Sports Weekend with Izvestia

Mixed Martial Arts

UFC Tournament Fight Night 250 . Sharabutdin Magomedov vs. Michael Page, Sergey Pavlovich vs. Jairzinho Rosenstrike, Said Nurmagomedov vs. Vinicius Oliveira

Another massive night of fights is scheduled for next weekend in Saudi Arabia. UFC Fight Night 250 will feature five fights on the main card - three of which will feature Russians. In the middleweight division, Sharabutdin Magomedov, one of the brightest fighters of recent years, will compete against Englishman Mykle Page. In the heavyweight division, former UFC interim title challenger Sergey Pavlovich will take on Suriname's Jairzinho Rosenstrike. And at flyweight, Said Nurmagomedov will face Brazilian Vinicius Oliveira.

Feb. 1: 8:30 p.m., Nurmagomedov vs. Oliveira; 9 p.m., Pavlovic vs. Rosenstrike; 9:30 p.m., Magomedov vs. Paige. The Venue Arena (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Live on Match TV and Match! Combatant

Soccer

Winline RPL Winter Cup. CSKA - Rostov

In Russian soccer is an active phase of preparation for the spring part of the season. The most interesting component will be an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi with the participation of a whole group of leading RPL teams: Zenit St. Petersburg, Spartak Moscow, CSKA and Dynamo, as well as Krasnodar and Rostov. The competition kicked off on January 30, and in the next 24 hours we will see CSKA's match against Rostov. The rest of the games will take place next week. The tournament will end on February 10.

January 31, 19:30, Al Nahyan Stadium (Abu Dhabi, UAE). Live on Match TV and Match Premier

Hockey

KHL regular season. "Lokomotiv vs. Metallurg, Dynamo Moscow vs. SKA, Severstal vs. Spartak

In the KHL season, most of the scheduled games have already passed, but the intrigue in the fight for the playoffs still remains. That's why a number of games next weekend will have a big impact on the standings. Three games are especially important. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the regular season leader, will host the reigning Gagarin Cup winner, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, with whom they played in last year's playoff final. Dynamo Moscow will face SKA St. Petersburg at home. And Cherepovets' Severstal, which is unexpectedly in the top three of the Western Conference, will play at home against its rival for second place, Spartak Moscow.

February 1, 17:00: Arena-2000 (Yaroslavl); VTB Arena (Moscow). February 2, 17:00, "Ice Palace" (Cherepovets). Live broadcasts on "KHL Prime" and "Kinopoisk"

Boxing

"Night of Champions IBA"

The first in 2025 tournament "Night of Champions of the International Boxing Association (IBA)" will be held in the next 24 hours in "Luzhniki". The main fight will be a confrontation between two-time world champion Muslim Gadzhimagomedov of Russia and Thabiso Mchunu of South Africa. In the co-main fight will meet our heavyweight Artyom Suslenkov and Belgian Jack Mulowayi. Both fights will be held in 10 rounds. In addition, within the framework of the tournament there will be an 8-round fight for the title of European champion in weight up to 51 kg according to WBC version between Russian Artur Nagapetyan and Spaniard Samuel Carmona. And in the 6-round fight in weight up to 71 kg our Dmitry Zakharov will fight with silver medalist of the World Championship-2023 Uzbek Saidjamshid Jafarov.

January 31, 20:00, "International Boxing Center" (Moscow). Live on Match TV and Match! Combatant

Soccer

French Championship. "Brest" - "PSG", "Monaco" - "Auxerre"

As usual, the most interesting matches of the weekend in European soccer with the participation of Russians will be held in France. There, Matvey Safonov's PSG and Alexander Golovin's Monaco continue to struggle at the top of the standings. Leading Parisians have already broken away from the nearest pursuer "Marseille" on 10 points and confidently go to another championship. To prevent the intrigue in the fight for gold, they need to beat Brest away in the upcoming 20th round. "Monaco" is third, but has a small gap from the competitors for getting into the top-4, giving a ticket to the next Champions League. Therefore, the Monegasques are highly undesirable to lose points in the scheduled home meeting with Auxerre on February 1.

February 1: 19:00, Stade Francis-Le Blais (Brest, France); 21:00, Stade Louis II(Fontvieille, Monaco). Live broadcasts onOkko Sport

Hockey

MHL Challenge Cup

Next weekend in Novosibirsk begins the Week of hockey stars. Traditionally, its main event is the KHL Stars Match, which will be held at the end of next week. And it starts with the Challenge Cup of the Youth Hockey League (MHL), where the brightest young hockey players of the season from the Western and Eastern Conferences of the tournament will gather. Many of the current NHL and KHL stars were first exposed to the public for the first time at the Challenge Cup. And this time the youth can show themselves in front of more than 10 thousand spectators - that's the capacity of the Sibir Arena, which was opened a year and a half ago and will host an event of this scale for the first time.

February 1, 15:00, Sibir Arena (Novosibirsk). Live broadcast on OTS channel

Athletics

High jumping. Tournament "Battle of the Sexes"

The tournament among high jumpers in Tushino in recent years has become a tradition for the beginning of February. It is one of the main events in the winter part of the season in Russian athletics. As usual, a number of leading Russian and Belarusian track and field athletes will gather there this year, including 2017 World Championships silver medalist and 2018 World Indoor Champion Danil Lysenko, 2019 World Championships bronze medalist Ilya Ivanyuk, and Russia-2023 Indoor Champion Natalia Spiridonova.

February 1, 16:00 - 19:30, stadium "Salyut Heraklion" (Moscow).

Basketball

VTB United League. CSKA - Zenit

More than half of the VTB United League regular season games have already been played. And the top four teams have already clearly established themselves as the leaders, who have pulled away from the rest of the league: CSKA Moscow, UNICS Kazan, Zenit St. Petersburg and Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar. The head-to-head matches between them acquire a special status. One of these games will be held on February 2 - CSKA will host Zenit.

February 2, 12:30, Megasport Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! Game