Watch ‘Countdown to UFC 292’ full video replay | Sterling vs. O’Malley

Reigning UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling will make a quick turnaround and defend his 135-pound title against No. 2-ranked Sean O’Malley in the upcoming UFC 292 pay-per-view (PPV) main event, scheduled for this Sat. night (Aug. 19, 2023) at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.

To help get fans hyped for this weekend’s big shebang, the promotion released a special “Countdown” video special, focusing on a trio of important fights.

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MASSIVE MIDDLEWEIGHT MATCH! Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) makes its highly anticipated return to Sydney, Australia, for the first time in five years on Sat., Sept. 9, 2023, with a 185-pound world title fight inside Qudos Bank Arena. In the ESPN+-streamed pay-per-view (PPV) main event, Middleweight roost-ruler, Israel Adesanya, plans to silence No. 5-seeded contender, Sean Strickland. In UFC 293’s hard-hitting Heavyweight co-main event, No-6-ranked fan favorite, Tai Tuivasa, locks horns with towering Russian, Alexander Volkov (No. 8).

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The UFC 292 PPV co-main event features current strawweight champion Zhang Weili taking on No. 4-ranked Brazilian bruiser Amanda Lemos. Both “Magnum” and “Amandinha” were featured in the “Countdown” special, along with veteran middleweights Chris Weidman and Brad Tavares.

Weidman, 39, is returning from a horrific leg injury and plans to throw the hardest leg kick of his life.

“I think I go out there, dominate O’Malley the way I think I’m gonna dominate him, send that naked mole rat back to wherever he’s from, the hole he crawled out of,” Sterling told TMZ Sports. “We set our sights on Volkanovski. Go up to 145, cause some terror there. Win the belt, become champ-champ, and then from there, possibly defend the belt one or two times and maybe that’s all she wrote for the MMA career.”

Remember that MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC 292 fight card right here, starting with the early ESPN+ “Prelims” matches online, which are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. ET, then the remaining undercard on ESPN2/ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET, before the PPV main card start time at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV.

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