UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko and top 125-pound contender Lauren Murphy will also field questions from the MMA media.
We’re just a couple of days away from the UFC 266 pay-per-view (PPV) card, scheduled for this Sat. night (Sept. 25, 2021) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. To help get fans pumped for this weekend’s fisticuffs, the promotion is holding a special pre-fight media day on Weds., LIVE at 1:45 p.m. ET in the embedded video above.
Scheduled to appear on today’s video call include:
Alexander Volkanovski – UFC featherweight champion
Brian Ortega – No. 2 UFC featherweight
Valentina Shevchenko – UFC women’s flyweight champion
Lauren Murphy – No. 3 UFC women’s flyweight
Nick Diaz – UFC welterweight
Robbie Lawler – UFC welterweight
Curtis Blaydes – No. 4 UFC heavyweight
Jairzinho Rozenstruik – No. 6 UFC heavyweight
Jessica Andrade – No. 1 UFC women’s flyweight
Cynthia Calvillo – No. 5 UFC women’s flyweight
Marlon Moraes – No. 6 UFC bantamweight
Merab Dvalishvili – No. 11 UFC bantamweight
Lightweights Dan Hooker and Nasrat Haqparast are still in transit and will not be included in today’s lineup.
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