UFC 76 Odds

Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 18, 2007

Bookmaker has become one of the first sportsbooks to post the UFC 76 odds. This event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. It was expected that former PRIDE light heavyweight Wanderlei Silva would make his UFC debut by taking on Chuck Liddell, but that is not going to be the case. Now the main event will be between two fighters who were knocked out back at UFC 71 with Liddell losing his title to Rampage Jackson and Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jardine, who was knocked out in just 48 seconds against Houston Alexander. Liddell is looking to get back on top of the division after suffering his first loss in four years, and is a pretty heavy favorite to do so against Jardine.

Also on the card is the PRIDE 2005 Grand Prix winner Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, who will take on the winner of the first Ultimate Fighter, Forrest Griffin. Shogun is 16-2 with his last loss coming against Mark Coleman due to his suffering a broken arm back in February of 2006. He has since came back to win four straight against top competition. Shogun also has a win over Rampage Jackson back in April of 2005 when he TKO’s Jackson with knees. Griffin has been up and down since winning the Ultimate Fighter back in April of 2005. He pulled a couple of wins off early before losing to Tito Ortiz by split decision. He then took care of Stephan Bonnar again before falling to Jardine at UFC 66. He bounced by with a unanimous decision over Hector Ramirez in June at UFC 72, but it’s expected that Shogun will make quick work of this stand-up, knock it out fighter.

Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez is coming off his first loss of his MMA career and now stands at 17-1. He’ll be an underdog against Jon Fitch though as the odds makers aren’t expecting a positive comeback after his loss to Josh Koscheck at UFC 69. Before that he had been pretty convincing in beating Karo Parisyan, Nick Diaz, and Kenny Florian. Fitch isn’t a guy who is known in the public eye as he went 3-0 in the organization before being shown in a live telecast. He then rattled off three straight wins to bring his record to 14-2. He has great balance and could show value as more of the public starts pounding Sanchez’s line down.

UFC odds from Bookmaker:

KEITH JARDINE +250
CHUCK LIDDELL -310

DIEGO SANCHEZ +105
JON FITCH -135

FORREST GRIFFIN +275
MAURICIO RUA -345

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