UFC Fight Night UK start time: Raul Rosas Jr. vs Raoni Barcelos at 03:00 Sunday
Raul Rosas Jr., 21, faces the 39-year-old Raoni Barcelos at bantamweight in Las Vegas, with the card opening at 22:00 on Saturday and the main event expected at 03:00 early on Sunday.
Raul Rosas Jr. and Raoni Barcelos meet at bantamweight at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas, and the main event is expected at 03:00 early on Sunday, UK and Irish time. The card opens at 22:00 BST on Saturday 26 September. TNT Sports is the UK broadcaster, while the prelims are shown on UFC Fight Pass, which is bought separately from the UFC.
Rosas Jr. is 21 and 13-1; Barcelos is 39 and 22-5, which puts 18 years between the two bantamweights. Physically little divides them: Rosas Jr. stands 5ft 9in to the 5ft 8in Barcelos, and each has a 67-inch reach.
Four bouts are due at 01:00. Norma Dumont, 35 and from Belo Horizonte in Brazil, brings a 13-3 record into a women's bantamweight contest with Ailin Perez, the 31-year-old Argentinian at 13-2. At light heavyweight, Luis Hernandez puts an unbeaten 8-0 record on the line against Sedriques Dumas, 10-5, whose 6ft 2in frame carries a 79-inch reach to Hernandez's 73.5 inches. Melissa Amaya, also unbeaten at 9-0, meets the 16-4 Tina Black at strawweight.
From 22:00, Montel Jackson of Milwaukee, 15-4, faces Ricky Simon, 22-7-1, in a meeting of 34-year-old bantamweights in which Jackson holds a 75.5-inch reach to Simon's 69. Rinya Nakamura, 10-1, takes on Brady Hiestand, 9-2, and Josiah Harrell brings an 11-1 record against Elves Brener, 16-6.
Full card (UK and Irish times)
- 22:00 – Vanessa Demopoulos vs Yazmin Jauregui (women's strawweight)
- 22:00 – John Castaneda vs Alatengheili (bantamweight)
- 22:00 – Montel Jackson vs Ricky Simon (bantamweight)
- 22:00 – Elves Brener vs Josiah Harrell (lightweight)
- 22:00 – Rodolfo Bellato vs Christian Edwards (light heavyweight)
- 22:00 – Rodolfo Vieira vs Robert Bryczek (middleweight)
- 22:00 – Brady Hiestand vs Rinya Nakamura (bantamweight)
- 01:00 – Melissa Amaya vs Tina Black (women's strawweight)
- 01:00 – Mahammadali Osmanli vs Ilimbek Akylbek (bantamweight)
- 01:00 – Luis Hernandez vs Sedriques Dumas (light heavyweight)
- 01:00 – Norma Dumont vs Ailin Perez (women's bantamweight)
- 03:00 – Raul Rosas Jr. vs Raoni Barcelos (bantamweight, main event)
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