Last Updated on setembro 30, 2026 3:07 pm by Erwin Noguera
Natalia Silva is 8-0 in the UFC and has never fought for a title. On Saturday, she does, against a Chinese flyweight who is 5-1 in the Octagon and ranked eighth.
The belt is vacant because Valentina Shevchenko was forced to give it up, sidelined by an injury with no return date attached. What is left is a fourteen-fight card in Salt Lake City with a new champion at the end of it, and the first numbered UFC main card ever to air on CBS.
It also closes a career. Court McGee, a Utah native, retires after sixteen years inside the Octagon, and he opens the show in his own city.
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UFC 332 Salt Lake City: Fight Card Odds and Info
| Natalia Silva (-205) | Wang Cong (+170) |
| Deiveson Figueiredo (+450) | Payton Talbott (-600) |
| King Green (+195) | Esteban Ribovics (-240) |
| Roberto Soldić (-300) | Khaos Williams (+240) |
| Ateba Gautier (-210) | Roman Kopylov (+175) |
| Imanol Rodriguez (-160) | Alden Coria (+135) |
| Damian Pinas (-500) | Andrey Pulyaev (+375) |
| Marcus McGhee (-150) | Benardo Sopaj (+125) |
| Anthony Wint (-500) | Lucas Armand (+375) |
| Johnny Walker (-135) | Mick Parkin (+115) |
| Rafael Dos Anjos (+210) | Alexander Hernandez (-260) |
| Marvin Vettori (+120) | Ismail Naurdiev (-140) |
| Jacobe Smith (-900) | Bruce Whitehead (+600) |
| Court McGee (+210) | Eric Nolan (-260) |
| Quando? | Saturday, October 3 — early prelims 4:00 PM ET, prelims 6:00 PM ET, main card 8:00 PM ET |
| Onde? | Delta Center, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Onde posso assistir? | Main card on CBS and Paramount+; prelims on Paramount+; early prelims on Paramount+ and UFC Fight Pass |
UFC 332: Natalia Silva vs. Wang Cong
Why Bet on Silva?
She is 20-5-1 overall and 8-0 in the UFC, which is the most important number on this page. Eight straight wins inside the Octagon without a single defeat is a run almost nobody in the women’s divisions has matched, and it has taken her from unknown to the number one contender without a disputed decision along the way.
Silva is a volume striker with genuine speed and the kind of footwork that turns a five-round fight into a points exercise. Her route is the long one: stay off the fence, force Wang to chase, and bank rounds. In a championship fight with no previous five-round experience for either woman, the fighter who is comfortable fighting at range for twenty-five minutes usually wins.
Why Bet on Wang?
10-1 overall and 5-1 in the UFC, and the ranking understates her. Wang has lost once in her professional career and has built a record in a division that keeps underestimating her because she arrived without noise.
Her path is pressure. Silva’s game requires space, and it requires her opponent to respect her enough to give it. Wang’s best version of this fight is a grinding, physical twenty-five minutes against the fence where speed matters less, and output matters more. At +170 she is being prized as a step-aside opponent for a coronation, and her record does not describe a fighter who accepts that role.
Final Betting Analysis: Silva vs. Wang
This is a fight between two women who have never been past three rounds in the Octagon, for a belt neither has held. That is the variable nobody can price.
Silva is the better technician and the more proven commodity, and -205 is a fair number rather than a generous one. The case for Wang is that a first title fight is exactly where an 8-0 record meets its first real test of hardship, and that Silva has not yet had to survive a bad round against someone who will not back up.
We expect Silva to win, on the cards, having been made to work far harder than her prize suggests.
FREE PICK: Natalia Silva by decision. The live play is Wang at +170 for a small stake.
UFC 332: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Payton Talbott
Why Bet on Figueiredo?
A former flyweight champion at 25-7-1, with 14 wins in the UFC. Figueiredo has been in more championship rounds than anyone else on this card, has finished elite opposition, and carries power that does not leave when the legs do.
His route is the short one. At +450, the market has written him off entirely, and that price assumes a clean twenty-five-minute performance from the younger man. Figueiredo does not need twenty-five minutes. He needs one exchange, and he has ended fights that way repeatedly.
Why Bet on Talbott?
11-1 overall, 5-1 in the UFC, and the division’s most talked-about riser. Talbott is faster, longer, and fresher than his opponent, and at -600 the market believes the gap is generational rather than competitive.
