UFC Fight Night 289 card, start times, how to watch Rosas vs Barcelos
Full UFC Fight Night 289 card, start times in ET and PT, and how to watch Raul Rosas Jr. vs Raoni Barcelos from Las Vegas on Saturday, September 26.
UFC Fight Night 289 puts eleven fights on at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 26. No titles, no pay-per-view, and a main event with an eighteen year age gap in it.
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Raul Rosas Jr. (12-1) headlines against Raoni Barcelos (22-5) over five rounds at bantamweight. Rosas Jr. is 21 and Barcelos is 39, and the Brazilian has had more than twice as many professional fights. The co-main puts Rodolfo Vieira (11-5) against Robert Bryczek (18-7) at middleweight, a submission specialist against a Pole whose last four wins all came by knockout or TKO.
Start times
- Prelims: 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT in Las Vegas)
- Main card: 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT)
The full card
Main card (8:00 p.m. ET)
- Raul Rosas Jr. vs Raoni Barcelos, bantamweight
- Rodolfo Vieira vs Robert Bryczek, middleweight
- Brady Hiestand vs Rinya Nakamura, bantamweight
- Mehemmedeli Osmanli vs Ilimbek Akylbek Uulu, bantamweight
- Melissa Amaya vs Valesca Machado, women's strawweight
- Josiah Harrell vs Elves Brener, lightweight
Prelims (5:00 p.m. ET)
- Rodolfo Bellato vs Christian Edwards, light heavyweight
- Montel Jackson vs Ricky Simon, bantamweight
- John Castaneda vs Heili Alateng, bantamweight
- Norma Dumont vs Ailin Perez, women's bantamweight
- Vanessa Demopoulos vs Yazmin Jauregui, women's strawweight
Four of the eleven fights are at bantamweight and a fifth is women's bantamweight, so most of this card lives in one weight range. Melissa Amaya arrives undefeated at 8-0.
How to watch
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In the United States this is a Paramount+ card from the first prelim to the last fight, with no pay-per-view attached, and Paramount+ also carries it in Brazil, Mexico and across Latin America. Canada gets it on Sportsnet+, with TVA Sports covering Quebec. In the UK and Ireland it is TNT Sports, which holds the Fight Night rights rather than the numbered events. Australia has it on Paramount+ with the prelims free to air on Network 10, and New Zealand gets the prelims on TVNZ+.
In Europe, Germany, Austria and Switzerland are on DAZN, France on RMC Sport, Poland on Polsat Sport Fight, Spain and the Netherlands on HBO Max, and the Nordics on Viaplay. Japan is on U-NEXT, South Korea on TVING, India on Sony Sports Network, Turkey on S Sport Plus, and Russia on Match TV. Anywhere without a named local broadcaster, it is UFC Fight Pass. The full country-by-country grid sits at how to watch UFC Fight Night 289.
Rosas Jr. is the favorite on the odds board at around minus 195 with Barcelos around plus 165. Lock in your picks at the pick'em, and live results and scorecards land at the event page on the night.