{"id":68837,"date":"2025-08-14T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68837\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:39:07","slug":"staredowns-ufc-319-press-conference-face-offs-featuring-ddp-chimav-pico-murphy-and-more-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68837\/","title":{"rendered":"Staredowns! UFC 319 press conference face offs featuring DDP-Chimav, Pico-Murphy and more! (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held its official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/382621\/ufc-319-press-conference-video-live-stream-updates-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-fight press conference<\/a> on Thursday (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/382621\/ufc-319-press-conference-video-live-stream-updates-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch here<\/a>) for the upcoming UFC 319 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/17\/24450993\/ufc-319-fight-card-ppv-start-time-date-location-dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-chicago-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay-per-view (PPV) event<\/a>, locked and loaded for this Sat. (Aug 16, 2025) inside the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. All 10 main card combatants (plus a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-announcements\/382492\/what-dana-whites-favorite-new-contender-series-prospect-makes-octagon-debut-on-just-three-days-notice-ufc-319\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Middleweight Prelim<\/a>) were on hand this afternoon and came face-to-face at the conclusion of the UFC 319 press conference festivities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That includes the headliners, Dricus du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev. Du Plessis defends his UFC Middleweight title for the third time in a highly anticipated fight against Chimaev, who is finally getting a crack at UFC gold. In the co-main event, former Bellator star Aaron Pico makes his UFC debut against the U.K.\u2019s Lerone Murphy. In addition, knockout artists collide as Geoff Neal takes on Carlos Prates, former title challenger Jared Cannonier fights Michael Page, and Japanese star Kai Asakura takes on Tim Elliott.<br \/>UFC also added newcomers Baysangur Susurkaev and Eric Nolan to the stacked lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Watch the staredowns below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/mmamania.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/17\/24450993\/ufc-319-fight-card-ppv-start-time-date-location-dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-chicago-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319 fight card<\/a>, starting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?subId1=SBNation&amp;subId2=[sb0814awD][381698][][][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/ESPN+<\/a> \u201cPrelims\u201d matches online, which are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. ET, before the main card start time at 10 p.m. ET (also on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?subId1=SBNation&amp;subId2=[sb0814awD][381698][][][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To check out the latest and greatest UFC 319: \u201cdu Plessis vs. Khamzat\u201d news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held its official pre-fight press conference on Thursday (watch here) for the upcoming UFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,1396,54473,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-68837","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-full-results","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","16":"tag-ufc-news","17":"tag-ufc-press-conference","18":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68837","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=68837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}