UFC 333 UK start time: Volkanovski vs Evloev main event at 21:00 Saturday

Alexander Volkanovski and the unbeaten Movsar Evloev meet for the featherweight title at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, with a bantamweight title fight between Petr Yan and Merab Dvalishvili also on the card.

By Combat Sports UK Staff · Published Wed 14 Oct, 18:09 UK · AI-assisted reporting

Alexander Volkanovski and Movsar Evloev — Combat Sports UK

UFC 333 puts the featherweight title on the line at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on Saturday 24 October, where Alexander Volkanovski meets the unbeaten Movsar Evloev. The card opens at 17:00 UK and Irish time, with the main event expected at 21:00. TNT Sports is the UK broadcaster, while the prelims shown on UFC Fight Pass are bought separately from the UFC.

Volkanovski, 38 and from Wollongong in Australia, carries a 28-4 record into the bout. Evloev, from Ingushetia in Russia, is six years younger at 32 and has won all 20 of his professional fights. He is also an inch taller at 5ft 7in and has an inch more reach at 72.5in.

The bantamweight title is at stake at 19:00, when Petr Yan, 33, of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia, takes his 20-5 record against Merab Dvalishvili, the 35-year-old from Tbilisi, Georgia, who is 21-5.

London's Lone’er Kavanagh supplies the British interest at flyweight. The 27-year-old is 10-2 and meets Ramazan Temirov of Karshi, Uzbekistan, who is 20-3 but gives away two inches in height and four in reach. Moscow's Alexander Volkov, 40-11, faces Makhachkala's Rizvan Kuniev, 14-3-1, at heavyweight, and Aaron Pico of Whittier, United States, 14-5, meets Losene Keita, 17-2, at featherweight.

Among the 17:00 bouts, Nalchik's Azamat Murzakanov, 16-1, meets Dominick Reyes, 16-5, at light heavyweight, and Grant Dawson, 24-3-1, faces the unbeaten 25-year-old Nurullo Aliev of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, at lightweight.

Full card (UK and Irish times)