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UFC 306 outcomes: Dvalishvili stuns O'Malley, Shevchenko uncrowns Grasso #.\n\nSep 15, 2024, 02:09 AM ETIn Sphere's initial primetime celebration, the location provided match fans two brand new champions.In the centerpiece, Merab Dvalishvili made use of charming grappling as well as smart striking to displace Sean O'Malley to come to be the new bantamweight champ. Dvalishvili succeeded by consensual decision (49-46, 48-47, 48-47), finishing O'Malley's eight-fight gaining streak.In the co-main event, Valentina Shevchenko beat Alexa Grasso through unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) in their trilogy match to restore the women's flyweight headline. Shevchenko's crucial to victory was her grappling capability, as she took down Grasso eight times, the absolute most in her career.Here's whatever that dropped on the UFC 306 card, Realm and even more on an active evening in Las Vegas.How to view the fightsWatch the replay of all the battles at UFC 306 on ESPN+: Obtain ESPN+ here.There's additionally FightCenter, which delivers stats for every UFC memory card.\n\nThe fight cardMen's bantamweight championship: Merab Dvalishvili def. Sean O'Malley (c) Ladies's flyweight: Valentina Shevchenko def. Alexa Grasso (c) Featherweight: Diego Lopes def. Brian OrtegaLightweight: Esteban Ribovics def. Daniel ZellhuberMen's flyweight: Ronaldo Rodr\u00edguez def. Lyric' OsbourneWomen's bantamweight: Norma Dumont def. Irene AldanaLightweight: Ignacio Bahamondes def. Manuel TorresStrawweight: Ketlen Souza def. Yazmin JaureguiMen's flyweight: Joshua Truck def. Edgar ChairezMen's bantamweight: Raul Rosas Jr. def. Aoriqileng( c) = defending championSuga vs. The Maker: O'Malley and also Dvalishvili face off in advance of title fightHe's coming for that bantamweight title @MerabDvalishvil is actually confident moving into #UFC 306 [@RiyadhSeason #NocheUFC LIVE on @ESPNPlus PPV 10pmET\/7pmPT] pic.twitter.com\/ZdsmWieaRu\u2014 UFC (@ufc) September 14, 2024 \u00a1 Hora de callar y pelear! @SugaSeanMMA vs @MerabDvalishvil [#UFC 306 at @RiyadhSeason #NocheUFC en vivo ahora en @ESPNPlus PPV] pic.twitter.com\/7R5Z4vFkyc\u2014 UFC (@ufc) September 14, 2024 'Once for the Gringos': Grasso as well as Shevchenko have actually ultimate face offBlessed to be a component of history! @AlexaGrasso will certainly protect her waistband tomorrow evening at #UFC 306 [@RiyadhSeason #NocheUFC Survive On @ESPNPlus PPV 10pmET\/7pmPT] pic.twitter.com\/wq5051U7ra\u2014 UFC (@ufc) September 14, 2024 She's feeling stronger than ever before! @BulletValentina is actually charged ahead of #UFC 306 [@RiyadhSeason #NocheUFC Survive @ESPNPlus PPV SAT 10pmET\/7pmPT] pic.twitter.com\/ECyyTqr85K\u2014 UFC (@ufc) September 14, 2024 UFC 306 mannered weigh-ins receive the Mariachi treatment!The scenes at Realm #NocheUFC pic.twitter.com\/XJAts6fx8t\u2014 ESPN MMA (@espnmma) September 14, 2024 Weight created: UFC 306 title battles are actually officialThe #NocheUFC main event is actually on!Sean O'Malley (135 )Merab Dvalishvili (134) pic.twitter.com\/HDEJ40dhkv\u2014 Andreas Hale (@AndreasHale) September thirteen, 2024 The

NocheUFC co-man occasion is main. 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 as well as Chael break Grasso-Shevchenko triumvirate fightDaniel Cormier and also Chael Sonnen sneak peek the upcoming trilogy match in between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 306. Brett Okamoto: The UFC possesses a past of paying efficiency incentives to sportsmens at every activity. This weekend break, it will potentially administer one of those bonus offers to a fan.ESPN UFC chief executive officer Dana White said he is going to pay for $25,000 to anyone who identifies covert Easter eggs in a rushing film that will certainly air during UFC Noche on Sunday at the Realm in Sin City. The event, likewise called UFC 306, will be actually the initial online featuring undertaking to happen at the Realm, and White possesses claimed it will be actually a one-and-done occasion.The UFC possesses partnered along with numerous imaginative musicians to create a flick that will open in between rounds, together with 10 various "globes" that will play on-screen throughout fights.Dana White to honor supporter capable to determine Easter eggs at UFC 306Where's the wagering advantages at UFC 306? play1:31 Why the Sphere could profit O'Malley versus DvalishviliDaniel Cormier and also Brett Okamoto talk about just how the ambience at the Realm might give Sean O'Malley a perk over Merab Dvalishvili at Noche UFC.Andreas Hale: Sean O'Malley, No. 