What is EV? I am dumb and under EV I know only Electric Vehicle
About Topuria and Holloway. Do you think Topuria is going to make it as easy as against Volk? Could Topuria KO Max, who has never been knocked out in his career? Btw, I have recently read, that Max either never do sparring in his training (hard to believe), or never spar during camp (which might be more true, but also logical and illogical).
EV means Expected Value... It's a term from poker, or at least it's where I learned about it, which could also be applied in sports betting as it also deals with probabilities. On top of my head, the best way to explain a '+EV' bet in MMA is when the odds being given on a particular fighter is too wide than what might be based on how you think the match is gonna play out. So with Royval, we know he's the better striker, a decent grappler, has good cardio and has fought really good guys. Taira is young, a bit inexperienced and with his record, does he really deserve where he's lined at rn based in what we know?
So you have to think in a vacuum, if Royval and Taira fought 10 times, how many matches would Royval win? With his current line at 3.20, it says he's around 31% to win the fight... Do you really think Royval would win just 3 out of 10? I'm not sure what you think but I think it's prolly closer to 5 out of 10 which should make the line closer to a pick'em. But at 3.20? I think that's total value.
But then again, Taira could take Royval's back, SUB him, and make it look like Royval is sht.