UFC 137 Preview: Fight Card & Odds

Written by Roger Mayflower
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:19

UFC 137 is coming up on Saturday and it’s time to preview the fight card and betting odds.

October 29th is the date of UFC 137, and the mixed martial arts action will be played out at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Although the UFC 137 fight card has been shuffled around quite a bit because of injuries and Nick Diaz being Nick Diaz, there is still plenty to look forward too.

The original UFC 137 main event was a title fight between welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre and Diaz, but the fight was scrapped when the challenger failed to show up for press conferences and essentially went missing in action.  B.J. Penn and Carlos Condit were supposed to square off at UFC 137 as well, but Condit was billed to replace Diaz in the main event.  After Diaz smoothed things over a bit, he was then matched up against Penn in a non-title fight.  St. Pierre was injured just a few days ago and now the Penn-Diaz bout has been elevated to main event status while Condit plans to wait for the champion to get healthy.

With that mouthful of information out of the way, the UFC 137 card is still chalk full of amazing matchups.  4 of the most exciting heavyweights on the planet will be in action, while the Spike TV-televised fight between Dennis Siver and Donald Cerrone is good enough to be a part of any pay-per-view card.  Let’s check out the entire slate of fights before previewing the UFC 137 odds so that everyone can get an early idea of what stands out to them.

UFC 137 Fight Card:

B.J. Penn vs. Nick Diaz

Cheick Kongo vs. Matt Mitrione

George Roop vs. Hatsu Hioki

Mirko Filipovic vs. Roy Nelson

Scott Jorgensen vs. Jeff Curran

Donald Cerrone vs. Dennis Siver

Tyson Griffin vs. Bart Palaszewski

Brandon Vera vs. Eliot Marshall

Ramsey Nijem vs. Danny Downes

Francis Carmont vs. Chris Camozzi

Dustin Jacoby vs. Clifford Starks

UFC 137 – Odds:

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B.J. Penn -135

Nick Diaz +115

Matt Mitrione -140

Cheick Kongo +120

Roy Nelson -270

Mirke Filipovic +230

Hatsu Hioki -340

George Roop +280

Donald Cerrone -210

Dennis Siver +175

Tyson Griffin -290

Bart Palaszewski +245