Feb. 21, 2026, 12:55 p.m. ET
In a 3-round featherweight bout on the primary card, Dan Ige and Melquizael Costa meet Saturday at UFC Fight Night 267 — also called UFC Houston — at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The prelims start at 5 p.m. ET, and the primary card begins at 8 p.m. ET, all on Paramount+. Let’s analyze BetMGM Sportsbook’s UFC odds across the UFC Fight Night 267: Ige vs. Costa odds, and make our expert UFC picks and predictions.
Records: Ige (19-10-0) | Costa (25-7-0)
The veteran Ige suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Patricio Pitbull final day trip at UFC 318 final July. He has misplaced 3 of his previous 4 bouts, with every loss coming through unanimous choice. His lone win through the span was a Round 3 KO/TKO victory at UFC 314 in opposition to Sean Woodson final April. In reality, Ige is 4-4 in his previous 8 fights, with 3 of the victories coming by the use of knockout.
Costa picked up a Round 1 KO/TKO victory over Morgan Charriere final day trip in a combat evening in mid-December. He has rattled off 5 straight wins, with 2 going the gap, and additionally has 2 submission wins over veteran Andre Fili and Shayilan Nuerdanbieke in that span.
The attain is dead-even at 71 inches for each fighters whereas the southpaw Costa holds a 4.42-to-3.62 benefit in important strikes landed per minute. He can be far more correct on these strikes, touchdown 59.66%, whereas Ige has managed a 49.56% mark on these strikes. Costa additionally leads with a 1.93-to-0.89 takedown common, whereas he has a 38.46% accuracy mark on takedowns, to simply 25.81% for Ige. And, Costa additionally has a 1.16-to-0.22 submission common benefit, too.
UFC Fight Night 267: Ige vs. Costa odds
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- Fight outcome (2-way line): Ige +185 (wager $100 to win $185) | Costa -225 (wager $225 to win $100)
- Will the combat go the gap? (Yes -250 | No +175)
UFC Fight Night 267: Ige vs. Costa picks and predictions
Costa (-220) will value you greater than 2 instances your potential return, and that is means an excessive amount of danger for a straight up wager. However, in case you have been to fold the Brazilian fighter right into a multi-leg parlay, that will be completely positive.
While Ige is a veteran who has huge expertise, Costa leads in nearly each metric. Costa has proven he can win in quite a lot of methods, as nicely, both wowing the judges on factors, successful through KO/TKO or getting it down within the wrestling recreation.
Let’s search for COSTA BY KO/TKO, DQ OR SUBMISSION (+600) for the prospect to multiply up by 6 instances. That’s too good of a worth to cross on.
NO (+175): FIGHT TO GO THE DISTANCE can be a really good play at plus cash, until you strongly really feel that is going to go the total 3 rounds. I like Costa to get the end, both in Round 2 or Round 3. As such, COSTA IN ROUND 1 (+1200) or COSTA IN ROUND 2 (+1600) is price a roll of the cube. You might even take an opportunity on Costa in Round 3 (+2200), however I’m avoiding that half. Sure, even when he will get the end, you will lose the opposite ends, however you’d nonetheless be nicely forward, too.
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