If you handicap & bet all the fights where you like a side at the price offered, you'll never be bored on any card. I don't bet for pleasure (to the best of my knowledge of myself), but for the kick of handicapping with something on the line. On every fight I look at for betting, I'm always curious to see how the actual match-up plays out. You also realize how much better the non-name fights are, in advance of the card, when you're looking more closely at match-ups.
I find the no-name fights more exciting than the name fights, because there're more mysteries to be solved, other than what kind of fight plan a known guy will end up trying to execute. You already basically know how Mark Hunt's going to fight. Newcomers jumping up in competition are often more full of surprises, good (Norwonderboy, who did better than I would have expected after facing only nobodies and poor level fighters) and bad (Marlon Moraes who, it turned out, couldn't fight like himself when he jumped up in class).
A tout-tip for the bettors: imo Kiichi is not a +245 dog against Otto if he can perform as in the past (throwing out the cardio fail vs Magny at altitude -- you can also throw that one out for looking at Otto because the biggest problem for Kiichi vs Magny turned out to be the reach, the athletecism/speed, and Magny's wrestling). Otto was announced as a BJJ black belt (edit: brown belt...typo), but he showed very little off his back against Moraes (including not much ability to get up), and his wrestling is not good. His striking is technically more varied (lots of switching) than you normally see from fighters of his overall striking level (mediocre), but not that much better than Kiichi, and he could easily end up losing the fight in the clinch and via being taken down from the clinch (Kiichi is a solid clincher & has enough offensive wrestling to win the fight as long as Otto can't prevent the clinch. Otto did manage to avoid tie ups for much of his fight against Moraes, but was taken down easily when Moraes could get any kind of clinch. I found Kiichi's facebook & his (Cobra Kai, Osaka Japan) club's web pages, and he looks like he's in the shape he was in for his last two.
