New Year, new contest! MMAOddsBreaker.com has returned for 2017 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 returned 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 2016, Nick Kalikas finished standing alone in first place, picking fights correctly at a 63.5% clip. Here are the staff members who will be participating this year along with what they do to help our site: Gabe Killian – MMAOB lead staff writer Vegas Matty – MMAOB editor James Lynch – MMAOB staff writer and interviewer extraordinairre 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 There were three unanimous picks out of 12 fights in total (Drakkar Klose, Sergio Pettis and Yair Rodriguez). The most contentious fight were Court McGee vs Ben Saunders (Saunders 4 – McGee 5) and Alexei Oleinik vs Victor Pesta (Oleinik 5 – Pesta 4). Without further ado: UFC Fight Night 103
UFC 195 | G. Killian | V. Matty | J. Lynch | B. Taschuk | B. Hemminger | N. Kalikas | J. Primetown | B. Wharton | R. Doxtater |
Fight #1 | Smoliakov | Asker | Asker | Asker | Asker | Asker | Smolia. | Smolia. | Asker |
Fight #2 | Christensen | Christen. | Christen. | Christen. | Christen. | Christen. | Christen. | Mihajlovic | Christen. |
Fight #3 | Sherman | Harris | Sherman | Harris | Harris | Harris | Harris | Sherman | Harris |
Fight #4 | Ansaroff | Ansaroff | Lybarger | Lybarger | Ansaroff | Ansaroff | Lybarger | Ansaroff | Ansaroff |
Fight #5 | Martin | Martin | Martin | Martin | Martin | Martin | Martin | White | Martin |
Fight #6 | Pesta | Pesta | Oleinik | Oleinik | Oleinik | Oleinik | Pesta | Oleinik | Pesta |
Fight #7 | Mendes | Saenz | Saenz | Saenz | Saenz | Saenz | Mendes | Saenz | Saenz |
Fight #8 | Klose | Klose | Klose | Klose | Klose | Klose | Klose | Klose | Klose |
Fight #9 | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis | Pettis |
Fight #10 | Saunders | McGee | Saunders | Saunders | Saunders | McGee | McGee | McGee | McGee |
Fight #11 | Held | Held | Lauzon | Lauzon | Lauzon | Held | Lauzon | Lauzon | Lauzon |
Fight #11 | Rodriguez | Rodrig. | Rodrig. | Rodrig. | Rodrig. | Rodrig. | Rodrig. | Rodrig. | Rodrig. |
Last Event | 4-5 | – | 5-4 | 6-3 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 6-3 | 4-5 | 5-4 |
2016 Record | 295-190 | – | 289-196 | 279-206 | 296-189 | 308-177 | 300-185 | 289-196 | 292-193 |
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