ortiz and Griffin meeting in a rematch of their bout from three years ago while the fight between Johnson and Koscheck looks like a war in UFC betting. Not to be left out for those that bet on UFC 106 is the fight between Thiago and Volkmann that has the potential to be better than the Parisyan-Hazelett bout that was cancelled.