How To Watch Or Live Stream UFC 254 Prelims

The much anticipated UFC lightweight title unification bout between champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champ Justin Gaethje takes place tonight at Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. The fight serves as the main event of the UFC 254 ESPN+ pay-per-view streaming fight card.

Before the six fight main card goes down, the UFC presents a six fight prelim card. At the top of that card is a heavyweight bout between Stefan Struve and Tai Tuivasa.

The 32-year-old Struve has been with the UFC since 2009. Struve has had a rough go as of late. He has fought five times in the past three years and only has one victory during that span, a February 2019 submission win over Marcos Rogerio de Lima.In his most recent bout, which took place in December 2019, Ben Rothwell knocked out Struve in the second round.

Tuivasa has not fared much better. The 27-year-old opened his career with an undefeated record. That run included three victories in the UFC. Tuivasa has lost his three most recent bouts. His most recent defeat came in October 2019 when he was submitted by Sergey Spivak.

Neither of these men is ranked in the heavyweight division.

HOW TO WATCH OR LIVE STREAM UFC 254:

UFC 254 takes place on Saturday from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. The event takes place much earlier than a normal UFC pay-per-view event. The ESPN+ streaming main card begins at 2:00 p.m ET. Following prelims on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at noon ET and early prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ESPN+ at 11:00 a.m. ET

Main card

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Justin Gaethje

Robert Whittaker vs. Jared Cannonier

Alexander Volkov vs. Walt Harris

Jacob Malkoun vs. Phil Hawes

Lauren Murphy vs. Liliya Shakirova

Magomed Ankalaev vs. Ion Cuțelaba

Preliminary card

Stefan Struve vs. Tai Tuivasa

Nathaniel Wood vs. Casey Kenney

Alex Oliveira vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov

Da Un Jung vs. Sam Alvey

Early preliminary card

Liana Jojua vs. Miranda Maverick

Joel Álvarez vs. Alexander Yakovlev

Source: Forbes – Business