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UFC 287 ‘Embedded,’ No. 5: Main card fighters sound off, then face off at press conference

The “Embedded” fight week video series is back to document what’s happening behind the scenes at UFC 287 in Miami.

The UFC is back with its fifth pay-per-view of the year, which means the popular “Embedded” fight-week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.

UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

In the main event, middleweight champion [autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag] (7-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) defends his title for the first time in a rematch with former champ [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (23-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC). Pereira upset Adesanya for the title this past November and also holds two kickboxing wins over him.

In the co-feature, [autotag]Gilbert Burns[/autotag] (21-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) takes on [autotag]Jorge Masvidal[/autotag] (35-16 MMA, 12-9 UFC) in a key welterweight fight. Plus, [autotag]Rob Font[/autotag] (19-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC) takes on [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] (16-3 MMA, 5-0 UFC) in a key bantamweight bout.

The fifth episode of “Embedded” follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC’s description of the episode from YouTube:

Jorge Masvidal enjoys the hometown spotlight; Gilbert Burns embraces the challenge. Adrian Yanez trains with Yves Edwards. The stars — including champ Alex Pereira and former king Israel Adesanya — sound off at the UFC 287 press conference. UFC 287 is on Saturday, April 8.

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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

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UFC 287 predictions: Who’s picking Israel Adesanya to get title back from Alex Pereira?

Check out our staff members’ UFC 287 main card picks, featuring Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya 2 and Gilbert Burns vs. Jorge Masvidal.

	Pereira vs. Adesanya	Burns vs. Masvidal	Font vs. Yanez	Holland vs. Ponzinibbio	Rodriguez vs. Rosas
MMA Junkie readers’ consensus picks 41-28	Pereira (61%)	Burns (80%)	Yanez (67%)	Holland (70%)	Rosas (84%)
George Garcia @MMAjunkieGeorge 44-25	Adesanya	Masvidal	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Matt Erickson @MattE 43-26	Adesanya	Burns	Yanez	Ponzinibbio	Rosas
Simon Samano @SJSamano 42-27	Pereira	Burns	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Nolan King @mma_kings 42-27/em>	Adesanya	Burns	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Matthew Wells @MrMWells 40-29	Adesanya	Burns	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Abbey Subhan @kammakaze 40-29	Adesanya	Burns	Yanez	Ponzinibbio	Rosas
Brian Garcia @thegoze 39-30 2017 Champion	Adesanya	Masvidal	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Ken Hathaway @kenshathaway 39-30 2018, 2022 Champion	Pereira	Burns	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Mike Bohn @MikeBohn 38-31 2014 Champion	Adesanya	Burns	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Farah Hannoun @Farah_Hannoun 38-31	Adesanya	Burns	Yanez	Holland	Rosas
Danny Segura @dannyseguratv 36-33	Adesanya	Burns	Font	Ponzinibbio	Rosas

The UFC is back in Miami for the first time in a long time, and a middleweight title rematch tops the card.

UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

(Click here to open a PDF of the staff picks grid in a separate window.)

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In the main event, middleweight champion [autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag] (7-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) puts his title on the line for the first time against former champ [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (23-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC), whom he beat to win the belt this past November. Pereira also holds two kickboxing wins over Adesanya.

Despite that, Pereira is the underdog at the betting window with Adesanya around a -150 favorite. The vast majority of our 11 editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers are picking Adesanaya to get the belt back at a rate of 9-2.

In the co-feature, [autotag]Gilbert Burns[/autotag] (21-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) takes on [autotag]Jorge Masvidal[/autotag] (35-16 MMA, 12-9 UFC) at welterweight. Both fighters hope a win will make them a candidate to leapfrog Colby Covington as the next challenger for champ Leon Edwards. Burns is the biggest favorite on entire card, by far, at 5-1. Only two of our pickers have Masvidal in an upset.

Also on the main card, [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] (16-3 MMA, 5-0 UFC) is a near 2-1 favorite against [autotag]Rob Font[/autotag] (19-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC) at bantamweight, and he’s a near unanimous pick from our staff members at 10-1.

[autotag]Kevin Holland[/autotag] (23-9 MMA, 10-6 UFC) meets [autotag]Santiago Ponzinibbio[/autotag] (29-6 MMA, 11-5 UFC) in a potential middleweight slugfest. Holland is around a -250 betting favorite, and he has a big 8-3 picks lead.

