NocheUFC co-man event is official. Alexa Grasso: 124Valentina a Shevchenko: 125 pic.twitter.com/gmMtMwWeeFu2014 Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) September thirteen, 2024 Dana White's $25K Easter egg huntplay3:13 DC as well as Chael malfunction Grasso-Shevchenko trilogy fightDaniel Cormier as well as Chael Sonnen examine the upcoming triumvirate fight in between Alexa Grasso as well as Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC has a history of compensating efficiency benefits to athletes at every event. This weekend, it will possibly dispense some of those benefits to a fan.ESPN UFC chief executive officer Dana White stated he will pay $25,000 to any person who determines surprise Easter eggs in a dashing movie that will definitely open during UFC Noche on Saturday at the Realm in Sin City. The activity, additionally called UFC 306, will be the first real-time featuring undertaking to happen at the Sphere, as well as White has claimed it will be a one-and-done occasion.The UFC has partnered with numerous imaginative musicians to generate a flick that will air in between spells, alongside 10 different "worlds" that will participate in on-screen in the course of fights.Dana White to award fan capable to determine Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the betting perks at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Realm might profit O'Malley against DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and Brett Okamoto talk about how the atmosphere at the Sphere could possibly offer Sean O'Malley an advantage over Merab Dvalishvili at Noche UFC.Andreas Hale: Sean O'Malley, No. 4 in ESPN's pound-for-pound ranks, enters into the fight observing his first headline protection against Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley hammered Vera through unanimous decision. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight positions, is using a 10-fight winning touch. Dvalishvili has certainly not shed a match due to the fact that April 2018. In the co-main tournament, women's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso encounter former champion Valentina Shevchenko in a trilogy battle for Grasso's title. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's women's MMA P4P ranks, hammer Shevchenko by fourth-round article to declare the title at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso preserved the headline through crack attract September 2023. Andreas Hale spoke with UFC strawweight Angela Mountain to get her point of view on the UFC 306 major as well as co-main events. ESPN wagering experts Splint Kuhn as well as Ian Parker incorporate their knowledge and analysis on the UFC centerpiece as well as other intriguing wagers they such as coming from each advertisings on Saturday.Expert picks as well as best options for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's celebrity road stays unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili talks about results coming from publishing slice to deal with onlineMerab Dvalishvili informs Andreas Hale how he is healing from the currently infamous picture he submitted of the cut to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Saturday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) is going to title probably the highest-profile event in the UFC's 30-year past. According to Chief Executive Officer Dana White, Noche UFC inside Realm in Sin city will be actually a "one-and-done" celebration, because of the large expense ($ 20 million, depending on to White) of placing it on. Specific chairs for the UFC 306 card headlined by O'Malley's bantamweight label protection against Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have been actually detailed for as much as $13,000 throughout fight week. It's the kind of activity every competitor-- or, more efficiently, pugilist-- imagine. Also Conor McGregor, that has had a little an unpleasant social back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, would like to title this Realm occasion, possibly versus his old opponent Nate Diaz. O'Malley admired McGregor until this year, and also also mentioned he's attempted to simulate aspect of his career off McGregor's. Ultimately, the respect as well as task of headlining UFC 306 visited O'Malley. Which is actually exactly what O'Malley yearned for. He started his camp for this specific fight day before the UFC also supplied it to him.Sitting in this very living room where he stands today, O'Malley used to imagine fame as well as amount of money, funds as well as prominence. Those desires began as early as secondary school, when he utilized to imagine himself wearing for an NFL team on Sundays. When he met high school, he involved conditions that he was too tiny to ever play in the NFL. Probably non-coincidentally, that's also the specific very same attend his life he started to kickbox.UFC champ Sean O'Malley assesses his cheer stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana and Stone struggle for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Conor McGregor and Dana White are five of the best important individuals in battle sporting activities. ESPNMike Coppinger: Most Of the best powerful figures in the battle game will certainly come together on Sin city this week for a rare offering, one that features boxing's top star, Canelo Alvarez, and the first online sporting event at the cutting edge Sphere with UFC 306. Canelo's unified extremely middleweight championship defense vs. long-odds longshot Edgar Berlanga as well as Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight title battle against Merab Dvalishvili are going to correspond Sunday night, an uncommon