UFC Shanghai and BKFC at Fenway: start times and how to watch
UFC Shanghai start times, BKFC 92 at Fenway Park and ONE Friday Fights 168: full cards, prelim and main card times by time zone, and how to watch.
Saturday is the strangest scheduling split of the year: a UFC card that starts before dawn in America, and a bare-knuckle ring bolted to home plate at Fenway Park.
Neither of those is a typo. UFC Fight Night: Nurmagomedov vs Song runs from the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai's Pudong District on Shanghai time, which means the prelims open at 3:00 a.m. Eastern. Fourteen hours later and eleven time zones east, BKFC 92 becomes the first bare-knuckle card Massachusetts has ever sanctioned, in a ballpark that opened in 1912.
Here is the whole weekend, with the times that actually matter to you.
UFC Fight Night: Nurmagomedov vs Song
Thirteen bouts, Saturday, August 29, Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai.
| Zone | Prelims | Main card |
|---|---|---|
| Shanghai (CST) | 3:00 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. |
| US Eastern | 3:00 a.m. | 6:00 a.m. |
| US Pacific | midnight | 3:00 a.m. |
| UK (BST) | 8:00 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. |
| Central Europe | 9:00 a.m. | noon |
| Sydney (AEST) | 5:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. |
In the United States the whole card is on Paramount+, with a CBS simulcast on select events. TNT Sports carries it in the UK and Ireland, Sportsnet+ in Canada, DAZN across the DACH countries, and Paramount+ in Brazil and Australia. The full country grid, all 100-plus of them, is on our how to watch page for the event.
Umar Nurmagomedov (20-1) is ranked third at bantamweight and Song Yadong (23-9-1) sixth, so the main event is a genuine title eliminator in front of Song's home crowd. Beneath it, Yan Xiaonan fights Denise Gomes, Kai Asakura meets Aoriqileng, and ONE strawweight champion Xiong Jing Nan goes looking for her first UFC win against Julia Polastri on the prelims.
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BKFC 92 Boston: Stewart vs Gigliotti
Twelve bouts, Saturday, August 29, Fenway Park, Boston. Prelims 6:00 p.m. Eastern, main card 7:00 p.m. Eastern. That is 11:00 p.m. and midnight in the UK, and 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the American west coast. It streams on BKFC+.
Kai Stewart is 9-0 in the promotion and defends the featherweight belt against Harry Gigliotti, who is 6-0. Reigning women's flyweight champion Christine Ferea is in the co-main. And Joe Lauzon, who fought 27 times in the UFC and won 16 post-fight bonuses doing it, makes his bare-knuckle debut across town from TD Garden, where he collected Submission of the Night at UFC 118 in 2010.
ONE Friday Fights 168
Fourteen bouts from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok on Friday, August 28, starting at 6:30 p.m. Thai time. That is 7:30 a.m. Eastern, 4:30 a.m. Pacific, and 12:30 p.m. in the UK. Prime Video carries it in the United States and Canada, Sky Sports in the UK.
If you only have room for one, take the Fenway card. It is the only one on this list happening at a civilized hour in North America, and a bare-knuckle ring at home plate is not a thing you get to see twice.