How to watch UFC Fight Night 222: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes
The UFC is back in its home base in Las Vegas this Saturday for Fight Night 222, with a showdown between two of the world’s best heavyweights, Sergei Pavlovich and Curtis Blaydes, at the top of the card. If you want to watch the five-round barn burner live online, we’ll get you started.
Pavlovich vs Blaydes isn’t the only thing worth watching at Fight Night 222, also known as UFC Vegas 71. The top of the preliminary card features lightweight Americans Ricky Glenn and Christos Giagos duking it out, while the main card has bantamweights Song Yadong and Ricky Simon both looking to cement their reputations.
Preliminary bouts start at 4 p.m. Eastern Time (1 p.m. on the West Coast, 9.p.m. in the UK) and the main card’s fights start at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, which is 4 p.m. Pacific Time and midnight in the UK.
How to Watch UFC Fight Night 222
Whichever fight you’re looking out for and at whatever time, there are a number of ways to watch each and every one of them. Depending on your location and cable provider, there’s a good chance you have a sports channel that carries the fights; make sure to check with your cable service.
If your cable package doesn’t have any decent sports channels or you’ve done away with cable altogether, there are several online streaming channels that are showing UFC Fight Night 222, the biggest of which is UFC Fight Pass, which you can view from anywhere except Brazil — Brazilian readers can check out Combate, instead.
UFC Fight Pass is probably the best option out there as it features not just all upcoming UFC events, but also all past ones plus kickboxing tournaments like Glory. However, there’s a downside: it’s a bit pricey, and prices can change depending on location. For most people, in most places, UFC Fight Pass costs $9.99 per month or $95.99 per year, though the yearly plan can cost as much as $10 less depending on location.
Sports Streaming Sites
However, it could be that you’re only interested in this one UFC Fight Night, not all of them, or that you want to watch other sports as well as MMA. In that case, you can check out any of the many sports streaming sites out there.
Most of these are region locked in some way or another, though, so you need to figure out which you can access. If you’re in the U.S., for example, you can try out ESPN+, Sling TV, YouTube TV, or even Hulu if you have the Live TV package. Canadian readers can watch UFC Fight Night 222 on TSN, people in the UK can watch it on BT Sport, and people from Australia and New Zealand can catch it on Kayo Sports and Sky Sports, respectively.
Using a VPN to Watch UFC Fight Night
Of course, if you’re not in one of these countries, you’re going to have to figure out where you can watch Fight Night 222 for yourself. Alternatively, you could also spoof your location, pretending like you’re in one of these countries and then watch whatever you’d like. For example, a Canadian that doesn’t want to sign up for TSN can pretend to be in the States and watch ESPN+, or somebody in Ireland can pretend to be in the UK and watch BT Sport.
The key to doing this is by using a virtual private network, better known as a VPN. These handy tools let you pretend you’re in another location by rerouting your internet connection through one of their servers. It’s a great way to get around regional blocks like those put up by ESPN+, YouTube, or any other site.
To unblock UFC events, we’re big fans of CyberGhost, which has an amazing track record of cracking any streaming services. To use it, all you need to do is sign up and install the app — this will take all of five minutes — and then open it. You’ll see a big button at the top and a smaller one below, click on that and you’ll see a list of locations to connect to.
Just pick the location you want — so to watch ESPN+ you need a location in the U.S., make sure to pick a location close to you — and connect. Once you’re connected, go to the ESPN+ site, which should show up like it would for anybody in the U.S.
From there, sign up like you would to any other site and you’re good to go. This will work on pretty much any site, though some put up more of a fight than others. That said, CyberGhost will get around pretty much all these blocks, even those put up by Netflix or the like.
If you’d like to go this way to watch UFC Fight Night 222, CyberGhost currently has an offer where you get two years of use for just $57. You also get a 45-day money-back guarantee in case you change your mind. Better yet, you can also make use of the CyberGhost free trial, just download the app and you’re good to go.
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