And to open the main card, [autotag]Christian Rodriguez[/autotag] (8-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) takes on [autotag]Raul Rosas Jr.[/autotag] (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) at a 137-pound catchweight (Rodriguez missed the bantamweight limit on the scale). Rosas is more than a 2-1 favorite, and he’s the lone unanimous pick on the main card.

In the MMA Junkie consensus picks, Pereira (61 percent), Burns (80 percent), Yanez (67 percent), Holland (70 percent) and Rosas (84 percent) are the choices.

Check out all the picks above.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

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Rob Font hopes Adrian Yanez doesn’t sleep on him at UFC 287: ‘This is a guaranteed Fight of the Night’

“I just hope he doesn’t sleep on me. It’s going to be a banger. This is a guaranteed Fight of the Night.”

[autotag]Rob Font[/autotag] warns [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] not to underestimate him at UFC 287.

In a battle between two of the most technical boxers at 135 pounds, Font and Yanez will throw down in Saturday’s main card featured bout at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

Font (19-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC) has lost back-to-back bouts, and Yanez (16-3 MMA, 5-0 UFC) is on the rise. But after taking a year off, the 35-year-old Massachusetts native is ready to put a halt to Yanez’s hype.

“This is a big fight for me,” Font said on Episode 1 of UFC Embedded. “I took a year off. I needed it. I needed that year off to kind of recoup. Adrian Yanez, this dude is a killer. He’s got a lot of momentum on his side. He’s on a nine-fight win streak. I just hope he doesn’t sleep on me. It’s going to be a banger. This is a guaranteed Fight of the Night, for sure.”

Font is higher than Yanez in the UFC’s bantamweight rankings, and Font’s head coach, Tyson Chartier, finds himself in familiar territory after he helped Calvin Kattar snap Giga Chikadze’s winning streak in January 2022.

“We’ve got a young, hungry prospect coming up. He’s 5-0 in the UFC, really good boxing,” Chartier said. “Obviously, he’s got good jiu-jitsu and wrestling, too. He hasn’t always had to use it. This is what happens. In the UFC, you’re the hungry lion coming up and you try to knock off the king, and then you get a number next to your name, and then those new hungry lions come up and they try to steal your crown.

“So right now, we’re in that position where we have to defend our number. I think I see a revitalization of his attitude. I think now he’s coming into this fight with that different, fresh perspective of like, ‘I don’t have to do this, I get to do this.’ I know there’s this extra motivation going into it and extra excitement for him and the whole team.”

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

Video: UFC 287 pre-fight press conference replay

Check out a live stream of the UFC 287 pre-fight press conference ahead of the pay-per-view event in Miami.

MIAMI – UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Kaseya Center, and you can watch a live video stream of the pre-event news conference here on MMA Junkie at 5 p.m. ET.

Participating in the press conference will be main event fighters [autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag] and [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] and co-main competitors [autotag]Gilbert Burns[/autotag] and [autotag]Jorge Masvidal[/autotag]. Also taking part will be main-card fighters [autotag]Rob Font[/autotag], [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag], [autotag]Kevin Holland[/autotag], [autotag]Santiago Ponzinibbio[/autotag], [autotag]Raul Rosas Jr.[/autotag], and [autotag]Christian Rodriguez[/autotag].

You can watch the press conference in the video above.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

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UFC 287 ‘Embedded,’ No. 4: Sean Strickland expects Israel Adesanya to ‘run and hide’

The “Embedded” fight week video series is back to document what’s happening behind the scenes at UFC 287 in Miami.

The UFC is back with its fifth pay-per-view of the year, which means the popular “Embedded” fight-week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.

UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

The fourth episode of “Embedded” follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC’s description of the episode from YouTube:

Raul Rosas Jr. lands in Miami. Jorge Masvidal shows his support for the locals. Champ Alex Pereira trains with mentor Glover Teixeira. Sean Strickland breaks down the main event. Israel Adsanya pulls up in style.

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For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

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UFC 287 ‘Embedded,’ No. 3: Adesanya, Pereira put final touches on preparation, main card fighters check in

The “Embedded” fight week video series is back to document what’s happening behind the scenes at UFC 287 in Miami.

The UFC is back with its fifth pay-per-view of the year, which means the popular “Embedded” fight-week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.

UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

The third episode of “Embedded” follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC’s description of the episode from YouTube:

Jorge Masvidal, champ Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya keep their skills sharp in the gym. Adrian Yanez arrives in Miami. Kevin Holland, Gilbert Burns and Christian Rodriguez check in for fight week. UFC 287 is on Saturday, April 8.

