The UFC is back in South Florida this week with UFC 314 in Miami.
Here's how to watch UFC 314 with the newly vacant featherweight title on the line at the top of the card.
Broadcast and streaming info
UFC 314 has a main card that starts at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view via ESPN+. The preliminary card airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET, and early prelims stream on ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET.
Longtime UFC correspondent Megan Olivi will conduct pre and post-fight interviews backstage with some of the athletes on the UFC 314 card, as well as report additional real-time updates for the event.
Dan Hellie will host the official UFC 314 weigh-in show on Friday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT.
He'll be joined by UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman and Laura Sanko.
Former interim UFC lightweight champion Dustin Poirier, two-time UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen and light heavyweight Anthony Smith will serve as desk analysts on the UFC 314 post-fight show and throughout the card, when necessary.
Brett Okamoto will serve as desk host with Jon Anik joining the desk post-fight.
Anik will serve as the leading man on the mic from cageside at UFC 314.
He will command play-by-play alongside color commentators, former two-division UFC champion Cormier and Joe Rogan.
Din Thomas will also contribute to the broadcast as a coach-analyst.
(Mike Bohn—MMA Junkie)
Main event: Alexander Volkanovski
Record: 26-5 MMA, 13-4 UFC
Opponent: Diego Lopes (27-6 MMA, 6-1 UFC)
Division: Featherweight
Key wins: Yair Rodriguez, Max Holloway (three times), Chan Sung Jung, Brian Ortega, Jose Aldo
Misc.: It's been a rough past couple years for the former champ, but he still finds himself right back in a title fight. He lost two lightweight title shots to Islam Makhachev – the second of which came on short notice. Then he lost his featherweight title to Ilia Topuria. But Topuria is headed to lightweight and vacated the belt, so who better than to have a crack at it than the ex-champ, the UFC brass figured.
Main event: Diego Lopes
Record: 27-6 MMA, 6-1 UFC
Opponent: Alexander Volkanovski (26-5 MMA, 13-4 UFC)
Division: Featherweight
Key wins: Brian Ortega, Dan Ige, Sodiq Yusuff, Pat Sabatini
Misc.: Lopes' win over ex-title challenger Ortega this past fall put him in perfect position to get the call when Topuria moved up and the featherweight belt became open.
Co-main event: Michael Chandler
Record: 23-9 MMA, 2-4 UFC
Opponent: Paddy Pimblett (22-3 MMA, 6-0 UFC)
Division: Lightweight
Key wins: Tony Ferguson, Dan ...
