With MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) recently being announced as the largest growth sport on the planet and with UFC being typically the most popular type of MMA, you actually start to realise why UFC betting is so popular. With a 14 major UFC events in 2009 their are usually a lot of fights to wager on making watching UFC a lot more exciting.

UFC Betting Markets

Most bookmakers, especially the major US sportsbooks only offer odds on a win market. Although if you should be looking to create your ufc betting more exciting, and for better returns you are able to place a parlay across multiple fights or event different events, such as for example mixing ufc bouts and boxing events.

Sadly for UFC bettors fight odds for some UFC fights don't appear on sportsbooks until very close to an event, independent of the major "headline" fights. I'm not really sure on the logic of this Tiger789. My guess is which they don't want to take bets on fights incase a fighter drops out, which happens from time to time because of injuries, etc.

Online sportsbooks seem to follow along with each other like sheep and when one releases odds for more fights then just the headline "title" fight, they generally all follow and release odds within a matter of hours of every other. Unsurprisingly the odds provided by sportsbooks are very similar, but if you check carefully you may find some added value in the event that you take a look at what odds other books are offering before finalising your bet.

Overall UFC betting seems to be remains it's infancy. I've yet to locate a sportsbook who regularly offer odds on markets other then a win market. Since the UFC betting market grows I could see this changing, heck even odds on the technique of victory would have been a nice improvement to the overal UFC betting scene.