Sports The UFC’s return to Australia is determined for Saturday in Sydney.
Right here’s how one can watch UFC 312 with two title fights on the prime of the bill at Qudos Financial institution Enviornment.
Broadcast and streaming info
Jon Anik, Paul Felder, Daniel Cormier
UFC 312 has a well-known card that begins at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT) on pay-per-glimpse (by technique of ESPN+). The four-fight preliminary card airs on ESPN2 and streams on Disney+ at 8 p.m. ET. Four early prelims circulate on ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET.
Jon Anik will relief because the main man on the mic from cageside at UFC 312. He’s going to expose play-by-play alongside color commentators and UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier and Paul Felder.
Dwell tuned for extra broadcast info this week.
Predominant event: Dricus Du Plessis
Checklist: 22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC
Opponent: Sean Strickland (29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC)
Division: Middleweight
Key wins: Israel Adesanya, Sean Strickland, Robert Whittaker, Derek Brunson, Darren Till
Misc.: Du Plessis took the 185-pound title from Strickland quite of extra than a year ago at UFC 297. After a well-known protection over ex-champ Israel Adesanya, he now chases a 2nd protection in a rematch. When he used to be KSW champion, he misplaced his only rematch as much as now to Roberto Soldic.
Predominant event: Sean Strickland
Checklist: 29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC
Opponent: Dricus Du Plessis (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC)
Division: Middleweight
Key wins: Paulo Costa, Israel Adesanya, Nassourdine Imavov, Jack Hermansson
Misc.: Strickland bounced relief from his title loss to Du Plessis with a rupture up determination gather over Paulo Costa this past June. That used to be enough to fetch him every other shot.
Co-well-known event: Zhang Weili
Checklist: 25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC
Opponent: Tatiana Suarez (11-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC)
Division: Girls’s strawweight
Key wins: Xiaonan Yan, Amanda Lemos, Carla Esparza, Joanna Jedrzejczyk (twice)
Misc.: Weili misplaced the strawweight title to Rose Namajunas in 2021 and misplaced a rematch to her later that year. Nonetheless since then, she has four straight wins – including when she recaptured the belt 27 months ago and two successful defenses since then.
Zhang Weili, UFC 312 fight week (by technique of UFC)
Co-well-known event: Tatiana Suarez
Checklist: 11-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC
Opponent: Zhang Weili (25-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC)
Division: Girls’s strawweight
Key wins: Jessica Andrade, Montana De La Rosa, Carla Esparza, Alexa Grasso
Misc.: It’s been an interesting avenue to the title for Suarez. She used to be out of motion for nearly four years before she returned two years ago for a bonus-successful submission of Montana De La Rosa. Later that year, she choked out ex-champ Jessica Andrade. She pulled out of a fight towards Amanda Lemos a year ago with an injury and used to be situation to return in December towards Virna Jandiroba – however took benefit of ideally suited timing to fight for the belt, as an different.
Aug 5, 2023; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Tatiana Suarez (blue gloves) celebrates the gather by submission over Jessica Andrade (crimson gloves) in some unspecified time in the future of UFC Strive towards Night at Bridgestone Enviornment. Critical Credit rating: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
UFC debut: Tallison Teixeira
Checklist: 7-0
Opponent: Justin Tafa (7-4 MMA, 4-4 UFC)
Division: Heavyweight
Misc.: All seven wins by stoppage, including first-spherical DWCS gather in December and a pair of first-spherical wins beneath the LFA banner.
UFC debut: Colby Thicknesse
Checklist: 7-0
Opponent: Aleksandre Topuria (5-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC)
Division: Bantamweight
Misc.: Aussie has three straight first-spherical finishes heading into his promotional debut on home soil.
UFC debut: Aleksandre Topuria
Checklist: 5-1
Opponent: Colby Thicknesse (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC)
Division: Bantamweight
Misc.: 29-year-dilapidated brother of UFC featherweight champion Alexander Topuria has all five of his wins by stoppage.
UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria and brother Aleksandre
UFC debut: Jonathan Micallef
Checklist: 7-1
Opponent: Kevin Jousset (10-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC)
Division: Welterweight
Misc.: 25-year-dilapidated Australian gets home UFC debut after a well-known-spherical submission gather on DWCS to punch his impress this past October.
UFC debut: Kody Steele
Checklist: 7-0
Opponent: Rong Zhu (25-6 MMA, 1-3 UFC)
Division: Lightweight
Misc.: 29-year-dilapidated native of the elegant Olympic Nationwide Park role who trains in Las Vegas gets his UFC shot on the heels of a 2nd-spherical DWCS gather this past October.
Kody Steele def. Chasen Blair – DWCS 75
UFC debut: Quillan Salkilld
Checklist: 7-1
Opponent: Anshul Jubli (7-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC)
Division: Lightweight
Misc.: 25-year-dilapidated frail Everlasting MMA champion in Australia gets a dwelling UFC debut after a DWCS gather this past September.
UFC 312 well-known card having a wager odds
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-glimpse, 10 p.m. ET)
Champ Dricus Du Plessis -195 vs. Sean Strickland +165 – for middleweight title
Champ Zhang Weili -130 vs. Tatiana Suarez +110 – for females’s strawweight title
Justin Tafa +130 vs. Tallison Teixeira -155
Rodolfo Bellato -140 vs. Jimmy Crute +120
Jake Matthews -220 vs. Francisco Prado +180
UFC 312 prelim having a wager odds
Bruna Brasil
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN2/Disney+, 8 p.m. ET)
Jack Jenkins +175 vs. Gabriel Santos -210
Viacheslav Borshchev -150 vs. Tom Nolan +125
Bruna Brasil +315 vs. Wang Cong -425
Colby Thicknesse +300 vs. Aleksandre Topuria -450
UFC 312 early prelim having a wager odds
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 6 p.m. ET)
Kevin Jousset -240 vs. Jonathan Micallef +195
Kody Steele -245 vs. Rong Zhu +200
Anshul Jubli +325 vs. Quillan Salkilld -450
HyunSung Park -290 vs. Nyamjargal Tumendemberel +235
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