UFC 196 is nearly upon us. The last stop is Friday afternoon's weigh-ins.
Atop the card sit Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor. The featherweight champ and the lightweight contender have given fans fireworks on the microphone to this point and transformed what could have been a ho-hum replacement bout into one of the more anticipated fights in recent memory.
Both men have impressive highlight reels and are all but guaranteed to put on a classic in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Lost in the shuffle but still appealing in its own right is the co-main event: Holly Holm vs. Miesha Tate. The women's bantamweight title was regarded as the "Ronda Rousey belt" for a long while, but the division has been blown wide open with Holm wearing gold and Rousey's future left unclear.
This will be the first title defense for The Preacher's Daughter and, possibly, the first taste of the post-Ronda era.
The full card is as follows:
Main Card (Pay-Per-View)
- Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz
- Holly Holm vs. Miesha Tate
- Gian Villante vs. Ilir Latifi
- Corey Anderson vs. Tom Lawlor
- Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)
- Brandon Thatch vs. Siyar Bahadurzada
- Erick Silva vs. Nordine Taleb
- Vitor Miranda vs. Marcelo Guimaraes
- Darren Elkins vs. Chas Skelly
Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)
- Diego Sanchez vs. Jim Miller
- Justin Salas vs. Jason Saggo
- Julian Erosa vs. Teruto Ishihara
