As always, programming is listed in EST
Live fights are in BOLD.
Premiere programming is in ITALICS.
MMA programming is in ORANGE.
Boxing programming is in RED.
Kickboxing/Muay Thai/Karate programming is in BLUE.
Wrestling/Jiu Jitsu/Grappling programming is in PURPLE.
Misc./Combination combat sports programming is in GREEN.
Friday August 3
6:00pm: UFC 227 Weigh-Ins (Fox Sports 1)
9:00pm: Abel Ramos vs. Cesar Miguel Barrionuevo/Dennis Galarza vs. Ladarius Miller (Bounce TV)
9:00pm: Classic Entertainment & Sports MMA 51 (AXS)
9:00pm: Xtreme Fight Night 350 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
11:00pm: X-1 MMA 50 (FREE Fite.tv)
11:35pm: Antonio Tostado Garcia vs. Victor Uriel Lopez/Jerson Aguilar vs. Jorge Alberto Romero Ayala (Telemundo)
Saturday August 4
7:20am: The Champion Muay Thai (YouTube)
1:00pm: Fight League 8 ($9.99 Fite.tv)
5:30pm: Premier Boxing Champions on FOX Prelims (Fox Sports 2)
6:30pm: UFC 227 Prelims (UFC Fight Pass)
7:30pm: Andre Berto vs. Devon Alexander/J’Leon Love vs. Peter Quillin (Fox)
8:00pm: UFC 227 Prelims (Fox Sports 1)
8:00pm: Mountain Force MMA 4 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
9:00pm: XFO Outdoor War 14 ($14.99 Fite.tv)
10:00pm: Eleider Alvarez vs. Sergey Kovalev/Dmitry Bivol vs. Isaac Chilemba (HBO)
10:00pm: UFC 227 ($64.99 Pay-Per-View)
11:00pm: X-1 MMA 50 (FREE Fite.tv)
Sunday August 5
1:00am: UFC 227 Post-Fight Show (Fox Sports 1)
1:15am: UFC 227 Post-Fight Press Conference (UFC Fight Pass)
3:00am: Pancrase 298 (UFC Fight Pass)
7:00am: Kunlun Fight 75 ($5.99 Fite.tv)
12:30pm: Absolute Berkut Championship Kickboxing 17 (YouTube)
Top-10 Viewing Options: A man whose baseball team, against all odds, decided to make a run, now has to strap in and bite his nails to the bone, so this will be a welcome respite.
1. UFC 227: Two huge title fights, and absolutely NOTHING else. This is absurdly top-heavy with nothing to balance it.
2. Eleider Alvarez vs. Sergey Kovalev/Dmitry Bivol vs. Isaac Chilemba: The second card of the night with two world title fights. Lots of fantastic title bouts this weekend.
3. Andre Berto vs. Devon Alexander/J’Leon Love vs. Peter Quillin: The main event if lulz, but this is a crazy-deep card that goes about 7 bouts in on relevant fights, AND the prelims are being televised!
4. Abel Ramos vs. Cesar Miguel Barrionuevo/Dennis Galarza vs. Ladarius Miller: Break out your antennas, it’s Bounce time!
5. Kunlun Fight 75: Damned solid fight card, rough time to watch, but you can’t beat that price tag.
6. Absolute Berkut Championship Kickboxing 17: Another arm of ACB reaches into the fight landscape. God bless them for throwing everything on YouTube.
7. Pancrase 298: Been a minute since we had some Pancrase in our lives, get your JMMA on!
8. X-1 MMA 50: Two free nights of Hawaiian MMA, which sounds like a perk at a discount honeymoon hotel, but I digress.
9. Classic Entertainment & Sports MMA 51: The House that John Howard built returns its New England goodness to AXS.
10. UFC 227 Post-Fight Show: We might have two new UFC world champions! I mean, we won’t. Maybe one at most, but we might!
4×5: Every week, UCS’s Luke Irwin will list his Top-5 bouts in each of the four major different combat sports that he’s looking forward to the most, regardless of any conventional criteria, merit, or logic.
KICKBOXING/MUAY THAI
5. Lightweight Bout: Jonay Risco (14-11) vs. Jordann Pikeur (18-6-1) [Kunlun Fight 75]
4. Lightweight Bout: Anatoly Moiseev (21-3-1) vs. Davit Kiria (31-17) [Kunlun Fight 75]
3. Middleweight Bout: Cedric Manhoef (52-9-2) vs. Vlad Tuinov (38-2) [Kunlun Fight 75]
2. XFN Kickboxing Heavyweight World Championship: Randy Blake (c) (36-4) vs. Brian Collette (23-5) [Xtreme Fight Night 350]
1. WKN World Super Middleweight Championship: Yohan Lidon (c) (96-38-1) vs. Yoann Kongolo (65-9) [Fight Night Saint Tropez 6]
BOXING
5. Light Heavyweight Bout: Lenin Castillo (18-1-1) vs. Marcus Browne (21-0) [PBC on FOX]
4. Vacant IBF World Junior Lightweight Championship: Billy Dib (43-4) vs. Tevin Farmer (25-4-1)
3. WBA World Light Heavyweight Championship: Dmitry Bivol (c) (13-0) vs. Isaac Chilemba (25-5-2) [HBO Championship Boxing]
2. Super Middleweight Bout: J’Leon Love (24-1-1) vs. Peter Quillin (33-1-1) [PBC on FOX]
1. WBO Light Heavyweight Championship: Sergey Kovalev (c) (32-2-1) vs. Eleider Alvarez (23-0) [HBO Championship Boxing]
MMA
5. Bantamweight Bout: Kyung Ho Kang (14-7) vs. Ricardo Ramos (11-1) [UFC 227]
4. Featherweight Bout: Cub Swanson (25-9) vs. Renato Carneiro (12-1-1) [UFC 227]
3. Flyweight Bout: Alex Perez (20-4) vs. Jose Torres (8-0) [UFC 227]
2. UFC Flyweight Championship: Demetrious Johnson (c) (27-2-1) vs. Henry Cejudo (12-2) [UFC 227]
1. UFC Bantamweight Championship: TJ Dillashaw (c) (15-3) vs. Cody Garbrandt (11-1) [UFC 227]
GRAPPLING/WRESTLING
5. Black Belt Middleweight Division [IBJJF Seattle International Open]
4. Black Belt Medium Heavyweight Division [IBJJF Vitoria International Open]
3. Black Belt Heavyweight Division [IBJJF Vitoria International Open]
2. Black Belt Ultra Heavyweight Division [IBJJF Vitoria International Open]
1. Black Belt Super Heavyweight Division [IBJJF Vitoria International Open]
Bold, Yet Probably Fruitless Predictions: Two straight weeks in the black?! I might have my family released in time for Thanksgiving!
Best Fight of the Weekend: Cody Garbrandt vs. TJ Dillashaw
Most Underrated Fight of the Weekend: Alex Perez vs. Jose Torres
If My Life Depended on One Pick: Dmitry Bivol over Isaac Chilemba
Best Card Top-to-Bottom: Premier Boxing Champions on FOX
Upset of the Week: Jose Torres over Alex Perez
Most Disappointing Fight of the Weekend: Sergey Kovalev vs. Eleider Alvarez
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