NocheUFC co-man celebration is actually formal. 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 and also Chael break down Grasso-Shevchenko triumvirate fightDaniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen preview the upcoming trilogy fight between Alexa Grasso as well as Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC possesses a history of compensating functionality bonus offers to professional athletes at every event. This weekend break, it will potentially dispense among those incentives to a fan.ESPN UFC CEO Dana White mentioned he will certainly spend $25,000 to anybody who pinpoints concealed Easter eggs in a dashing movie that will certainly open throughout UFC Noche on Saturday at the Realm in Sin City. The event, also referred to as UFC 306, will be actually the first real-time showing off event to occur at the Sphere, as well as White possesses stated it will be a one-and-done occasion.The UFC has partnered with various imaginative musicians to generate a motion picture that will air in between rounds, together with 10 various "globes" that will participate in on-screen during fights.Dana White to honor enthusiast able to determine Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the betting advantages at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Realm could possibly profit O'Malley versus DvalishviliDaniel Cormier as well as Brett Okamoto discuss exactly how the atmosphere at the Realm can give Sean O'Malley a conveniences over Merab Dvalishvili at Noche UFC.Andreas Hale: Sean O'Malley, No. 4 in ESPN's pound-for-pound ranks, gets in the fight observing his initial headline self defense versus Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley hammered Vera by consentaneous decision. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight rankings, is riding a 10-fight winning streak. Dvalishvili has actually certainly not lost a fight due to the fact that April 2018. In the co-main contest, women's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso clashes with past champ Valentina Shevchenko in a trilogy struggle for Grasso's name. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's females's mixed martial arts P4P ranks, beat Shevchenko by fourth-round article to profess the name at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso preserved the headline via split draw in September 2023. Andreas Hale talked to UFC strawweight Angela Hill to get her perspective on the UFC 306 main as well as co-main occasions. ESPN betting specialists Reed Kuhn and also Ian Parker incorporate their understandings and study on the UFC main event and also other interesting wagers they such as from each advertisings on Saturday.Expert choices as well as best bets for UFC 306 and also Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's celebrity road stays unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili reviews after effects coming from uploading slice to encounter onlineMerab Dvalishvili tells Andreas Hale exactly how he is healing coming from the right now notorious image he published of the slice to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Sunday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) will definitely title perhaps the highest-profile activity in the UFC's 30-year record. According to CEO Dana White, Noche UFC inside Realm in Las Vegas are going to be a "one-and-done" occasion, due to the sheer price ($ twenty million, depending on to White) of putting it on. Specific seats for the UFC 306 card headlined by O'Malley's bantamweight title self defense versus Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have been actually listed for as high as $13,000 in the course of fight full week. It's the kind of celebration every competitor-- or even, even more efficiently, pugilist-- desire for. Also Conor McGregor, who possesses possessed a bit of a vicious public back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, would like to heading this Realm activity, potentially against his old competitor Nate Diaz. O'Malley appreciated McGregor up until this year, and even stated he's tried to copy component of his occupation off McGregor's. Inevitably, the tribute and duty of headlining UFC 306 headed to O'Malley. Which is precisely what O'Malley wished. He began his camping ground for this certain battle day before the UFC even provided it to him.Sitting in this particular quite sitting room where he stands up today, O'Malley made use of to desire popularity as well as funds, money and fame. Those goals started as early as secondary school, when he used to picture themself suiting up for an NFL group on Sundays. When he met secondary school, he pertained to conditions that he was also small to ever play in the NFL. Maybe non-coincidentally, that is actually additionally the exact very same attend his lifestyle he began to kickbox.UFC champion Sean O'Malley reviews his cheer stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana and Rock war for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Conor McGregor and also Dana White are 5 of the most prominent people in combat sports. ESPNMike Coppinger: Most Of the absolute most highly effective have a place in the fight game will definitely converge on Sin city this week for an uncommon offering, one that includes boxing's top superstar, Canelo Alvarez, as well as the very first real-time featuring activity at the advanced Sphere with UFC 306. Canelo's linked tremendously middleweight champion protection vs. long-odds underdog Edgar Berlanga as well as Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight headline battle against Merab Dvalishvili will certainly correspond Sunday evening, an unusual struggle of