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UFC 296 takes place on Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This card features a welterweight title fight between Leon Edwards and Colby Covington as the Main Event and Alexandre Pantoja against Brandon Royval for the flyweight title as the Co-Main Event. Here is my favorite UFC parlay for this card, with odds of +489 at DraftKings Sportsbook. Be sure to check out the rest of our UFC predictions for all of the Main Card fights. Leon Edwards ML over Colby Covington (-162) Leon Edwards comes into this fight with an MMA record of 21-3 and he is 13-2 in the UFC. Most notably, Edwards beat Kamaru Usman in back-to-back fights, once to claim the welterweight title and once to defend it. Edwards is averaging 2.80 significant strikes per minute and he has a striking accuracy of 53%. He is absorbing 2.40 strikes and has a striking defense of 53%. In terms of grappling, Edwards has been solid, averaging 1.26 takedowns per every 15 minutes. His takedown accuracy is 33% and h...

The mother and stepfather of Travis King said that the charges against him do not align with the person they know. The mother of Travis King, a U.S. Army private charge d by the Army with desertion for crossing the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea this summer, said that her family plans "to fight the charges and fight the charges hard." In an exclusive interview with ABC News Tuesday, Claudine Gates and Dan Jovanovic, King's mother and stepfather, said the eight counts leveled against King last week that include desertion, possession of child pornography, assaulting fellow soldiers, and disobeying a superior officer shock them because they do not align with the "peaceful person" they know. "The actions that the Army is saying that he's doing is not Travis. He's not like that. He's a good boy," Gates said. Claudine Gates and Dan Jovanovic are speaking with ABC News' Linsey Davis in an interview airing in full on Wednesday n...