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A night of UFC action at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome opens with five early preliminary bouts on Saturday night. Watch free on Fubo.

Before the two championship fights set for the UFC 311 card on pay-per-view on Saturday night, the event at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles opens with five preliminary bouts. Middleweights Zach Reese (8-1) and Azamat Bekoev (18-3) headline the early fight card. Reese has won his last two fights and was originally set to take on Sedriques Dumas, who pulled out of the fight on Monday. Reese has won his last two fights, including a unanimous decision over José Medina at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Aug. 24. Bekoev took the bout on five days notice and defended his LFA title on June 22 in Denver, stopping Chauncey Foxworth with a right hook with 28 seconds left in the second round.

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Date: Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025

Time: 6 p.m. ET

TV: FX

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Women’s bantamweights Karol Rosa (18-6) and Ailín Pérez (11-2-0) square off prior to Reese and Bekoev. Rosa comes off a unanimous decision over Pannie Kianzad at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Aug. 10 while Pérez has won four straight fights, most recently stopping Darya Zheleznyakova with an arm triangle chock 3:52 into the first round at UFC Fight Night in Paris on Sept. 28.

Unbeaten bantamweight Rinya Nakamura (9-0) takes on Muin Gafurov (19-6). Nakamura scored a unanimous decision over Carlos Vera at UFC 298 in Anaheim, California, on Feb. 17. Gafurov got back into the win column on June 22 with a unanimous decision over Kyung Ho Kang at UFC Fight Night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The remaining preliminary bouts pit bantamweights Ricky Turcios (12-4) and Benardo Sopaj (11-3) along with flyweights Tagir Ulanbekov (15-2) and Clayton Carpenter (8-0).

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