UFC 298 takes place on Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. This card features a featherweight title fight between Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria as the Main Event. Here are our best bets for this UFC card, which will include two fights on the Main Card and one on the Preliminary Card.
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UFC 298 Main Card Best Bets
The Main Event at UFC 298 will see Alexander Volkanovski take on Ilia Topuria. This will be a fight in the UFC Featherweight division and will be for the UFC Featherweight title. Topuria comes into this fight with an MMA record of 14-0 and he is 6-0 in the UFC. He is averaging 4.44 significant strikes per minute and has a striking accuracy of 46%. Topuria is absorbing 3.05 strikes and has a striking defense of 67%. Grappling is also prominent for Topuria, as he is averaging 2.19 takedowns per every 15 minutes and 1.5 submission attempts during the same time period. His takedown accuracy is 56%, while his takedown defense is 92%.
This fight is very even with Volkanovski as the slight favorite. That being said, Topuria is perfect in his MMA career and has solid enough striking defense and takedown defense to limit Volkanovski's strengths. For that reason, backing Topuria to pull off the slight upset will be our best bet.