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Prime Picks: UFC Fight Night 163 ‘Magomedsharipov vs. Kattar’

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship is taking to Moscow this weekend for UFC Fight Night 163, with a plethora of matchups between locals and outlanders. Unlike UFC 244, this event features almost half of its matchups with favorites sitting above -200. Let's get down to business with the UFC Moscow edition of Prime Picks.

Calvin Kattar (+245)

This is a risky call for many reasons, but first and foremost it needs to be mentioned that Russians are 15-3 against non-Russian fighters -- not counting those from other nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States -- in the first two forays for the UFC into the Russian Federation.