RotoWire Staff Picks: UFC 206

The RotoWire MMA staff unanimously selected Donald Cerrone to win Saturday, but are split right down the middle on three of the card's other pay-per-view fights. Check out the complete breakdown.

Updated on December 8, 2016 12:30PM EST

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Updated on December 8, 2016 12:30PM EST

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The unfortunate trend of main event shakeups in 2016 continued with UFC 206, as a Light Heavyweight Championship bout between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson had to be removed from the card after Cormier suffered a groin injury in training. In its place, a featherweight showdown between Anthony Pettis and Max Holloway will cap off the evening, with the winner getting the Interim Featherweight Champion title, as well as the next shot at Jose Aldo. The rest of the card picks up the pieces from UFC 205 -- Donald Cerrone will get a new opponent in Matt Brown after Kelvin Gastelum missed weight at the New York event, and Gastelum will jump up a weight class to face Tim Kennedy, who also missed out on the action at Madison Square Garden. It may not be the card UFC fans in Toronto were expecting, but you have to hand it to the new UFC brass, who put together some quality bouts in a tough situation. Below are the RotoWire MMA Staff's picks for Saturday's pay-per-view card.

If you're looking for a fantasy-specific breakdown of these fights on DraftKings, click here for Jon Litterine's UFC 206 preview.

MATCHUP	WEIGHT CLASS	JON	EVAN	JAKE	RICHARD
Anthony Pettis (+165) vs. Max Holloway (-195)	Featherweight	Holloway	~~Pettis~~	Holloway	~~Pettis~~
Donald Cerrone (-275) vs. Matt Brown (+230)	Welterweight	Cerrone	Cerrone	Cerrone	Cerrone
Cub Swanson (+180) vs. Dooho Choi (-220)	Featherweight	Swanson	~~Choi~~	Swanson	~~Choi~~
Tim Kennedy (-155) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (+130)	Middleweight	Gastelum	~~Kennedy~~	~~Kennedy~~	Gastelum
Jordan Mein (-160) vs. Emil Meek (+140)	Welterweight	~~Mein~~	~~Mein~~	~~Mein~~	~~Mein~~
RECORD		4-1	1-4	3-2	2-3
OVERALL (since UFC 200)		28-18	21-25	28-18	10-7

THE PLAYERS

Jon Litterine: RotoWire lead MMA beat writer and scribe for our weekly DrafKings preview. Lead analyst on the RotoWire MMA Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @JonLitterine.
Evan Dahl: Pens our bi-weekly MMA Barometer column. Follow him on Twitter at @RealEvanDahl.
Jake Letarski: MMA and NCAA Hoops Senior Editor. Sirius XM contributor. Host of the RotoWire MMA Podcast, RotoWire Fantasy Football Podcast and RotoWire DFS Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @JakeSki52.
Richard Mann: New to the RotoWire MMA staff, Richard is a stats-based analyst that has appeared on ESPN MMA via Fightmetric. He handles event recaps in our Fight Stat Wrap column, and maintains his own, data-driven MMA blog at StrikescoreMMA.com. Follow him on Twitter at @RichardAMann.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Evan Dahl

Author @RealEvanDahl

Evan Dahl is a law student who has been a die-hard MMA fan for over a decade. Outside of MMA, he roots for the Broncos, Brewers and Bucks.

Jake Letarski

Author @RotoJake

RotoWire Editor for College Basketball and MMA. Frequent podcaster, plus radio and video guest. Follow Jake on Twitter at @RotoJake.

Jon Litterine

Author @JonLitterine

Jon Litterine is RotoWire's lead MMA Writer and MMA Editor. He has covered numerous MMA events live. He's also RW's NHL Prospect Analyst. Jon has been writing for RotoWire since 2005. He is a graduate of U Mass-Lowell.

Richard Mann

Author @RichardAMann

Richard is a statistical MMA analyst who regularly appears on ESPN MMA and InterMatWrestle.