{"id":318432,"date":"2025-11-30T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318432\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:11:07","slug":"watch-countdown-to-ufc-323-video-merab-vs-yan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318432\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch \u2018Countdown to UFC 323\u2019 video | Merab vs. Yan 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to pay-per-view (PPV) for the final time next Sat. night (Dec. 6, 2025) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/395898\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-date-location-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 323 \u201cDvalishvili vs. Yan 2.\u201d<\/a> As the name suggests, the event features a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/395815\/merab-vs-petr-yan-2-headlines-ufc-323-henry-cejudo-jan-blachowicz-dec-6-ppv-card\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high-stakes Bantamweight title rematch<\/a> between champion Merab Dvalishvili and former champion \u2014 and heated rival \u2014 Petr Yan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The co-main event is another championship clash, as reigning Flyweight king Alexandre Pantoja puts his belt on the line against surging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 contender<\/a> Joshua Van, who is hunting history of his own as he attempts to become one of the youngest champions in UFC history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m defending my belt for the fourth time this year because I want to make history \u2014 it\u2019s very important to me and my country,\u201d Dvalishvili said. \u201cAt 323, I\u2019m going to beat him. The best guy will win, and I\u2019m the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oddsmakers lean heavily toward the champion. Dvalishvili enters as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-odds\/395952\/ufc-323-opening-odds-petr-yan-joshua-van-sizable-underdogs-dec-6-title-fights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">-410 betting favorite <\/a>over Yan (+320). Pantoja, meanwhile, sits at -245 against the dangerous and fast-rising Van (+200).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC\u2019s final PPV of the year \u2014 and final on ESPN \u2014 is loaded with legacy on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out who else is fighting on UFC 323 right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/395898\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-date-location-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to pay-per-view (PPV) for the final time next Sat. night (Dec. 6, 2025)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,46234,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-318432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-videos","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318432","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=318432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}