NocheUFC co-man activity is official. 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 break down Grasso-Shevchenko trilogy fightDaniel Cormier and also Chael Sonnen examine the upcoming trilogy fight in between Alexa Grasso as well as Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC has a background of compensating efficiency bonuses to professional athletes at every occasion. This weekend break, it is going to likely share out some of those rewards to a fan.ESPN UFC CEO Dana White said he will certainly pay for $25,000 to any individual who identifies covert Easter eggs in a rushing film that will air during the course of UFC Noche on Sunday at the Realm in Las Vegas. The occasion, additionally known as UFC 306, will be the first online sporting undertaking to occur at the Realm, and White has claimed it will be actually a one-and-done occasion.The UFC has partnered along with multiple imaginative performers to make a movie that will air between spells, together with 10 various "planets" that will participate in on-screen during fights.Dana White to award fan able to identify Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the betting conveniences at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Realm might benefit O'Malley versus DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and Brett Okamoto cover exactly how the ambience at the Realm could possibly offer Sean O'Malley a benefit over Merab Dvalishvili at Noche UFC.Andreas Hale: Sean O'Malley, No. 4 in ESPN's pound-for-pound ranks, enters the fight observing his 1st label self defense versus Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley beat Vera through consentaneous selection. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight ranks, is riding a 10-fight winning streak. Dvalishvili has not shed a battle due to the fact that April 2018. In the co-main tournament, women's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso encounter previous champion Valentina Shevchenko in a triumvirate battle for Grasso's title. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's females's MMA P4P positions, beat Shevchenko through fourth-round submitting to state the name at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso preserved the headline via split pull in September 2023. Andreas Hale spoke with UFC strawweight Angela Hillside to get her viewpoint on the UFC 306 major and co-main celebrations. ESPN betting pros Reed Kuhn and also Ian Parker add their knowledge and also evaluation on the UFC main event and other appealing bets they as if from each promotions on Saturday.Expert choices as well as best bets for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's superstar course continues to be unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili talks about fallout coming from publishing cut to face onlineMerab Dvalishvili informs Andreas Hale how he is recovery coming from the now well known photo he submitted of the slice to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Saturday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) will heading possibly the highest-profile activity in the UFC's 30-year history. According to Chief Executive Officer Dana White, Noche UFC inside Realm in Las Vegas will definitely be a "one-and-done" celebration, as a result of the large price ($ 20 million, according to White) of placing it on. Personal seats for the UFC 306 memory card headlined through O'Malley's bantamweight headline self defense against Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have been actually detailed for as high as $13,000 throughout battle full week. It is actually the sort of occasion every competitor-- or even, even more effectively, pugilist-- desire. Also Conor McGregor, who has had a bit of a vicious social back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, intended to title this Realm occasion, likely against his outdated opponent Nate Diaz. O'Malley appreciated McGregor till this year, as well as even said he's made an effort to simulate parts of his job off McGregor's. Eventually, the honor as well as accountability of headlining UFC 306 went to O'Malley. Which is specifically what O'Malley yearned for. He began his camp for this certain battle day before the UFC also gave it to him.Sitting in this extremely living room where he stands up today, O'Malley used to imagine popularity as well as money, funds and fame. Those goals began as very early as intermediate school, when he utilized to picture himself dressing for an NFL crew on Sundays. When he achieved secondary school, he came to terms that he was actually too little to ever before play in the NFL. Maybe non-coincidentally, that is actually additionally the precise same attend his life he began to kickbox.UFC champ Sean O'Malley assesses his cheer stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana as well as Stone fight for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Conor McGregor and Dana White are five of the best important people in battle sports. ESPNMike Coppinger: Most Of the most highly effective have a place in the battle activity will certainly assemble on Sin city recently for an unusual offering, one that features punching's top superstar, Canelo Alvarez, and the very first live sporting occasion at the advanced Sphere along with UFC 306. Canelo's linked extremely middleweight championship self defense vs. long-odds longshot Edgar Berlanga as well as Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight label battle against Merab Dvalishvili are going to synchronize Sunday night, an uncommon struggle of top-level fight sports activities in Las