After a three-year wait, the UFC is lastly set to return to London.
A London card was held in February or March annually between 2016 and 2019, with the 2020 version of the occasion cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Previous to 2016, London had hosted UFC occasions on seven events.
No card was held within the English capital in 2021, however the UFC introduced in January {that a} 2022 occasion would go forward in March, with the promotion’s president Dana White saying: “I wanna say due to all of the followers, they’ve hung in there for a very long time whereas we’ve scrapped and battled and tried to determine the right way to ship it to you guys on the market.
“The UK is among the territories that I’m actually enthusiastic about, and I haven’t been this enthusiastic about it since like 2003 or ‘04 or one thing.”
On the time of writing, no fights have been introduced for UFC London, however right here is all you’ll want to know concerning the occasion and how one can purchase tickets.
When is it?
UFC London will happen on 19 March 2022.
The place is it?
The O2 Area will host the occasion.
Jorge Masvidal knocked out Liverpool’s Darren Until at UFC London in March 2019
(Getty Photographs)
How can I purchase tickets?
Tickets will go on common sale at 10am GMT on Friday 4 February, with AXS and Ticketmaster named by the UFC as official ticket suppliers.
Struggle Membership and O2 precedence members should buy tickets from Wednesday 2 February at 9am and 10am GMT respectively.
In the meantime, UFC publication subscribers are in a position to entry tickets on Thursday 3 February at 10am GMT. The identical applies to followers who register their curiosity through UFC.com/London; the UFC is advising followers to do that as quickly as attainable.
Who’s combating?
British heavyweight prospect Tom Aspinall will tackle veteran Alexander Volkov in the principle occasion.
Within the co-main occasion, rising British featherweight Arnold Allen takes on former light-weight contender Dan Hooker.
Elsewhere on the cardboard, fan favorite Paddy Pimblett will look to comply with up his profitable UFC debut with one other win because the Liverpudlian takes on Kazula Vargas at light-weight.
All confirmed fights
Paddy Pimblett is among the many Britons to function at UFC London
(Zuffa LLC through Getty Photographs)
Alexander Volkov vs Tom Aspinall (heavyweight)
Arnold Allen vs Dan Hooker (featherweight)
Paddy Pimblett vs Kazula Vargas (light-weight)
Molly McCann vs Luana Carolina (girls’s flyweight)
Nathaniel Wooden vs Liudvik Sholinian (bantamweight)
Jack Shore vs Timur Valiev (bantamweight)
Muhammad Mokaev vs Cody Durdan (flyweight)
Cory McKenna vs Elise Reed (girls’s strawweight)
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