The argument is mileage. Figueiredo has fought a punishing schedule against the best fighters in two weight classes for the better part of a decade. Talbott has not been hit that way. In a fight where one man’s chin has absorbed far more than the others, the fresher fighter usually wins on volume before the danger ever arrives.
Final Betting Analysis: Figueiredo vs. Talbott
-600 on a fighter with six UFC fights against a former champion is the boldest prize on the card, and it is probably close to correct.
Talbott should win this. But +450 on a man with Figueiredo’s power and championship experience is not a throwaway number: it is the price of a live puncher who has beaten better fighters than the one in front of him, in a three-round fight where a single clean shot settles everything.
FREE PICK: Payton Talbott to win, with a genuine small-stake case for Figueiredo at +450 inside the distance.
UFC 332: King Green vs. Esteban Ribovics
Why Bet on Green?
36-17-1 overall and 17-12-1 in the UFC. Nobody on this card has been in more fights, against more good lightweights, than King Green. He is unorthodox, deeply experienced, and almost impossible to prepare for because there is no template for what he does.
His route is chaos. Green is at his best when a fight stops being technical, and Ribovics is an opponent who will come forward and engage. At +195, he is being priced on age rather than on the fact that he has beaten better fighters than this one while being written off.
Why Bet on Ribovics?
16-3 overall and 5-3 in the UFC, and one of the more aggressive finishers in the division. The Argentine throws with intent from the first minute and has the output to overwhelm opponents who are content to counter.
The case is simple. Green’s durability has been tested for a decade and a half. Ribovics hits hard, fights forward, and does not give the space Green needs to be awkward. A -240 favorite against a 36-17-1 veteran is the market pricing exactly that.
Final Betting Analysis: Green vs. Ribovics
Two finishers, and the one who is thirteen years fresher, is favored. That is the whole read.
Green remains capable of anything on any given night, which is both his value and his risk. We would not bet against experiencing this deep at plus money on a card this unpredictable, but the sensible position is the one the market has taken.
FREE PICK: Esteban Ribovics by TKO.
UFC 332: Roberto Soldić vs. Khaos Williams
Why Bet on Soldić?
21-4 outside the UFC, and this is his first walk to Octagon. Soldić arrives with one of the most decorated records of any welterweight to sign in recent years and a prestige built on knockout power: the reason the UFC has put a debutant on a numbered main card rather than a prelim.
His route is the one he has always used. Close distance, land the right hand, end the night. At -300 on a debut, the promotion and the market both telling you what they expect.
Why Bet on Williams?
16-5 overall and 7-4 in the UFC, and the more relevant number is that second one. Williams has actual Octagon experience (seven wins in the world’s hardest welterweight division) against an opponent who has none.
Debut nerves are real, and they are underpriced. The list of fighters who arrived with a glittering outside record and lost their first UFC fight is long. Williams also has his own genuine knockout power, which means Soldić does not get to walk forward safely. At +240, he is the most tempting underdog on the main card.
Final Betting Analysis: Soldić vs. Williams
-300 on a UFC debutant is a large number, and it deserves skepticism.
Soldić is very probably the better fighter. But he has never fought in this cage, on this stage, under these lights, and Williams is exactly the kind of opponent who punishes a slow start. The gap between “better fighter” and “three-to-one better on debut night” is where the value sits.
FREE PICK: Roberto Soldić to win, but Khaos Williams at +240 is the best-priced underdog on the main card.
UFC 332: Ateba Gautier vs. Roman Kopylov
Why Bet on Gautier?
11-1 overall and 5-0 in the UFC. Unbeaten in the Octagon across five fights, and the Cameroonian has done it while barely being discussed outside the division.
His route is forward. Gautier has the athleticism and the finishing instinct that middleweight prospects need, and a five-fight UFC winning streak against real opposition is a better credential than Kopylov’s record suggests on paper.
Why Bet on Kopylov?
15-5 overall and 7-5 in the UFC, with a striking pedigree and knockout power that has produced some of the more memorable finishes at 185 in recent years. Kopylov has beaten better fighters than anyone on Gautier’s record.
The case is the step up. Gautier’s five wins have come against opponents Kopylov would be favored against. At +175, the market is asking whether an unbeaten run means more than a proven ceiling, and Kopylov’s best nights are better than anything Gautier has produced.
Final Betting Analysis: Gautier vs. Kopylov
This is the most genuinely uncertain fight on the main card, and the prices reflect that: -210 and +175 are the narrowest gap of the five.
