UFC Fight Night 198 predictions: Is anyone picking Ketlen Vieira over Miesha Tate?

Check out our staff members’ picks for the UFC Fight Night 198 main card, featuring Ketlen Vieira vs. Miesha Tate.

Vieira
vs.
Tate
Brady
vs.
Chiesa
Kang
vs.
Yahya
Santos
vs.
Wood
Grant
vs.
Yanez
MMA Junkie readers’
consensus picks
2021: 197-107
tate2021
Tate
(71%)
chiesa2021
Chiesa
(56%)
yahya2021
Yahya
(58%)
santos2021
Santos
(63%)
yanez2021
Yanez
(77%)
John Morgan
@MMAjunkieJohn
2021: 201-103
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Simon Samano
@SJSamano
2021: 194-110
tate2021
Tate
brady2021
Brady
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Mike Bohn
@MikeBohnMMA
2021: 191-113
trophy copy 2014 Champion
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Matt Erickson
@MMAjunkieMatt
2021: 189-115
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
yahya2021
Yahya
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Nolan King
@mma_kings
2021: 188-116
tate2021
Tate
brady2021
Brady
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Dan Tom
@DanTomMMA
2021: 187-117
trophy copy 2020 Champion
tate2021
Tate
brady2021
Brady
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Danny Segura
@dannyseguratv
2021: 183-121
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
yahya2021
Yahya
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Ken Hathaway
@kenshathaway
2021: 182-122
trophy copy 2018 Champion
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
George Garcia
@MMAjunkieGeorge
2021: 177-127
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
yahya2021
Yahya
wood2021
Wood
yanez2021
Yanez
Farah Hannoun
@Farah_Hannoun
2021: 176-128
tate2021
Tate
brady2021
Brady
yahya2021
Yahya
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Abbey Subhan
@kammakaze
2021: 176-128
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Brian Garcia
@thegoze
2021: 176-128
trophy copy 2017 Champion
tate2021
Tate
brady2021
Brady
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez
Matthew Wells
@MrMWells
2021: 118-70
tate2021
Tate
chiesa2021
Chiesa
kang2021
Kang
santos2021
Santos
yanez2021
Yanez

The UFC stays in Las Vegas this week with a former champion at the top of the lineup.

UFC Fight Night 198 takes place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card streams on ESPN+.

(Click here to open a PDF of the staff picks grid in a separate window.)

In the main event, former women’s bantamweight champion [autotag]Miesha Tate[/autotag] (19-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) takes on [autotag]Ketlen Vieira[/autotag] (11-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC). Vieira is a slight -120 favorite at Tipico; the comeback on Tate is -105. But not a single one of our 13 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers is picking against Tate.

In the co-feature, [autotag]Sean Brady[/autotag] (14-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) takes on [autotag]Michael Chiesa[/autotag] (17-5 MMA, 11-5 UFC) at welterweight. Brady is a -175 favorite, but it’s Chiesa who has an 8-5 lead in the picks.

Also on the main card, [autotag]Kyung Ho Kang[/autotag] (17-8 MMA, 6-2 UFC) meets [autotag]Rani Yahya[/autotag] (27-10-1 MMA, 12-4-1 UFC) in a bantamweight bout. The fight nearly is a pick’em with Kang at -115 to -110 for Yahya. But Kang has a big 9-4 lead from our staff members.

[autotag]Taila Santos[/autotag] (18-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) is the biggest favorite on the main card at -380 in her women’s flyweight bout against [autotag]Joanne Wood[/autotag] (15-6 MMA, 7-6 UFC) – formerly Joanne Calderwood. Only one of our pickers is taking Wood in an upset.

And to open the main card, [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] (14-3 MMA, 3-0 UFC) is our second unanimous pick in his bantamweight bout against [autotag]Davey Grant[/autotag] (11-5 MMA, 4-4 UFC). Yanez is a big -320 favorite at the betting window.

In the MMA Junkie reader consensus picks, Tate (71 percent), Chiesa (56 percent), Yahya (58 percent), Santos (63 percent) and Yanez (77 percent) are the choices.

Check out all the picks above.

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