UFC Belgrade: Medic vs. Rodriguez takes place on Saturday, August 1, at Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia. The offshore sportsbooks recently opened up the betting odds for the event, and MMAOB staff writer Adam Martin looks at the opening odds below.
UFC Belgrade Odds
Uros Medic -500
Daniel Rodriguez +375
Navajo Stirling -200
Jan Blachowicz +170
Aleksandar Rakic
Marcin Tybura
Aleksandar Rakic -300
Marcin Tybura +210
Robert Valentin -130
Dusko Todorovic +110
Vlasto Cepo -400
Gilbert Urbina +300
Ludovit Klein -129
Tofiq Musayev +109
Michael Oliveira -275
Oban Elliott +235
Bogdan Grad -250
Dennis Buzukja +210
Mateusz Rebecki -400
Kyle Prepolec +300
Nina Milosevic -400
Hailey Cowan +300
Jovan Leka -300
Alexander Poppeck +250
Milos Janicic -500
Noah Gugnon +375
Stephanie Luciano -300
Marina Spasic +250
Borislav Nikolic -150
Mark Vologdin +130
Here are my quick thoughts on the UFC Belgrade Opening Odds:
- The main event of UFC Belgrade features Uros Medic against Daniel Rodriguez in a five-round welterweight bout that won’t need the full 25 minutes to decide a winner. Medic has won his last three fights in a row by first-round knockout, while Rodriguez has won three straight fights in his own right. But with Medic being the younger fighter and competing at home in Serbia, he deserves to be the favorite to win this fight, and there’s a good chance that he wins by brutal knockout.
- In the co-main event, we have Navajo Stirling getting a major step up in competition when he takes on former UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz. Stirling has won all five of his UFC fights and is coming off two straight knockout wins. As for Blachowicz, he has not won a fight since 2022 and is 0-2-2 over his last four fights. Although Blachowicz has far more experience in the UFC and has been fighting elite competition, it’s difficult to trust him here at age 43 to beat someone as young and as talented as Stirling, even if Stirling took this fight on short notice for Bogdan Guskov.
