NocheUFC co-man event is official. Alexa Grasso: 124Valentina a Shevchenko: 125 pic.twitter.com/gmMtMwWeeFu2014 Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) September 13, 2024 Dana White's $25K Easter egg huntplay3:13 DC and also Chael break Grasso-Shevchenko triumvirate fightDaniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen examine the upcoming triumvirate fight in between Alexa Grasso as well as Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC has a history of paying functionality bonus offers to professional athletes at every event. This weekend, it is going to likely dispense one of those rewards to a fan.ESPN UFC CEO Dana White claimed he will certainly pay out $25,000 to anybody that identifies covert Easter eggs in a running flick that will open during UFC Noche on Sunday at the Sphere in Las Vegas. The event, likewise known as UFC 306, will be the 1st live sporting undertaking to happen at the Realm, and also White possesses said it will be a one-and-done occasion.The UFC has partnered with various creative performers to produce a motion picture that will air between spells, together with 10 various "worlds" that will play on-screen during fights.Dana White to honor follower capable to recognize Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the wagering benefits at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Sphere could help O'Malley against DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and Brett Okamoto talk about how the ambience at the Sphere can offer Sean O'Malley a conveniences over Merab Dvalishvili at Noche UFC.Andreas Hale: Sean O'Malley, No. 4 in ESPN's pound-for-pound positions, goes into the match observing his initial label self defense against Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley hammered Vera through consensual choice. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight ranks, is actually using a 10-fight winning touch. Dvalishvili has actually not dropped a fight since April 2018. In the co-main contest, girls's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso encounter past champion Valentina Shevchenko in a triumvirate bout for Grasso's title. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's girls's MMA P4P positions, hammer Shevchenko by fourth-round entry to claim the name at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso kept the headline through split attract September 2023. Andreas Hale spoke to UFC strawweight Angela Hill to get her perspective on the UFC 306 principal and co-main occasions. ESPN betting specialists Reed Kuhn as well as Ian Parker include their understandings and review on the UFC centerpiece as well as other intriguing wagers they just like coming from both advertisings on Saturday.Expert choices and best bets for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's celebrity road remains unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili goes over fallout from uploading cut to encounter onlineMerab Dvalishvili informs Andreas Hale how he is healing coming from the right now notorious image he posted of the slice to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Saturday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) will title maybe the highest-profile event in the UFC's 30-year history. According to CEO Dana White, Noche UFC inside Sphere in Sin city will be a "one-and-done" activity, as a result of the high cost ($ twenty thousand, depending on to White) of putting it on. Individual seats for the UFC 306 card headlined through O'Malley's bantamweight label protection versus Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have been provided for as much as $13,000 in the course of fight week. It is actually the sort of celebration every competitor-- or even, more efficiently, pugilist-- dreams of. Even Conor McGregor, who possesses had a bit of a nasty public back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, wished to title this Realm occasion, possibly versus his outdated competitor Nate Diaz. O'Malley appreciated McGregor until this year, and also also stated he's tried to resemble parts of his occupation off McGregor's. Essentially, the honor and also responsibility of headlining UFC 306 mosted likely to O'Malley. Which is exactly what O'Malley yearned for. He started his camp for this certain match time just before the UFC also used it to him.Sitting within this quite living room where he stands up today, O'Malley used to long for prominence and also money, funds as well as popularity. Those desires began as very early as junior high, when he used to imagine themself wearing for an NFL staff on Sundays. When he reached high school, he concerned conditions that he was as well small to ever before play in the NFL. Perhaps non-coincidentally, that is actually additionally the exact very same time in his life he started to kickbox.UFC champion Sean O'Malley assesses his rise to stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana and also Stone war for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Conor McGregor as well as Dana White are actually five of the best influential individuals in battle sports. ESPNMike Coppinger: Much Of one of the most effective figures in the fight activity will definitely merge on Sin city today for a rare offering, one that includes boxing's top star, Canelo Alvarez, as well as the initial online showing off activity at the state-of-the-art Sphere along with UFC 306. Canelo's merged super middleweight championship protection vs. long-odds longshot Edgar Berlanga and also Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight title battle versus Merab Dvalishvili will certainly correspond