Following one of the profitable and engrossing years within the historical past of the UFC, the combined martial arts promotion will look to maintain constructing in 2022.
2021 noticed Conor McGregor battle 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 concentrating on a summer season return to the Octagon.
Elsewhere, newer stars like Israel Adesanya, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean O’Malley wish to additional improve their legacies and profiles, whereas featherweight queen Amanda Nunes will certainly search to regain her bantamweight belt after dropping 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 buddy and cornerman Khabib Nurmagomedov, whereas the boys’s bantamweight division is ready 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 vary):
Saturday 11 June – UFC 275 – Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore
Glover Teixeira submits Jan Blachowicz to develop into UFC mild heavyweight champion
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Most important card
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 Battle Evening – Moody Heart, Austin
Calvin Kattar bounced again from his loss to Max Holloway in nice style
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Most important card
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)
Court docket McGee vs Jeremiah Wells (welterweight)
Maria Oliveira vs Gloria de Paula (ladies’s strawweight)
Eddie Wineland vs Cody Stamman (bantamweight)
Saturday 25 June – UFC Battle Evening – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Arman Tsarukyan vs Mateusz Gamrot (light-weight)
Saturday 2 July – UFC 276 – T-Cellular Enviornment, Las Vegas
UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya is unbeaten within the division
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Most important card
Israel Adesanya (C) vs Jared Cannonier (middleweight title)
Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Max Holloway 3 (featherweight title)
Sean Strickland vs Alex Pereira (middleweight)
Lauren Murphy vs Miesha Tate (ladies’s flyweight)
Pedro Munhoz vs Sean O’Malley (bantamweight)
Prelims
Robbie Lawler vs Bryan Barberena (welterweight)
Uriah Corridor vs Andre Muniz (middleweight)
Jessica Eye vs Maycee Barber (ladies’s flyweight)
Brad Riddell vs Jalin Turner (light-weight)
Brad Tavares vs Dricus Du Plessis (middleweight)
Jessica Rose-Clark vs Julija Stoliarenko (ladies’s bantamweight)
Saturday 10 July – UFC Battle Evening – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Rafael dos Anjos vs Rafael Fiziev (light-weight)
Aiemann Zahabi vs Ricky Turcios (bantamweight)
Caio Borralho vs Armen Petrosyan (middleweight)
Saturday 16 July – UFC Battle Evening – UBS Enviornment, Elmont
TBD vs TBD
Saturday 23 July – UFC Battle Evening – O2 Enviornment, London
Wigan heavyweight Tom Aspinall will once more headline at London’s O2 Enviornment
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Most important card
Curtis Blaydes vs Tom Aspinall (heavyweight)
Jack Hermansson vs Darren Until (middleweight)
Alexander Gustafsson vs Nikita Krylov (mild heavyweight)
Paddy Pimblett vs Jordan Leavitt (light-weight)
Paul Craig vs Volkan Oezdemir (mild heavyweight)
Prelims
Marc Diakiese vs Damir Hadzovic (light-weight)
Molly McCann vs Hannah Goldy (ladies’s flyweight)
Makwan Amirkhani vs Jonathan Pearce (featherweight)
Muhammad Mokaev vs Charles Johnson (flyweight)
Mandy Bohm vs Victoria Leonardo (ladies’s flyweight)
Saturday 30 July – UFC 277 – American Airways Heart, Dallas
Julianna Pena (proper) dethroned Amanda Nunes in December
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Julianna Pena (C) vs Amanda Nunes (ladies’s bantamweight title)
Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France (interim flyweight title)
Derrick Lewis vs Sergei Pavlovich (heavyweight)
Magomed Ankalaev vs Anthony Smith (mild heavyweight)
Drew Dober vs Rafael Alves (light-weight)
Ramiz Brahimaj vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
Nicolae Negumereanu vs Ihor Potieria (mild heavyweight)
Justin Tafa vs Don’Story Mayes (heavyweight)
Diego Ferreira vs Drakkar Klose (light-weight)
Ji Yeon Kim vs Mariya Agapova (ladies’s flyweight)
Saturday 3 September – UFC Battle Evening – Accor Enviornment, Paris
Robert Whittaker vs Marvin Vettori (middleweight)
Saturday 23 October – UFC 281 – Etihad Enviornment, Abu Dhabi
TBD vs TBD
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