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Two titles might be on the road at UFC 297 this weekend, because the middleweight belt is defended after a brand new ladies’s bantamweight champion is topped.
In the primary occasion, Sean Strickland defends the middleweight gold for the primary time, having gained it from Israel Adesanya in a seismic upset in September. The controversial American goes up towards South Africa’s Du Plessis, one month after the pair brawled within the crowd at UFC 296.
Within the co-main occasion, Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva will vie for the vacant ladies’s bantamweight title, after Amanda Nunes relinquished the belt whereas retiring from MMA final yr.
American Pennington is using a five-fight win streak, whereas Silva gained three in a row earlier than her submission victory over Holly Holm was overturned – a ruling that got here after the Brazilian examined constructive for a substance present in Ritalin. Bueno Silva argued that the substance had come from her ADHD treatment.
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When is UFC 297 and what time does it begin?
UFC 297 will happen on Saturday 20 January on the Scotiabank Enviornment in Toronto, Canada.
The early prelims are set to start at 11.30pm GMT (4.30pm PT, 6.30pm CT, 7.30pm ET), with the common prelims following at 1am GMT on Sunday 21 January (6pm PT, 8pm CT, 9pm ET on Saturday). The principle card will then start at 3am GMT on Sunday (8pm PT, 10pm CT, 11pm ET on Saturday).
How can I watch it?
The cardboard will air dwell on TNT Sports activities within the UK, with the broadcaster’s app and web site additionally streaming the fights. Within the US, ESPN+ will stream the motion dwell, as will the UFC’s Combat Cross.
If you happen to’re travelling overseas and need to watch the occasion, you would possibly want a VPN to unblock your streaming app. Our VPN round-up is right here to assist and contains offers on VPNs out there. Viewers utilizing a VPN must ensure that they adjust to any native rules the place they’re and in addition with the phrases of their service supplier.
Odds
Dricus Du Plessis after his upset win towards Robert Whittaker in July
(Getty Photos)
Strickland – 4/6
Du Plessis – 5/4
By way of Bet365.
Full card (topic to alter)
Foremost card
Sean Strickland (C) vs Dricus Du Plessis (middleweight title)
Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno Silva (vacant ladies’s bantamweight title)
Neil Magny vs Mike Malott (welterweight)
Chris Curtis vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)
Arnold Allen vs Movsar Evloev (featherweight)
Prelims
Brad Katona vs Garrett Armfield (bantamweight)
Charles Jourdain vs Sean Woodson (featherweight)
Serhiy Sidey vs Ramon Taveras* (bantamweight) *Taveras missed weight at 139.7lbs
Gillian Robertson vs Polyana Viana (ladies’s strawweight)
Early prelims
Yohan Lainesse vs Sam Patterson (welterweight)
Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Priscila Cachoeira (ladies’s bantamweight)
Malcolm Gordon* vs Jimmy Flick (flyweight) *Gordon missed weight at 127.5lbs