Barry is a hard hitting fighter who is looking for big things in the UFC while Cro Cop has been popular ever since coming into the UFC in 2007. It should be an entertaining sports betting online bout at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sports betting odds favor Barry but Cro Cop does have a chance to win this bout. His chances definitely go up if he can get Barry to the ground. Barry has a very good stand up game though so it may not be easy for Cro Cop to get enough takedowns to win. Barry has the ability to win if the fight stays upright as most people don’t believe that Cro Cop can trade shots with Barry and survive. This is a huge fight for Cro Cop since many believe a loss could end his time in the UFC. He signed a three-fight deal and his loss to Junior dos Santos was not a good one. Another bad loss to Barry could be the last one for him in the UFC.
The bout between Cro Cop and Barry is not the feature one at UFC 115. That honor belongs to the Chuck Liddell-Rich Franklin bout. It is the headline fight of an 11-fight card in Vancouver. Liddell and Franklin are very popular fighters and they are also evenly matched as the odds on this fight list Franklin as a slight -150 sports betting favorite. Also on the main card it will be Paulo Thiago vs. Martin Kampmann, Gilbert Yvel vs. Ben Rothwell and Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald. Thiago may be the best fighter going on Saturday night and he is a solid favorite against Kampmann. Rothwell badly needs a win in his fight against Yvel so that bout should be fun to watch.
There are six fights on the preliminary card. It will be Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin and Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman in the televised bouts on Spike TV. The other four bouts have David Loiseau vs. Mario Miranda, Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle, James Wilks vs. Peter Sobotta and Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick.