UFC 148 Live Stream: How to Catch the Undercard, Main Event and More

UFC 148 is the most anticipated MMA matchup in recent years, and all the action can be found online. 

The main event is a rematch between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen, while the co-main event features Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz. 

There are four other fights on the main card and another five fights on the preliminary card.

Here’s how to catch every punch online.

Facebook

The preliminary card lightweight matchup between Rafaello Oliveira and Yoislandy Izquierdo will be streamed for free on Facebook starting at 7:25 p.m. ET. All you have to do is “Like” the UFC page. 

The rest of the prelims are not available via an online feed, but can be seen on FX starting at 5 p.m. ET. Here are the remaining prelims.

Lightweight	Gleison Tibau	Khabib Nurmagomedov
Lightweight	Melvin Guillard	Fabrício Camões
Middleweight	Constantinos Philippou	Riki Fukuda
Lightweight	John Alessio	Shane Roller

YouTube

All the fights on the main card can be seen for a fee in high definition on YouTube, courtesy of UFC.

The action starts at 10 p.m. ET. Here are all six matchups.

Middleweight	Anderson Silva	Chael Sonnen
Light Heavyweight	Forrest Griffin	Tito Ortiz
Middleweight	Cung Le	Patrick Côté
Welterweight	Dong Hyun Kim	Demian Maia
Featherweight	Chad Mendes	Cody McKenzie
Bantamweight	Ivan Menjivar	Mike Easton

What the Experts are Saying

With so much hype surrounding the main event, all the experts are chiming in.

ESPN's Brett Okamoto believes that Chael Sonnen is a bad matchup for Anderson Silva and that the challenger will pull off the upset.

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If styles didn’t make fights, making a case for No. 1 middleweight contender Chael Sonnen against reigning champion Anderson Silva this weekend at UFC 148 would be difficult. Silva is widely regarded as the best fighter to ever live. Sonnen is a high-level athlete, but his résumé doesn’t compare to Silva’s and it likely never will. 

To dismiss Sonnen’s chances in this fight, though, as so many seem to be doing despite how successful he was in their first meeting, is to somewhat forget what the entire UFC was built around. 

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Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim believes Sonnen is doing far too much talking prior to the fight.

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The storyline will have a superhero ring to it, good trumping bad; afterwards the defeated villain may even admit the error in his ways. (“Anderson won my respect tonight,” you almost hear Sonnen already admitting to Joe Rogen.) All will be right with the world. We’ve seen this movie before. But we will also wonder what the fight would have looked like had Sonnen simply kept his mouth shut and gone about his job

 

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Prediction: Silva by a knockout.

Wertheim is right about Sonnen talking too much leading up to the fight, but it has also distracted from how dominant Silva truly is. 

The Spider will be looking to prove that his first matchup with Sonnen was a fluke and that this fight will not be as close as many believe. Silva will not let this bout go the distance.