Vegas.And along with it, the battle game's power players will definitely all be exemplified in person between each events. There's Turki Alalshikh, whose financially rewarding Riyadh Season support assisted make it achievable for Dana White and the UFC to keep an activity at the exorbitantly priced Sphere. White mentioned the cost of the immersive place has actually topped $20 thousand. It is actually the initial pay-per-view event from White that isn't just billed as UFC adhered to through a numeral.With a few of the most significant labels going head-to-head on Sunday evening in Sin city, that is actually drawing the strands in the match video game? ESPN contacted 30-plus business electrical power gamers-- fighters, marketers, managers, attorneys, managers as well as media-- to aid establish that presently stores all the impact across punching, mixed martial arts and pro fumbling and also just how they wield it.The 15 very most important people in boxing, MMA and also wrestlingUFC 306 stories: Will any kind of match surpass the location itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades punches along with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight champion fight at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: At first glance, the UFC's technique to celebrating Mexican Self-reliance Time this coming weekend seems perplexing.UFC 306, which takes place Saturday at the Realm in Sin City, is actually headlined through a match in between an Irish-American from Montana and a New Yorker transplanted from the Commonwealth of Georgia. And also to add to the quizzically all-over-the-map design, the event is actually funded through a branch of the authorities of Saudi Arabia.Branding and also tent covers apart, though, there are going to certainly be a Mexican motif going through the 2nd yearly Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Just before the main event in between men's bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley as well as Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the night's various other spells will include a Mexico-born or Mexican American fighter. The co-main occasion pits women's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso-- out of Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco-- against former titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to complete a trilogy that is actually presently loaded with twists.Beyond the very competitive stakes, the overarching atmosphere of the night guarantees to aesthetically as well as aurally transportation followers southern of the boundary. This first featuring celebration at Round, the sophisticated entertainment place that opened up in 2015 merely off the Las Vegas Bit, will make the most of the mind-numbing technology built into the enormous round framework. Throughout the evening, the UFC will make use of the 160,000-square-foot wrap-around LED screen and also concert-quality stereo to inform the tale of battle sports in Mexico.Championship battles. Impressive production. Prominent stakes. There are going to be storylines rolling throughout the round wonder of UFC 306. Below are a few to focus to.UFC 306 storylines: Just how Realm, Suga Sean are going to shape a historic eventWhat enthusiasts may assume at Noche UFCUFC 306 will definitely be at the Sphere in Sin City on Sunday Sept. 14. Photograph through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI by means of Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has always kept a strict cover on the specifics concerning their project into the Realm for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Having said that, in front of the activity-- which UFC Chief Executive Officer Dana White has actually advised will certainly be actually the greatest showing off occasion of perpetuity-- the promotion has actually revealed some essential details about what fans must anticipate out of the $2.3 billion venue throughout Mexican Independence Day weekend.The UFC are going to utilize Sphere's large 160,000 sq. ft. interior display screen airplane and also the venue's worldclass concert-grade audio system. The interior display screen aircraft will certainly likewise feature real-time stats as well as fighter information.Fans inside the Realm will really feel the action courtesy of haptic seating, which offers pressure feedback based on the action inside the Octagon. And also they possess the choice to download and install the LiveVoice application to listen closely to live discourse coming from either the English or even Spanish broadcast.The celebration will also premiere the film "For Mexico, For Perpetuity," told in six 90-second phases in between battles as well as presented inside the Sphere. The innovative staff behind the film flaunts 29 Emmy Honor gains, one Golden Entire world and one Grammy.There will be eight new Octagon girls, 6 native-born Mexican women as well as two second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Exactly how Sean O'Malley organizes to reach Conor McGregor's appeal in the UFCSean O'Malley signs up with "1st Take" fresh off gaining the bantamweight title at UFC 292 and also speak about likely reaching the height of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Ball: Which UFC celebration areas will happen next?UFC champion Sean O'Malley assesses his rise to stardomMMA divisional rankings: Big win increases Brady, however exactly how high performs he jump?UFC 306 initial appeal: Big inquiries, very early bets, prophecies for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA actual or not: Will O'Malley, Grasso both maintain at Noche UFC?