{"id":71292,"date":"2025-08-15T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71292\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:46:07","slug":"chaos-nearly-erupts-during-final-faceoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71292\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos Nearly Erupts During Final Faceoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all goes down tomorrow night (Sat., Aug. 16, 2025) at UFC 319<\/a> LIVE on ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV)<\/a> from inside United Center in Chicago, Illinois, as UFC middleweight king Dricus du Plessis puts his 185-pound crown on the line against undefeated sensation Khamzat Chimaev.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, the two middleweights came face-to-face for one final staredown at UFC 319\u2019s ceremonial weigh ins (watch HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Given du Plessis\u2019 stranglehold on the middleweight division and Chimaev\u2019s UFC allure, this is undoubtedly one of the biggest fights of the year. Despite successfully defending his UFC middleweight title two-straight times, du Plessis enters Saturday\u2019s main event clash as a betting underdog<\/a>. It will be up to the champion to prove he is the best 185-pound fighter on the planet and put a stop to Chimaev\u2019s runaway hype train.<\/p>\n

Their faceoff at Thursday\u2019s pre-fight press conference (replay HERE<\/a>) was tense to say the least<\/a> so fight fans expected a bit of the same during Friday\u2019s final staredown. Things actually amped up during the ceremonial weigh ins as Chimaev had to be held back on stage. Check it out below along with some other key matchups from UFC 319\u2019s PPV main card:<\/p>\n

Dricus du Plessis vs. Khamzat Chimaev<\/p>\n

Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico<\/p>\n

Geoff Neal vs. Carlos Prates<\/p>\n

Jared Cannonier vs. Michael Page<\/p>\n

Tim Elliott vs. Kai Asakura<\/p>\n

For much more on this weekend\u2019s UFC 319 PPV event click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all goes down tomorrow night (Sat., Aug. 16, 2025) at UFC 319 LIVE on ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,46234,55880],"class_list":{"0":"post-71292","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-videos","17":"tag-ufc-weigh-ins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71292","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=71292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}