UFC 328 ended Saturday night at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and the ufc post fight press conference was set to go live around 12:15 a.m. ET on Sunday.
The card featured undefeated middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev against former titleholder Sean Strickland in the main event, with UFC flyweight champion Joshua Van meeting Japanese challenger Tatsuro Taira in the co-headliner. Alexander Volkov also faced Waldo Cortes-Acosta in a heavyweight clash, giving the night the kind of depth that made the press conference the next stop for reaction and official bonus winners.
That mattered because UFC 328 was billed as a stacked night of fights, and the post-fight session was where the first hard answers from the event were expected to land after the last bell. Dana White arrived to UFC 328 in style earlier on Saturday, and the night also produced a tense moment when Josh Hokit and Paulo Costa nearly came to blows in Newark, a reminder that the fallout from the card was not limited to the cage.
The press conference was the point where the night's biggest results and its sharpest edges were supposed to meet, with the winners, losers and bonus recipients all in one place. For fans following the event live, it was the next chapter after the fights themselves — and the first place to hear which performances the promotion chose to reward.
