UFC 280 press conference LIVE: Latest updates as Charles Oliveira and Sean O’Malley speak in London

The primary press convention for UFC 280 occurred right now, as Charles Oliveira and Sean O’Malley travelled to London to preview October’s seismic Abu Dhabi combat card.

In the primary occasion of UFC 280 in three months’ time, Oliveira will combat Islam Makhachev for the vacant light-weight title, whereas O’Malley faces his largest bantamweight take a look at but as he goes up towards former champion Petr Yan. Elsewhere on the cardboard, Belal Muhammad clashes with Sean Brady at welterweight, and Muhammad joined Oliveira and Makhachev on the O2 Enviornment right now, moments earlier than the ceremonial weigh-ins for UFC London – which takes place on Saturday.

Oliveira was stripped of the UFC light-weight title in Could for lacking weight, in the future earlier than his scheduled defence towards Justin Gaethje. The Brazilian submitted Gaethje within the first spherical however was ineligible to win again the belt, as an alternative establishing himself as No 1 contender. In the meantime, O’Malley is among the UFC’s hottest younger fighters, and his incrementally more durable in-ring assignments have all of the sudden given strategy to an enormous combat with ex-champ Yan. Oliveira vs Makhachev, O’Malley vs Yan, and Muhammad vs Brady had been all introduced this week, and three of these fighters previewed their upcoming bouts this afternoon. Re-live updates from the UFC 280 press convention, under.