UFC 312 UK start time including Dricus Du Plessis vs Sean Strickland

A mouthwatering middleweight rubric combat betwixt Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland volition header a stacked paper successful Sydney aboriginal this evening

Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland volition spell head-to-head for a 2nd clip contiguous arsenic the erstwhile volition beryllium looking to successfully support his middleweight title.

The brace archetypal went glove-to-glove past January. In what was an epic back-and-forth encounter, Du Plessis would spell connected to narrowly get his manus raised connected points to assertion UFC gold. The South African would past spell connected to bushed Israel Adesanya aboriginal connected successful the twelvemonth to support his coveted prize for the archetypal time.

As for Strickland, the American returned to the cage successful June, defeating Paulo Costa via divided decision. Saturday night's co-main lawsuit sees a blockbuster clash betwixt Zhang Weili and Tatiana Suarez for the strawweight title. Weili became a two-time satellite champion aft beating Carla Esparza successful 2022. While she'll beryllium looking for yet different palmy defence of her title, she faces the toughest trial of her vocation successful Suarez. And so, here's everything you request to cognize astir tonight's fights...

What clip volition Dricus Du Plessis vs Sean Strickland commencement successful the UK?

Tonight's pay-per-view lawsuit volition instrumentality spot astatine the Qudos Bank Arena successful Sydney. The aboriginal prelims are scheduled to get underway astatine 11pm UK clip (3pm PT, 5pm CT, 6pm ET), with the prelims pursuing astatine 1am UK clip connected Sunday (5pm PT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET connected Saturday). The main paper volition commencement astatine astir 3am UK clip connected Sunday (7pm PT, 9pm CT, 10pm ET connected Saturday). The main lawsuit betwixt Du Plessis and Strickland volition apt instrumentality spot astatine astir 5am UK clip connected Sunday. The combat should not commencement aboriginal than this but could beryllium brought guardant if the prelim fights are completed earlier than expected.

How to ticker Dricus Du Plessis vs Sean Strickland successful the UK connected TV and via watercourse

Tonight's enactment volition beryllium shown unrecorded connected TNT Sports. Fans volition beryllium capable to watercourse the lawsuit connected the broadcaster’s app, portion Discovery+ volition besides aerial the enactment successful the UK. In the US, ESPN+ volition watercourse the lawsuit live.

Full combat paper and undercard

Main card

Dricus Du Plessis vs Sean Strickland
Zhang Weili vs Tatiana Suarez
Justin Tafa vs Tallison Teixeira
Jimmy Crute vs Rodolfo Bellato
Jake Matthews vs Francisco Prado

Prelims

Jack Jenkins vs Gabriel Santos
Tom Nolan vs Viacheslav Borshchev
Wang Cong vs Bruna Brasil
Colby Thicknesse vs Aleksandre Topuria

Early prelims

Rongzhu vs Kody Steele
Jonathan Micallef vs Kevin Jousset
Quillan Salkilld vs Anshul Jubli

Quotes country

Dricus Du Plessis: “I deliberation Strickland is the champion middleweight successful the world close now, down myself, and helium deserves to beryllium here. I cognize he’s an incredible, unthinkable fighter. He’s truthful bully defensively. He’s tough. He’s hard to deed and erstwhile you deed him it doesn’t person that effect arsenic connected mean guys. This feline is an apex predator. This is the toughest combat of my beingness coming up, and I’m acceptable for that due to the fact that I americium an apex predator and he’s successful my country close now."

Sean Strickland: “Let maine archer you thing astir the dutchman, which is simply a chill nickname by the way. This antheral fights similar a r***** connected a abbreviated autobus and hey, Dricus, I respect you for that due to the fact that you combat similar a f—— maniac! But, I won that combat and I’m gonna triumph this combat truthful f****** saddle up and let’s get it done!”