With yet another event set to take place this weekend on the UFC schedule, let’s talk about an exciting matchup on Saturday night. Middleweights Rodolfo Vieira and Cody Brundage are set to mix it up in the octagon in a front-runner for fight-of-the-night this weekend.
Read further for a breakdown and the Vieira vs Brundage betting analysis and prediction, before you place your weekend slate of bets.
Rodolfo Vieira vs. Cody Brundage Information
Rodolfo Vieira vs Cody Brundage
Location of the game: UFC APEX, Las Vegas, NV.
Date and Time: April 29, 2023. 7 PM ET
How to Watch: ESPN+
Last Fight Record
Vieira is coming off a tough loss to Chris Curtis, a top-15 middleweight, in June of 2022.
Brundage will also look to bounce back from a loss–a first-round KO at the hands of Michal Oleksiejczuk last December.
Rodolfo Vieira vs. Cody Brundage Betting Analysis
Rodolfo Vieira
When you break down a fighter like Vieira, what jumps out at you is his grappling. He has fought with a strategy that has him attempting takedown, after takedown in the UFC. He averages 3.90 takedowns per 15 minutes, at only a 27% success rate. This can be a tough output to keep up over 15 minutes, which makes him gas-out much easier.
In the media scrum this fight week, Vieira vowed to stray away from all the takedown attempts and use his other weapons to win this fight. It’s tough to believe that when the fight takes place. His natural reaction won’t be to go for a takedown and try to submit Brundage.
Cody Brundage
Brundage has a similar style of offense as Vieira. He will wrestle and work to get takedowns to control his opponent from top position. Leading to ground-and-pound or a submission. Much like Vieira, Brundage does not like going the distance in his bouts.
His last three UFC fights have been finished in the first round. This includes an awesome guillotine choke Brundage locked up on Lungiambula in March of 2022. That is surely a weapon that Vieira has to be aware of when he goes for takedowns.
Updates
No injuries have been reported to the NSAC.
Rodolfo Vieira vs. Cody Brundage Betting Preview
Even though both of these men tend to stay out of the mainstream of UFC news. This fight has all the makings to be fight of the night. Both Vieira and Brundage have good chins, and fight with a lot of forward pressure.
UFC odds have Vieira as the -225 betting favorite over the +190 Brundage heading into this weekend. Viera vs. Brundage betting lines can be found at any major sportsbook local to you. There are also plenty of interesting prop betting lines available to win big money.
Here’s a hint–this fight will probably not see the judges’ scorecards. Lines are set at +275 for this fight to go the distance. That honestly might be worth putting some skin on and cheering for both guys to not get finished.
Vieira winning inside the distance is at -160, meaning the oddsmakers believe that he will have the best chance of getting this thing done. Vieira is a multiple-time world champion in Jiu-Jitsu and other grappling events, including an ADCC World Championship.
Rodolfo Vieira vs. Cody Brundage Betting Prediction
If you aren’t new to this, you know that UFC picks are the most difficult to make in all of sports betting. The sport is too unpredictable to make any locks, or even find a good trend that a certain fighter has going. Anyone can lose on any given Saturday night.
- The official Vieira vs Brundage betting prediction is that Vieira will get his hand raised.
Even though his technical ability to secure takedowns is suspect and can cost him a fight, Brundage has a worse fight IQ and has shown that he will throw any game plan out of the window at any moment.
Both fighters are fun to watch and very skilled in their own disciplines, and the wrestling/cardio advantage goes to Brundage–which is usually a big deal breaker when picking fights. The Vieira vs Brundage betting predictions are high but Vieira is going to be able to use his style perfectly on the lack of defensive striking skills and Jiu-Jitsu that Brundage possesses.
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