Ronda Rousey is favored against Gina Carano. | Dave
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There a couple significant betting favorites for Most Valuable
Promotions’
first-ever MMA card.
The May 16 event takes place at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles and
is headlined by a women’s featherweight clash pitting Ronda
Rousey against Gina Carano.
According to online oddsmaker BetOnline, Rousey is listed as a considerable -500
favorite, while Carano checks in as a +375 underdog. Rousey hasn’t
competed since a knockout loss to Amanda
Nunes in December 2016, while the 43-year-old Carano has been
inactive since August 2009, when she suffered a TKO loss to
Cristiane
Justino under the Strikeforce
banner.
The biggest favorite among the MVP card’s three featured bouts is
Francis
Ngannou, who will take on Philipe
Lins in the evening’s co-headliner. The former
UFC heavyweight king is a -1200 favorite over Lins, who is a
+800 underdog. “The Predator” will be making his first MMA
appearance since October 2024, when he defeated Renan
Ferreira in
Professional Fighters League competition. Lins, meanwhile,
hasn’t competed since exiting the UFC on a four-fight winning
streak in March 2024.
The closest odds on MVP “Rousey vs. Carano” can be found for the
third bout of the triple feature: a welterweight duel pitting
Nate
Diaz against Mike Perry.
Perry is a -250 favorite against Diaz, a +190 underdog. Perry
hasn’t fought in MMA since April 2021, but he has compiled a 6-0
record as BKFC’s “King of Violence” in recent years. Diaz exited
the UFC following a submission of Tony
Ferguson in September 2022, but he has gone 1-1 in a pair of
boxing matches since then.
Odds for the card, which marks the first MMA event on Netflix, are
subject to change in the coming weeks.
MVP ‘Rousey vs. Carano’ Odds
Ronda
Rousey -500
Gina
Carano +375
Francis
Ngannou -1200
Philipe
Lins +800
Mike
Perry -250
Nate
Diaz +190