UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington staff picks and predictions

The Bloody Elbow staff has made its predictions for UFC 224, which goes down Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It’s a unanimous choice for Amanda Nunes to beat Raquel Pennington and defend her women’s bantamweight title in the main event. As for the co-main event, the majority of us are picking Jacare Souza over Kelvin Gastelum in this key middleweight matchup. Mackenzie Dern’s massive weight miss also led to a couple of staff members going with Amanda Cooper for the upset.

Note: Predictions are entered throughout the week and collected the day before the event. Explanations behind each pick are not required and some writers opt not to do so for their own reasons. For example, if…