MMAOddsBreaker Staff Picks – UFC 182

New Year, new contest! MMAOddsBreaker.com has returned for 2015 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 three new staff members to the our special picks chart this time around. The winner this year will take home a cool $300. After 44 events in 2014, James Lynch finished standing alone in first place, picking fights correctly at a 65.6% 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 Adam Martin – MMAOB lead staff writer and co-host of The Parting Shot Podcast James Lynch – MMAOB staff writer and co-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 Vegas Matty – MMAOB feature writer and longtime MMAOB contributor Let’s see what the new year brings. There were only three unanimous picks for this event out of 11 fights (massive favorites Kyoji Horiguchi, Evan Dunham and Hector Lombard). The most contentious picks were Donald Cerrone vs Myles Jury (Cerrone 5 – Jury 4),  Mats Nilsson vs Omari Akhmedov (Nilsson 5 – Akhmedov 4) and Danny Castillo vs Paul Felder (Castillo 5 – Felder 4). Without further ado: UFC 182

*Nick switched his original pick on the Premium Oddscast from Jordan to Cannonier following the UFC 182 weigh-ins