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Insiders: Give us your UFC 289 picks!

Nunes or Aldana? Oliveira or Dariush?

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Tim Bissell
Jun 08, 2023
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Illustation of Amanda Nunes.
The lioness and her prey. By Chris Rini.

With the UFC back this weekend it’s time for another round of Bloody Elbow’s Insider Picks. That’s when you, the Founding Members of our Substack, get a chance to write something for our site.

At the bottom of this post is a survey you can fill out to share your picks for this weekend’s UFC event, which features Amanda Nunes defending her UFC bantamweight title against Irene Aldana in the main event. The co-main is a fascinating match-up between Charles Oliveira and Beneil Dariush.


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Your responses will be collected and shared on BloodyElbow.com.

By making picks you will also be entered into our year long picking contest, which offers prizes for the best fight prognosticators in our community.

If you want to make picks, but don’t want to write explanations for them, you can do that in our regular Readers Picks survey (which is for all paid subscribers here on Substack).

To make your Insider Picks, check out the survey below:

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