Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is holding a special pre-fight press conference for the upcoming UFC 297: “Strickland vs. Du Plessis” ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV) mixed martial arts (MMA) event, locked and loaded for this Sat. night (Jan. 20, 2024) inside Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In the pay-per-view (PPV) main event, middleweight champion, Sean Strickland, will look to settle his personal score against and No. 2-ranked title contender, Dricus Du Plessis, while women’s bantamweight title challengers Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva, will compete for Amanda Nunes’ vacated crown.
That’s not all.
The LIVE press conference stream gets underway TODAY (Thurs., Jan. 18) at 5 p.m. ET in the embedded video above.
MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC 297 fight card right RIGHT HERE, starting with the early ESPN+ “Prelims” matches at 6:30 p.m. ET, followed by the remaining undercard balance on ESPNN/ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET, before the PPV main card start time at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV.
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