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UFC 269: DUSTIN POIRIER VS CHARLES OLIVEIRA | FULL CARD BREAKDOWN | BETS | AND PREDICTIONS UFC 269 is one of the best cards of the year. This Saturday, Dustin Poirier takes on Charles Oliveira for the UFC Light Weight title at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Don’t miss our breakdowns and predictions of the entire card. There are a ton of good fights, and a ton of good bets to be made for this card. If you want to help support us further, please check out our Patreon and get more break...

UFC FIGHT NIGHT: JOSE ALDO VS ROB FONT | FULL CARD BREAKDOWN | PREDICTIONS | AND BETS This Saturday, Rob Font takes on the legend, Jose Aldo in the main event from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Don’t miss our breakdowns and predictions of the entire card after taking a week hiatus for Thanksgiving. There are a ton of good fights, and a ton of good bets to be made for this card. If you want to help support us further, please check out our Patreon and get more breakdowns and all of Brandan’...

PLEASE LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE! Stop losing money betting on fights just because the pundits in the media are excited about the next best thing. Learn from world champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, and betting guru, Brandan Olivas, how to bet read odds, watch tape, and pick fights…like they do. Both experts give their process on how they bet and what makes their betting strategy unique, and explain what you should be looking for before you place your hard earned money down on some fights...

PLEASE LIKE, SHARE, AND SUBSCRIBE! Brandan and Santino talk UFC FIGHT NIGHT: Max Holloway vs Yair Rodriguez. They break down the keys to victory for both and discuss the betting options on the card. In addition to the bets on this card, Brandan finishes the segment with his full Bellator betting picks rhat are bound to earn you some extra holiday cash$$. Have a listen/watch and enjoy! IG: @santinodefranco @brandanolivas As always, we love to hear from you, so comment below! Support the sho...

UFC 268: Colby Covington challenges Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight belt. In the comain event, Weili Zhang rematches Rose Namajunas and before rhat, we see Michael Chandler vs Justin Gaethje! Have a watch/listen to this week’s elisode of MMA Predictions, Bets and Breakdowns with Santino DeFranco and Brandan Olivas. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! INSTAGRAM: @santinodefranco @brandanolivas Chapters: 3:02 - Contender series recap 4:35 - Bellator picks 6:58 - CES picks 10:30 - Kamaru Usman vs....

UFC 267 Abu Dhabi: Jan Blachowicz vs Glover Teixeira and Petr Yan vs Cory Sandhagen this Saturday night: MMA Predictions, Bets and Breakdowns with Santino DeFranco and Brandan Olivas. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Recap of Last Week's Fights and Bets 20:29 - Intro To This Week's Card 33:45 - Makwan Amirkhani vs Lerone Murphy 36:45 - Jingliang Li vs Khamzat Chimaev 39:00 - Alexander Volkov vs Marcin Tybura 44:15 - Islam Makhachev vs Dan Hooker 49:00 - Petr Yan vs Dan Hooker 57:00 ...

UFC Fight Night Vegas: Costa vs Vetorri--Bets, Breakdowns, and Fight Predictions. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! (and share us too!) Instagram: @brandanolivas @santinodefranco This was a hard one for us to get up, betters! All the odds were against us, but we got a breakdown video up for this weekend's UFC event. If you want information about this week's LFA, KSW, Bellator, XMMA fights for bets, follow Brandan on IG. Last week betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas, and world champion MMA coach,...

UFC Fight Night 40: Ladd vs Dumont--Bets, Breakdowns, and Fight Predictions. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Last week betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas, and world champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco made a killing on bets, and a lot of viewers reached out and said they did too. Watch their full breakdown of the fight card and what fights they agree on, what fights they disagree on, and where they think the money should be bet. Please comment below if you like our picks, hate ...

IG: @brandanolivas IG: @santinodefranco World champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, and MMA sports betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas break down the smart betting picks for UFC fight night: Dern vs Rodriquez. See what fights Santino and Brandan think will be good bets as they break down the odds and fights to help you with your own betting picks. Santino DeFranco is a world champion MMA coach, having coached Henry Cejudo, Korean Zombie, Tracy Cortez, Kamuela Kirk, and numer...

UFC Fight Night: Johnny Walker vs Thiago Santos | MMA Bets and Breakdowns World champion MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, and MMA sports betting extraordinaire, Brandan Olivas break down Johnny Walker vs Thiago Santos and offer other picks for MMA sports betters.We go over fights we like for bets, some prop bets that will offer more bang for the buck than a “pick the winner” bets, and the fights we’re excited to see as fans—regardless of whether they’re good fights to throw money on. Tune in, thro...

Follow on IG: @santinodefranco Nick Diaz is back. Brian Ortega and Alex Volkanovski fight for a title. And fans are allowed at full capacity in Las Vegas! UFC 266 is a great card from top to bottom with a lot of fights worth betting on too. Come join us as we break down the fights we are interested in watching and then we break down the fights and make picks for the fights we want to bet on. Who we are: Santino DeFranco is a world champion MMA coach. He trained/cornered Henry ...

