Note: The welterweight bout between Kelvin Gastelum and Donald Cerrone has been removed from the card after Gastelum failed to make weight.
If you're looking for a fantasy-specific breakdown of these fights on DraftKings, click here for Jon Litterine's UFC 205 preview.
| MATCHUP | WEIGHT CLASS | JON | EVAN | JAKE | RICHARD |
| Eddie Alvarez (+135) vs. Conor McGregor (-155) | Lightweight | McGregor | McGregor | ||
| Tyron Woodley (+165) vs. Stephen Thompson (-190) | Welterweight | ||||
| Joanna Jedrzejczyk (-400) vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz (+325) | Strawweight | Jedrzejczyk | Jedrzejczyk | Jedrzejczyk | Jedrzejczyk |
| Chris Weidman (-170) vs. Yoel Romero (+150) | Middleweight | Romero | |||
| Miesha Tate (-185) vs. Raquel Pennington (+160) | Bantamweight | ||||
| Frankie Edgar (-350) vs. Jeremy Stephens (+290) | Featherweight | Edgar | Edgar | Edgar | Edgar |
| Khabib Nurmagomedov (-290) vs. Michael Johnson (+210) | Lightweight | Khabib | Khabib | Khabib | Khabib |
| RECORD | 3-4 | 3-4 | 5-2 | 4-3 | |
| OVERALL (since UFC 200) | 24-17 | 20-21 | 25-16 | 8-4 |
THE PLAYERS
Jon Litterine: RotoWire lead MMA beat writer and scribe for our weekly DrafKings preview. Lead analyst on the RotoWire MMA Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @JonLitterine.
Evan Dahl: Pens our bi-weekly MMA Barometer column. Follow him on Twitter at @RealEvanDahl.
Jake Letarski: MMA and NCAA Hoops Senior Editor. Sirius XM contributor. Host of the RotoWire MMA Podcast, RotoWire Fantasy Football Podcast and RotoWire DFS Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @JakeSki52.
Richard Mann: New to the RotoWire MMA staff, Richard is a stats-based analyst that has appeared on ESPN MMA via Fightmetric. He handles event recaps in our Fight Stat Wrap column, and maintains his own, data-driven MMA blog at StrikescoreMMA.com. Follow him on Twitter at @RichardAMann
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