Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is holding a special pre-fight press conference for the upcoming UFC 296: “Edwards vs. Covington” ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV) mixed martial arts (MMA) event, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (Dec. 16, 2023) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, with UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards, former interim 170-pound titleholder Colby Covington, UFC flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja, and top 125-pound contender Brandon Royval, among others.
The LIVE press conference stream gets underway TONIGHT (Thurs., Dec. 14) at 8 p.m. ET in the embedded video above.
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