UFC Fight Night 279: How to watch Kape-Horiguchi, Vegas lineup, odds

The UFC is back in its “Sin City” home base this week with a pair of flyweight contenders in a rematch at the top of the bill.

Here’s how to watch UFC Fight Night 279, where the next title challenger at 125 pounds could emerge.

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Broadcast and streaming info

UFC Fight Night 279 has a main card that streams at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount+. The prelims stream on Paramount+ at 5 p.m. ET.

Stay tuned to MMA Junkie for additional broadcast details later this week.

Main event: Manel Kape

• Record: 22-7 MMA, 7-3 UFC

• Opponent: Kyoji Horiguchi (36-5 MMA, 9-1 UFC)

• Key wins: Brandon Royval, Asu Almabayev, Bruno Silva, Felipe dos Santos, Ode Osbourne, Kai Asakura, Takeya Mizugaki, Ian McCall

• Misc.: Since a loss to Muhammad Mokaev, who continues to prove outside the UFC that he never should have been sent packing, Kape has three straight wins – all by stoppage. This will be his third straight main event, and he hasn’t disappointed yet when put in that spot. In 2018 when they fought in Rizin, Kape was submitted by Horiguchi. Now he has a long-awaited shot at redemption.

Main event: Kyoji Horiguchi

• Record: 36-5 MMA, 9-1 UFC

• Opponent: Manel Kape (22-7 MMA, 7-3 UFC)

• Key wins: Amir Albazi, Tagir Ulanbekov, Sergio Pettis, Darrion Caldwell (twice), Manel Kape

• Misc.: Horiguchi fought Demetrious Johnson for the flyweight title in 2015 in Montreal and had to tap with one second left in their five-round fight. Two years later, he was back fighting in Japan. But he returned to the UFC last year with a huge bonus-winning submission of Tagir Ulanbekov and followed that with a win over Amir Albazi in February. He’s got one win over Kape already – a submission in Rizin in 2018.

Co-main event: Ion Cutelaba

• Record: 20-11-1 MMA, 9-10-1 UFC

• Opponent: Navajo Stirling (9-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC)

• Division: Light heavyweight

• Key wins: Oumar Sy, Ibo Aslan, Ivan Erslan, Tanner Boser, Devin Clark, Khalil Rountree Jr.

• Misc.: Cutelaba celebrates his 10-year anniversary in the UFC this week. A win over Stirling on Saturday would give him four victories in his past five fights – which would mark the most successful run of his time in the promotion yet. When he got back in the win column in February with a submission of Sy, it was his third win in four outings – with just a debatable split decision loss to Modestas Bukauskas keeping him from four straight.

Co-main event: Navajo Stirling

• Opponent: Ion Cutelaba (20-11-1 MMA, 9-10-1 UFC)

• Division: Light heavyweight

• Key wins: Bruno Lopes, Rodolfo Bellato, Ivan Erslan, Tuco Tokkos

• Misc.: New Zealand’s Stirling, a City Kickboxing product, finally got his first official UFC stoppage win when he took out Brumo Lopes with a ground-and-pound TKO in March. That came after three straight decision wins after his contract-winning knockout on DWCS in 2024.

UFC debut: Murtazali Magomedov

• Opponent: Melsik Baghdasaryan (8-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC)

• Misc.: A 26-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, Magomedov got to the big show courtesy of a 97-second knockout on DWCS this past fall. All 10 of his wins are by stoppage, split down the middle with five KOs and five subs.

UFC debut: Levan Chokheli

• Opponent: Leon Shahbazyan (12-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC)

• Misc.: After getting solid experience in bigger shows with Bellator, the Georgian, who has four wins in his past five fights, gets his biggest opportunity yet. He has 11 of his 14 wins by knockout, so he’s likely to want to keep things on the feet.

UFC debut: Leon Shahbazyan

• Opponent: Levan Chokheli (14-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC)

• Misc.: The older brother of UFC middleweight Edmen, Shahbazyan had a UFC shot in 2019 on DWCS, but was knocked out in the third round by Phil Rowe. It was a bumpy road after that, but he’s been ripping through Tuff-N-Uff opponents with four straight first-round submissions, and now the UFC has come calling.

UFC debut: Shane Collins

• Opponent: Otari Tanzilovi (10-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC)

• Misc.: The 26-year-old Collins caught the UFC matchmakers’ eyes by virtue of his title for Urijah Faber’s A1 Combat promotion in California and subsequent two defenses. He has five of his seven wins by stoppage, including four KOs.

UFC debut: Otari Tanzilovi

• Opponent: Shane Collins (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC)

• Misc.: The only loss of Tanzilovi’s career came on DWCS in 2024, when he dropped a split decision to Josias Musasa. He bounced back in 2025 with a win over Guillermo Torres for Fury FC and now will fight for the first time in nearly 18 months.

UFC Fight Night 279 lineup

MAIN CARD (Paramount+, 8 p.m. ET)

• Manel Kape vs. Kyoji Horiguchi

• Ion Cutelaba vs. Navajo Stirling

• Hyder Amil vs. Christian Rodriguez

• Kevin Borjas vs. Andre Lima

• Melsik Baghdasaryan vs. Murtazali Magomedov

• Andre Fili vs. Vinicius Oliveira

PRELIMINARY CARD (Paramount+, 5 p.m. ET)

• Bia Mesquita vs. Melissa Mullins

• Allan Nascimento vs. Mitch Raposo

• Michael Aswell vs. Gaston Bolanos

• Karol Rosa vs. Luana Santos

• Levan Chokheli vs. Leon Shahbazyan

• Shane Collins vs. Otari Tanzilovi

UFC Fight Night 279 main card betting odds

• Kape -170, Horiguchi +145

• Cutelaba +260, Stirling -330

• Amil +130, Rodriguez -155

• Baghdasaryan +235, Magomedov -290

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UFC Fight Night 279 preliminary card betting odds

• Mesquita -600, Mullins +430

• Nascimento -200, Raposo +170

• Aswell -400, Bolanos +310

• Chokheli -335, Shahbazyan +250

• Collins -180, Tanzilovi +145

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