UFC Fight Night 147 Odds, Predictions & Picks

Next Saturday brings us UFC Fight Night 147 (also known as UFC on ESPN+ 5 or UFC Fight Night: Till vs Masvidal), from London’s O2 Arena. The main event will be a welterweight tilt between former UFC Welterweight Championship challenger Darren Till and Jorge Masvidal. The co-main event is also a welterweight bout, featuring Leon Edwards and Gunnar Nelson. You can watch the whole event on ESPN+ — and you can take a look at the full card and some of our UFC betting ruminations on several of the bouts below.

UFC Fight Night 147 Odds, Predictions & Picks

Main Card (ESPN+)

• Darren Till vs Jorge Masvidal (Welterweight)
• Leon Edwards vs Gunnar Nelson (Welterweight)
• Volkan Oezdemir vs Dominick Reyes (Light heavyweight)
• Nathaniel Wood vs Jose Alberto Quinonez (Bantamweight)
• Danny Roberts vs Claudio Silva (Welterweight)
• Jack Marshman vs John Phillips (Middleweight)

Preliminary Card (ESPN+)

• Arnold Allen vs Jordan Rinaldi (Featherweight)
• Marc Diakiese vs Joseph Duffy (Lightweight)
• Tom Breese vs Ian Heinisch (Middleweight)
• Danny Henry vs Dan Ige (Featherweight)
• Priscilla Cachoeira vs Molly McCann (Women’s Flyweight)
• Mike Grundy vs Nad Narimani (Featherweight)

Darren Till (17-1-1) vs Jorge Masvidal (32-13) will be Till’s first fight since he lost that title challenge last year against Tyron Woodley. Till had thought about shifting to middleweight but decided instead to remain in his classification. Before that loss, Till went unbeaten in six consecutive UFC matches, taking down Donald Cerrone and Stephen “Wonder Boy” Thompson, who challenged for the title twice. That win over Thompson came in a headline bout in Liverpool ten months ago.  Masvidal has not won since he beat Donald Cerrone in Denver in January 2017 and is currently on a two-bout losing streak, falling to Demian Maia and Stephen Thompson. He was slated to fight Nick Diaz at UFC 235 but saw the bout axed by UFC president Dana White. Leon Edwards vs Gunnar Nelson gives us a fighter coming in with five striaght wins in Edwards — but who has also gone nine months since his last fight. He beat Donald Cerrone in June 2018 via decision; three of his last five wins have come on the cards, while he submitted Albert Tumenov in October 2016 and delivered a knockout against Peter Sobotta in March 2018, with both finishes coming in the third round. Nelson submitted Alex Oliveira back in December in the second round. Before that, he had split four fights. He lost on the cards to Demian Maia in December 2015 but then submitted Albert Tumenov and Alan Jouban, winning both fights in the second round. In July 2017, he was knocked out in the first round by Santiago Ponzinibbio. Volkan Oezdemir vs Dominick Reyes features a fighter looking to turn around a losing streak in Oezdemir. He was submitted by Anthony Smith in the third round back in October and took a knockout in the second round from Daniel Cormier in January 2018. He won three fights in five months before that, beating Ovince St Preux on the cards and then knocking out Misha Cirkunov and Jimi Manuwa, each in the first round, in a series of fights between February and July of 2017. Reyes has won four in a row, knocking out Joachim Christensen in the first round back in June 2017 and submitting Jeremy Kimball in the first round six months later. He knocked out Jared Cannonier in the first round in May 2018 and beat Ovince St Preux on the cards in October. Nathaniel Wood vs Jose Quinonez gives us two fighters on four-bout winning streaks. Wood knocked out Marko Kovacevic and Luca Iovine in June 2017 and March 2018 respectively, before finishing 2018 with submission wins over Johnny Eduardo in June and Andre Ewell in December. Quinonez last lost to Alejandro Perez on the cards in November 2014. Since then, he submitted Leonardo Morales in the first round in June 2015 and then beat Joey Gomez, Diego Rivas and Teruto Ishihara on the cards.