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The UFC is back in its “Sin City” home base for UFC 323, its final pay-per-view of the calendar year and final pay-per-view in its ESPN broadcast era. The popular “Embedded” fight week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

UFC 323 (pay-per-view, ESPN2\/FX\/Disney+, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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In the headliner, bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili (21-4 MMA, 14-2 UFC) chases history with his fourth title defense of the calendar year. He meets former interim champion Petr Yan (19-5 MMA, 11-4 UFC), whom he holds a 2023 win over. In the co-feature, flyweight champ Alexandre Pantoja (30-5 MMA, 14-3 UFC) meets challenger Joshua Van (15-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0third episode of “Embedded” follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC’s description of the episode from YouTube:<\/p>\n

Champ Merab Dvalishvili trains and is given a special award; Champ Alexandre Pantoja cooks lunch in his hotel before training; Brandon Moreno gets a pad session in at the UFC Performance Institute; Joshua Van has a strength and conditioning session at his gym in Houston.<\/p>\n

Previous episodes of UFC 323 “Embedded”<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 323 ‘Embedded,’ No. 3: Merab Dvalishvili gets his ESPY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is back in its “Sin City” home base for UFC 323, its final pay-per-view of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11040,49,48,641,21903,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-323071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexandre-pantoja","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}