UFC 101<\/strong>: Declaration takes place Saturday at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, with the two best 155-pound fighters in the world clashing in the main event.<\/p>\n Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion B.J. Penn will defend his title against number one contender Kenny Florian in the biggest bout of the 10-fight card.<\/p>\n betED.com has Penn a -240 favorite to successfully defend his crown in MMA Betting Odds, while Florian is a +190 underdog. In the co-feature, the pound-for-pound king of mixed martial arts, middleweight champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva, moves up a weight class to 205 pounds to take on former light heavyweight champ and Ultimate Fighter season one winner Forrest Griffin.<\/p>\n Silva is a huge favorite at -400 while Griffin is +300.<\/p>\n Penn (13-5-1) hasn\u2019t fought in more than six months, his last fight a TKO Stoppage loss against welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre at UFC 94 in January. Penn was challenging for St. Pierre\u2019s title and looking to avenge a prior loss, but instead was unable to come out of his corner after four rounds of domination from St. Pierre.<\/p>\n Since that loss, Penn has changed his training and hired Mark Maronivich, the father of former USC standout quarterback, Todd Maronivich, to be his strength and conditioning coach.<\/p>\n Florian (12-3) contested for the UFC lightweight title once before, losing a decision to Sean Sherk for the vacant title in October of 2006.<\/p>\n But since that loss, Florian has been on a six-fight winning streak, with five of the six fights ending by submission or TKO. His last fight was by Submission (Choke) over Joe Stevenson at UFC 91 last November.<\/p>\n UFC 101 starts at 7:30 pm ET Saturday with the main event scheduled for 11:40 pm ET, on Pay Per View.<\/p>\n betED.com Sportsbook UFC 101 fight preview and betting odds. Plus matchup analysis for the lightweight matchup between champion B.J. Penn versus #1 contender Kenny Florian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1436],"tags":[16268,159,12342,1376,16267,16270,16273,16274,16269,16266,16271,2709,2714,16272],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fight-club","tag-bet-on-ufc-101","tag-beted","tag-beted-odds","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-beted-sportsbook-preview","tag-betting-odds-ufc","tag-kenny-florian-vs-bj-penn","tag-ufc-101-gambling-predictions","tag-ufc-101-lines","tag-ufc-101-odds","tag-ufc-101-preview","tag-ufc-betting","tag-ufc-gambling","tag-wachovia-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108963,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions\/108963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/props\/propsGEN1M250X250.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nCheck out betED.com for a full list of UFC 101 fights and UFC Betting Odds.<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"