UFC 269: Oliveira vs Poirier fight card, UK start time, LIVE stream, how to watch on TV, prediction

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Jonathan Gorrie10 December 2021

Former interim UFC Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier squares off against current holder Charles Oliveira at UFC 269 on Saturday 11 December in the champions’ first defence.

Elsewhere on the card inside the T-Mobile Arena, the domineering Amanda Nunes will finally defend her UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship against Julianna Peña after the scheduled bout at UFC 265 was called off due to the latter contracting Covid-19.

In the welterweight division, and out-of-form Geoff Neal faces Santiago Ponzinibbio after a flyweight clash between Kai Kara-France and Cody Garbrandt which, in turn, follows a bantamweight fight pitting Raulian Paiva and Sean O’Malley.

It’s the penultimate UFC event of the year and one backed by ten prelim undercard matches, promising to be quite the night of action inside the Octagon.

UFC 269: Oliveira vs Poirier TV channel and live stream

TV channel: The event will be broadcast by BT Sport in the early hours of the morning on Sunday December 11, 2021.

Coverage of the prelims will start at 01.00am with the main card not expected to start until 03.00am.

Live stream: BT Sport subscribers will be able to watch it either on their website or the BT Sport App.

UFC 269: Oliveira vs Poirier card in full

Nunes’ defence against Pena is the chief support act of the night with Neal vs Ponzinibbio acting as the third-highest ranked event of the night.

Main card in full:

Lightweight title bout: Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier

Women’s bantamweight title bout: Amanda Nunes vs Julianna Pena

Welterweight bout: Geoff Neal vs Santiago Ponzinibbio

Flyweight bout: Kai Kara France vs Cody Garbrandt

Bantamweight bout: Raulian Paiva vs Sean O’Malley

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Prelim fights

Featherweight bout: Josh Emmett vs Dan Ige

Bantamweight bout: Pedro Munhoz vs Dominick Cruz

Heavyweight bout: Augusto Sakai vs Tai Tuivasa

Middleweight bout: Jordan Wright vs Bruno Silva

Early prelim fights

Middleweight bout: Andre Muniz vs Eryk Anders

Women’s flyweight bout: Miranda Maverick vs Erin Blanchfield

Flyweight bout: Alex Perez vs Matt Schnell

Featherweight bout: Ryan Hall vs Darrick Minner

Bantamweight bout: Randy Costa vs Tony Kelley

Women’s flyweight bout: Gillian Robertson vs Priscila Cachoeira

UFC 269: Oliveira vs Poirier prediction

With two clashing styles, it’s going to be fascinating to see how the champion defends against a challenger with such an intense strike rate.

Poirier is in fantastic form heading into this and, while it’s likely to be tight, we’re going for him.

Poirier to win the title.

UFC 269 weigh-in results

Charles Oliveira vs. Dustin Poirier - Oliveira: 155lbs - Poirier: 154.5lbs

Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Pena - Nunes: 134.5lbs - Pena: 135lbs

Geoff Neal vs. Santiago Ponzinibbio

Kai Kara-France vs. Cody Garbrandt - Kara-France: 125lbs

Raulian Paiva vs. Sean O’Malley - O’Malley: 135.5lbs

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