As Dana White and the team will take a long layoff of Christmas and New Year, UFC 296 will be their final event of the year on December 16. Headlined by Leon Edwards vs Colby Covington for the welterweight title fight, the PPV event will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
There will be two title fights in the entire card as Alexandre Pantoja will defend his flyweight title against Brandon Rovyal in the co-main event. There are several more interesting matchups on the card. It can be regarded as stacked for the fans.
The PPV event will be streamed live on ESPN and ESPN+ for $79.99 in the USA. UK fans shall watch UFC 296 Leon Edwards vs Colby Covington on TNT Sports. Indian fans can catch all the action live on Sony Sports Network on December 17, Sunday. But only the main card will be telecasted on Sony from 8:30 AM.
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UFC 296 main card will start at 10:00 PM ET/ 3:AM UK/ 8:30 AM IST. The main event walks of Edwards and Covington shall begin at 1:00 AM ET/ 6:00 AM BST (approximately). Meanwhile, the timings can fluctuate depending on how long the undercard fights last. We are just few weeks away from witnessing one of the best cards of the year.
Here’s a look at complete UFC 296 card.
UFC 296 Edwards vs Covington Main Card
Leon Edwards (C) vs Colby Covington- Main Event Welterweight title fight
Alexandre Pantoja (C) vs Brandon Rovyal- Co-main Event Flyweight title fight
Shavkat Rakhmonov vs Stephen Thompson- Welterweight fight
Tony Ferguson vs Paddy Pimblett- Lightweight fight
Vicente Luque vs Ian Garry- Welterweight fight
Preliminary Card
Josh Emmet vs Giga Chikadze- Featherweight fight
Irene Aldana vs Karol Rosa- Women’s Bantamweight fight
Cody Garbrandt vs Brian Kelleher- Bantamweight fight
Casey O’Neil vs Ariane Lipski- Women’s Flyweight fight
Early Preliminary Card
Alonzo Menifield vs Dustin Jacoby- Light Heavyweight fight
Martin Buday vs Shamil Gaziev- Heavyweight fight
Tagir Ulanbekov vs Cody Durden- Flyweight fight
Randy Brown vs Muslim Salikhov- Welterweight fight
