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UFC 79 Odds

Written by Jimmy Boyd

For fight fans everywhere the UFC 79 odds have been posted by a couple of our favorite online sportsbooks. This event is scheduled to take place on December 29th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada and will feature a couple of great fights between big name fighters. Matt Hughes will be taking on Georges St. Pierre for the interm welterweight title. Hughes was first scheduled to fight Matt Serra, who had to withdraw due to injury and won’t be able to defend his title for some time. St. Pierre was more than happy to step in and get another shot at the title that he lost to Serra, and had won previously by knocking out the formidable Hughes back on November 18th, 2006 at UFC 65. Hughes lost by TKO via strikes in round two, which ended an impressive title reign in which Hughes won five straight fights, even though only two were title defenses. He had defended the title seven times in all and comes in with a record of 43-5. Hughes has had one of the most impressive careers of any fighter in the history of the organization with wins over BJ Penn, Royce Gracie, Joe Riggs, Frank Trigg, Sean Sherk, and Georges St. Pierre. He has stated that he wants to move up to middleweight if he wins this fight in order to take on Anderson Silva, if Silva can hold off Dan Henderson.

The other big fights are between Chuck “the Iceman” Liddell and Wanderlei “the Axe Murderer” Silva. This would have been billed as the fight to end all fights about a year and a half ago when Liddell was looking unstoppable and Silva was tearing through PRIDE. Then Silva lost back-to-back matches to Mirko “Crop Cop” Filipovic and Dan Henderson, two guys who have not done so well themselves in UFC action. Liddell has had some problems of his own as of late in losing his title to Quinton Jackson back in May at UFC 71 and then losing again in a decision to Keith Jardine at UFC 76 in September. Whoever wins this fight will put themselves back on the map, but the loser will have three straight defeats on their resume.

Also, a couple of new faces will meet in the octagon when the 11-0 Lyoto Machida takes on the 4-1 Rameau Sokoudjou in a light heavyweight match.

UFC odds from Bodog:

Matt Hughes +160
Georges St. Pierre -200

Chuck Liddell -115
Wanderlei Silva -115

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