Also see:

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

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UFC 287’s Adrian Yanez: Giving Rob Font his first KO loss ‘skyrockets me into another stratosphere’

Adrian Yanez thinks his career with launch to the next level if he can be the first to finish UFC 287 opponent Rob Font with strikes in Saturday’s featured bout.

MIAMI – [autotag]Adrian Yanez[/autotag] sees a finish of [autotag]Rob Font[/autotag] at UFC 287 taking his career to the next level.

Unbeaten in the octagon, Yanez (16-3 MMA, 5-0 UFC) faces a big step up in competition when he takes on Font (19-6 MMA, 9-5 UFC) on Saturday’s featured main card bout at Kaseya Arena. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

Font has lost his past two bouts, but Yanez knows not to underestimate him. He loves the forward-pressure style his opponent brings to the octagon, and will look to become the first to take Font out by strikes as he goes in with the “mindset of Marvin Hagler.”

“This guy has the never-die attitude and he’s going to keep getting up,” Font told reporters, including MMA Junkie, during Wednesday’s UFC 287 media day. “He’s been hurt multiple times, but he’s never been finished by TKO or knockout. He keeps coming back and he wants to get the win. He’s fighting tooth and nail. So it excites me because I know as soon as he gets dropped, he comes back and looks better the next round. So, I have to be ready at every second because this guy is gonna be non-stop coming forward.

“He’s ranked No. 6 in the world (in the UFC rankings). For me, if I go out there and starch him, be the first guy to put him out, I get his number. So that just skyrockets me into another stratosphere.”

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Yanez had long been angling for a fight with Sean O’Malley, but the pair have yet to be matched up. Now that O’Malley is the No. 1 contender, Yanez thinks an emphatic finish of Font would build up their fight that much more.

Although Yanez wants to fight O’Malley as soon as possible, he doesn’t blame him for opting to sit out and wait for the winner between champion Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo, who meet for 135-pound gold at UFC 288 on May 6.

“As a fighter, I look at it as no, stay busy,” Yanez said. “Don’t sit down on the couch too much. But honestly, he’s earned it. He’s deserved it. He worked his way up there, he beat Petr Yan. Whether you think he won or not, he beat him. So yeah, he rightly deserves to sit out if he wants to.”

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

Video: ‘UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2’ media day live stream

Before UFC 287 on Saturday’s main card and prelim fighters are scheduled to speak to reporters at media day.

MIAMI – A numbered UFC event returns to Miami on Saturday for the first time in more than 20 years with UFC 287, which takes place at Kaseya Arena with a main card that airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

Before fight night arrives, though, notable athletes from the card spoke to reporters Wednesday at media day, and MMA Junkie was on-site for it all.

That includes headliners [autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag] (7-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) and [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (23-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC), who are scheduled to rematch for the middleweight title in the main event, as well as the four remaining main card matchups and featured prelim bout.

If you happen to miss any of the individual sessions on the live stream, check below for the archived videos of each media day.

UFC 287 pre-event facts: Jorge Masvidal looks to avoid dreaded four-fight skid

Check out the numbers behind UFC 287 in Miami, where Jorge Masvidal faces the danger of a four-fight losing skid against Gilbert Burns.

The UFC returns to Miami for the first time in more than 20 years Saturday with UFC 287, which takes place at Miami-Dade Arena with a main card that airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+.

A highly anticipated middleweight championship rematch receives top billing on the card. Reigning titleholder [autotag]Alex Pereira[/autotag] (7-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) will once again meet his rival [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (23-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC) in the main event in what will be their fourth career combat sports meeting. The Brazilian currently holds a 3-0 lead in the overall series.

For more on the numbers behind both headliners, as well as the rest of the card, check below for MMA Junkie’s pre-event facts about UFC 287.

UFC 287 ‘Embedded,’ No. 2: Pereira and Adesanya turn up the heat, plus a tour of the streets of Miami

The “Embedded” fight week video series is back to document what’s happening behind the scenes at UFC 287 in Miami.

The UFC is back with its fifth pay-per-view of the year, which means the popular “Embedded” fight-week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.

UFC 287 takes place Saturday at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.

The second episode of “Embedded” follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC’s description of the episode from YouTube:

Champ Alex Pereira and foe Israel Adesanya turn the intensity up as they train. Jorge Masvidal shows off his hometown. Rob Font spends time with his daughter. Gilbert Burns refines his technique.

Also see:

UFC 287 ‘Embedded,’ No. 1: Family first for Burns, Masvidal plays with guns and talks violence

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC 287.

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