Here’s a look at every upcoming event announced by the UFC promotion so far
The year 2022 is one of the most successful and
exciting years in the history of the UFC in which we saw many undefeated and
memorable events. And so will the remaining few months of 2022 as the mixed
martial arts promotion continues to build into 2022.
Conor McGregor is marking his most active year since
2016. Conor McGregor fought twice in 2021, but the Irishman unfortunately lost
to Dustin Poirier in each outing, recently suffered a horrific broken leg, but
is targeting a return to the Octagon in late 2022.
Also in the other event, rising stars like Israel Adesanya, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean O'Malley are looking to make career history and raise their profiles, while bantamweight between featherweight queens Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena. A third battle for the ballot can also be expected.
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Islam Makhachev is very hopeful that he will achieve
his goal of becoming the lightweight champion in 2022, while the men's
bantamweight division still has a fight between his interim champion Petr Yan
and official title holder Aljamain Sterling. While the heavyweight title fight
took place in January when Francis Ngannou defeated Cyril Gane.
Details of all UFC events and fights announced for the
coming weeks and months can be found here (note: cards are subject to change).
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Saturday 1 October – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Main card
Mackenzie Dern vs Yan Xiaonan (women’s strawweight)
Sodiq Yusuff vs Don Shainis (featherweight)
Randy Brown vs Francisco Trinaldo (welterweight)
Prelims
Raoni Barcelos vs Trevin Jones (bantamweight)
Jessica Penne vs Tabatha Ricci (women’s strawweight)
John Castaneda vs Daniel Santos (bantamweight)
Saturday 15 October – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Viviane Araujo vs Alexa Grasso (women’s flyweight)
Misha Cirkunov vs Alonzo Menifield (light heavyweight)
Raphael Assuncao vs Victor Henry (bantamweight)
Tatsuro Taira vs CJ Vergara (flyweight)
Saturday 22 October – UFC 280 – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi
Charles Oliveira vs Islam Makhachev (vacant
lightweight title)
Aljamain Sterling (C) vs TJ Dillashaw (bantamweight
title)
Petr Yan vs Sean O’Malley (bantamweight)
Beneil Dariush vs Mateusz Gamrot (lightweight)
Katlyn Chookagian vs Manon Fiorot (women’s flyweight)
Belal Muhammad vs Sean Brady (welterweight)
Makhmud Muradov vs Caio Borralho (middleweight)
Saturday 29 October – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Calvin Kattar vs Arnold Allen (featherweight)
Saturday 12 November – UFC 281 – Madison Square Garden, New York City
Israel Adesanya (C) vs Alex Pereira (middleweight title)
Carla Esparza
(C) vs Weili Zhang (women’s strawweight title)
Dustin Poirier
vs Michael Chandler (lightweight)
Matt Frevola vs
Ottman Azaitar (lightweight)
Erin Blanchfield
vs Molly McCann (women’s flyweight)
Saturday 19 November – UFC Fight Night – TBA
Derrick Lewis vs Serghei Spivac (heavyweight)
Saturday 3 December – UFC Fight Night – TBA, Orlando
TBA vs TBA