New Year, new contest! MMAOddsBreaker.com has returned for 2016 and just like last year, we’re keeping a running tally of our staff’s fight picks for all major mixed martial arts (MMA) events. Everyone has a clean slate with the new year, and we’ve added two new staff members to the our special picks chart this time around. The winner this year will take home a cool $300. After 41 events in 2015, Brad Taschuk finished standing alone in first place, picking fights correctly at a 63.4% clip. Here are the staff members who will be participating this year along with what they do to help our site: Gabe Killian – MMAOB staff writer James Lynch – MMAOB lead staff writer and host of The Parting Shot Podcast Brad Taschuk – MMAOB staff writer and co-host of The MMA Analysis podcast Brian Hemminger – MMAOB managing editor and co-host of The Premium Oddscast Nick Kalikas – Professional Oddsmaker, owner of MMAOddsBreaker.com and co-host of The Premium Oddscast Jay Primetown – MMAOB staff writer and co-host of The MMA Analysis podcast Brad Wharton – MMAOB feature writer Robert Doxtater – MMAOB feature writer After two events thus far in 2016, Brian Hemminger and Nick Kalikas are tied for first place with a 17-8 overall record (68%). Gabe Killian and Jay Primetown trail in second place at 16-9. There were five unanimous picks for this event out of 13 fights in total (Levon Makashvili, Alex Caceres, Dustin Ortiz, Sage Northcutt and Jimmie Rivera). The most contentious pick was Randy Brown vs Matt Dwyer (Brown 4 – Dwyer 4). Without further ado: UFC on Fox 18
Fox 18 | G. Killian | J. Lynch | B. Taschuk | B. Hemminger | N. Kalikas | J. Primetown | B. Wharton | R. Doxtater |
Fight #1 | Martin | Martin | Olivieri | Martin | Martin | Olivieri | Martin | Martin |
Fight #2 | Makashvili | Makash. | Makash | Makashvili | Makash. | Makash. | Makash. | Makash. |
Fight #3 | Brown | Dwyer | Dwyer | Brown | Brown | Brown | Dwyer | Dwyer |
Fight #4 | Caceres | Caceres | Caceres | Caceres | Caceres | Caceres | Caceres | Caceres |
Fight #5 | Yakovlev | Yakovlev | Sullivan | Yakovlev* | Yakovlev | Yakovlev | Sullivan | Sullivan |
Fight #6 | Ortiz | Ortiz | Ortiz | Ortiz | Ortiz | Ortiz | Ortiz | Ortiz |
Fight #7 | Natal | Natal | Casey | Natal | Natal | Natal | Natal | Casey |
Fight #8 | Aubin-Mercier | Mercier | Mercier | Mercier | Mercier | Ferreira | Mercier | Mercier |
Fight #9 | Saffiedine | Saff. | Ellenberger | Saffiedine | Saff. | Saff. | Saffiedine | Saff. |
Fight #10 | Northcutt | North. | North. | Northcutt | North. | Northcutt | Northcutt | North. |
Fight #11 | Rivera | Rivera | Rivera | Rivera | Rivera | Rivera | Rivera | Rivera |
Fight #12 | Rothwell | Rothwell | Barnett | Barnett | Rothwell | Barnett | Barnett | Barnett |
Fight #13 | Bader | Johnson | Johnson | Johnson | Johnson | Johnson | Johnson | Bader |
Last Event | 10-3 | 8-5 | 5-7 | 10-3 | 8-5 | 7-6 | 6-7 | 9-4 |
2016 Record | 16-9 | 15-10 | 15-10 | 17-8 | 17-8 | 16-9 | 13-12 | 14-11 |
*Brian changed his Premium Oddscast pick from George Sullivan to Alexander Yakovlev after the UFC on Fox 18 weigh-ins. Previous 2016 MMAOB Staff Picks UFC Fight Night 81 UFC 195 Final Results 2015 Final Results 2014