Following one of the crucial profitable and engrossing years within the historical past of the UFC, the blended martial arts promotion will look to maintain constructing in 2022.
2021 noticed Conor McGregor combat twice, marking his most lively 12 months since 2016. The Irishman misplaced to Dustin Poirier in every outing, struggling a horrific damaged leg in the newest, however he’s focusing on a summer season return to the Octagon.
Elsewhere, newer stars like Israel Adesanya, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean O’Malley need to additional improve their legacies and profiles, whereas featherweight queen Amanda Nunes will certainly search to regain her bantamweight belt after shedding it to Julianna Pena in a serious upset in December.
Islam Makhachev continues to pursue his aim of turning into light-weight champion to comply with within the footsteps of his shut good friend and cornerman Khabib Nurmagomedov, whereas the lads’s bantamweight division is about to see a unification bout between its interim champion Petr Yan and official title holder Aljamain Sterling – with the heavyweight title having been unified in January when Francis Ngannou outpointed Ciryl Gane.
Listed here are all of the UFC occasions and fights introduced for the approaching weeks and months (playing cards topic to alter):
Saturday 4 June – UFC Combat Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
UFC heavyweight contender Jairzinho Rozenstruik
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Alexander Volkov vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik (heavyweight)
Dan Ige vs Movsar Evloev (featherweight)
Michael Trizano vs Lucas Almeida (featherweight)
Karine Silva vs Poliana Botelho (ladies’s flyweight)
Alonzo Menifield vs Askar Mozharov (mild heavyweight)
Felice Herrig vs Karolina Kowalkiewicz (ladies’s strawweight)
Prelims
Joe Solecki vs Alex da Silva (light-weight)
TBD vs Damon Jackson (featherweight)
Ode’ Osbourne vs Zarrukh Adashev (flyweight)
Niklas Stolze vs Benoit Saint Denis (light-weight)
Johnny Munoz vs Tony Gravely (bantamweight)
Jeffrey Molina vs Zhalgas Zhumagulov (flyweight)
Pinat Fakhretdinov vs Andreas Michailidis (welterweight)
Erin Blanchfield vs JJ Aldrich (ladies’s flyweight)
Saturday 11 June – UFC 275 – Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore
Glover Teixeira submits Jan Blachowicz to grow to be UFC mild heavyweight champion
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Glover Teixeira (C) vs Jiri Prochazka (mild heavyweight title)
Valentina Shevchenko (C) vs Taila Santos (ladies’s flyweight title)
Zhang Weili vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk (ladies’s strawweight)
Rogerio Bontorin vs Manel Kape (flyweight)
Jack Della Maddalena vs Ramazan Emeev (welterweight)
Prelims
SeungWoo Choi vs Josh Culibao (featherweight)
Brendan Allen vs Jacob Malkoun (middleweight)
Maheshate vs Steve Garcia (light-weight)
Andre Fialho vs Jake Matthews (welterweight)
Kyung Ho Kang vs Batgerel Danaa (bantamweight)
Liang Na vs Silvana Juarez (ladies’s strawweight)
Ramona Pascual vs Joselyne Edwards (ladies’s bantamweight)
Saturday 18 June – UFC Combat Night time – Moody Middle, Austin
Calvin Kattar bounced again from his loss to Max Holloway in effective vogue
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Calvin Kattar vs Josh Emmett (featherweight)
Donald Cerrone vs Joe Lauzon (light-weight)
Tim Means vs Kevin Holland (welterweight)
Jaoquin Buckley vs Albert Duraev (middleweight)
Damar Ismagulov vs Guram Kutateladze (light-weight)
Julian Marquez vs Gregory Rodrigues (middleweight)
Prelims
Roman Dolidze vs Kyle Daukaus (middleweight)
Phil Hawes vs Deron Winn (middleweight)
Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Natalia Silva (ladies’s flyweight)
Courtroom McGee vs Jeremiah Wells (welterweight)
Maria Oliveira vs Gloria de Paula (ladies’s strawweight)
Eddie Wineland vs Cody Stamman (bantamweight)
Saturday 2 July – UFC 276 – T-Cellular Enviornment, Las Vegas
UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is unbeaten within the division
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Principal card
Israel Adesanya (C) vs Jared Cannonier (middleweight title)
Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Max Holloway 3 (featherweight title)
Sean Strickland vs Alex Pereira (middleweight)
Pedro Munhoz vs Sean O’Malley (bantamweight)
Uriah Corridor vs Andre Muniz (middleweight)
Prelims
Brad Tavares vs Dricus Du Plessis (middleweight)
Jessica Rose-Clark vs Julija Stoliarenko (ladies’s bantamweight)
Lauren Murphy vs Miesha Tate (ladies’s flyweight)
Jessica Eye vs Maycee Barber (ladies’s flyweight)
Robbie Lawler vs Bryan Barberena (welterweight)
Saturday 23 July – UFC Combat Night time – O2 Enviornment, London
Curtis Blaydes vs Tom Aspinall (heavyweight)
Jack Hermansson vs Darren Until (middleweight)
Alexander Gustafsson vs Nikita Krylov (mild heavyweight)
Paul Craig vs Volkan Oezdemir (mild heavyweight)
Molly McCann vs Hannah Goldy (ladies’s flyweight)
Muhammad Mokaev vs Charles Johnson (flyweight)
Saturday 23 October – UFC 281 – Etihad Enviornment, Abu Dhabi
TBD vs TBD
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