Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum will headline this week\u2019s UFC event after there was no promotion last week. Cannonier is the No. 3 ranked middleweight in the UFC, while Gastelum is the No. 9 ranked middleweight in the promotion. This is a high-stakes match for both fighters, as a Gastelum loss will probably relegate him to undercard status for a while and Cannonier can\u2019t afford another loss if he wants that elusive title shot since he is 37 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we have seen consistently over the last 17 months, this event will be held at the UFC Apex training center in Enterprise, Nevada due to COVID. UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Gastelum will take place on Saturday, August 21, 2021, with the prelims starting at 7 p.m. ET and the main card getting underway at 10 p.m. ET. The prelims will be televised on ESPN2 and ESPN+, while the main card will be shown on ESPN and ESPN+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Gastelum Betting Odds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelvin Gastelum +120<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jared Cannonier -140<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although Jared Cannonier is ranked six spots ahead of Kelvin Gastelum by the UFC, the oddsmakers have him listed as only a slight favorite<\/a> per the UFC betting odds. Cannonier is 13-5 with nine knockouts in his MMA career, and he has won three of his four fights since moving to middleweight. He earned Performance of the Night bonuses for his second-round TKOs of David Branch and Jack Hermansson, and he finished Anderson Silva in the first round too. However, he is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Robert Whittaker at UFC 254.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gastelum has lost four of his last five fights. He was 15-3 with six knockouts before losing a unanimous decision to Israel Adesanya for the interim UFC Middleweight Championship two years ago, and he has only beaten Ian Heinisch since that point. Gastelum lost decisions to Darren Till and Whittaker and was upset via first-round submission by Hermansson, so it\u2019s best to go against him in this situation although he has the youth edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clay Guida +135<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark O. Madsen -155<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Clay Guida is one of the most experienced MMA fighters in the world. This will be the 57th<\/sup> fight for the 39-year-old, and he is still good enough to be competitive with second-tier fighters. Guida is 4-3 since returning to lightweight a little over four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most respected wrestlers in the world over the last two decades was Mark Madsen. He won four silver medals at the World Championships and claimed a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics before pivoting to MMA full time in 2018. Madsen is 10-0 in his professional career, and he won his two bouts in the UFC. Despite his wrestling pedigree, he has shown solid power on his feet, so he is the pick as a moderate favorite<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parker Porter +167 It will be interesting to see how Chase Sherman picks himself up after losing to heavyweight gatekeeper Andrei Arlovski in his last bout back in April. Sherman had reeled off four straight victories prior to that loss, finishing his opponents early with his prodigious striking power. He is a former Bare Knuckle Fighting champion, and 14 of his 15 MMA wins have been via knockout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parker Porter knows that it would be folly to stand and trade with Sherman. Although he has decent power, his best chance of a victory will be by getting Sherman on his back. Porter has a decent chance of winning this fight as he is facing a one-dimensional fighter, so he is the pick<\/a> here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our <\/em>Twitter account <\/em><\/a>for the latest sports news and wagering odds, and come to our <\/em>Instagram<\/em><\/a> for more useful betting info too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum will headline this week\u2019s UFC event after there was no promotion last week. Cannonier is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18569,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549\/revisions\/18569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Chase Sherman -192<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n