{"id":230447,"date":"2025-10-21T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230447\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:37:06","slug":"programming-alert-ufc-321-special-start-time-has-fans-setting-an-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230447\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming alert: UFC 321 special start time has fans setting an alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to the pay-per-view (PPV) market this Sat. (Oct. 25, 2025) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/24\/24473849\/ufc-321-fight-card-start-time-date-location-aspinall-vs-gane-jones-abu-dhabi-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 321: \u201cAspinall vs. Gane\u201d mixed martial arts (MMA) event<\/a>, booked for Etihad Arena on \u201cFight Island\u201d in Abu Dhabi. Unlike most international markets, the promotion will adjust its stateside PPV time for UAE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC 321 preliminary card will kick things off LIVE at 10 a.m. ET on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/531511\/9070?subId1=sbnation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fmma%2Ffightcenter%2F_%2Fid%2F600055085%2Fleague%2Fufc&amp;partnerpropertyid=7032191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> with the PPV main card \u2014 also streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/531511\/9070?subId1=sbnation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fmma%2Ffightcenter%2F_%2Fid%2F600055085%2Fleague%2Fufc&amp;partnerpropertyid=7032191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> \u2014 getting underway promptly at 2 p.m. ET. As a result, West Coast fight fans may have to set their alarms for 7 a.m. PT to catch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/24\/24473849\/ufc-321-fight-card-start-time-date-location-aspinall-vs-gane-jones-abu-dhabi-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening \u201cPrelims\u201d bout<\/a> between Jaqueline Amorim and Mizuki Inoue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 321 will be headlined by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/387256\/face-off-tom-aspinall-showered-boos-stares-down-ciryl-gane-ahead-ufc-321-title-fight-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavyweight title fight<\/a> pitting reigning 265-pound champion, Tom Aspinall, against two-time division title challenger, Ciryl Gane. UFC 321\u2019s co-headlining attraction pits 115-pound rivals Mackenzie Dern and Virna Jandiroba in a five-round affair for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/midnight-mmamania-news\/385637\/mackenzie-dern-scores-vacant-title-shot-vs-virna-jandiroba-at-ufc-321\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the vacant strawweight strap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the rest of the UFC 321 fight card and PPV lineup click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/24\/24473849\/ufc-321-fight-card-start-time-date-location-aspinall-vs-gane-jones-abu-dhabi-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to the pay-per-view (PPV) market this Sat. (Oct. 25, 2025) for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,23416,1647],"class_list":["post-230447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-programming","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}