UFC 290 Live Stream Free: Start Time, Who’s Fighting & Who to Watch Everything you need to know about UFC 290: Volkanovski vs Rodríguez.
UFC 290 is Saturday, July 8th. The Pay Per View event expects to see a UFC Featherweight Championship unification bout between current champion Alexander Volkanovski and interim champion Yair Rodríguez.
Co-headlining the event is a UFC Flyweight Championship bout between current two-time champion Brandon Moreno and Alexandre Pantoja is expected to take place at the event. The main card starts at 10:00 PM Saturday. Read on to learn where you can watch UFC 290.
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Watch UFC 290 on ESPN+
How To Watch UFC 290
Watching UFC 290 on your TV
UFC 290 Fight Card
MAIN CARD (ESPN+ 10 p.m. ET)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
EARLY PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 6:00 p.m. ET)
Watch UFC 290 on ESPN+
As with all UFC Pay Per View Events, UFC 290 main event will air on the streaming service ESPN+. ESPN+ is a must-have for U.S. fans looking to watch UFC PPV and Fight Nights.
UFC 290 is Saturday, July 8th 2023, The TV schedule is as follows:
Main Card: 10:00 PM ET on ESPN+
Prelims: 8:00 PM ET on ESPN+
Early Prelims: 6:00 PM ET on ESPN+
How To Watch UFC 290
A subscription to ESPN+ costs $9.99 per month and provides a ton of extra and exclusive content from nearly every professional sport. The membership also gives you the option to purchase UFC Pay Per View for $79.99 each. You have two options for subscribing to ESPN+ and watching the fight. They are:
Subscribe to ESPN+ for $9.99 a month. Once signed up, you can purchase the fight for $79.99 from within the app (I’ll explain how in a second).
OR
You also have the option of bundling ESPN+ with Hulu and Disney+. The total price for all three is $13.99 per month. Then you can purchase the fight for $79.99 from within the app.
Watching UFC 290 on your TV
For those new to streaming, there are several ways to watch the fight on your TV. Once you subscribe to ESPN+, you can watch it through the ESPN app.
The ESPN App supports Roku Players and TVs, Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast, Apple TV, Android, iPhone, Samsung TVs, Xbox One, and PS4. We put together an article that explains everything you need to know about ESPN+, but the instructions below explain how to get ESPN+ on the ESPN app to watch UFC 290.
To add ESPN+ to your ESPN app, follow these instructions:
Subscribe to ESPN+
Download and Open the ESPN app on your mobile or TV device
Click the Settings Gear in the upper right corner
Select “Account Information” then “Log Into ESPN Account.” You should receive an activation code.
Visit https://espn.com/activate on your phone or laptop and type in the code
Log in with your ESPN+ credentials
You should then get confirmation that your ESPN+ account is linked and now see and “ESPN+” tab in the ESPN app.
*Hulu subscribers can watch through the Hulu app as ESPN+ content also streams through the Hulu app.
UFC 290 Fight Card
The fight card and event times for UFC 290 are below.
MAIN CARD (ESPN+ 10 p.m. ET)
Alexander Volkanovski (c) vs. Yair Rodríguez (ic)
Brandon Moreno (c) vs. Alexandre Pantoja
Robert Whittaker vs. Dricus du Plessis
Jalin Turner vs. Dan Hooker
Bo Nickal vs. Tresean Gore
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
Robbie Lawler vs. Niko Price
Sean Brady vs. Jack Della Maddalena
Yazmin Jauregui vs. Denise Gomes
Jimmy Crute vs. Alonzo Menifield
EARLY PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 6:00 p.m. ET)
Vitor Petrino vs. Marcin Prachnio
Christian Rodriguez vs. Cameron Saaiman
Shannon Ross vs. Jesús Santos Aguilar
Kamuela Kirk vs. Esteban Ribovics