NocheUFC co-man celebration is actually official. Alexa Grasso: 124Valentina a Shevchenko: 125 pic.twitter.com/gmMtMwWeeFu2014 Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) September thirteen, 2024 Dana White's $25K Easter egg huntplay3:13 DC and also Chael break Grasso-Shevchenko trilogy fightDaniel Cormier as well as Chael Sonnen examine the upcoming triumvirate fight between Alexa Grasso as well as Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC possesses a past of compensating performance bonus offers to athletes at every activity. This weekend, it will likely dispense one of those incentives to a fan.ESPN UFC CEO Dana White mentioned he will definitely spend $25,000 to any person that determines covert Easter eggs in a dashing motion picture that will open throughout UFC Noche on Sunday at the Sphere in Sin City. The occasion, likewise referred to as UFC 306, will be actually the very first live featuring undertaking to happen at the Realm, as well as White has mentioned it will be a one-and-done occasion.The UFC possesses partnered with multiple imaginative artists to produce a motion picture that will open in between spells, in addition to 10 various "worlds" that will play on-screen throughout fights.Dana White to award enthusiast able to identify Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the betting benefits at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Realm could possibly benefit O'Malley against DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and also Brett Okamoto cover just how the ambience at the Realm could possibly offer Sean O'Malley a benefit over Merab Dvalishvili at Noche UFC.Andreas Hale: Sean O'Malley, No. 4 in ESPN's pound-for-pound ranks, enters into the battle observing his initial headline self defense versus Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley beat Vera by consensual selection. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight rankings, is actually using a 10-fight winning streak. Dvalishvili has actually not dropped a match because April 2018. In the co-main contest, ladies's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso encounter former champ Valentina Shevchenko in a triumvirate struggle for Grasso's name. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's females's MMA P4P positions, beat Shevchenko by fourth-round submission to assert the title at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso retained the headline using split pull in September 2023. Andreas Hale talked to UFC strawweight Angela Mountain to get her standpoint on the UFC 306 principal and co-main occasions. ESPN wagering experts Splint Kuhn and Ian Parker incorporate their knowledge and analysis on the UFC main event and other appealing wagers they like coming from both advertisings on Saturday.Expert choices and best bets for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's superstar path remains unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili goes over results coming from submitting cut to deal with onlineMerab Dvalishvili says to Andreas Hale just how he is actually healing coming from the now infamous picture he posted of the cut to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Sunday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) will heading possibly the highest-profile event in the UFC's 30-year past. According to CEO Dana White, Noche UFC inside Sphere in Las Vegas are going to be a "one-and-done" activity, because of the high cost ($ twenty million, according to White) of placing it on. Personal seats for the UFC 306 memory card headlined through O'Malley's bantamweight title defense versus Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have been actually noted for as high as $13,000 throughout fight full week. It's the sort of occasion every competitor-- or even, much more precisely, prizefighter-- dreams of. Also Conor McGregor, who possesses possessed a little a vicious social back-and-forth with O'Malley this year, intended to heading this Sphere celebration, potentially versus his aged opponent Nate Diaz. O'Malley appreciated McGregor till this year, as well as also mentioned he is actually tried to simulate aspect of his job off McGregor's. Essentially, the respect and duty of headlining UFC 306 headed to O'Malley. Which is precisely what O'Malley preferred. He began his camp for this specific fight time before the UFC even gave it to him.Sitting in this really sitting room where he stands today, O'Malley made use of to long for prominence and funds, money as well as prominence. Those dreams started as very early as secondary school, when he used to visualize themself wearing for an NFL staff on Sundays. When he met secondary school, he involved terms that he was also tiny to ever play in the NFL. Possibly non-coincidentally, that is actually also the specific very same time in his life he started to kickbox.UFC champ Sean O'Malley reviews his rise to stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana as well as Stone fight for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Conor McGregor as well as Dana White are five of the most influential individuals in fight sporting activities. ESPNMike Coppinger: A Number Of the most strong figures in the match activity are going to merge on Sin city today for an unusual offering, one that features boxing's top star, Canelo Alvarez, and the 1st live sporting celebration at the cutting edge Sphere with UFC 306. Canelo's linked tremendously middleweight champion defense vs. long-odds longshot Edgar Berlanga as well as Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight title battle versus Merab