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Matt Erickson

UFC 304: How to watch Edwards-Muhammad and Aspinall-Blaydes title fights, start time, Manchester fight card, odds, more

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The UFC’s eighth pay-per-view event of 2024 goes down Saturday in England.

Here’s how to watch UFC 304 with the welterweight and interim heavyweight titles on the line at the top of the card in Manchester.

Broadcast and streaming info

Jon Anik, Michael Bisping, Daniel Cormier

UFC 304 has a main card that begins at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (via ESPN+). The four-fight prelim card airs on ESPN at 8 p.m. ET, and four early prelims air and stream on ESPN and ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET.

John Gooden will host the official UFC 304 weigh-in show on Friday at 2 p.m. ET.

He’ll be joined by Daniel Cormier, Michael Bisping and Michael Page.

Chael Sonnen, Laura Sanko and Din Thomas will serve as a desk analysts on the UFC 304 post-fight show and throughout the card, when necessary. Brett Okamoto will serve as the host.

Longtime UFC correspondent Megan Olivi will conduct pre and post-fight interviews backstage with some of the athletes on the UFC 304 card, as well as report additional real-time updates for the event.

Jon Anik will serve as the leading man on the mic from cageside.

He will command play-by-play alongside color commentators and UFC Hall of Famers Cormier and Bisping.

Thomas also will occasionally join the booth throughout the broadcast as the coach-analyst for the event.

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Main event: Leon Edwards

Record: 22-3 MMA, 14-2 UFC
Opponent: Belal Muhammad (23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC)
Division: Welterweight
Key wins: Kamaru Usman (twice), Colby Covington, Nate Diaz, Rafael Dos Anjos, Gunnar Nelson, Vicente Luque
Misc.: Edwards won the title nearly two years ago with a dramatic head-kick knockout of Kamaru Usman in a fight he was being dominated in. He defended it against him in a rematch in 2023, then outworked Colby Covington for his second title defense this past December. The fight with Muhammad is a rematch from 2021, when an accidental eye poke left Muhammad unable to continue 18 seconds into the second round.

Main event: Belal Muhammad

Record: 23-3 MMA, 14-3 UFC
Opponent: Leon Edwards (22-3 MMA, 14-2 UFC)
Division: Welterweight
Key wins: Gilbert Burns, Sean Brady, Vicente Luque, Stephen Thompson, Demian Maia
Misc.: The fight with Edwards is a rematch from 2021, when an accidental eye poke left Muhammad unable to continue 18 seconds into the second round. Muhammad has won five straight since that no contest, and he was an underdog in four of those wins.

Co-main event: Tom Aspinall

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 11: Tom Aspinall of England receives the interim heavyweight belt after defeating Sergei Pavlovich of Russia by TKO in the interim UFC heavyweight championship fight during the UFC 295 event at Madison Square Garden on November 11, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Record: 14-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC
Opponent: Curtis Blaydes (18-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC)
Division: Heavyweight
Key wins: Sergei Pavlovich, Marcin Tybura, Alexander Volkov, Serghei Spivac, Andrei Arlovski
Misc.: Aspinall won the interim heavyweight title this past November against Pavlovich. In a rare occurrence, he’ll defend the interim belt rather than fight champion Jon Jones to unify the belts since Jones is waiting on a fight with former champ Stipe Miocic. Aspinall lost to Blaydes two years ago this week when he injured his knee 15 seconds into the fight.

Co-main event: Curtis Blaydes

Mar 9, 2024; Miami, Florida, USA; Curtis Blaydes reacts after defeating Jailton Almeida during UFC 299 at Kayesa Center. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports

Record: 18-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC
Opponent: Tom Aspinall (14-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC)
Division: Heavyweight
Key wins: Jailton Almeida, Tom Apinall, Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Alexander Volkov, Junior Dos Santos, Alistair Overeem
Misc.: Blaydes beat Aspinall two years ago this week when the Brit injured his knee 15 seconds into the fight. In March, he got back in the win column with a TKO of Almeida about 11 months after he lost to Sergei Pavlovich.

UFC debut: Alice Ardelean

Record: 9-5
Opponent: Shauna Bannon (5-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC)
Division: Women’s strawweight
Misc.: The 32-year-old Ardelean was born in Romania, but fights out of England. Eight of her nine pro wins have been stoppages. One of her losses, more than eight years ago, was to current UFC women’s strawweight champion Zhang Weili.