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 one new staff member 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 three events thus far in 2016, Nick Kalikas is in first place with a 26-11 overall record (70.3%). Brian Hemminger is right on his heels in second place at 25-12. There were five unanimous picks for this event out of 12 fights in total (Mickey Gall, Noad Lahat, Misha Cirkunov, Joseph Benavidez and Johny Hendricks). The most contentious picks was KJ Noons vs Josh Burkman (Noons 4 – Burkman 4). Without further ado: UFC Fight Night 82
UFN 82 | G. Killian | J. Lynch | B. Taschuk | B. Hemminger | N. Kalikas | J. Primetown | B. Wharton | R. Doxtater |
Fight #1 | Lobov | Lobov | White | Lobov | White | White | Lobov | Lobov |
Fight #2 | Gall | Gall | Gall | Gall | Gall | Gall | Gall | Gall |
Fight #3 | Lahat | Lahat | Lahat | Lahat | Lahat | Lahat | Lahat | Lahat |
Fight #4 | Borg | Borg | Borg | Borg | Borg | Borg | Borg | Scoggins |
Fight #5 | Grabowski | Grabowski | Grab. | Grabowski | Lewis | Grab. | Lewis | Lewis |
Fight #6 | Noons | Noons | Noons | Burkman | Noons | Burkman | Burkman | Burkman |
Fight #7 | Pyle | Spencer | Spencer | Spencer | Spencer | Pyle | Spencer | Pyle |
Fight #8 | Cirkunov | Cirkunov | Cirkunov | Cirkunov | Cirkunov | Cirkunov | Cirkunov | Cirkunov |
Fight #9 | Benavidez | Benavidez | Benavidez | Benavidez | Benavidez | Benavidez | Benavidez | Benavidez |
Fight #10 | St. Preux | St. Preux | Cavalcante | St. Preux | St. Preux | St. Preux | St. Preux | St. Preux |
Fight #11 | Nelson | Rosholt | Rosholt | Rosholt | Rosholt | Nelson | Rosholt | Nelson |
Fight #12 | Hendricks | Hendricks | Hendricks | Hendricks | Hendricks | Hendricks | Hendricks | Hendricks |
Last Event | 8-4 | 8-4 | 3-9 | 8-4 | 9-3 | 8-4 | 6-6 | 4-8 |
2016 Record | 24-13 | 23-14 | 18-19 | 25-12 | 26-11 | 24-13 | 19-18 | 18-19 |
*Everyone also has a draw on their record due to the Levan Makashvili vs Damon Jackson bout. Previous 2016 MMAOB Staff Picks UFC on Fox 18 UFC Fight Night 81 UFC 195 Final Results 2015 Final Results 2014