{"id":72829,"date":"2025-08-16T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:17:07","slug":"video-ufc-319-full-card-final-faceoffs-with-aaron-pico-debut-mvp-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72829\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: UFC 319 full card final faceoffs with Aaron Pico debut, &#8216;MVP&#8217; and much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319<\/a> ceremonial weigh-ins are in the books, and the fighters came face-to-face one final time before Saturday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>The weigh-ins took place United Center in Illinois, which hosts the card (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/1205322\/531511\/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2F319&amp;subId1=SMGMMAJUFC319\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN+;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link  rapid-with-clickid etailiffa-link\">ESPN+<\/a> pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>UFC 319 is built around a middleweight title bout with Dricus Du Plessis (23-2 MMA, 9-0 UFC) and Khamzat Chimaev (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC), who meet at the top of the card.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not all, though. The main card also includes Lerone Murphy (16-0-1 MMA, 8-0-1 UFC) and the debuting Aaron Pico (13-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Geoff Neal (16-6 MMA, 8-4 UFC) vs. Carlos Prates (21-7 MMA, 4-1 UFC), Jared Cannonier (18-8 MMA, 11-8 UFC) vs. Michael Page (23-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) and a plethora of other bouts including former UFC champions and title challengers.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to see highlights of the ceremonial weigh-in staredowns from the 13 scheduled bouts at UFC 319.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/15\/video-ufc-319-full-final-faceoffs-with-du-plessis-chimaev-pico-debut-more\/85659556007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Video: UFC 319 full final faceoffs with DDP-Chimaev, Pico debut, more;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Video: UFC 319 full final faceoffs with DDP-Chimaev, Pico debut, more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; UFC 319 ceremonial weigh-ins are in the books, and the fighters came face-to-face one final time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,17724,641,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-72829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72829","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=72829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}