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Usman vs Masvidal Live Stream: How to Watch UFC 251 Online

Getty Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal face off.

It’s officially time for one of the best MMA cards of all-time as a trio of title fights headline UFC 251 from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.

The main PPV card starts at 10 p.m. ET, with Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo third on the card, Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway fourth and Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal fifth. If you want to watch a live stream of the fights online, you’ll need to order the PPV right here, and then watch on your computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the ESPN website (computer) or ESPN app (phone or other streaming device).

You can read on for a more detailed rundown of how to buy the PPV and then watch the fights online:

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How to Buy UFC 251 If You Don’t Have ESPN+

You can get a special bundle deal that includes a one-year subscription to ESPN+ ($49.99 value) and UFC 251 ($64.99 value) for $84.98, which works out to about 26 percent savings:

Buy ESPN+ & UFC 251 Bundle

Or, if you want to purchase them separately, you can first subscribe to a month of ESPN+ right here ($4.99 for ESPN+, or $12.99 for a bundle of ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+), and then follow the below directions for existing ESPN+ subscribers.

However, with the amount of UFC (and other sports) content on ESPN+, most MMA fans are probably going to keep ESPN+ long-term, meaning the value of the bundle is the better way to go if you don’t already have ESPN+.

How to Buy UFC 251 If You Already Have ESPN+

Current ESPN+ subscribers can purchase the UFC 251 PPV by itself for $64.99:

Buy UFC 251 PPV

Or, if you only have a monthly subscription, you can still get the special bundle that includes a year of ESPN+ and the UFC 251 PPV. The only difference is that instead of starting a new ESPN+ subscription, you’ll just extend your current subscription by a year and get the UFC 251 PPV for a total of $84.98:

Upgrade ESPN+ & Buy UFC 251


Where to Watch UFC 251 Live Stream

Once you’re signed up for ESPN+ and you’ve purchased the PPV, there are a number of different ways you can watch Usman vs Masvidal and the complete UFC 251 main card.

You can watch the fights on your computer via ESPN.com, or you can watch on your phone (Android and iPhone compatible), tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or other compatible streaming device via the ESPN app.

For all of those options, you’ll need to sign in with your ESPN+ account to watch both the prelims (ESPN+) and the main card (ESPN+ PPV).


UFC 251 Preview

Three belts are on the line on Saturday night as fighters gather in Abu Dhabi to kick off a historic string of events from Fight Island.

The main event pits Jorge Masvidal thinks Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight title. Masvidal took the fight on six days notice after top contender Gilbert Burns tested positive for COVID-19.

“At the end of the day it’s a fight, it’s not a math test, it’s not an SAT test, that I’m not maybe the best at,” Masvidal told the UFC’s virtual media day. “It’s what I’ve done since a child, my fascination since youth. So I just gotta go out and believe in myself and give it everything I got.

“There are other guys I would have said I don’t want to take it on six days. He’s the perfect guy to take it on six days. Weak minded. He has 17 different personalities and I don’t know which one is going to turn up to fight.”

Usman is on an 11-fight win streak and is 16-1 in his career. He won the belt last December by knocking out Colby Covington.

“I’m a true martial artist,” Usman told reporters, per MMAFighting.com. “I don’t care for all of the trash talk. That’s kind of been a knock on me. Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, you don’t entertain us. You don’t give us the bullsh*t and this and that,’ I don’t really care. I got into this to be a martial artist, not to be a trash-talking genius or machine, or what not.

“Everything that I say is facts. It’s truly what I feel. Like I said in my last fight (with Colby Covington at UFC 245), I broke that guy’s face and that’s kind of what happened. The fight before that, I said I was gonna dominate (Tyron) Woodley from start to finish and that’s exactly what happened.”

In the other two title fights, champion Alexander Volkanovski takes on Max Holloway will square off in a rematch for the featherweight championship and Petr Yan will battle Jose Aldo for the vacant bantamweight title.

Main Card
Welterweight Championship: Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal
Featherweight Championship: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway
Bantamweight Championship: Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo
Women’s Strawweight: Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas
Women’s Flyweight: Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant