NocheUFC co-man activity is main. 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 Chael break Grasso-Shevchenko trilogy fightDaniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen examine the upcoming trilogy battle in between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC has a past of compensating functionality incentives to professional athletes at every occasion. This weekend break, it will likely share out among those benefits to a fan.ESPN UFC chief executive officer Dana White mentioned he will pay for $25,000 to anyone who determines hidden Easter eggs in a rushing film that will definitely air during UFC Noche on Saturday at the Realm in Las Vegas. The celebration, also referred to as UFC 306, will be actually the first live showing off affair to happen at the Sphere, and also White has stated it will be actually a one-and-done occasion.The UFC has partnered along with several innovative musicians to make a motion picture that will open in between rounds, alongside 10 various "worlds" that will play on-screen in the course of fights.Dana White to award supporter able to determine Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the betting benefits at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Sphere could benefit O'Malley against DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and Brett Okamoto discuss exactly how the ambience at the Realm might 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, gets into the match observing his initial headline protection against Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley hammered Vera by consentaneous selection. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight rankings, is actually using a 10-fight winning streak. Dvalishvili has not shed a battle due to the fact that April 2018. In the co-main tournament, ladies's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso encounter past champ Valentina Shevchenko in a triumvirate match for Grasso's title. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's females's MMA P4P positions, beat Shevchenko by fourth-round entry to assert the title at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso preserved the headline using crack attract September 2023. Andreas Hale contacted UFC strawweight Angela Hillside to get her standpoint on the UFC 306 primary and also co-main events. ESPN wagering professionals Splint Kuhn and Ian Parker add their insights and review on the UFC centerpiece as well as other appealing bets they such as from both advertisings on Saturday.Expert selections and best bets for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's superstar path continues to be unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili goes over results coming from posting cut to encounter onlineMerab Dvalishvili says to Andreas Hale how he is recovery coming from the right now infamous picture he uploaded of the slice to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Sunday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) is going to headline perhaps the highest-profile celebration in the UFC's 30-year history. According to Chief Executive Officer Dana White, Noche UFC inside Sphere in Las Vegas are going to be actually a "one-and-done" event, because of the large price ($ 20 thousand, depending on to White) of putting it on. Individual chairs for the UFC 306 memory card headlined through O'Malley's bantamweight headline protection versus Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have actually been listed for as high as $13,000 in the course of match full week. It's the kind of activity every boxer-- or even, more properly, pugilist-- long for. Even Conor McGregor, who possesses had a little an unpleasant social back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, wished to headline this Sphere activity, likely versus his outdated competitor Nate Diaz. O'Malley marvelled at McGregor till this year, as well as even mentioned he's tried to simulate portion of his job off McGregor's. Ultimately, the tribute and task of headlining UFC 306 went to O'Malley. Which is exactly what O'Malley preferred. He began his camp for this specific battle time just before the UFC even provided it to him.Sitting in this incredibly living-room where he stands up today, O'Malley made use of to imagine popularity and amount of money, loan and also fame. Those desires started as early as secondary school, when he made use of to imagine himself wearing for an NFL group on Sundays. When he achieved senior high school, he pertained to terms that he was actually also little to ever before play in the NFL. Possibly non-coincidentally, that is actually also the particular same attend his lifestyle he began to kickbox.UFC champ Sean O'Malley reassesses his cheer stardomTurki, Canelo, Dana and Stone struggle for No. 1Turki Alalshikh, Canelo Alvarez, Dwayne "The Stone" Johnson, Conor McGregor as well as Dana White are actually five of the absolute most important individuals in combat sports. ESPNMike Coppinger: A Number Of the most highly effective figures in the match activity will certainly merge on Las Vegas recently for a rare offering, one that includes punching's top superstar, Canelo Alvarez, and also the 1st real-time showing off celebration at the advanced Sphere with UFC 306. Canelo's combined very middleweight champion self defense vs. long-odds underdog Edgar Berlanga as well as Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight label fight versus Merab Dvalishvili are going to correspond Sunday night, an uncommon struggle of top-level fight sporting