What time does the much-anticipated UFC London start tonight for fans around the world and what is the final tag fight arrangement?
The UFC returns to London tonight for another stacked Fight Night card, themed heavyweight showdown between Curtis Blaydes and Tom Aspinall.
The O2 arena was recovering in March when the world MMA leader returned to the UK for the first time in three years and the fights were so spectacular that the UFC had no choice but to return with another much-anticipated card.
So what time does UFC London start, what is the expected final fight order and, most importantly, has anyone ever lost weight before this exciting event from the capital of England?
UFC London: Start time and broadcast explained
Preliminaries for UFC London start at 5pm BST, with the main card starting at 8pm BST on Saturday 23 July.research and development.
However, coverage of the event will only start from 6pm GMT on BT Sport 1 HD, scheduled to conclude broadcasting at 11:30pm GMT.
For international audiences, UFC London will start from the following times:
- Pacific Time – 9 AM (Prelims) and 12 PM (Main Card)
- Eastern Time – 12 PM (Prelims) and 3 PM (Main Card)
- Brazil time – 1pm (Prelims) and 4pm (Main Card)
- British time – 5pm (Prelims) and 8pm (Main Card)
- European time – 6pm (Prelims) and 9pm (Main Card)
- India Time – 9:30 PM (Prelims) and 12:30 AM (Main Card)
- Philippines Time – 12 AM (Prelims) and 3 AM (Main Card)
- Australia time – 1:30 AM (Prelims) and 4:30 AM (Main Card)
UFC London: Fight the system and divisions in the show
As long as no bouts are canceled or altered at the last minute, UFC London’s fight order will be followed, as I mentioned before Marcel Dorf via ESPN.
UFC London Prelims:
- Silva vs Dalby – Lightweight
- Boom vs Leonardo – Flyweight
- Herbert vs. Nelson – Lightweight
- Mokaev vs Johnson – Flyweight
- Amirkhani vs. Pierce – Featherweight
- Wood vs Rosa – Featherweight
- Diakize vs Hadzovic – Lightweight
- Jones vs Klein – Lightweight
UFC London main card:
- Craig vs Oezdemir – Light Heavyweight
- McCann vs Goldie – Flyweight
- Krylov vs Gustafsson – Light Heavyweight
- Pemblete VS Levitt – Lightweight
- Hermanson vs Curtis – Middleweight
- Blaydes vs Aspinall – Heavyweight
Everyone has gained weight, with a cheeky advantage from The Baddy
The good news for fans and fighters alike is that all of the athletes competing for the UFC London tag put on weight ahead of tonight’s event.
The only horror was young Mokaev, who needed the infamous box to make the fly’s maximum weight of 126 pounds as he climbed onto the scale. As BT Sport noted during their live weight show, Mokaev was finding it difficult to lose the last few pounds the night before the UFC London weigh-in.
However, the headlines were again dominated by Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett, who took the opportunity to address the skeptics after he managed to achieve a weight gain. The Scouse star pointed out “everyone who tried to shame me into being fat or said I was going to lose weight or quit – kissed me a*s”…which he later introduced, much to the annoyance of the livestream team.
“Time to give everyone a knockout in the first round, to be honest even in a TKO with the ground and a pound if I end up over his head. I expect him to go out and try to make it a boring fight, as he does with all his fights, it makes it a boring fight that grapples so hard. Even when I wrestle, It’s entertaining, it’s an exciting fight but when he wrestles, it makes it boring. So, I don’t like having boring fights, people don’t talk about it afterwards.” – Buddy Pemblet, via BT Sport YouTube.
Written by Tom Llewellyn – [email protected]
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