Dvalishvili will certainly synchronize Saturday evening, an unique struggle of high-profile battle sporting activities celebrations in Las Vegas.And with it, the battle activity's power players are going to all be actually represented in person between both activities. There's Turki Alalshikh, whose lucrative Riyadh Period sponsor helped create it feasible for Dana White and the UFC to store an event at the too valued Realm. White stated the expense of the immersive place has covered $twenty million. It is actually the initial pay-per-view activity from White that isn't just touted as UFC adhered to through a numeral.With a few of the largest titles going head-to-head on Sunday night in Las Vegas, who is actually drawing the strands in the battle video game? ESPN contacted 30-plus market energy gamers-- boxers, marketers, executives, legal representatives, managers and media-- to aid calculate who presently keeps all the influence across boxing, mixed martial arts and expert wrestling as well as just how they wield it.The 15 most influential folks in punching, MMA and also wrestlingUFC 306 storylines: Will any fight outperform the place itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades blows with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight champion fight at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: In the beginning glimpse, the UFC's strategy to commemorating Mexican Self-reliance Day this coming weekend break seems to be perplexing.UFC 306, which happens Saturday at the Realm in Sin City, is headlined by a battle in between an Irish-American from Montana and a New Yorker transplanted coming from the Commonwealth of Georgia. As well as to add to the quizzically all-over-the-map theme, the activity is sponsored through an arm of the government of Saudi Arabia.Branding as well as marquee covers apart, however, there will certainly without a doubt be a Mexican theme penetrating the second yearly Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Prior to the main event between men's bantamweight champ Sean O'Malley as well as Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the night's various other stints are going to feature a Mexico-born or even Mexican United States competitor. The co-main event pits girls's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso-- out of Guadalajara in the Mexican condition of Jalisco-- against previous titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to finish a trilogy that is actually already filled with twists.Beyond the reasonable concerns, the overarching setting of the evening assures to aesthetically as well as aurally transportation followers southern of the border. This first sporting celebration at Sphere, the groundbreaking home entertainment site that opened in 2014 merely off the Sin city Strip, will maximize the mind-numbing technology built into the tremendous around design. Throughout the evening, the UFC will make use of the 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED display screen and also concert-quality stereo to tell the story of combat sporting activities in Mexico.Championship matches. Breathtaking production. Prominent risks. There will certainly be actually storylines surging all around the spherical marvel of UFC 306. Listed here are a few to take note to.UFC 306 storylines: Just how Sphere, Suga Sean are going to mold a historic eventWhat supporters can assume at Noche UFCUFC 306 will be at the Realm in Sin City on Saturday Sept. 14. Image through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has actually maintained a strict cover on the specifics regarding their endeavor right into the Sphere for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Nevertheless, in advance of the occasion-- which UFC Chief Executive Officer Dana White has actually advised are going to be the best sporting celebration of perpetuity-- the advertising has actually exposed some key particulars about what followers must anticipate out of the $2.3 billion location throughout Mexican Freedom Time weekend.The UFC are going to use Sphere's substantial 160,000 sq. ft. internal display airplane as well as the venue's worldclass concert-grade audio system. The interior display aircraft are going to also display real-time statistics as well as competitor information.Fans inside the Realm will really feel the activity courtesy of haptic seats, which delivers power responses based on the activity inside the Octagon. And they possess the choice to download and install the LiveVoice application to listen to stay comments from either the English or Spanish broadcast.The event will likewise premiere the movie "For Mexico, For Perpetuity," informed in six 90-second chapters between fights and presented inside the Ball. The imaginative group behind the film flaunts 29 Emmy Honor gains, one Golden Globe as well as one Grammy.There will be 8 brand new Octagon gals, 6 native-born Mexican women and also pair of second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 How Sean O'Malley intends to reach Conor McGregor's attraction in the UFCSean O'Malley signs up with "Initial Take" new off succeeding the bantamweight headline at UFC 292 and also discuss possibly reaching the elevation of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Ball: Which UFC occasion sites will come next?UFC champ Sean O'Malley assesses his cheer stardomMMA divisional ranks: Big win improvements Brady, but exactly how high performs he jump?UFC 306 initial appearance: Big inquiries, very early bets, prophecies for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA real or not: Will O'Malley, Grasso both maintain at Noche UFC?