{"id":6685,"date":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6685\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:09:09","slug":"keep-it-locked-for-results-from-exciting-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6685\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep It Locked For Results From Exciting Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC 318<\/a> is here! Tonight, Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA serves as the host venue for the middle event of July from MMA\u2019s No. 1 promotion. If you\u2019re looking in from the United States, the early prelims of UFC 318 begin at 6 pm ET\/ 3 pm PT and can be seen via ESPN+<\/a>, in addition to UFC Fight Pass.<\/a><\/p>\n

Late prelims<\/a> follow at 8 pm ET\/ 5 pm PT on ESPN via linear television as well as ESPN+, before the five-fight main card<\/a> caps off the evening at 10 pm ET\/ 7 pm PT on pay-per-view. After a successful weigh-in window<\/a> yesterday morning, all 14 fights on tonight\u2019s schedule<\/a> will go ahead as planned this Saturday night at UFC 318.<\/p>\n

UFC 318 Main Event: BMF Championship: [C] Max Holloway vs. No. 6 Contender Dustin Poirier<\/p>\n

At the top<\/a> of the bill tonight, MMA fans the world over say goodbye to one of the sport\u2019s all-time greats. The symbolic BMF Championship<\/a> is at stake in the main event. Current BMF Champion Max Holloway<\/a> (25-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) puts his title at risk against the retiring No. 6 contender Dustin Poirier<\/a> (30-9, 1 NC MMA, 22-8, 1 NC MMA.)<\/p>\n

\"Dustin<\/a>June 1, 2024, Newark, Nj, USA: UFC 302: MAKHACHEV VS POIRIER .NEWARK, NJ- JUNE 1: Dustin Poirier during his fight against Islam Makhachev in a lightweight title.fight during the UFC 302 event at Prudential Center on June 1, 2024 in Newark, NJ. Newark USA \u2013 ZUMAr187 20240601_zsp_r187_011 Copyright: xJustinxRenfroex<\/p>\n

This anticipated farewell appearance is an advertised maximum of five rounds at five minutes per round to close the show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

UFC 318 Co-Main Event: No. 13 Contender Paulo Costa vs. No. 14 Contender Roman Kopylov<\/p>\n

Immediately beforehand, the UFC 318 co-main event happens at middleweight. No. 13 contender Paulo Costa<\/a> (14-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) meets No. 14 contender Roman Kopylov<\/a> (14-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC.) This is a three-round affair at five minutes per round.<\/p>\n

Rest of the Card<\/p>\n

Also tonight on the main card, you\u2019ll be seeing a welterweight affair pitting No. 13 contender Kevin Holland<\/a> (28-13, 1 NC MMA, 15-10, 1 NC UFC) with Daniel Rodriguez<\/a> (19-5 MMA, 9-4 UFC), a featherweight fight between No. 11 contender Dan Ige<\/a> (19-9 MMA, 11-8 UFC) and Patricio Pitbull<\/a> (36-8 MMA, 0-1 UFC), and a lightweight contest pairing Michael Johnson<\/a> (23-19 MMA, 15-15 UFC) against Daniel Zellhuber<\/a> (15-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC.)<\/p>\n

UFC 318 Results:<\/p>\n

Main Card (Tonight, 10 pm ET\/ 7 pm PT, ESPN+ Pay-Per-View)<\/p>\n

Main Event:\u00a0Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier, BMF Championship\u00a0Poirier: Retires from MMA after fight.<\/p>\n

Co-Main Event:\u00a0Paulo Costa vs. Roman Kopylov<\/p>\n

Kevin Holland vs. Daniel Rodriguez<\/p>\n

Dan Ige vs. Patricio Pitbull<\/p>\n

Michael Johnson vs. Daniel Zellhuber<\/p>\n

Prelims: (Tonight, 8 pm ET\/ 5 pm PT, ESPN and ESPN+- United States Only)<\/p>\n

Featured Prelim:\u00a0Kyler Phillips vs. Vinicius Oliveira<\/p>\n

Co-Featured Prelim:\u00a0Marvin Vettori vs. Brendan Allen<\/p>\n

Francisco Prado vs. Nikolay Vertennikov<\/p>\n

Ateba Gautier vs. Robert Valentin<\/p>\n

Early Prelims: (Tonight, 6 pm ET\/ 3 pm PT, ESPN- United States Only and UFC Fight Pass- Worldwide)<\/p>\n

Featured Early Prelim:\u00a0Adam Fugitt vs. Islam Dulatov<\/p>\n

Co-Featured Early Prelim:\u00a0Jimmy Crute vs. Marcin Prachino<\/p>\n

Ryan Spann vs. Lukasz Brzeski<\/p>\n

Brunno Ferreira vs. Jackson McVey<\/p>\n

Carli Judice vs. Nicolle Caliari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 318 is here! Tonight, Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA serves as the host venue for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","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=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}