UFC Sacramento and PFL Tampa: start times and how to watch
How to watch UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs Rodrigues and PFL Tampa: Cyborg vs Vieira on Saturday, August 22: start times, cards and broadcasters.
Saturday is a split-screen night. The UFC is in Sacramento for UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs Rodrigues, PFL is in Tampa for PFL Tampa: Cyborg vs. Vieira, and the two main cards land close enough together that you will want a plan. There is also a Friday appetizer out of Bangkok if your body clock allows it. Here is everything, with times you can trust.
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UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs Rodrigues
Saturday, August 22 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. A scheduling note first: this card's start time has already moved twice on the official schedule this month, most recently on August 17. The times below are the current official ones.
| Prelims | Main card | |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific (venue time) | 2:00 PM Sat | 5:00 PM Sat |
| Eastern | 5:00 PM Sat | 8:00 PM Sat |
| UK (BST) | 10:00 PM Sat | 1:00 AM Sun |
| Central Europe (CEST) | 11:00 PM Sat | 2:00 AM Sun |
The main card, top to bottom: Anthony Hernandez (15-3) vs Gregory Rodrigues (19-6) at middleweight, Serghei Spivac vs Vitor Petrino at heavyweight, Roman Dolidze vs Reinier de Ridder up at light heavyweight, MarQuel Mederos vs Mason Jones, Carli Judice vs Jeisla Chaves, and Terrance Chatman vs Anthony Wint. The prelims carry seven more, headed by the heavyweight collision between Kennedy Nzechukwu and Shamil Gaziev and a properly close lightweight fight between Chris Padilla and Nasrat Haqparast.
Where to watch: Paramount+ carries the whole card in the United States and Brazil, and Fight Nights in Australia too. In the UK and Ireland it is TNT Sports, in Canada Sportsnet+ (TVA Sports in French), in Germany, Austria and Switzerland DAZN, in France RMC Sport. Most everywhere else, UFC Fight Pass streams it. The full country-by-country grid is on our how to watch page.
PFL Tampa: Cyborg vs. Vieira
Same Saturday, Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Florida, one continuous card starting at 5:30 PM Eastern (2:30 PM Pacific, 10:30 PM BST, 11:30 PM CEST). That puts the Tampa headliners on collision course with Sacramento's main card, so pick a screen or use both.
Cris Cyborg (29-2) defends her unbeaten-since-2018 run against Ketlen Vieira (16-5), the longtime UFC bantamweight contender making her PFL debut. Taila Santos, Daniel Marcos and Javid Basharat, all recently of the UFC roster, are further down a 12-fight bill.
Where to watch: ESPN+ in the United States, talkSPORT in the UK, ESPN via Disney+ in Brazil, RMC Sport in France, Stan Sport in Australia, and PFL's YouTube coverage in Canada. Country details live on the PFL Tampa watch page.
Friday: ONE Friday Fights 167
The warm-up act comes Friday from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok: ONE Friday Fights 167, a 14-fight card starting at 7:30 AM Eastern (12:30 PM BST, 6:30 PM local in Bangkok). ONE streams these free worldwide on watch.onefc.com and its YouTube channel; Prime Video carries ONE in the US and Canada.
Full cards, live results and scorecards for all three events will run on their event pages all weekend. Set the alarms accordingly: Friday at dawn, Saturday from 2 PM Pacific onward.