Wednesday, June 25, 2025

UFC 317 'Embedded,' No. 3: Kai Kara-France gets a haka sendoff to Las Vegas

The UFC is back in its "Sin City" home base for International Fight Week and UFC 317, its seventh pay-per-view of the calendar year, and the popular "Embedded" fight week video series is here to document what's happening behind the scenes.

UFC 317 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

In the headliner, the vacant 155-pound title is on the line between former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) and ex-lightweight titleholder Charles Oliveira (35-10 MMA, 23-10 UFC). Topuria vacated the 145-pound belt to move to lightweight for a shot at a title in a second division. The co-feature is a flyweight title fight between champion Alexandre Pantoja (29-5 MMA, 13-3 UFC) and challenger Kai Kara-France (25-11 MMA, 8-4 UFC).

The third episode of "Embedded" follows the featured fighters while they get ready for fight week. Here is the UFC's description of the episode from YouTube:

Kai Kara-France gets a sendoff fit for a Maori warrior; Charles Oliveira goes grocery shopping; Ilia Topuria rides a bike in a tent; Champ Alexandre Pantoja arrives in Las Vegas; Gregory Rodrigues reflects on why he fights; Jack Hermansson trains in the UFC PI; Beneil Dariush takes a stroll to T-Mobile Arena; Renato Moicano trains with Alexandre Pantoja.

Previous episodes of UFC 317 embedded

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 317 Embedded 2: Kai Kara-France gets haka sendoff to Las Vegas



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