NocheUFC co-man event is actually formal. Alexa Grasso: 124Valentina a Shevchenko: 125 pic.twitter.com/gmMtMwWeeFu2014 Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) September 13, 2024 Dana White's $25K Easter egg huntplay3:13 DC and Chael malfunction Grasso-Shevchenko triumvirate fightDaniel Cormier as well as Chael Sonnen examine the upcoming trilogy fight between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC has a background of paying efficiency perks to athletes at every activity. This weekend, it is going to likely dispense some of those incentives to a fan.ESPN UFC chief executive officer Dana White said he will pay $25,000 to anyone that pinpoints surprise Easter eggs in a jogging film that is going to air during UFC Noche on Saturday at the Sphere in Sin City. The celebration, additionally referred to as UFC 306, will be the 1st live showing off affair to take place at the Realm, as well as White possesses claimed it will be a one-and-done occasion.The UFC has partnered along with various artistic performers to create a movie that will air in between stints, together with 10 different "globes" that will participate in on-screen during the course of fights.Dana White to honor fan capable to identify Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the wagering benefits at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Realm can profit O'Malley versus DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and also Brett Okamoto talk about exactly how the ambience at the Sphere could 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 match following his first label protection versus Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley beat Vera through consentaneous choice. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight positions, is using a 10-fight winning streak. Dvalishvili has not lost a fight because April 2018. In the co-main contest, ladies's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso clashes with past champ Valentina Shevchenko in a triumvirate fight for Grasso's title. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's ladies's MMA P4P rankings, hammer Shevchenko by fourth-round article to state the title at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso maintained the label through split draw in September 2023. Andreas Hale contacted UFC strawweight Angela Hill to acquire her standpoint on the UFC 306 primary as well as co-main events. ESPN betting specialists Splint Kuhn as well as Ian Parker include their knowledge and evaluation on the UFC centerpiece and various other interesting bets they such as coming from each promotions on Saturday.Expert choices and also best options for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's celebrity course remains unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili reviews results from posting slice to face onlineMerab Dvalishvili informs Andreas Hale how he is recuperation coming from the currently notorious picture he submitted of the cut to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Sunday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) will title possibly the highest-profile activity in the UFC's 30-year record. Depending On to Chief Executive Officer Dana White, Noche UFC inside Realm in Las Vegas will certainly be a "one-and-done" occasion, because of the high cost ($ twenty million, depending on to White) of putting it on. Private chairs for the UFC 306 card headlined by O'Malley's bantamweight title protection against Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have actually been listed for as high as $13,000 in the course of battle week. It is actually the type of activity every boxer-- or, extra efficiently, prizefighter-- imagine. Even Conor McGregor, that has possessed a little bit of a vicious public back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, wished to headline this Sphere celebration, likely versus his aged opponent Nate Diaz. O'Malley marvelled at McGregor until this year, and also even stated he's attempted to imitate portion of his profession off McGregor's. Ultimately, the respect and also obligation of headlining UFC 306 visited O'Malley. Which is actually precisely what O'Malley yearned for. He began his camp for this certain battle day just before the UFC even provided it to him.Sitting in this incredibly living room where he stands up today, O'Malley made use of to long for prominence as well as cash, cash and also prominence. Those goals started as very early as secondary school, when he used to envision himself dressing for an NFL group on Sundays. When he achieved secondary school, he concerned conditions that he was as well little to ever before play in the NFL. Probably non-coincidentally, that is actually likewise the specific very same attend his life he began to kickbox.UFC champ Sean O'Malley assesses his rise to stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana as well as Stone struggle for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Conor McGregor as well as Dana White are 5 of the absolute most prominent folks in combat sports. ESPNMike Coppinger: A Lot Of the absolute most highly effective figures in the fight video game will definitely converge on Sin city recently for an unusual offering, one that features boxing's best star, Canelo Alvarez, and also the 1st live showing off occasion at the innovative Realm with UFC 306. Canelo's combined incredibly middleweight champion protection vs. long-odds underdog Edgar Berlanga and Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight headline fight against Merab Dvalishvili will