UFC 259 PRESS CONFERENCE, WEIGH-IN, INSIDE THE OCTAGON, ODDS & HOW TO WATCH

  • Main Card Features: Three Title Fights. Four Champions. Five Belts.
  • Main Card starts at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV
  • Prelims on ESPN and ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET
  • Early Prelims on ESPN+ at 6:00 p.m. ET
  • Extensive week-long coverage highlighted by a live one-hour UFC 259 Pre-Show Saturday on ABC at 2:30 p.m. ET

Las Vegas, NV (March 5th, 2021)– UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya will stream exclusively on ESPN+ PPV this Saturday, March 6, at 10 p.m. ET from UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nev.  The UFC 259 main card features a championship tripleheader with three titles on the line as part of UFC’s biggest card this year so far. The main event will see newly crowned UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz (27-8-0), making his first title defense following his dominant title win over Dominick Reyes in September of last year, against UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya (20-0-0). Blachowicz has won four straight fights leading up to UFC 259, while Adesanya, the undefeated, undisputed king of the middleweight division, will move up a weight class and attempt to join UFC’s elite list of double champions that includes Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Henry Cejudo.




The main card will also see the longest-reigning current champion, Amanda Nunes (20-4-0) making the second defense of her UFC women’s featherweight title against a surging Megan Anderson (11-4-0).  Widely considered the greatest female fighter of all time, Nunes holds both the featherweight and bantamweight titles and has not lost since 2014.  Anderson, a former Invicta FC featherweight champion, enters the Octagon for the biggest fight of her UFC career having won her last two fights via first round finishes.  In the first of three title fights, UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan (15-1-0) will make his first title defense against No. 1-ranked challenger Aljamain Sterling (19-3-0). Yan captured the vacant UFC bantamweight title in July 2020 with a dominant victory over former two-time UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo.  Sterling, who is on a five-fight winning streak, will look to make a statement in his first title shot.

UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya will begin with early prelims at 6:00 p.m. ET on ESPN+ in English and Spanish, with prelims at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN and ESPN+ (English and Spanish).  Live coverage begins on Saturdaywith UFC Live: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya Pre-Show, airing on ABC at 2:30 p.m. ET. The Pre Show provides fans with exclusive insights and views on the biggest stories heading into UFC 259.





UFC 259 Weigh-in Results:

Jan Blachowicz (205) vs. Israel Adesanya (200.5)
Amanda Nunes (145) vs. Megan Anderson (144.5)
Petr Yan (135) vs. Aljamain Sterling (134.5)
Islam Makhachev (156) vs. Drew Dober (156)
Thiago Santos (206) vs. Aleksandar Rakic (206)
Dominick Cruz (136) vs. Casey Kenney (136)
Yadong Song (135.5) vs. Kyler Phillips (136)
Joseph Benavidez (125.5) vs. Askar Askarov (127)*
Rogerio Bontorin (126) vs. Kai Kara France (125.5)
Tim Elliott (125.5) vs. Jordan Espinosa (126)
Kennedy Nzechukwu (205.5) vs. Carlos Ulberg (205)
Sean Brady (170.5) vs. Jake Matthews (169.5)
Livinha Souza (116) vs. Amanda Lemos (116)
Uros Medic (156) vs. Aalon Cruz (155)
Mario Bautista (135.5) vs. Trevin Jones (134.5)
Glover Teixeira (204.5)

* Askarov missed weight by one pound and has been fined 20 percent of his purse.

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