Sean Sheehan 
The geographically named Perth arena in Perth, Australia hosts the much maligned UFC 221 this Saturday night. Initially, Aussie Robert Whittaker was due to defend his middleweight title atop the card but a bout of injury has forced his opponent Luke Rockhold into an interim title tilt against Yoel Romero on what is a very top-heavy card.
Check out Sean and Graeme’s preview of UFC 221 as well as Sean’s picks for the full event below.
Main Card
Middleweight – Yoel Romero vs. Luke Rockhold: I am 50-50 about this being drab or a classic but either way I see Romero winning late.
Heavyweight – Mark Hunt vs. Curtis Blaydes: I’m going with Blaydes over three rounds.
Heavyweight – Tai Tuivasa vs. Cyril Asker: Tuivasa
Welterweight – Jake Matthews vs. Li Jingliang: Matthews
Light Heavyweight – Tyson Pedro vs. Saparbek Safarov: Pedro
Preliminary Card
Lightweight – Damien Brown vs. Dong Hyun Kim: Brown
Middleweight – Rob Wilkinson vs. Israel Adesanya: Adesanya
Featherweight – Jeremy Kennedy vs. Alexander Volkanovski: Volkanovski
Flyweight – Jussier Formiga vs. Ben Nguyen: Formiga
Early Preliminary Card
Lightweight – Ross Pearson vs. Mizuto Hirota: Pearson
Bantamweight – Teruto Ishihara vs. José Alberto Quiñónez: Ishihara
Welterweight – Luke Jumeau vs. Daichi Abe: Abe
Bet Of The Week
I’m going for a 9/2 treble of Romero, Tuivasa and Formiga.
Start Times
Early Prelims – Fight Pass at 11.30pm
Prelims – Fight Pass and BT Sport at 1am
Main Card – BT Sport at 3am