Gautier is 5-0 and improving. Kopylov is the more dangerous single-shot fighter and the more experienced one, with five UFC losses that show exactly how he can be beaten. We take the unbeaten fighter, without much confidence.
FREE PICK: Ateba Gautier by decision.
UFC 332: Imanol Rodriguez vs. Alden Coria
Why Bet on Rodriguez?
The Mexican flyweight took a long road here: a semifinal defeat to Joseph Morales on The Ultimate Fighter, then a Contender Series appearance, then his first UFC win earlier this year in Mexico in a genuinely wild back-and-forth fight.
His route is that same chaos. Rodriguez has already shown he can win a fight that goes badly before it goes well, which is the single most useful trait in a featured prelim. At -160, he is the small favorite and the more proven finisher of the two.
Why Bet on Coria?
He is 3-0 in the Octagon, having debuted last September, and this is his third fight of 2026: an activity level that usually signals a fighter the promotion believes in.
The gym is an argument. Coria trains in Houston alongside flyweight champion Joshua Van, and rooms that produce champions produce fighters who are drilled for exactly this kind of fight. An unbeaten UFC record at +135 against an opponent with one Octagon win is a price worth examining.
Final Betting Analysis: Rodriguez vs. Coria
This is the featured prelim, and the UFC has billed it as the fight with fireworks written on it. Two 125-pounders trying to break into a division that is moving quickly.
Coria is 3-0, and Rodriguez is 1-and-change, yet Rodriguez is favored. That is the market pricing finishing ability over record. We would rather price the record.
FREE PICK: Alden Coria at +135.
UFC 332: Damian Pinas vs. Andrey Pulyaev
Why Bet on Pinas?
10-1 overall, and the single defeat is the only blemish on a middleweight who has finished most of what has been in front of him. At -500, he is one of the two biggest favorites on the card.
His route is clear. Pinas is the most complete fighter and the more dangerous one, and the prize says the matchmakers have given him an opponent to look good against.
Why Bet on Pulyaev?
10-5, and the Russian’s record is deceptive in one specific way: the losses have come against better fighters than the ones Pinas has beaten. He has been in deeper water and come out of it.
At +375, he does not need to be a better fighter. He needs to survive the first round. Heavy favorites at 185 pounds get beaten when the fight goes long, and the pace drops, and Pulyaev is durable enough to make that happen.
Final Betting Analysis: Pinas vs. Pulyaev
-500 in a three-round middleweight fight between two men with a combined 26 professional bouts is a price built on projection more than evidence.
Pinas should win. But five-to-one is the sort of number that only makes sense if you are certain, and nothing about a 10-1 record against a 10-5 opponent justifies certainty.
FREE PICK: Damian Pinas winning, no stake at -500.
UFC 332: Marcus McGhee vs. Benardo Sopaj
Why Bet on McGhee?
10-2 overall and ranked 15th at bantamweight: the only ranked fighter on the preliminary card. McGhee is quick, aggressive, and has built his UFC run on finishing rather than grinding.
His route is the pace. At -150 in a fight against an unranked opponent, he is being asked to prove the ranking means something, and his style gives him more ways to win than Sopaj has.
Why Bet on Sopaj?
13-3 overall, and the Albanian brings three more professional wins than the man ranked above him. That is nothing in a division where rankings lag behind form.
The case is the price. +125 on a fighter with that record, against a 15th-ranked opponent who has never fought for anything higher, is the market treating a ranking as a bigger edge than it usually is. Sopaj is live here, and the number says the books know it.
Final Betting Analysis: McGhee vs. Sopaj
A -150 line on a ranked fighter is the market telling you the ranking is thin. McGhee at 15 is one bad night from being unranked; Sopaj at 13-3 is one good night from taking his place.
This is the closest fight on the prelims and the one most likely to produce an upset.
FREE PICK: Benardo Sopaj at +125.
UFC 332: Anthony Wint vs. Lucas Armand
Why Bet on Wint?
This is his third fight in two months. Wint earned his UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series in August and made his Octagon debut eleven days later in Sacramento. That is an extraordinary workload, and the promotion is clearly building him.
His route is momentum. No -500, he is a heavy favorite for a fighter this new, which tells you what the matchmakers saw. Heavyweights who can fight this often are rare and valuable.
Why Bet on Armand?
The schedule is the argument against his opponent and therefore for him. Three fights in two months at heavyweight is not a training camp; it is an accumulation of damage and weight cuts with no recovery between them.