4 in ESPN's pound-for-pound ranks, gets in the battle observing his first title protection versus Marlon Vera at UFC 299. O'Malley beat Vera through unanimous selection. Merab Dvalishvili, No. 2 in ESPN's bantamweight ranks, is actually riding a 10-fight winning streak. Dvalishvili has actually certainly not lost a fight because April 2018. In the co-main tournament, women's flyweight champion Alexa Grasso encounter previous champion Valentina Shevchenko in a triumvirate struggle for Grasso's name. Grasso, No. 2 in ESPN's females's mixed martial arts P4P ranks, hammer Shevchenko by fourth-round entry to profess the name at UFC 285 in March 2023. In the rematch, Grasso retained the headline by means of split pull in September 2023. Andreas Hale spoke with UFC strawweight Angela Mountain to get her standpoint on the UFC 306 principal and also co-main activities. ESPN wagering specialists Splint Kuhn and also Ian Parker add their insights and study on the UFC main event as well as various other interesting wagers they like coming from both advertisings on Saturday.Expert selections and best options for UFC 306 and Bellator Champions SeriesO'Malley's super star road stays unchangedplay2:32 Merab Dvalishvili discusses fallout from publishing cut to deal with onlineMerab Dvalishvili tells Andreas Hale how he is actually recuperation coming from the currently notorious photo he published of the cut to his face.Brett Okamoto: On Saturday, the 29-year-old O'Malley (18-1) will certainly headline possibly the highest-profile activity in the UFC's 30-year history. According to CEO Dana White, Noche UFC inside Realm in Las Vegas will be actually a "one-and-done" occasion, due to the sheer price ($ twenty million, depending on to White) of placing it on. Private chairs for the UFC 306 memory card headlined through O'Malley's bantamweight label defense against Merab Dvalishvili (17-4) have actually been detailed for as much as $13,000 during battle full week. It's the type of event every fighter-- or even, extra correctly, pugilist-- desire for. Also Conor McGregor, who has had a little bit of a nasty social back-and-forth along with O'Malley this year, wished to heading this Sphere occasion, potentially versus his old rival Nate Diaz. O'Malley admired McGregor up until this year, and also claimed he is actually attempted to copy component of his occupation off McGregor's. Eventually, the respect as well as responsibility of headlining UFC 306 visited O'Malley. Which is actually exactly what O'Malley yearned for. He began his camp for this particular battle time before the UFC even delivered it to him.Sitting in this particular very sitting room where he stands today, O'Malley made use of to long for prominence as well as cash, loan as well as prominence. Those goals started as early as middle school, when he made use of to imagine themself wearing for an NFL crew on Sundays. When he met senior high school, he pertained to conditions that he was actually as well tiny to ever before play in the NFL. Possibly non-coincidentally, that is actually likewise the exact same attend his life he began 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 Stone" Johnson, Conor McGregor and also Dana White are five of the best significant folks in combat sporting activities. ESPNMike Coppinger: A Lot Of the most strong have a place in the fight game will assemble on Sin city recently for an unusual offering, one that includes boxing's best celebrity, Canelo Alvarez, and also the initial real-time featuring celebration at the advanced Realm with UFC 306. Canelo's consolidated very middleweight champion defense vs. long-odds underdog Edgar Berlanga as well as Sean O'Malley's UFC bantamweight headline match versus Merab Dvalishvili are going to correspond Sunday night, an unusual struggle of top-level battle sports celebrations in Las Vegas.And using it, the fight activity's energy players are going to all be embodied in person in between both occasions. There's Turki Alalshikh, whose profitable Riyadh Time support aided make it feasible for Dana White as well as the UFC to keep an event at the too valued Realm. White claimed the expense of the immersive place has topped $twenty million. It's the very first pay-per-view event coming from White that isn't merely touted as UFC complied with by a numeral.With a number of the most significant titles going head-to-head on Sunday evening in Las Vegas, that's drawing the strands in the battle video game? ESPN contacted 30-plus business power players-- fighters, marketers, managers, legal representatives, managers and media-- to help establish who currently stores all the impact all over punching, MMA and professional wrestling and just how they possess it.The 15 very most prominent folks in boxing, mixed martial arts and also wrestlingUFC 306 stories: Will certainly any fight outshine the site itself?Merab Dvalishvili trades blows with Sean O'Malley in the bantamweight champion battle at UFC 306. