Bellator 160 Odds – This Friday, August 26th Bellator 160 comes to us live from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California with a 14-fight card that sees the featured bouts air on Spike TV in the United States.
The most recognizable fighter on the card is former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson who, at 155 lbs, is facing Bellator veteran Patricio Freire. Henderson has fought several fights at welterweight, including his Bellator debut where he took a loss to 170-pound champion Andrey Koreshkov this past April. Henderson went over to Bellator from the UFC as a free agent, and the new group paid him the respect he deserves by bringing him in the door for an immediate title shot.
That loss at welterweight sent Henderson back to lightweight for this fight, and he is meeting another of Bellator’s veterans in former featherweight champion Patricio Freire. Freire has an excellent 25-3 record, but he is coming up a weight class while Henderson is dropping back down. The size difference should be noticeable in this fight to the benefit of Henderson. Freire is a solid all-around fighter, but his best chance is going to come on his feet landing a big punch. His ground game is good, but he is not going to be able to dominate the bigger man on the floor, so Freire will likely be boxing aggressively in this one. A second lightweight fight between Saad Awad and Derek Anderson is also slated for the Spike TV broadcast.
Moving down to the featherweight division, Bellator offers a rematch between Georgi Karakhanyan and Bubba Jenkins. In January of 2015 the two men met and Karakhanyan won with a guillotine choke in less than two minutes. Since then, Jenkins has won three fights and pushed his record to a fine 11-2 overall. Despite that finish of Jenkins, Karakhanyan has had a rocky time, dropping two fights in a row. Prior to the Jenkins fight, he also took a loss to Rick Glenn when he was with the WSOF, so Karakhanyan needs a win to snap a streak where he has lost 3 of 4.
The last of the four fights available at the sport books also comes at featherweight and sees AJ McKee (4-0) taking on Cody Walker (7-4). This fight has the widest line of those available, and is is a certainty that Bellator would like to see McKee, a second generation MMA fighter, blossom into something special. We last saw Walker fight with Bellator back in October of 2015 and he went 3-2 in fights on smaller shows in the interim.
For Spike TV, it is a big weekend of fights, as Saturday night sees Spike air the Premier Boxing Champions featuring Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero vs David Peralta. The live boxing event Saturday night is also at the Honda Center in California.
Bellator 160 Odds
Below are the odds and the over/under lines for the featured fights of Bellator 160 that are set for the SpikeTV broadcast.
Lightweight 3 rounds –
Patricio Freire +175 o2½ -245
Benson Henderson -245 u2½ +175
Saad Awad +130 o1½ -185
Derek Anderson -170 u1½ +145
Featherweight 3 rounds –
Georgi Karakhanyan +125 o2½ -185
Bubba Jenkins -165 u2½ +145
Cody Walker +400 o1½ -120
AJ McKee -600 u1½ -120
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