The traditional year-end show for the UFC features a stacked card in Las Vegas and will be a rare Friday night show because New Year's Eve falls on a Saturday. UFC 207 should have no trouble filling seats with Vegas revelers -- travelers and locals alike -- thanks to a doubleheader of bantamweight title fights, one of which will feature the return of Ronda Rousey, to anchor the card.
But Rousey will be entering this weekend's event under strange circumstances. She'll be making the walk to the cage first for the first time in her UFC career, as the challenger and not the champion. She'll also do so as the mildest betting favorite that she has ever been in her career. Markets have seen steady betting action on Rousey's underdog opponent since odds were first released, with incumbent champion Amanda Nunes trending toward pick 'em odds at this late stage. Rousey, formerly the undisputed baddest woman on the planet, is no longer the assumed monster favorite to destroy anyone within arm's reach.
In fact, betting lines are unusually close across the board, with only two or three matchups likely to close with more than 2-to-1 odds. But before we consider the betting angles on the night's final three matchups -- all at 135 pounds -- here is how these competitors stack up in terms of overall fighting effectiveness