The UFC is back in Las Vegas for UFC 310, its final pay-per-view of the calendar. year, and the popular “Embedded” fight week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.
UFC 310 (pay-per-view, ESPNews/Hulu/FX, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
In the headliner, flyweight champion [autotag]Alexandre Pantoja[/autotag] (28-5 MMA, 12-3 UFC) takes on [autotag]Kai Asakura[/autotag] (21-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who will make his promotional debut in a title fight – a rarity. The co-feature is a fight between unbeaten welterweights [autotag]Ian Machado Garry[/autotag] (18-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) and [autotag]Shavkat Rakhmonov[/autotag] (15-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC).
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:
Alexander Volkov cooks for his team; Bryan Battle races go karts with his family; Champ Alexandre Pantoja trains in Florida; Kai Asakura has a Las Vegas photo shoot; Randy Brown gets in a pads session; Bryce Mitchell runs into B.J. Penn; Themba Gorimbo has dinner at an African restaurant.
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