At +375, Armand only needs Wint to be tired or careless once. Heavyweight is the division where that costs the most, and a debutant on his third fight of the autumn is exactly the profile that gets caught.
Final Betting Analysis: Wint vs. Armand
The UFC is moving Wint fast, and the price reflects belief more than evidence. Five-to-one on a fighter with one Octagon appearance is a lot to ask.
In any other division, we would be more confident. At heavy weight, where one punch ends everything, and fatigue arrives early, -500 on the fighter with the harder recent schedule is uncomfortable.
FREE PICK: Anthony Wint by knockout; at a reduced stake, and the round-one prop is the more sensible expression of it.
UFC 332: Johnny Walker vs. Mick Parkin
Why Bet on Walker?
The Brazilian has moved up to heavyweight, which is the most interesting single fact on the early prelims. Walker spent his career at 205 as one of the most unpredictable and explosive strikers in the division, and he arrives at the new weight without the cut that had been draining him.
His route is the same as it has always been. Enormous reach, unorthodox angles, and power from positions nobody expects. At -135, he is only a marginal favorite, which suggests the market is not sure the move up helps him.
Why Bet on Parkin?
A natural heavyweight against a man who was a light heavyweight last year. Parkin’s advantage is structural: he has always carried this weight, has fought heavyweights his entire career, and does not need to adjust to anything.
The case is Walker’s chin. It has been tested repeatedly at 205, and it has not always been held. Facing genuine heavy weight power for the first time, at +115, Parkin is close to a coin flip in a fight the books are barely separating.
Final Betting Analysis: Walker vs. Parkin
-135 and +115 are essentially a pick’em, and it should be. This is a fighter changing divisions against a man who has never fought anywhere else.
Walker is the more dangerous athlete and the bigger name. Parkin is the one who belongs at weight.
FREE PICK: Mick Parkin at +115.
UFC 332: Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Alexander Hernandez
Why Bet on Dos Anjos?
A former lightweight champion returning after a long absence. Dos Anjos fought and beaten the best of two generations at 155 and 170, and there is no fighter on this card with a more serious résumé.
His route is the one that has always worked: pressure, southpaw volume, and a grappling base that lets him steal rounds when the striking is even. At +210, he is a considerable underdog for a man of this pedigree, and that is entirely about time away.
Why Bet on Hernandez?
The layoff is the whole bet. Lightweight is the least forgiving division in the sport for a returning veteran, and Hernandez is durable, physically strong, and consistently dangerous early.
At -260, the market is pricing rust and age rather than talent, which is usually the correct thing to price. Hernandez does not need to outclass Dos Anjos. He needs to be sharper for fifteen minutes than a man who has not fought in a long time.
Final Betting Analysis: Dos Anjos vs. Hernandez
Every intuition says take the former champion at +210. Every piece of evidence says the layoff decides it.
We have watched enough lightweights returning this year to know which way this usually goes. Dos Anjos is the better fighter and the wrong bet.
FREE PICK: Alexander Hernandez by decision.
UFC 332: Marvin Vettori vs. Ismail Naurdiev
Why Bet on Vettori?
The Italian has fought for a middleweight title and gone the distance with the best fighters in the division’s modern era. Vettori’s durability is close to legendary: he does not get finished, and he does not stop coming forward.
His route is volume and pressure over fifteen minutes. No +120, he is an underdog for the first time in a long while against an opponent with a far thinner résumé, which is a price built on recent form rather than on what he can still do.
Why Bet on Naurdiev?
He is the fresher fighter and the more dynamic one, with the tools to fight at range against a man whose entire game requires closing distance.
The case is accumulation. Vettori has taken enormous punishment across a long career at the top of a brutal division, and at -140 the market is saying that the bill has come due. Naurdiev only must stay on the outside and make it a technical fight.
Final Betting Analysis: Vettori vs. Naurdiev
Vettori as a betting underdog is the kind of line that used to be unthinkable, and it tells you where his career has gone rather than what he is capable of on a given night.
Take the fresher fighter but understand that Vettori at +120 will still be there in round three, because he always is.
FREE PICK: Ismail Naurdiev by decision. Vettori at +120 is a reasonable small play.
UFC 332: Jacobe Smith vs. Bruce Whitehead
Why Bet on Smith?
At -900, he is the biggest favorite on the entire card, and the price echoes a welterweight of the promotion rates highly against a short-notice profile debutant.
His route is any of them. Smith is the most complete fighter, the more experienced one, and the one with Octagon rounds behind him.
