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 combat twice, marking his most energetic 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 time return to the Octagon.
Elsewhere, newer stars like Israel Adesanya, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean O’Malley will look 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 will hold pursuing his purpose of following within the footsteps of his shut buddy and cornerman Khabib Nurmagomedov by turning into light-weight champion, whereas the heavyweight and males’s bantamweight divisions are set to see unification bouts between their respective interim champions and official title holders.
Listed below are all of the UFC occasions and fights introduced for 2022:
Saturday 15 January – UFC Battle Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Calvin Kattar vs Giga Chikadze (featherweight)
Muslim Salikhov vs Michel Pereira (welterweight)
Saturday 22 January – UFC 270 – Honda Middle, Anaheim
Francis Ngannou defends his heavyweight title in opposition to ex-teammate and interim champion Ciryl Gane
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Foremost card
Francis Ngannou (C) vs Ciryl Gane (IC) (heavyweight title)
Brandon Moreno (C) vs Deiveson Figueiredo (flyweight title)
Greg Hardy vs Aleksei Oleinik (heavyweight)
Cody Stamann vs Stated Nurmagomedov (bantamweight)
Movsar Evloev vs Ilia Topuria (featherweight)
Prelims
Poliana Botelho vs Ji Yeon Kim (girls’s flyweight)
Warlley Alves vs Jack Della (welterweight)
Tony Gravely vs Saimon Oliveira (bantamweight)
Rodolfo Vieira vs Wellington Turman (middleweight)
Trevin Giles vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
Viviane Araujo vs Alexa Grasso (girls’s flyweight)
Matt Frevola vs Genaro Valdez (light-weight)
Kay Hansen vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (girls’s flyweight)
Saturday 5 February – UFC Battle Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Jack Hermansson vs Sean Strickland (middleweight)
Saturday 12 February – UFC 271 – Toyota Middle, Houston
Robert Whittaker (left) dropped the middleweight strap to Israel Adesanya in 2019
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Foremost card
Israel Adesanya (C) vs Robert Whittaker 2 (middleweight title)
Kyler Phillips vs Marcelo Rojo (bantamweight)
Alex Perez vs Matt Schnell (flyweight)
Vinc Pichel vs Mark Madsen (light-weight)
Roxanne Modafferi vs Casey O’Neill (girls’s flyweight)
Prelims
Carlos Ulberg vs Fabio Cherant (mild heavyweight)
Ed Herman vs Maxim Grishin (mild heavyweight)
Mana Martinez vs Ronnie Lawrence (bantamweight)
Alexander Hernandez vs Renato Moicano (light-weight)
AJ Dobson vs Jacob Malkoun (middleweight)
Douglas Silva de Andrade vs Sergey Morozov (bantamweight)
Orion Cosce vs Blood Diamond (welterweight)
Saturday 5 March – UFC 272 – T-Cell Enviornment, Las Vegas
Saturday 26 March – UFC Battle Night time – Nationwide Enviornment, Columbus
Jan Blachowicz vs Aleksandar Rakic (mild heavyweight)
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