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UFC 333's free fight marathon puts past bouts before the headliner

Full-fight replays draw an unusually large audience as Volkanovski-Evloev preparations fill the channel.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 3,277,974 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (178,563).

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UFC is giving viewers a longer look at the fighters on its Volkanovski-Evloev card, with complete past bouts rather than a quick highlights reel. "UFC 333: Free Fight Marathon" reached about 1.4 million views in seven hours, a markedly faster start than the channel usually sees for its long videos and streams.

This is a replay collection featuring fighters competing at UFC 333, not a live broadcast of the card itself. The appeal is a different kind of preparation: full fights leave room for the rounds, adjustments and exchanges that a finishing-move clip cuts away.

The marathon is drawing the largest audience of the channel's three fast-starting UFC 333 uploads. The ceremonial weigh-in and "UFC 333 Embedded: Vlog Series - Episode 5" are also running well ahead of their usual starts in their respective formats.

That Embedded episode supplies the other side of fight preparation: media-day cameras, open workouts, Merab Dvalishvili getting ready for the press conference and Alexander Volkanovski training outdoors. Episode 6, posted afterward, moves into weight cuts, official weigh-ins and the ceremonial faceoffs. The marathon turns back from those final preparations to the fights that came before.

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The facts
Channel
UFC
Subscribers
23,200,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
53,238,090
Channel views, pace per day
9,726,520 (on a normal day: 9,006,656)
Video published
October 23, 2026
Video views so far
1,364,974 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
3,277,974

The numbers

The marathon's early viewing pace stands well above UFC's usual start for long videos and streams. Its projected first-day total is an estimate, not a completed day's count.

the video's first day
usual first day here
178,563
this video
3,277,974
subscribers
23,200,000
▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days
total views
12,828,031,637
views per day
9,726,520
typical day: 9,006,656
the video
views
1,364,974
likes
5,873
comments
0
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
UFC
23,200,000
UFC BJJ
110,000
As of October 24, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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