Need a your fight fix while much of the world is on lockdown? ESPN will try to heal a little of what ails you Saturday night.
With just about every sport on hold during the global coronavirus pandemic, ESPN, the UFC’s broadcast partner, will air a “UFC Night on ESPN” Saturday from 8-11 p.m. ET.
The special showing features the UFC 248 co-main event from earlier this month that already has gone down as perhaps the greatest women’s fight in MMA history, and one of the best fights, period: strawweight champion Zhang Weili’s close decision win over former champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk – a fight that sent both women to the hospital after 25 bloody minutes.
The three-hour special also will let viewers relive recent wins from lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and former interim champion Tony Ferguson ahead of their highly anticipated UFC 249 main event – which as of now hasn’t been postponed. UFC president Dana White remains adamant the show will go on for that one, no matter where it has to take place.
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Nurmagomedov stayed unbeaten with a hard-fought win over Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 this past September. And Ferguson beat Donald Cerrone at UFC 238 in June 2019. The Ferguson-Cerrone hour of the broadcast also will include Joseph Benavidez’s win over Jussier Formiga and Jared Gordon’s win over Joaquim Silva in 2018.
To get a little bit of advance hype for the Ferguson and Nurmagomedov portions, check out a history of their faceoffs in the video above. Then don’t miss “UFC Night on ESPN” on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET.
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