prominent combat sports events in Las Vegas.And using it, the battle game's energy gamers will certainly all be actually represented personally between each occasions. There's Turki Alalshikh, whose financially rewarding Riyadh Season support aided create it feasible for Dana White and also the UFC to keep an event at the too priced Sphere. White mentioned the cost of the immersive location has actually topped $twenty million. It is actually the first pay-per-view occasion from White that isn't simply billed as UFC adhered to through a numeral.With some of the biggest titles going head-to-head on Sunday evening in Sin city, that is actually taking the strings in the match video game? ESPN spoke with 30-plus industry energy players-- boxers, marketers, executives, legal professionals, supervisors as well as media-- to aid calculate that currently holds all the influence all over punching, MMA as well as pro wrestling as well as how they wield it.The 15 most influential people in punching, mixed martial arts and wrestlingUFC 306 storylines: Will certainly any type of battle outperform the location itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades hits with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight championship battle at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: Initially look, the UFC's method to commemorating Mexican Self-reliance Time this coming weekend appears perplexing.UFC 306, which happens Sunday at the Realm in Las Vegas, is headlined by a battle in between an Irish-American coming from Montana and a New Yorker transplanted coming from the State of Georgia. As well as to include in the quizzically all-over-the-map theme, the occasion is financed through an arm of the authorities of Saudi Arabia.Branding and signboard mattress toppers aside, though, there are going to indeed be a Mexican theme going through the 2nd annual Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Just before the main event between males's bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley and also Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the evening's various other rounds will definitely include a Mexico-born or Mexican United States fighter. The co-main occasion pits girls's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso-- out of Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco-- versus past titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to complete a triumvirate that's currently packed with twists.Beyond the affordable risks, the overarching ambiance of the evening promises to aesthetically as well as aurally transport followers southern of the border. This 1st showing off activity at Round, the sophisticated home entertainment place that opened up in 2013 only off the Las Vegas Strip, will make the most of the mind-numbing innovation developed into the tremendous around design. Throughout the night, the UFC will certainly make use of the 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED display and concert-quality stereo to inform the tale of fight sports in Mexico.Championship battles. Spectacular manufacturing. Big-time stakes. There will certainly be actually stories rolling all around the spherical wonder of UFC 306. Listed here are actually a handful of to listen to.UFC 306 stories: Exactly how Sphere, Suga Sean are going to shape a historical eventWhat supporters can easily expect at Noche UFCUFC 306 will certainly be at the Sphere in Las Vegas on Saturday Sept. 14. Photograph through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI using Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has maintained a strict cover on the specifics regarding their project right into the Sphere for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Having said that, in advance of the activity-- which UFC Chief Executive Officer Dana White has actually advised are going to be the greatest showing off activity of all time-- the promo has actually shown some key information regarding what supporters need to expect out of the $2.3 billion site during the course of Mexican Independence Day weekend.The UFC will utilize Realm's huge 160,000 sq. ft. indoor display plane and the site's worldclass concert-grade audio system. The internal screen plane will also display real-time statistics and also boxer information.Fans inside the Sphere will feel the action thanks to haptic seats, which supplies power comments based upon the action inside the Octagon. And also they have the alternative to download and install the LiveVoice application to pay attention to reside discourse coming from either the English or Spanish broadcast.The celebration will likewise premiere the film "For Mexico, For Perpetuity," said to in six 90-second chapters in between matches and featured inside the Ball. The imaginative crew responsible for the movie includes 29 Emmy Award gains, one Golden Globe as well as one Grammy.There will be eight new Octagon women, 6 native-born Mexican ladies and two second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Exactly how Sean O'Malley considers to achieve Conor McGregor's recognition in the UFCSean O'Malley participates in "Initial Take" clean off gaining the bantamweight title at UFC 292 as well as talks about potentially achieving the elevation of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Sphere: Which UFC activity areas will happen next?UFC champion Sean O'Malley reassesses his rise to stardomMMA local rankings: Big succeed improvements Brady, but exactly how high performs he jump?UFC 306 very first look: Big concerns, very early bets, prophecies for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA true or not: Will O'Malley, Grasso both preserve at Noche UFC?