clash of prominent fight sports occasions in Las Vegas.And along with it, the match video game's power players are going to all be actually represented personally between both events. There is actually Turki Alalshikh, whose financially rewarding Riyadh Season sponsor helped create it feasible for Dana White as well as the UFC to hold an activity at the exorbitantly valued Sphere. White stated the price of the immersive location has topped $twenty million. It is actually the first pay-per-view occasion from White that isn't just touted as UFC observed by a numeral.With several of the biggest names going head-to-head on Saturday evening in Las Vegas, who's pulling the strands in the match game? ESPN spoke to 30-plus sector electrical power gamers-- competitors, promoters, execs, legal representatives, supervisors and media-- to assist calculate who presently holds all the impact across punching, MMA as well as professional wrestling as well as just how they wield it.The 15 very most significant individuals in punching, MMA and also wrestlingUFC 306 stories: Will any match beat the place itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades strikes along with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight champion battle at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: In the beginning glance, the UFC's method to celebrating Mexican Independence Time this happening weekend break appears perplexing.UFC 306, which happens Saturday at the Sphere in Las Vegas, is headlined through a match between an Irish-American from Montana as well as a New Yorker hair transplanted coming from the State of Georgia. And to include in the quizzically all-over-the-map concept, the occasion is actually financed by an arm of the federal government of Saudi Arabia.Branding and also marquee mattress toppers aside, however, there will indeed be actually a Mexican motif penetrating the second yearly Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Prior to the main event between guys's bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley and also Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the evening's various other stints are going to include a Mexico-born or even Mexican United States fighter. The co-main occasion pits ladies's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso-- away from Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco-- versus past titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to complete a triumvirate that's presently packed with twists.Beyond the affordable risks, the overarching atmosphere of the evening assures to creatively and also aurally transportation fans south of the boundary. This first featuring occasion at Round, the sophisticated amusement site that opened up last year merely off the Sin city Bit, are going to make the most of the mind-numbing innovation created right into the humongous round framework. Throughout the evening, the UFC will certainly utilize the 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED monitor and also concert-quality stereo to tell the tale of battle sporting activities in Mexico.Championship matches. Breathtaking creation. Prominent risks. There will definitely be actually storylines swirling throughout the circular marvel of UFC 306. Listed below are a handful of to focus to.UFC 306 stories: Just how Realm, Suga Sean will shape a famous eventWhat followers can easily anticipate at Noche UFCUFC 306 are going to go to the Realm in Sin City on Sunday Sept. 14. Picture through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI through Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has maintained a tight top on the specifics concerning their project into the Sphere for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Having said that, before the occasion-- which UFC CEO Dana White has actually recommended will certainly be actually the greatest featuring event of perpetuity-- the promotion has actually uncovered some essential particulars concerning what followers ought to assume out of the $2.3 billion venue during the course of Mexican Self-reliance Time weekend.The UFC will certainly make use of Sphere's massive 160,000 sq. ft. indoor display screen plane as well as the venue's worldclass concert-grade stereo. The internal show plane will certainly also showcase real-time stats as well as fighter information.Fans inside the Realm are going to really feel the activity thanks to haptic seats, which gives force comments based on the action inside the Octagon. And they have the option to install the LiveVoice application to pay attention to stay discourse from either the English or Spanish broadcast.The event will certainly also premiere the film "For Mexico, For All Time," said to in six 90-second sections in between battles as well as presented inside the Ball. The imaginative staff behind the movie flaunts 29 Emmy Award gains, one Golden World and also one Grammy.There will be eight new Octagon girls, 6 native-born Mexican women and 2 second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Just how Sean O'Malley intends to meet Conor McGregor's attraction in the UFCSean O'Malley joins "Very first Take" fresh off succeeding the bantamweight title at UFC 292 and also talks about likely reaching the elevation of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Ball: Which UFC activity areas will come next?UFC champ Sean O'Malley reflects on his cheer stardomMMA divisional rankings: Big gain increases Brady, but just how high performs he jump?UFC 306 1st appeal: Big inquiries, early wagers, predictions for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA true or not: Will O'Malley, Grasso both keep at Noche UFC?