终极格斗锦标赛从20世纪90年代初就已出现，但是一直是出现在地下赛区，未能合法化。当时此类的公司皆陷入困境，即将被禁止。在几乎每一个州的参议员都要求禁止的情况下，经麦凯恩的努力得以保存。他的这一段斗争被戏称为“人类斗鸡”。

　　这项运动注定一直倍受争议，并遭受现金周转问题的困扰，直到有一天，一些投资者引进了终极格斗锦标赛并成立公司。通过成立重量的阶级划分，设立禁止头撞和杜绝眼刨这样的规定，来努力提高其合法性和软化大众的想法。此时的终极格斗锦标赛，就像人类处于婴儿这一个成长期。

　　当时，拳击的公众利益以惊人的速度下降。这个曾在世界上最流行的运动遭受打击，有太多的独立的“世界冠军”头衔，不择手段的发起人和控制运动员，都是“离谱义和团的滑稽动作”，这样的丑闻更是加剧了它的衰退。逐渐失去优势的拳击运动，给与它不相上下的终极格斗锦标赛带来了福音。

　　即使到今天，人们对这项运动的兴致仍然持续上升。越来越多的人将目光投到这项运动，因此，也就越来越多的人对这项体育投注感兴趣。

　　最新的终极格斗锦标赛投注者第一个嵌入时，整个moneyline会报价。大多数终极格斗锦标赛体育投注站点都会将即将到来的赛事列在表上。

　　你要知道在投注时，每个球员的名字上是一个加号还是一个减号或一个数字。

　　要记住的第一件事是，在列表中始终赢得比赛是标记负（ - ），而在比赛中始终处于劣势标记（+）阳性。

　　例如，兰迪时装失败的时候，moneyline显示，你每打赌100元，如果赢了，会得到105美元。如果您正在寻找布洛克投注，你下注$140可以赢$100。赔率不一定都是非常合适你的，但是，赔率制定者认为有一个很好的机会可以让他赢得胜利。

　　赔率制造商努力将比赛的各双方平衡。庄家想办法尽量减少他们的风险，最好是有一半的人打赌一方，而另一半人在另一队投注。这样，庄家可以通过失败的那一方的钱来支付胜利那一方的钱。如果在比赛开始投注的时候有太多的人在同一方投注，庄家只需调整moneyline，给人以激励，让更多的赌注押在弱的那一支队伍。

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　　Ultimate Fighting Championship

　　The Ultimate Fighting Championship has come a long ways from its underground, anything-goes roots of the early 1990s. At the time the struggling company was banned in almost every state and Senator John McCain once called it “human cockfighting” during his efforts to have the sport banned for good.

　　Plagued by controversy and cash flow problems, the sport looked doomed until one day a group of investors bought the UFC and set up Dana White as its president. In an effort to improve legitimacy and soften the public’s perception, the new owners set up weight class divisions, banned head butting and put an end to eye gouging. Hey, it’s all about baby steps, baby.

　　At the time, public interest in boxing was dropping at an alarming rate. In what was once the most popular combat sport in the world, promotion scandals and outrageous boxers’ antics were turning fans way off. There were too many separate “world championship” titles, unscrupulous promoters and out-of-control athletes （Mike Tyson, anyone?）。 The gradual fall of boxing was just as great a boon for the UFC as anything else.

　　Even to this day, interest in the sport is growing at a phenomenal rate. More and more people are ordering the pay-per-views and as a result, many more are becoming interested in betting on the sport.

　　The first snag for most new UFC bettors comes when they run across the moneyline quotes. Most UFC sports betting sites list upcoming fights in a moneyline format which looks a lot more confusing than it actually is.

　　You’ll know you’re betting on a moneyline fight when each fighter’s name is followed by a plus or minus sign and a number. For example, you’ll often see fights that look something like this

　　The first thing to remember here is that the favorite to win the match is always the （-） negative and the underdog in the match is always the （+） positive.

　　In this example, Randy Couture is the underdog and the moneyline shows that for every $100 you bet, you’ll get $105 if he wins. If you are betting for Brock, you have to bet $140 to win $100. The odds aren’t as good for him because the odds makers think there’s a good chance he’ll win the fight.

　　Odds makers set these lines in an effort to get an equal amount of betting action on each side of the fight. Sportsbooks minimize their risk the most by getting half the people to bet on one side and half the people to bet on the other side. That way the sportsbook can just use the money from the losing side to pay off the winners on the other side. If too many people start betting on one side of the fight, the sportsbook simply adjusts the moneyline to give people more of an incentive to bet on the underdog.