The UFC 316 principal card is official.
In simply 4 weeks, the UFC returns to the Prudential Middle in Newark, NJ for UFC 316, with one other pair of title fights for its newest pay-per-view card. In the primary occasion, bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili places his belt on the road in a rematch with the person he took the title from, Sean O’Malley. “Suga” has not fought since dropping the title to Dvalishvili however is nonetheless getting a crack on the champion, who made his first profitable title protection in January, profitable a unanimous determination over Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC 311.
Within the co-main occasion, girls’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña places her lately reclaimed title on the road towards former two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison. Peña gained the title with a cut up determination win over Raquel Pennington at UFC 307, whereas Harrison is 2-0 within the UFC and coming off a unanimous determination win over Ketlen Vieira on the identical card. The winner is predicted to welcome girls’s MMA GOAT Amanda Nunes again to the cage after a two-year retirement.
Additionally on the primary card, middleweight standout Kelvin Gastelum squares off with rising prospect Joe Pyfer within the function bout of the night, and former bantamweight title challenger Marlon Vera takes on fellow Prime 10-ranked fighter Mario Bautista. A welterweight scrap between Vicente Luque and Kevin Holland opens the primary card.
UFC 316 takes place on June 7, with the primary card airing reside on ESPN+ pay-per-view.