Why Bet on Whitehead?
The newcomer has finished five of his eight wins in the first round. That is the only statistic that matters at +600, and it is a real one.
Debutants with one-punch or one-submission finishing ability are the specific profile that beats a heavy favorite, because they do not need to win a fight; they need to win ninety seconds of it. Whitehead does not have to be good for three rounds.
Final Betting Analysis: Smith vs. Whitehead
Nine-to-one prices exist because the books expect a short night, and they are usually right.
Mas five first round finishes from eight wins is not a decorative number, and Smith has to walk into range to do anything. We are not recommending a bet at either price: -900 risks nine units to win one, and +600 is a lottery ticket.
FREE PICK: Jacobe Smith by stoppage. No stake at -900.
UFC 332: Court McGee vs. Eric Nolan
Why Bet on McGee?
This is the last fight of a sixteen-year UFC career, in his home state, in front of his own crowd.
22-14 overall, a former Ultimate Fighter winner, and one of the most durable welterweights of his era. McGee has never been an explosive finisher; he has been a man who outworks people and refuses to break. At +210 in a farewell fight in Salt Lake City, the emotional case and the stylistic one point in the same direction: he will be in Nolan’s face for fifteen minutes.
Why Bet on Nolan?
8-5 overall, and considerably younger. Nolan is the physically fresher fighter against an opponent who has absorbed sixteen years of damage in the toughest promotion in the world.
At -260, the market is pricing exactly that, and it is not being sentimental. Retirement fights are frequently one-sided in the wrong direction, and a fighter on the way out against one still trying to establish himself is a familiar and unhappy pattern.
Final Betting Analysis: McGee vs. Nolan
The head says, Nolan. The card says this is the last time a Utah crowd watches Court McGee fight.
Nolan is the right side, and -260 is a fair number. We are not betting on a man’s final walk in his own city, and we would suggest nobody else does either; this one is for watching.
FREE PICK: Eric Nolan by decision. No stake. Watch it for McGee.
Resumo das Escolhas Grátis
| Fight | Escolha | Play? |
|---|---|---|
| Silva vs. Wang | Silva by decision | Small play on Wang +170 |
| Figueiredo vs. Talbott | Talbott | Small play Figueiredo +450 inside distance |
| Green vs. Ribovics | Ribovics by TKO | Sim |
| Soldić vs. Williams | Soldić | Williams +240 is the main card value |
| Gautier vs. Kopylov | Gautier by decision | Lean only |
| Rodriguez vs. Coria | Coria +135 | Sim |
| Pinas vs. Pulyaev | Pinas | No stake at -500 |
| McGhee vs. Sopaj | Sopaj +125 | Best prelim value |
| Wint vs. Armand | Wint by KO | Reduced stake |
| Walker vs. Parkin | Parkin +115 | Sim |
| Dos Anjos vs. Hernandez | Hernandez by decision | Sim |
| Vettori vs. Naurdiev | Naurdiev by decision | Small play Vettori +120 |
| Smith vs. Whitehead | Smith by stoppage | No stake |
| McGee vs. Nolan | Nolan by decision | No stake |
Our strongest positions are Benardo Sopaj at +125 and Khaos Williams at +240, both against opponents the market is rating on reputation rather than evidence.
Our strongest fades are Damian Pinas at -500 and Jacobe Smith at -900 — two prices that cannot be justified in three-round fights.
Visão geral final do cartão
This is a card about arrivals and one departure.
Natalia Silva at 8-0 finally gets the title fight her record demanded, against an opponent in Wang Cong who’s own 10-1 mark suggests this will be considerably harder than -205 implies. Neither woman has been past three rounds in the Octagon, which makes the championship distance the genuine unknown of the evening.
Roberto Soldić’s debut is the most interesting matchmaking decision on the card. Putting a 21-4 newcomer straight onto a numbered main card, as a -300 favorite, is the UFC telling you what they think they have signed. Khaos Williams has seven Octagon wins and a reason to disagree.
And the prelims carry value, as they usually do. Sopaj at +125 against a 15th-ranked opponent, Coria at +135 while 3-0, and Parkin at +115 against a fighter changing divisions are all better prices than anything on the main card.
Four cautions before betting this. Two fighters are making their UFC debut. One is fighting for the third time in two months. One is returning from a long absence. And one is retiring. That is five of fourteen bouts where the usual form guide does not apply.
Bet the prelims, treat the main event as television, and give Court McGee the last ten minutes of your attention.