The Octagon returns to T-Mobile Center at Las Vegas for Saturday night’s 11-fight UFC 239 card.

The show comes with a set of title conflicts, together with MMA’s best-ever fighters around the men’s and women’s side defending their individual belts.
Jon’Bones’ Jones is set to shoot on Thiago Santos in the main event. Jones was a -600 favored at most books as of Tuesday, but the Westgate SuperBook had Jones at -850 late Friday afternoon. Santos was a +575 underdog at the Westgate. A number of offshore shops had Jones in a cheaper price from the -650 neighborhood. The total was 2.5 rounds (‘beneath’ -135,’over’ +105) at most areas.
Jones (24-1-1 MMA, 18-1-1 UFC) has had his hand increased 25 occasions in 26 career fights. His only”loss” was a disqualification for prohibited 12-to-6 elbows in a blowout win over Matt Hamill on Dec. 5 of 2009. His third-round knockout win over Daniel Cormier in UFC 214 was overturned and changed to some no-decision when Jones tested positive for the PED turinabol.
Jones appears — for now at least — to be on the ideal path outside the cage lately. This is his third battle in a period of six months and one week, marking his most action since 2011-12. He’s indicated he wishes to fight three or more occasions in 2019.
Jones is away from a unanimous-decision triumph over Anthony Smith in UFC 235 in March. He dominated Alexander Gustafsson with a third-round KO victory at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 of 2018. Before those two victories, various suspensions and arrests allowed him to compete only four times in a span of more than five years.
Jones has cleaned out the light-heavyweight branch during his career. At a five-fight extend from March 19 of 2011 to Sept. 22 of 2012, he won the belt and successfully defended it four times. All five of these wins came over former champions — Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans and Vitor Belfort. Just Evans went the distance with Jones during this span.
Santos (21-6 MMA, 13-5 UFC) is 8-1 in his previous nine fights since February of 2017. He’s bagged six fight-night bonuses during this stretch. The 35-year-old Santos competed at middleweight his entire career until moving up to 205 lbs to confront Eryk Anders in the UFC Fight Night 137 headliner at Sao Paulo last September.
Anders took the battle on six days of notice if Jimi Manuwa pulled his bout with Santos due to an injury. The former University of Alabama football player needed to fly to Brazil and also make weight in rapid purchase. Plus, he had been heading up a weight class for the very first time in his profession.
The garbage was a slugfest that got Fight of the Night honors. Unfortunately, Anders collapsed due to exhaustion when trying to return to his corner when the third round finished. The referee immediately called the struggle to give Santos a TKO victory.

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