Do you want to watch UFC 202 Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor 2 for FREE? Well I've got good news for you. This isn't a scam just a method I've learned for watching major sporting events live online. If this were any normal sporting event I would just point you to any of these sites and tell you to install an ad blocker first.

http://www.stream2watch.co/live-now/sport-stream
http://atdhe.to/
http://www.sportstream.tv/
http://firstrowsportes.com/

The Problem?

The biggest problem with watching major sporting events using free streaming sites that you can easily find by searching on Google, is that these streaming sites have a bottle neck on their bandwidth. They are limited to the bandwidth of their webservers. When there is a major pay per view sporting event of this magnitude you can guarantee these sites will not be able to handle the load and everyone trying to watch will experience freezing and buffering issues.

The Solution!

Acestream! Using Bittorrent technology acestreams are able to scale with large numbers of people all watching at the same time. Instead of everyone hitting the same webservers the load gets spread out over P2P connections. The caveat is that in order to get a buffered stream you have to add a minor delay to give the torrent network time to sync. I recommend using a 30 second delay but some people report being able to watch smoothly with as little as an 8 second delay.

Acestream gets a bad wrap but still watch out

I'm going to be honest Acestream has tried to pull a bit of a sneaky move with their installer at times and have received some bad reviews for it. Many people have complained that the Aceplayer installed adware or malware on their computer. The thing is those people actually authorized that adware during the install process. You have to be careful when installing their software. You don't have to click accept on every stage. It appears they've learned their lesson. Their current installer doesn't try to sneak anything in but I still like to unselect all the optional portions just in case.

Get Acestream for Windows here http://dl.acestream.org/products/acestream-full/win/latest Mac OS X users you'll have to do some more work: https://www.reddit.com/r/ACEstream/comments/3jxw6f/acestream_30_osx_guide/

Installing is pretty easy:

Why doesn't everyone use Acestream?

Acestream is becoming more and more popular for major live events that bring web servers to their knees but the biggest issue with mass market adoption is ease of use. Using Acestreams just isn't as easy as pressing play on a website. Finding a stream is little extra work. Have no fear, I've got you covered.

There are two major sources for Acestreams of UFC events:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mmastreams on the day of the event this subreddit will come alive. The moderators will open the forum up with a thread for the event and the comments will rapidly fill up with people offering their streams for free in hopes you'll toss them a little bitcoin tip. Look for the user @kingtiger he is a legend for UFC acestreams. He sometimes comes out of retirement for major events like this one.

http://arenavision.in/agenda is more of a 24/7 any sport on the planet acestream site. If you want to watch any sporting event just look for it on their schedule to find the corresponding Acestream channel streaming it.

How to watch it!

So you've installed the Acestream media program and you have an acestream link from one of the sources above for the event that looks something like this acestream://3c66395a188d4bcbfdebc264a6e7fc2773f26f35 all that is left to do is open the stream and fine tune your delay.

Start the program "Ace Player HD" which is actually just a modified version of VLC.

Click "Media" -> "Open Ace Stream Content ID"

Paste the acestream link into the content id text box and press play. It might take a bit to load at first. It's going out and finding peers like any other torrent but also buffering video on top of that. If you experience any freezing or choppyness you can increase the delay.

In your windows taskbar find the AceMedia logo and right click it

Increase the number inside the Live buffer, s text box. I personally use 30 seconds and never have issues.

This process can be repeated for pretty much any major event. The only thing left to do now is wait for this Saturday and let everyone know who you think will win and why in the comments below.