UFC 238 betting preview: Chicago odds & trends

The UFC loves the Windy City as this Saturday the promotion will stage its seventh overall card at Chicago’s United Center and second time for a pay-per-view event. UFC 238 is headlined by a bantamweight title fight between Henry Cejudo and Marlon Moraes.

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com

If you go look at the UFC’s rankings page, you will not see a picture or listing of a bantamweight champion. That’s because the division’s former champion, T.J. Dillashaw, vacated it when he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. He has since been suspended for two years, not able to return to the Octagon until January 2021. That test result came out after Dillashaw fought for the flyweight title in January against Cejudo and lost just 32 seconds in by TKO (punches). So the bantamweight title has been vacant since.

Cejudo (14-2), a 2008 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling, will attempt to become the UFC’s next two-division champion as he’s moving up from flyweight for this bout. However, he is a -105 underdog on the UFC 238 betting lines. The 32-year-old Cejudo has won four in a row since back-to-back losses to Demetrious Johnson and Joseph Benavidez. Interestingly, Cejudo has that wrestling background yet has never won a fight by submission.