definitely coincide Sunday night, an unique clash of top-level combat sporting activities celebrations in Las Vegas.And from it, the fight game's energy players will certainly all be actually embodied personally in between both activities. There is actually Turki Alalshikh, whose lucrative Riyadh Season sponsorship helped make it achievable for Dana White and the UFC to keep a celebration at the too valued Sphere. White said the price of the immersive venue has actually topped $20 million. It's the first pay-per-view activity coming from White that isn't merely announced as UFC followed through a numeral.With some of the biggest titles going head-to-head on Sunday evening in Sin city, that's pulling the strands in the match game? ESPN spoke to 30-plus market power gamers-- fighters, marketers, executives, lawyers, managers as well as media-- to aid calculate who presently stores all the impact across boxing, mixed martial arts and expert fumbling as well as how they possess it.The 15 most significant people in punching, MMA and also wrestlingUFC 306 storylines: Will certainly any kind of match beat the place itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades blows with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight champion battle at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: In the beginning glimpse, the UFC's method to commemorating Mexican Self-reliance Day this happening weekend break seems perplexing.UFC 306, which happens Saturday at the Sphere in Las Vegas, is headlined by a battle in between an Irish-American coming from Montana as well as a New Yorker transplanted coming from the State of Georgia. As well as to contribute to the quizzically all-over-the-map theme, the occasion is financed by an arm of the government of Saudi Arabia.Branding and marquee mattress toppers apart, however, there are going to definitely be actually a Mexican motif penetrating the second annual Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Before the centerpiece in between males's bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the night's various other bouts will certainly include a Mexico-born or even Mexican United States boxer. The co-main event pits girls's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso-- away from Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco-- against previous titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to complete a triumvirate that is actually currently full of twists.Beyond the affordable risks, the overarching atmosphere of the evening guarantees to visually and aurally transport followers southern of the border. This 1st sporting celebration at Ball, the advanced amusement location that opened in 2014 only off the Sin city Strip, will definitely make the most of the mind-numbing innovation constructed in to the enormous sphere construct. Throughout the evening, the UFC will certainly make use of the 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED screen and also concert-quality sound system to say to the story of combat sporting activities in Mexico.Championship fights. Awesome manufacturing. Leading stakes. There will be actually stories swirling all around the ball-shaped surprise of UFC 306. Listed below are a handful of to focus to.UFC 306 storylines: Exactly how Sphere, Suga Sean will certainly mold a historical eventWhat supporters can expect at Noche UFCUFC 306 will certainly be at the Sphere in Las Vegas on Saturday Sept. 14. Picture through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has actually maintained a strict lid on the specifics concerning their venture into the Realm for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Nevertheless, ahead of the event-- which UFC Chief Executive Officer Dana White has proposed are going to be actually the greatest featuring celebration of perpetuity-- the promo has actually disclosed some crucial details about what supporters ought to anticipate out of the $2.3 billion location throughout Mexican Freedom Day weekend.The UFC are going to use Realm's huge 160,000 sq. ft. interior screen airplane as well as the venue's worldclass concert-grade stereo. The interior display airplane will certainly likewise exhibit real-time statistics as well as competitor information.Fans inside the Realm will really feel the activity thanks to haptic seats, which provides force responses based upon the activity inside the Octagon. As well as they have the alternative to download the LiveVoice app to listen to stay comments from either the English or Spanish broadcast.The event will likewise premiere the film "For Mexico, For All Time," informed in six 90-second sections in between fights as well as presented inside the Round. The artistic staff behind the film includes 29 Emmy Award succeeds, one Golden Entire world as well as one Grammy.There will be eight new Octagon ladies, six native-born Mexican ladies and also pair of second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Just how Sean O'Malley intends to meet Conor McGregor's attraction in the UFCSean O'Malley signs up with "1st Take" clean off winning the bantamweight headline at UFC 292 and also speak about likely meeting the height of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Round: Which UFC activity places will come next?UFC champion Sean O'Malley reviews his cheer stardomMMA local rankings: Big win improvements Brady, but exactly how high performs he jump?UFC 306 very first look: Big concerns, very early bets, forecasts for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA true or otherwise: Will O'Malley, Grasso both maintain at Noche UFC?