Following probably the most 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 battle twice, marking his most energetic yr since 2016. The Irishman misplaced to Dustin Poirier in every outing, struggling a horrific damaged leg in the latest, 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 maintain pursuing his aim of changing into light-weight champion to observe within the footsteps of his shut good friend and cornerman Khabib Nurmagomedov, 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 22 January – UFC 270 – Honda Heart, Anaheim
Francis Ngannou defends his heavyweight title in opposition to ex-teammate and interim champion Ciryl Gane
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Predominant card
Francis Ngannou (C) vs Ciryl Gane (IC) (heavyweight title)
Brandon Moreno (C) vs Deiveson Figueiredo (flyweight title)
Michel Pereira vs Andre Fialho (welterweight)
Cody Stamann vs Stated Nurmagomedov (bantamweight)
Trevin Giles vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
Prelims
Raoni Barcelos vs Victor Henry (bantamweight)
Pete Rodriguez vs Jack Della Maddalena (welterweight)
Tony Gravely vs Saimon Oliveira (bantamweight)
Matt Frevola vs Genaro Valdez (light-weight)
Early prelims
Silvana Juarez vs Vanessa Demopoulos (ladies’s strawweight)
Kay Hansen vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (ladies’s flyweight)
Saturday 5 February – UFC Combat Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Jack Hermansson vs Sean Strickland (middleweight)
Saturday 12 February – UFC 271 – Toyota Heart, Houston
Robert Whittaker (left) dropped the middleweight strap to Israel Adesanya in 2019
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Predominant 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 (ladies’s flyweight)
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 19 February – UFC Combat Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Rafael dos Anjos vs Rafael Fiziev (light-weight)
Johnny Walker vs Jamahal Hill (mild heavyweight)
Ilir Latifi vs Alexander Romanov (heavyweight)
Jessica Rose-Clark vs Stephanie Egger (ladies’s bantamweight)
Diana Belbita vs Gloria de Paula (ladies’s strawweight)
Chad Anheliger vs Jesse Strader (bantamweight)
Saturday 26 February – UFC Combat Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Beneil Dariush vs Islam Makhachev (light-weight)
Makhmud Muradov vs Misha Cirkunov (middleweight)
Saturday 5 March – UFC 272 – T-Cell Enviornment, Las Vegas
Jorge Masvidal (left) and Colby Covington
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Colby Covington vs Jorge Masvidal (welterweight)
Marina Rodriguez vs Yan Xiaonan (ladies’s strawweight)
Edson Barboza vs Bryce Mitchell (featherweight)
Devonte Smith vs Erick Gonzalez (light-weight)
Maryna Moroz vs Mariya Agapova (ladies’s flyweight)
Jalin Turner vs Jamie Mullarkey (light-weight)
Nicolae Negumereanu vs Ihor Potieria (mild heavyweight)
Kevin Holland vs Alex Oliveira (welterweight)
Jessica Eye vs Manon Fiorot (ladies’s flyweight)
Tim Elliot vs Tagir Ulanbekov (flyweight)
Dustin Jacoby vs Michael Oliksiejczuk (mild heavyweight)
Serghei Spivac vs Greg Hardy (heavyweight)
Saturday 12 March – UFC Combat Night time – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Thiago Santos vs Magomed Ankalaev (mild heavyweight)
Saturday 19 March – UFC Combat Night time – O2 Enviornment, London
Saturday 26 March – UFC Combat Night time – Nationwide Enviornment, Columbus
Former mild heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz
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Jan Blachowicz vs Aleksandar Rakic (mild heavyweight)
Askar Askarov vs Kai Kara-France (flyweight)
Matt Brown vs Bryan Barberena (welterweight)
Michelle Waterson vs Amanda Ribas (ladies’s strawweight)
Nate Landwehr vs Lerone Murphy (featherweight)
Joanne Wooden vs Alexa Grasso (ladies’s flyweight)
Tucker Lutz vs SeungWoo Choi (featherweight)
Sara McCann vs Karol Rosa (ladies’s bantamweight)
Montel Jackson vs Danaa Batgerel (bantamweight)
Matheus Nicolau vs David Dvorak (flyweight)
Aliaskhab Khizriev vs Abus Magomedov (middleweight)
Saturday 9 April – UFC 273 – TBD
Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Chan Sung Jung (featherweight title) – not but official
Aljamain Sterling (C) vs Petr Yan (IC) (bantamweight title) – not but official
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