Final Preventing Championship (UFC) returns to the pay-per-view (PPV) market this Sat. (Oct. 22, 2022) for the “Oliveira vs. Makhachev” combined martial arts (MMA) combat card, held inside Etihad Area on “Combat Island” in Abu Dhabi, UAE. UFC 280 will probably be headlined by the light-weight title combat between former champion Charles Oliveira and streaking 155-pound contender Islam Makhachev, who compete for the vacant strap “Do Bronx” left on the scale last May in Phoenix. Within the UFC 280 co-headliner, bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling will put his 135-pound strap on the road in opposition to former division titleholder TJ Dillashaw. The winner of that five-round affair may very well be paired off with the winner of Petr Yan vs. Sean O’Malley, who lock horns on the UFC 280 PPV fundamental card.
However earlier than they’ll combat, they have to first weigh in!
The UFC 280 early (and official) weigh ins will stream LIVE from the promotion’s host lodge within the embedded video above beginning promptly at 1 a.m. ET, which is late Thursday evening at 10 p.m. PT for you of us working on Pacific Time. The festivities are anticipated to final roughly two hours however might finish a lot earlier relying on how shortly all 26 fighters get to the size. Keep in mind, the promotion can even stage the UFC 280 ceremonial weigh ins — full with fighter staredowns — dwell from Etihad Area at 8 a.m. ET on Friday morning.
Full UFC 280 early weigh ins textual content outcomes beneath:
UFC 280 PPV Foremost Card ESPN+:
155 lbs.: Charles Oliveira (154.5) vs. Islam Makhachev (154.5) for vacant light-weight title
135 lbs.: UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling (135) vs. T.J. Dillashaw (135)
135 lbs.: Petr Yan (136) vs. Sean O’Malley (135.5)
155 lbs.: Beneil Dariush (156) vs. Mateusz Gamrot (156)
125 lbs.: Katlyn Chookagian (127.5*) vs. Manon Fiorot (125.5)
UFC 280 ‘Prelims’ Beneath Card On ESPNEWS/ESPN+:
170 lbs.: Sean Brady (171) vs. Belal Muhammad (170)
185 lbs.: Caio Borralho (186) vs. Makhmud Muradov (185.5)
205 lbs.: Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Volkan Oezdemir (206)
125 lbs.: Muhammad Mokaev (126) vs. Malcolm Gordon (126)145 lbs.: Lucas Almeida () vs. Zubaira Tukhugov () – CANCELED
170 lbs.: Abubakar Nurmagomedov (170.5) vs. Gadzhi Omargadzhiev (171)
185 lbs.: Armen Petrosyan (186) vs. A.J. Dobson (185)
135 lbs.: Karol Rosa (135) vs. Lina Lansberg (135)
Foremost occasion backup fighter: Alexander Volkanovski (155)
*Missed weight
MMAmania.com will ship LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow protection of the whole UFC 280 combat card RIGHT HERE, beginning with the early ESPN+ “Prelims” matches at 10 a.m. ET, adopted by the remaining undercard steadiness on ESPN+/ESPNews at 12 p.m. ET, earlier than the PPV fundamental card begin time at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
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