UFC Fight Night: Anthony Wint vs. Terrance Chatman (Heavyweight, Prelims)

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Market context

Anthony Wint’s heavyweight debut against Terrance Chatman sits on the same UFC Fight Night card headlined by Anthony Hernandez v Gregory Rodrigues in Sacramento on 22 August 2026, with the bout listed on the main card and broadly treated as a scheduled, normal three-round heavyweight fight.[1][2][3] The market’s 88% YES price reads like a strong favourite line rather than a binary certainty, especially at heavyweight where short-notice bouts, late medical issues, and missed-weight outcomes can still move settlement from a straight win to 50-50 if the contest is altered or does not occur as booked.[1][3]

For programmatic traders, the useful framing is to key off the UFC’s official bout status, not pre-fight commentary: the main decision points are whether the fight stays on the card, whether it is officially contested, and whether the result is read as Wint, Chatman, or a non-result.[1][2] Comparable market behaviour on UFC prelims often tightens near fight time when debutants carry heavy favourite pricing, but settlement risk remains concentrated in late scratches, bout rebooking, or an administrative change to no contest or postponement beyond the window.[1][2][3] Recent coverage also placed the prelims and main card on Paramount+ timing, so a trader running conditional orders would typically watch the official card order and any last-minute UFC bout announcements before the settlement cut-off.[2][3]

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Polymarket Review UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

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