The UFC has three championships on the line Saturday.
UFC 259 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+.
In the main event, middleweight champion [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (20-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) moves to light heavyweight to challenge champion [autotag]Jan Blachowicz[/autotag] (27-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) in an attempt to become a two-division champion. Women’s dual champ [autotag]Amanda Nunes[/autotag] (20-4 MMA, 13-1 UFC) defends her featherweight title against [autotag]Megan Anderson[/autotag] (10-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC). Also, bantamweight titleholder [autotag]Petr Yan[/autotag] (15-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) makes his first defense against [autotag]Aljamain Sterling[/autotag] (19-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC).
The sixth episode of “Embedded” follows all the big stars who will compete at UFC 259. Here’s the UFC’s description from YouTube:
Athletes attend the press conference on Thursday. The next morning, they make weight and face off again, setting up the champ-stacked UFC 259: Jan Blachowicz vs. Israel Adesanya; Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling; and Amanda Nunes vs. Megan Anderson.
Also see:
- UFC 259 ‘Embedded,’ No. 1: Jan Blachowicz celebrates 38th birthday
- UFC 259 ‘Embedded,’ No. 2: ‘We should drink some before the fight like Costa’
- UFC 259 ‘Embedded,’ No. 3: Megan Anderson ready to ‘shock the world,’ change her life
- UFC 259 ‘Embedded.’ No. 4: Khabib Nurmagomedov arrives in Las Vegas
- UFC 259 ‘Embedded,’ No. 5: ‘I think she dropped a deuce’