UFC Visits Macau, Tulsa With 2 Fight Night Events on Saturday

The UFC will treat fans and bettors to a pair of events this Saturday, starting early in Macau with the first main card getting underway at 6 a.m. (PT) and ending more than 12 hours later with the second main card beginning at 7 p.m. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When all is said and done, UFC Fight Nights 48 and 49 will span two different countries and include 21 bouts in all, headlined by a pair of five-rounders, featuring middleweights Michael Bisping vs. Cung Le in the first main event and lightweights Benson Henderson vs. Rafael dos Anjos in the second.

UFC Fight Night 48 will be broadcast live on UFC Fight Pass while the prelims for UFC Fight Night 49 will be televised on FOX Sports 2 at 5 p.m. before the main card starts on FOX Sports 1. Both main events have nearly identical betting lines, as Bisping opened as a -300 favorite (bet $300 to win $100) vs. Le - the +250 underdog (bet $100 to win $250) - and Henderson opened -320 vs. dos Anjos (+265) at the LVH SuperBook in Las Vegas (click here to check the latest MMA odds).

Bisping (24-6) has since been bet up to -320 vs. Le (+265) at the SuperBook, and he will try to avoid suffering consecutive defeats for the first time in his career off a unanimous decision loss to Tim Kennedy at The Ultimate Fighter Nations Finale back on April 16. The 35-year-old British fighter and No. 8 contender will surprisingly have both youth and experience on his side against Le (11-2), who at 42 has not entered the Octagon since registering a first-round knockout of veteran Rich Franklin in the first-ever UFC event in China (also in Macau) on Nov. 10, 2012. Le, also an action film star, has fought just three times in the UFC since his last Strikeforce bout in 2010, earning post-fight bonuses in two of them.

The second main event will likely have a much different feel with two top contenders still in their prime battling to move up the ranks and eventually challenge lightweight champion Anthony Pettis for the title belt. Henderson (21-3) is the former champ and No. 1 contender at 155, currently riding a two-fight winning streak since losing to Pettis via first-round armbar submission at UFC 164. Meanwhile, dos Anjos (21-7) is ranked No. 5 and bounced back from a UD loss to No. 3 Khabib Nurmagomedov by scoring a second-round TKO victory vs. Jason High at UFC Fight Night 42 on June 7. Henderson headlined that card and submitted No. 12 Rustam Khabilov in the fourth round to earn a Performance of the Night bonus.

Picks: Le by TKO and Henderson by decision

Other UFC Fight Night 48 Picks: Woodley -175 and Sasaki -125

Other UFC Fight Night 49 Picks: Mein -215 and Vick -150