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After a rare week off, the
Ultimate Fighting Championship returns with a thrilling
lightweight title fight and an intriguing
UFC 302 pay-per-view card.
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The main event for the 12-fight card is now official. Both champion
Islam
Makhachev and challenger Dustin
Poirier weighed 155 pounds on the dot for the five-round fight.
One fighter missed weight as Andre Lima
came in at 130 pounds for his flyweight fight against Mitch
Raposo. He’ll be fined 30% of his purse as a result.
Fans will be treated to see Makhachev (25-1) up against another
proper lightweight after back-to-back title defenses over Alexander
Volkanovski. While the first outing was quite close, Makhachev
knocked out „The Great“ with a brutal head kick in the first round
of their short-notice rematch. The Russian fighter won the belt in
2022 by submitting Charles
Oliveira with an arm-triangle choke.
Meanwhile, this may be the final shot at UFC gold for Poirier
(30-8, 1 NC). „The Diamond“ has won two of his last three fights,
including an upset win over Benoit St.
Denis. The Louisiana native previously came up short against
both Charles
Oliveira and Khabib
Nurmagomedov, losing both title fights via rear-naked
choke.
UFC 302 prelims begin on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on
ESPN+ and UFC Fight Pass before transitioning to ESPN+ and ESPN2 at
8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The ESPN+ pay-per-view main card then takes
over at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
p.m. ET on ESPN+
UFC 302 Weigh-in Results:
Islam
Makhachev (155) vs. Dustin
Poirier (155)
Paulo
Costa (185) vs. Sean
Strickland (185)
Kevin
Holland (185) vs. Michal
Oleksiejczuk (185)
Alex
Morono (170) vs. Niko Price
(170)
Randy
Brown (170) vs. Elizeu
Zaleski dos Santos (170)
Cesar
Almeida (185) vs. Roman
Kopylov (185)
Jailton
Almeida (241) vs. Alexander
Romanov (265)
Grant
Dawson (155) vs. Joe Solecki
(155)
Jake
Matthews (170) vs. Philip
Rowe (171)
Bassil
Hafez (170) vs. Mickey Gall
(170)
Joselyne
Edwards (136) vs. Ailin Perez
(135)
Andre
Lima (130)* vs. Mitch
Raposo (125)
* Lima missed weight by four pounds and has been fined 30% of
his purse.