UFC 303 Live Updates: Results, Highlights, Odds, How to Watch Alex Pereira vs. Jiří Procházka 2
Saturday’s scheduled main event may have been derailed by the smaller pig, but that doesn’t mean UFC 303 doesn’t still have plenty to offer fight fans.
After Conor McGregor’s broken pinky finger caused the former two-time champion’s fight against Michael Chandler to be canceled, the UFC went into event-saving mode. And while the new headliner on Saturday’s card may not be of the caliber of the sport’s biggest star making his return after nearly three years outside the Octagon, there will at least be one championship belt on the line.
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UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira (10-2, 8 KOs) has agreed to rematch with former champion Jiří Procházka (30-4, 26 KOs) on Saturday (10 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. And just like that, the show goes on. The two previously met in the cage at UFC 295 in November, with Pereira winning the vacant light heavyweight title with a second-round TKO.
In an unprecedented move, the co-main event will feature a last-minute 165-pound bout between rising star Diego Lopes and his last-minute replacement Dan Ige. Lopes was originally scheduled to face Brian Ortega, but Ortega withdrew Saturday due to illness and was replaced by Ige just hours before the PPV broadcast began.
Follow our live blog below for all the results, highlights and analysis from fight night with Yahoo Sports:
Live66 updates
Main card (start time 10 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV)
Catchweight (165 lbs): Diego Lopes vs. Dan Ige
Preliminaries (start time 8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN+)
Early Prelims (Start Time 6 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN+)
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