Sunday evening, an unusual battle of prominent combat sports occasions in Las Vegas.And from it, the fight video game's electrical power gamers will all be exemplified in person between each activities. There's Turki Alalshikh, whose highly profitable Riyadh Period support aided create it possible for Dana White as well as the UFC to keep an activity at the too priced Realm. White mentioned the cost of the immersive place has actually covered $twenty million. It is actually the first pay-per-view occasion from White that isn't merely announced as UFC complied with by a numeral.With a few of the largest titles going head-to-head on Saturday evening in Las Vegas, that is actually drawing the strings in the battle activity? ESPN talked with 30-plus business energy gamers-- fighters, promoters, managers, legal representatives, supervisors as well as media-- to help identify who presently keeps all the effect throughout boxing, MMA as well as expert fumbling and also exactly how they possess it.The 15 most influential people in punching, MMA and also wrestlingUFC 306 storylines: Is going to any kind of fight surpass the location itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades punches along with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight championship match at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: Initially glance, the UFC's technique to celebrating Mexican Independence Day this happening weekend break appears perplexing.UFC 306, which takes place Saturday at the Realm in Sin City, is actually headlined through a match in between an Irish-American from Montana and also a New Yorker hair transplanted from the State of Georgia. And to contribute to the quizzically all-over-the-map concept, the event is actually sponsored by an arm of the authorities of Saudi Arabia.Branding and signboard mattress toppers aside, however, there will indeed be a Mexican motif permeating the second yearly Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Just before the main event in between males's bantamweight champ Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the evening's various other rounds will definitely feature a Mexico-born or Mexican United States boxer. The co-main occasion pits females's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso-- out of Guadalajara in the Mexican condition of Jalisco-- against past titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to accomplish a triumvirate that is actually already packed with twists.Beyond the affordable stakes, the overarching atmosphere of the evening guarantees to creatively and also aurally transportation enthusiasts southern of the border. This very first featuring event at Round, the groundbreaking entertainment site that opened up in 2014 merely off the Sin city Strip, will maximize the mind-numbing innovation built right into the tremendous round construct. Throughout the evening, the UFC will certainly use the 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED monitor and also concert-quality stereo to say to the story of battle sports in Mexico.Championship matches. Spectacular manufacturing. Major-league stakes. There will certainly be stories rolling throughout the spherical marvel of UFC 306. Listed below are a couple of to pay attention to.UFC 306 stories: Exactly how Sphere, Suga Sean are going to mold a historical eventWhat enthusiasts can assume at Noche UFCUFC 306 will certainly go to the Realm in Sin City on Saturday Sept. 14. Image through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI using Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has actually always kept a strict top on the specifics concerning their project right into the Realm for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Having said that, in front of the celebration-- which UFC CEO Dana White has actually advised are going to be actually the greatest featuring celebration of perpetuity-- the promotion has revealed some key information concerning what supporters ought to expect away from the $2.3 billion site in the course of Mexican Freedom Day weekend.The UFC are going to utilize Sphere's huge 160,000 sq. ft. indoor screen aircraft and also the place's worldclass concert-grade stereo. The internal show aircraft will additionally feature real-time stats and competitor information.Fans inside the Realm will certainly feel the activity courtesy of haptic seats, which delivers force responses based upon the activity inside the Octagon. And they possess the option to download the LiveVoice application to pay attention to live comments coming from either the English or Spanish broadcast.The celebration will likewise premiere the film "For Mexico, For All Time," informed in 6 90-second chapters between battles and showed inside the Round. The imaginative staff behind the film flaunts 29 Emmy Award gains, one Golden Globe and also one Grammy.There will be actually eight new Octagon ladies, six native-born Mexican women and pair of second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Just how Sean O'Malley considers to meet Conor McGregor's attraction in the UFCSean O'Malley participates in "1st Take" clean off winning the bantamweight title at UFC 292 and also refer to likely meeting the elevation of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Ball: Which UFC occasion sites will come next?UFC champion Sean O'Malley assesses his rise to stardomMMA divisional positions: Big win boosts Brady, yet how higher performs he jump?UFC 306 very first appeal: Big questions, very early bets, predictions for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA real or not: Will O'Malley, Grasso both maintain at Noche UFC?