UFC Fight Night 239: How to watch Tuivasa-Tybura, lineup, odds, more
The UFC is back on its “Sin City” home turf Saturday with heavyweights at the top of the bill for the second time in three weeks.
Here’s how to watch UFC Fight Night 239 with big men in the main event and welterweights in the co-feature.
UFC Fight Night 239 has a main card that starts at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN+. The preliminary card streams on ESPN+ at 4 p.m. ET.
Tai Tuivasa (15-6 MMA, 8-6 UFC) and Marcin Tybura were set to hook up a month ago at UFC 298, but a Tuivasa foot injury delayed things. Now they’ll headline instead of just being on the card. Tuivasa badly needs a win. It’s been more than two yuears since he knocked out Derrick Lewis to hit a five-fight winning streak of knockouts. But since then, he has three straight stoppage setbacks to Ciryl Gane, Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov.
Marcin Tybura (24-8 MMA, 11-7 UFC) had a modest two-fight winning streak of decisions against Alexandr Romanov and Blagoy Ivanov halted by a 73-second knockout loss to current interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. Before that, he had won seven of eight fights. He hasn’t had a skid since 2019.
Welterweights Bryan Battle (11-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) and Ange Loosa (10-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) will put their two-fight winning streaks on the line against each other in the co-feature. Battle is coming off a second-round rear-naked choke finish of AJ Fletcher this past September. Prior to that, he missed weight for a fight with Gabe Green — then knocked him out in 14 seconds, which made him ineligible for a $50,000 bonus.
Loosa has back-to-back decisions over AJ Fletcher and Rhys McKee, though those were his only fights in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
Record: 8-1
Opponent: Josh Culibao (11-2-1 MMA, 3-2-1 UFC)
Division: Featherweight
Misc.: Outworked Angel Pacheco on Dana White’s Contender Series in September 2023. Has three fights under the LFA banner.
Record: 8-3
Opponent: Chad Anheliger (12-7 MMA, 1-2 UFC)
Division: Bantamweight
Misc.: Punched UFC ticket on DWCS with 60-second KO of Cameron Smotherman this past August.
Record: 8-1
Opponent: Thiago Moises (17-7 MMA, 6-5 UFC)
Division: Lightweight
Misc.: Ramirez lost to Carlos Prates in his DWCS shot in 2023, but bounced back with a knockout win at LFA 173. The Las Vegas-based fighter is in on short notice after Brad Riddell pulled out.
- Tai Tuivasa (-130) vs. Marcin Tybura (+110)
- Bryan Battle (-150) vs. Ange Loosa (+125)
- Kennedy Nzechukwu (-500) vs. Ovince Saint Preux (+360)
- Isaac Dulgarian (-130) vs. Christian Rodriguez (+110)
- Macy Chiasson (-175) vs. Pannie Kianzad (+145)
- Bryan Barberena (+165) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (-195)
- Mike Davis (-260) vs. Natan Levy (+210)
- Chelsea Chandler (+125) vs. Josiane Nunes (-150)
- Jafel Filho (-175) vs. Ode Osbourne (+145)
- Josh Culibao (N/A) vs. Danny Silva (N/A)
- Jaqueline Amorim (-115) vs. Cory McKenna (-105)
- Chad Anheliger (+170) vs. Charalampos Grigoriou (-200)
- Thiago Moises (N/A) vs. Mitch Ramirez (N/A)
