UFC 335 Odds Drop: Alex Pereira and Bo Nickal Open as Underdogs in Wild Card

The opening odds for UFC 335 just hit the timeline, and the oddsmakers have officially decided to test the public's faith in Alex Pereira.

According to numbers released by BetOnline and shared by Aaron Bronsteter, we are looking at a card where the usual rules of MMA hype do not apply. Pereira is opening as a +111 underdog against the terrifying heavyweight power of Sergei Pavlovich, who sits as a -130 favorite.

"Aaron Bronsteter shared the opening odds via BetOnline_ag."

Seeing Pereira with a plus sign next to his name feels like a trap. The man has spent his entire UFC run turning elite fighters into highlight-reel statues, but Pavlovich hits like a runaway freight train. This is less of a mixed martial arts bout and more of a coin flip to see whose chin leaves the atmosphere first.

Then you have the lightweight chaos. Charles Oliveira is sitting at -172 against Diego Lopes at +146. Oliveira being favored makes sense until you remember his fights are basically 15-minute heart attacks. Betting on him means accepting that he will get dropped in the first round before inevitably finding a submission out of thin air.

But the real double-take on this board is Bo Nickal opening as a +111 underdog to Joe Pyfer at -130. Nickal has spent his entire short MMA career priced like prime Anderson Silva fighting a local bartender. Seeing him at plus money is jarring. Pyfer has legitimate knockout power, and the books are clearly wondering if Nickal's elite wrestling can survive a clean shot to the jaw.

These are just the opening lines, and the public is going to hammer these numbers into a completely different shape by the time the cage door locks. Until then, the oddsmakers have drawn their line in the sand, and they are daring you to cross it.