The light-heavyweight title and interim heavyweight belt shall be on the road at UFC 295 tonight, after a shake-up to the cardboard at Madison Square Garden.
The authentic essential occasion pitted heavyweight champion Jon Jones towards divisional nice Stipe Miocic, however an damage to Jones led to the cancellation of that bout. It additionally led to the announcement of Tom Aspinall vs Sergei Pavlovich, with the Briton and Russian now squaring off for the interim title.
That is the brand new co-main occasion, whereas the preliminary co-main occasion has been elevated to headline standing, as Jiri Prochazka fights Alex Pereira for the vacant light-heavyweight belt.
Prochazka, the UFC’s first-ever Czech champion, needed to relinquish the title as a result of damage in 2022, and he’ll bid to regain it right here. Meanwhile, Pereira goes for two-weight-champion standing, having held the middleweight title from November 2022 till this April.
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When is UFC 295?
The occasion is about to happen on Saturday 11 November at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The early prelims are as a result of start at 11pm GMT (4pm PT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET), with the common prelims following at 1am GMT on Sunday 12 November (6pm PT, 8pm CT, 9pm ET on Saturday). The essential card is then scheduled for 3am GMT on Sunday (8pm PT, 10pm CT, 11pm ET on Saturday).
How can I watch it?
The card will air dwell on TNT Sports within the UK, with the broadcaster’s app and web site additionally streaming the fights. In the US, ESPN+ will stream the motion dwell, as will the UFC’s Fight Pass.
If you’re travelling overseas and wish to watch the occasion, you may want a VPN to unblock your streaming app. Our VPN round-up is right here to assist and contains offers on VPNs out there. Viewers utilizing a VPN must be sure that they adjust to any native laws the place they’re and in addition with the phrases of their service supplier.
Odds
Prochazka – 11/10; Pereira – 13/20
Pavlovich – 10/11; Aspinall – 10/11
Via Betway.
Full card (topic to vary)
Jiri Prochazka vs Alex Pereira (vacant light-heavyweight title)
Sergei Pavlovich vs Tom Aspinall (interim heavyweight title)
Jessica Andrade vs Mackenzie Dern (ladies’s strawweight)
Matt Frevola vs Benoit Saint-Denis (light-weight)
Diego Lopes vs Pat Sabatini (featherweight)
Prelims
Steve Erceg vs Alessandro Costa (flyweight)
Tabatha Ricci vs Loopy Godinez (ladies’s strawweight)
Mateusz Rebecki vs Nurullo Aliev (light-weight)
Nadim Sadykhov vs Viacheslav Borschchev (light-weight)
Early prelims
Jared Gordon vs Mark Madsen (light-weight)
John Castaneda vs Kyung Ho Kang (bantamweight)
Joshua Van vs Kevin Borjas (flyweight)
Dennis Buzukja vs Jamall Emmers (featherweight)
Source: www.impartial.co.uk