Key facts. Carlos Adames meets Gerome Warburton in a 10 round super middleweight main event at Zuffa Boxing 13 in Riyadh on Saturday 14 November. It is on Sky Sports in the UK and Paramount+ in the United States.
A Welsh super middleweight is headlining in Riyadh on Saturday, which is not a sentence British boxing has been able to write all that often. Gerome Warburton meets Carlos Adames over 10 rounds at The Venue, on a Riyadh Season card promoted as Zuffa Boxing 13. The official weigh-in story, published by UFC on Friday 13 November, lists that bout as the main event and confirms the show is on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Paramount+ in the United States.
It is the next step in Zuffa’s boxing series after a noisy night in London last Saturday, when Chev Clarke stopped former cruiserweight world champion Chris Billam-Smith at the Copper Box Arena. Saturday’s card in Saudi Arabia is a different assignment: a road trip, an afternoon start for UK viewers, and a main event that should tell us more about Warburton on a bigger stage.
The card, as officially announced
UFC’s preview and weigh-in pages agree on the shape of the main card. Adames, from the Dominican Republic, and Warburton, from Wales, are listed for 10 rounds at super middleweight. Australia’s Jason Moloney meets Mexico’s Andres Teran at bantamweight. France’s Bruno Surace faces Poland’s Kamil Bednarek, also at super middleweight. The preliminaries stretch from heavyweight to lightweight. The Friday weigh-in report names, among others, Jakhongir Zokirov against Brandon Colantonio at heavyweight over six rounds, Radzhab Butaev against Alexander Castro at middleweight over 10, and Ivan Ortiz against Dariial Kuchmenov at lightweight over eight, and it publishes those fighters’ official weights.
There is a small wrinkle in the published start times, so it is worth being precise rather than pretending the two official pages say exactly the same thing. The event preview, dated 11 November, says the prelims start at 7.15am Eastern Time, with the main card at 11.00am ET, which is 4.00pm UK time (Europe/London, GMT). The weigh-in article dated 13 November says the first bout is at 8.00am ET, which is 1.00pm in the UK. If you are setting an alarm or a reminder, use Sky Sports’ on-the-day listing as the final word, and treat 1.00pm UK time as the earliest official first-bell figure published on Friday, with the main event not expected until the late afternoon UK window around 4.00pm.
Tickets for the live gate are being sold through webook.com, according to the same UFC pages. For everyone watching at home, the legal routes named by the promoter are Sky Sports and Paramount+.
Why last week in London still matters
Zuffa Boxing 12, at the Copper Box on 7 November, was a useful trailer for UK interest in this series. Official UFC and CBS Sports reports describe Clarke dropping Billam-Smith twice in the seventh round before the referee stopped the contest at 1 minute 24 seconds. It was, they say, the first time Billam-Smith had been put down as a professional, and it continued a rivalry that had already produced two amateur wins for Clarke. Denzel Bentley, the former middleweight titleholder, won a tight unanimous decision over Shane Mosley Jr on scores of 96-94, 96-93 and 95-94. Heavyweight prospect Da’Mazion Vanhouter stayed unbeaten with a first-round stoppage of Ivan Balaz, his fourth Zuffa appearance of 2026.
Those results do not tell us who wins in Riyadh. They do explain why a Sky Sports audience is being asked to spend Saturday afternoon with this brand again. Clarke’s stoppage was the sort of finish that makes a casual viewer stay for the next card. Warburton now has the less comfortable task of doing his work thousands of miles from home, in a 10-round main event, against Adames.
I am not going to invent form lines or official records I have not checked on a commission site. What we can say from the promoter’s own material is straightforward: this is a 10-round super middleweight main event, it has made the official weight-in cycle on Friday, and it is being shown on a major UK sports channel. That is enough to justify sitting down for it. It is not enough to dress it up as a world title fight that it has not been announced as.
How to watch Zuffa Boxing 13
In the United Kingdom, the official outlet named by UFC this week is Sky Sports. Sky customers can watch on the Sky Sports boxing or main sports channel listed in the Sky guide on the day, and through the Sky Sports app. If you do not have Sky, use only an official pass or official highlights, not a Facebook link from a stranger. In the United States, UFC says the whole event streams on Paramount+. Those are the two territories the promoter has named on its preview and weigh-in pages. If you are elsewhere, look for a licensed local partner, and treat 1.00pm UK time as the earliest official first-bell figure published on Friday, with the main event not expected until the late afternoon UK window around 4.00pm.
Saturday is also a big rugby afternoon. We have kick off times and official channels for Wales against New Zealand and England against Japan, both on ITV. If you are up early on Sunday, the second Australia against England ODI is on TNT Sports from 3.00am.
FAQs
What channel is Zuffa Boxing 13 on in the UK?
Sky Sports, according to UFC’s official weigh-in and event pages published this week. Check the Sky guide on Saturday for the exact channel name.
What time does Zuffa Boxing 13 start?
UFC’s 13 November weigh-in article lists the first bout at 8.00am Eastern Time, which is 1.00pm UK time. An earlier official preview listed prelims at 7.15am ET and the main card at 11.00am ET, which is 4.00pm UK time. Use Sky’s on-the-day listing as the final word.
Who is fighting in the main event?
Carlos Adames of the Dominican Republic against Gerome Warburton of Wales, over 10 rounds at super middleweight, at The Venue in Riyadh.
Watch safely
Use official TV channels and legal apps only. A virtual private network can help if you are on public Wi-Fi, in a hotel, or travelling, and it can protect the connection when you sign in to those official services. It is not a way to dodge a subscription or to find an unofficial stream, and we will not point you to one. These are the services I point people to: NordVPN, Surfshark, IPVanish, CyberGhost, PureVPN and Ivacy.
If you want a living room box for official sports apps, these are two I point people to. The NVIDIA Shield TV Pro is still the one I put first if you want a proper Android TV Play Store. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is the simpler stick option, with official apps from Amazon’s own store. These product links were checked on 13 November 2026:
NVIDIA Shield TV Pro
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro on Amazon UK
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro on Amazon US
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro on Amazon Germany
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro on Amazon France
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro on Amazon Italy
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max on Amazon UK
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max on Amazon US
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max on Amazon Germany
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max on Amazon France
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max on Amazon Italy
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Written by Dr Husham Memar