activities activities in Las Vegas.And with it, the fight game's electrical power gamers will all be actually embodied personally in between each celebrations. There's Turki Alalshikh, whose highly profitable Riyadh Period sponsorship aided create it achievable for Dana White and the UFC to store a celebration at the exorbitantly priced Realm. White stated the cost of the immersive venue has covered $twenty thousand. It is actually the very first pay-per-view celebration from White that isn't merely billed as UFC adhered to by a numeral.With some of the most significant names going head-to-head on Saturday evening in Sin city, that's taking the strings in the battle video game? ESPN talked with 30-plus sector energy gamers-- competitors, marketers, managers, lawyers, managers and media-- to assist identify who presently stores all the effect around punching, mixed martial arts as well as pro wrestling as well as how they wield it.The 15 very most influential folks in boxing, mixed martial arts and also wrestlingUFC 306 stories: Will definitely any battle surpass the place itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades hits with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight championship match at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: At first look, the UFC's technique to celebrating Mexican Self-reliance Time this happening weekend appears perplexing.UFC 306, which occurs Sunday at the Realm in Sin City, is headlined by a match between an Irish-American from Montana and also a New Yorker transplanted coming from the Commonwealth of Georgia. As well as to add to the quizzically all-over-the-map concept, the occasion is actually financed through a branch of the federal government of Saudi Arabia.Branding as well as signboard toppers apart, though, there will definitely undoubtedly be actually a Mexican motif permeating the second yearly Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Just before the centerpiece in between guys's bantamweight champ Sean O'Malley and also Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the evening's various other bouts are going to include a Mexico-born or Mexican United States fighter. The co-main activity pits females's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso-- out of Guadalajara in the Mexican condition of Jalisco-- against past titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to accomplish a trilogy that's currently packed with twists.Beyond the reasonable risks, the overarching ambiance of the evening assures to aesthetically and also aurally transportation fans southern of the boundary. This first featuring occasion at Ball, the sophisticated entertainment location that opened in 2013 just off the Las Vegas Bit, will definitely maximize the mind-numbing innovation built in to the whopping around structure. Throughout the night, the UFC is going to make use of the 160,000-square-foot wrap-around LED display and concert-quality stereo to say to the tale of battle sports in Mexico.Championship matches. Impressive development. Major-league risks. There are going to be actually storylines rolling all over the spheric marvel of UFC 306. Below are a couple of to focus to.UFC 306 stories: Just how Sphere, Suga Sean will definitely form a historic eventWhat followers can assume at Noche UFCUFC 306 are going to be at the Realm in Las Vegas on Sunday Sept. 14. Picture through Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has actually kept a strict cover on the specifics concerning their project in to the Sphere for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Nevertheless, in advance of the occasion-- which UFC CEO Dana White has advised will certainly be actually the greatest featuring celebration of perpetuity-- the promo has exposed some vital information concerning what followers ought to anticipate out of the $2.3 billion venue during the course of Mexican Self-reliance Time weekend.The UFC will definitely take advantage of Sphere's substantial 160,000 sq. ft. indoor display screen aircraft and the venue's worldclass concert-grade stereo. The internal show airplane will definitely likewise exhibit real-time statistics and also fighter information.Fans inside the Sphere will certainly really feel the activity thanks to haptic seats, which gives force comments based on the activity inside the Octagon. As well as they have the option to download the LiveVoice app to listen to stay discourse from either the English or Spanish broadcast.The occasion are going to additionally premiere the film "For Mexico, For Perpetuity," told in six 90-second phases in between fights as well as displayed inside the Ball. The creative group responsible for the movie flaunts 29 Emmy Honor succeeds, one Golden Globe and one Grammy.There will be actually eight new Octagon ladies, six native-born Mexican women and two second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Just how Sean O'Malley considers to achieve Conor McGregor's level of popularity in the UFCSean O'Malley signs up with "First Take" fresh off winning the bantamweight label at UFC 292 as well as discuss possibly achieving the elevation of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Round: Which UFC event places will happen next?UFC champion Sean O'Malley reassesses his rise to stardomMMA divisional ranks: Big win improvements Brady, yet just how high performs he jump?UFC 306 1st appearance: Big concerns, early bets, predictions for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA genuine or otherwise: Will O'Malley, Grasso both maintain at Noche UFC?