The two-hour UFC FIGHT NIGHT PRELIMS begin on Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. ET with four exciting bouts, as welterweights Vicente Luque (11-6-1) futhi Niko Price (10-0, 1NC) collide, Antonio Carlos Junior (9-2, 1NC) ubuso Jack Marshman (22-6) in a iziqubu middleweight, lightweights Hacran Dias (23-5-1) futhi Jared Gordon (13-1) empini, ngenkathi Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (17-5) futhi Max Griffin (13-3) open the telecast with an exciting welterweight matchup.
Ahead of the live PRELIMS, Fight Network will live broadcast the UFC FIGHT NIGHT PREFIGHT SHOW, featuring coverage from the industry’s premier mixed martial arts analysts, as former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans joins fellow analyst Kenny Florian with host Karyn Bryant and reporter Heidi Androl conducting on-site fighter interviews. At the conclusion of Saturday’s live main card on TSN2, the bukhoma UFC FIGHT NIGHT POSTFIGHT SHOW airs at approximately 1:00 a.m. KANYE, recapping all the exciting action.
On Saturday afternoon, INKAZIMULO, the world’s premier kickboxing league, travels to Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France. Angabiki bukhoma at 1:00 p.m. KANYE, the INKAZIMULO 47 SuperFight Series features undefeated Florent Kaouachi (11-0, 3KO) making his GLORY debut against experienced veteran Abdarhmane Coulibaly (50-21, 23KO) in a light heavyweight affair, 23-year-old featherweight Massaro “The Project” Glunder (30-10-4, 20KO) draws Lyon’s Dylan Salvador (49-13-1, 21KO) for a tough test in enemy territory, Ungenzi. 3-ranked super bantamweight contender Anissa Meksen (92-3, 29KO) goes toe-to-toe with No. 8-zibalwa Funda “Findik” Alkayis (29-2, 12KO), Ahaggan “Boom Boom” Yassine (27-6, 19KO) and Estonia’s Maxim Vorovski (30-3-1, 14KO) meet at middleweight, plus top welterweight prospects Alim “Professor” Nabiyev (45-6, 21KO) futhi Jimmy Vienot (56-12, 27KO) kick off the action.
The INKAZIMULO 47 Lyon main card at 3:30 p.m. ET is headlined by reigning GLORY light heavyweight champion Artem Vakhitov (18-5, 5KO) defending his belt against No. 2-ranked challenger Ariel Machado(45-8, 34KO). Kwezinye action, former GLORY welterweight champion “The Best” Cedric Doumbe (67-5-1, 39KO) begins his campaign back to title contention against heavy-handed veteran Yohan “Le Bucheron” Lidon (93-36-1, 56KO), plus a-night eyodwa, single-elimination featherweight contender tournament, as multiple-time French kickboxing champion Abdellah Ezbiri (43-12-1, 13KO) meets fellow French-Moroccan Azize “The Magician” Hliali (17-14-1, 2KO), while local favorite Fabio Pinca (102-25-3, 42KO) goes up against Uzbekistan’s Anwar Boynazarov (79-20-2, 45KO) on the other side of the bracket.
M-1 Global returns to Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Oct. 27, beginning with M-1 Selection 16 uhlala 12:00 p.m. KANYE, featuring Spain’s Enoc Kuyasiza Ekuxazululeni Torres (20-10-1) against Russian Andrey Seledtsov (7-4) in a iziqubu middleweight, British heavyweight Phil De Fries (12-6) battling Russia’s Anton Vyazigin (8-1), India’s Sascha Sharma (14-3) ezibhekene Zalimbeg Omarov (8-2-1) in a featherweight tilt,Akhmadian Ozdoev (4-0) risking his perfect record against Daniil Prikaza (7-2-1) in a clash of Russian welterweights, okuningi Maxim Grabovich (5-5) liba Timerlan Sharipov (4-1) in an all-Russian welterweight duel.
The M-1 Challenge 84 main card airs live at 2:30 p.m. KANYE, headlined by an M-1 welterweight championship fight between Russian standouts Alexey Kunchenko (16-0) futhi Sergey Romanov (12-1). In the umcimbi co-main, Brazil’s Caio Magalhaes (10-3) throws down with undefeated Russian Artem Frolov (9-0) for the M-1 middleweight crown. Rounding out the stacked line-up, battle-tested American veteran Joe Riggs (46-17) enters hostile territory against Russian middleweight Oleg Olenichev (9-4), Finland’s Janne Elonen-Kulmala (15-5-1) meets Russia’s Bair Shtepin (4-2) in a bantamweight bout and Finnish lightweight prospect Jani Salmi (9-3) ibheka esandleni waseRussia Roman Bogatov (3-0) his first blemish.
The UFC FIGHT NIGHT PRELIMS, PREFIGHT SHOW and POSTFIGHT SHOW, plus GLORY 47 SuperFight Series, INKAZIMULO 47 Lyon and the M-1 Challenge 84 ikhadi main, will all be televised live exclusively in Canada, while M-1 Selection 16 airs live in Canada, the U.S. futhi phezu 30 amazwe yonkana Europe, Afrika naseMpumalanga Ephakathi.
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