Running is the single most important thing a fighter can do besides technical skills training. Ive coached too many fighters at every level of the sport of MMA to sit by and let fighters get in the cage without a regular running routine. Whether youre training for a fight or a flag football game, learn how running can help you level up your game. It may not be the perfect exercise for aerobic gains, it may be hard on your knees, and it sure as hell is boring (to me!), but it’s the best thing an...

Kamuela and Santino are back and talking MMA after a long hiatus due to the Covid craziness! It's great to be back in the studio and recording again! The duo starts out talking about Santino's upcoming trip to Abu Dhabi's Fight Island, where Santino will be cornering Tracy Cortez and the Korean Zombie, Chang Sung Jung. Then they talk about the topic of the century (or Santino, anyway)--Israel Adesenya's performance, and something very conspicuous (separate from the fight), and t...

Don't miss this episode with Kamuela and Santino--it may be the very best episode yet. The dynamic duo talk about the UFC fights in Jacksonville, and all of the controversial stoppages (and non-stoppages) as well as the judging and how the dynamic of fight week was completely different due to the Covid pandemic and the lack of crowd. Santino was there cornering two fighters, and he gives an inside look into the "new normal" for UFC fights for the foreseeable future. They then gi...

Here's part two of our Corona Virus lockdown podcast. Kamuela and I talk our fight picks for the card in Jacksonville, FL. If you want to hear more on training during lockdown and how the gym industry has been decimated by the lockdown, check out pt 1 of this segment (the previous episode). Support the show

It's been a while since we recorded a podcast! Covid-19 has made me busier than ever with having to train fighters during the lockdown, but I managed to get one in as UFC 249 approaches. Kamuela and I talk about how impactful Covid-19 has been to the gym and fitness industry as a whole, and how weird it is training fighters for UFC fights during the time of social distancing. We then move on to UFC 249 in Jacksonville, FL, where we discuss the main events, and give our predictions for the fight...

Jordan Johnson joins me on this episode of Santino's World of MMA. Jordan was an Illinois state champion and University of Iowa wrestler under Tom and Terry Brands before he transitioned to MMA, where he went 4-0 in the UFC before signing with the PFL, where he was the runner up in the $1 million light heavyweight tournament. Jordan and I talk about his MMA career, which brought him to Arizona from Iowa to train at the MMA Lab. We talk about how he slept in a pantry, a travel trailer, a g...

Santino and Kamuela talk about the upcoming fight between GOAT Jon Jones and Dominick Reyes. Does Reyes athleticism give him the extra "it factor" needed to dethrone one of the best to ever step in the cage, or will Jones savvy technique and long reach be too much for the undefeated challenger? Also, steroids are becoming a problem in the sport of MMA again. We thought we'd solved something with USADA coming into the UFC, but there are so many other organizations now that don't use the stringen...

Kamuela and Santino are back after a few weeks off for the holiday break. In the premiere of season two, they talk about their own MMA awards for 2019, which includes fight of the year, knockout of the year, the Gary Goodridge CTE award and the Zoolander's "That Hansel's so hot right now award." After the award season ends, Santino and Kamuela give their predictions on the upcoming Conor McGregor fight with Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone. Support the show

World champion MMA trainer (trainer of Henry Cejudo, Tracy Cortez, Jordan Johnson, and more), Santino DeFranco, and rising MMA prospect, Kamuela Kirk talk about the most stacked MMA card of the year, complete with three title fights! Before they break down the title fights, though, they have to talk about: - The huge news of Frankie Edgar fighting the Korean Zombie (Kamuela was one of Zombie's main sparring partners for this fight). - Alistair Overeem's insane cut that ripped his entire mouth...

One of the UFC's newest signings, Tracy Cortez, comes to the studio where she talks about her UFC debut in Sao Paulo, being a woman in a man's sport, and how she built her social media empire before ever stepping foot into the UFC octagon. We finish her interview with a Q and A from fans where she talks about her future plans and answers some randomly funny questions. Like, Subscribe, Review, Comment, and Share! Support the show

The hype was real at UFC 244 when Jorge Masvidal took on Nate Diaz for the Baddest Mo' Fo on the planet title. Kamuela Kirk and I discuss the fights, the stoppage, the belt, and whether the new Popeye's chicken sandwich lives up to the hype. Support the show

Ketamine Clinic director, Sonny Diaz, comes in to talk about how his clinic uses the hallucinogenic, Ketamine, to help people with a variety of disorders: PTSD, Pain Management, Depression, Anxiety and more. We talk about how he came to start the Ketamine treatments, who his first test subjects were (his Mother!) and how psychedelics such as mushrooms, and LSD, along with Ketamine are making a comeback in the medical field. We also talk about how someone involved in MMA (and other sports) may ...

Pro MMA fighter, Kamuela Kirk, joins MMA coach, Santino DeFranco, to discuss the last few UFC cards--breaking down Israel Adesenya, Kron Gracie vs Cub Swanson, Dan Hooker vs Al Iaquinta, Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs Michelle Waterson. They talk about how Israel compares to Conor Mcgregor, Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones and the other fighter's who experienced a meteoric rise to a title run, and how Cub Swanson may have kept his career alive with a win over Kron Gracie. Kamuela and Santino also discuss the up...