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLCJeff Wagenheim: Initially look, the UFC's method to commemorating Mexican Independence Day this happening weekend seems to be perplexing.UFC 306, which takes place Sunday at the Realm in Las Vegas, is actually headlined by a fight in between an Irish-American coming from Montana and a New Yorker transplanted from the State of Georgia. And to add to the quizzically all-over-the-map theme, the celebration is financed by an arm of the authorities of Saudi Arabia.Branding and marquee mattress toppers apart, though, there will certainly without a doubt be a Mexican theme penetrating the 2nd annual Noche UFC (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET). Prior to the centerpiece in between men's bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley as well as Merab Dvalishvili, all 9 of the night's various other rounds will definitely include a Mexico-born or Mexican American boxer. The co-main event pits women's flyweight champ Alexa Grasso-- away from Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco-- against past titlist Valentina Shevchenko, to complete a trilogy that's actually full of twists.Beyond the very competitive concerns, the overarching ambiance of the evening guarantees to aesthetically as well as aurally transport fans southern of the boundary. This initial sporting activity at Ball, the cutting-edge entertainment venue that opened last year simply off the Las Vegas Strip, will take full advantage of the mind-numbing innovation created right into the humongous sphere design. Throughout the night, the UFC will certainly use the 160,000-square-foot wrap-around LED monitor and also concert-quality stereo to tell the tale of battle sporting activities in Mexico.Championship matches. Spectacular production. Major-league risks. There will certainly be actually stories surging around the spheric wonder of UFC 306. Right here are a few to listen to.UFC 306 stories: Exactly how Sphere, Suga Sean will definitely mold a historical eventWhat followers may assume at Noche UFCUFC 306 will definitely go to the Realm in Sin City on Saturday Sept. 14. Photograph by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI through Getty ImagesAndreas Hale: The UFC has kept a strict cover on the specifics concerning their project into the Realm for UFC 306 on Sept. 14. Nevertheless, in front of the activity-- which UFC CEO Dana White has proposed will certainly be actually the best featuring occasion of all time-- the advertising has actually revealed some crucial particulars concerning what followers must assume out of the $2.3 billion location during the course of Mexican Freedom Time weekend.The UFC will definitely use Sphere's massive 160,000 sq. ft. indoor screen aircraft as well as the venue's worldclass concert-grade stereo. The indoor screen airplane are going to additionally display real-time statistics and competitor information.Fans inside the Realm will certainly feel the activity thanks to haptic seating, which gives force comments based upon the activity inside the Octagon. And also they possess the option to download the LiveVoice application to listen closely to reside discourse from either the English or even Spanish broadcast.The event are going to likewise premiere the movie "For Mexico, For Perpetuity," informed in 6 90-second chapters between fights and presented inside the Sphere. The artistic crew behind the film includes 29 Emmy Award gains, one Golden Entire world and one Grammy.There will be actually 8 brand new Octagon ladies, 6 native-born Mexican women and pair of second-generation Mexicans.Top storiesplay1:31 Exactly how Sean O'Malley prepares to reach Conor McGregor's recognition in the UFCSean O'Malley signs up with "First Take" clean off succeeding the bantamweight label at UFC 292 and also speak about likely achieving the height of Conor McGregor's popularity.After Ball: Which UFC activity locations will come next?UFC champ Sean O'Malley reflects on his rise to stardomMMA divisional ranks: Big gain increases Brady, yet how high performs he jump?UFC 306 1st look: Big concerns, very early bets, predictions for O'Malley-DvalishviliMMA actual or not: Will O'Malley, Grasso both keep at Noche UFC?