Britons Leon Edwards and Tom Aspinall defend your UFC titles at home on Saturday 27th July in Manchester.
UFC 304 is a stacked card, with Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann also in action.
The 23,000-seat Co-op Live arena hosts its first sporting event. However, fight night caters to a US audience, meaning the event will take place overnight in the UK.
Just like Michael Bisping did in 2016, welterweight Edwards and heavyweight Aspinall will fight in the early hours of Sunday.
Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app will begin at 04:00 BST on Sunday 28 July.
UFC champion Edwards headlines against Belal Muhammad, while Aspinall defends his interim title against Curtis Blaydes.
What time is UFC Manchester?
The doors open on Live Co-op Arena at 10pm in Manchester with the first fight scheduled for 11pm.
The preliminary card starts at 01:00 and the main card will start at 03:00.
There are 14 fights in total and Edwards says he doesn’t expect to compete before 5am. This tracks with what Bisping experienced in his victory over Dan Henderson eight years ago, emerging for his fight at 4:46 a.m. local time.
This means Aspinall v Blaydes must be before 4:30am.
Who is on the UFC Manchester undercard?
Main card
Leon Edwards (c) x Belal Muhammad 2 – welterweight title fight (5x5min rounds)
Tom Aspinall (ic) x Curtis Blaydes 2 – interim heavyweight title fight (5x5min rounds)
Bobby Green x Paddy Pimblett – light fight (3x5min rounds)
Muhammad Mokaev x Manel Kape – flyweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Arnold Allen x Giga Chikadze – featherweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Preliminary card
Nathaniel Wood x Daniel Pineda – featherweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Molly McCann x Bruna Brasil – strawweight (3x5min rounds)
Caolan Loughran x TBC – bantamweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Mick Parkin x Lukasz Brzeski – heavyweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Early preliminary card
Oban Elliott x Preston Parsons – welterweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Christian Leroy Duncan x Robert Bryczek – middleweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Sam Patterson x Kiefer Crosbie – welterweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Shauna Bannon x Alice Ardelean – strawweight fight (3x5min rounds)
Modestas Bukauskas x Marcin Prachnio – light heavyweight fight (3x5min rounds)
How do the records of Edwards v Muhammad and Aspinall v Blaydes compare?
Edwards, 32, is arguably the best welterweight on the planet right now. The champion goes for his third defense of the title he won in 2022 and is on a 13-fight unbeaten streak.
The only small blemish at that time was the meeting with Muhammad in March 2021, which ended in a no competition because of an accidental eye poke. This turns the main fight into a rematch – Muhammad has won five fights in a row since then.
Muhammad, 36, has considerable stamina with just two of his 17 UFC fights, not including the no-contest against Edwards, having gone the distance.
Aspinall, 31, is in the unusual position of defending an interim title against an opponent rather than fighting for the undisputed title.
But while the MMA world waits Jon Jones will recover After injury, Aspinall has a chance for revenge against American Blaydes.
Blaydes, 33, beats the Manchester fighter, but only because Aspinall suffered a terrible knee injury in 15 seconds of their first meeting in July 2022.
Aspinall has secured two first round knockouts since then, including his title triumph last November. He currently has eleven stoppages in 14 wins and just three losses.
Blaydes’ recent record has been hit and miss, losing to Sergei Pavlovich in his only fight of 2023 before stopping Jailton Almeida in March.
He has 18 wins, four losses and one no-contest in 23 fights.
