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Sport Nation • April 11th, 2025 9:00 am
After a brief hiatus, the lads are back with another timely instalment of combat chat.
Top of the agenda this episode is this weekend's blockbuster UFC 314, a stacked card headlined by a mouthwatering main event between Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes for the featherweight world title.
The Australian is widely regarded as one of the division's greatest of all time but enters this weekend in unfamiliar territory, on the back of two brutal knockout defeats.
He'll face one of the UFC's brightest and most rapidly rising stars in Lopes, a Brazilian with a killer instinct, the power in his hands to back that up and a ravenous appetite to have a belt wrapped around his waist.
The co-main event is also high on stakes, with polarising Brit Paddy Pimblett looming to claim the biggest scalp of his career against the explosive Michael Chandler.
Pimblett is yet to be defeated at UFC level, reeling off six consecutive wins to warm his crack at the American, who occupies another tier above the opponents he's vanquished to date.
Dion McCracken also jumps aboard ahead of his upcoming trip to the US to cover the iconic Wrestlemania, breaking down everything you need to know ahead of the event - with much more to come on sportnation.nz from on the ground in Las Vegas.
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