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The UFC schedule continues to roll on. After an epic UFC 284 card Down Under in Perth, Australia, the promotion is correct again at it on Saturday evening in Las Vegas.
Occasionally, a short-notice alternative is extra engaging than the unique reserving. That is arguably the case when former UFC girls’s strawweight champion Jessica Andrade steps in on seven days’ discover to battle rising girls’s flyweight Erin Blanchfield at UFC Fight Night.
Blanchfield was coaching to battle Taila Santos, the latter of whom was coming off a break up choice loss to UFC girls’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko, on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday. The promotion introduced in the course of the UFC 284 broadcast that Andrade would fill in for Santos. Santos withdrew from the battle after her cornermen have been denied visas, her supervisor Tiago Okamura advised ESPN.
Now, Blanchfield will get an equally stiff take a look at within the former strawweight champion who simply battered Lauren Murphy in January. Blanchfield scored her personal huge victory in November when she destroyed Molly McCann.
Things proceed to warmth up in March. First, the vacant heavyweight title is on the road when Jon Jones makes his long-awaited debut within the division in opposition to Ciryl Gane at UFC 285. The matchup comes because it was introduced that Francis Ngannou has been stripped of his title and launched from his contract. Jones will make the stroll to the Octagon for the primary time since February 2020. Two weeks later, an epic trilogy involves a head in London when welterweight champion Leon Edwards takes on Kamaru Usman at UFC 286.
The newest UFC PPV introduced is a rematch between Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya for the UFC middleweight championship in Miami on April 8. That card may also characteristic a much-anticipated rivalry conflict between Gilbert Burns and Jorge Masvidal.
Take a glance beneath on the present UFC occasion schedule for 2023. Be certain to verify again in on this web page when we now have extra data on upcoming UFC occasions all year long.
Upcoming UFC Schedule
UFC Fight Night
Feb. 18
Jessica Andrade vs. Erin Blanchfield
Women’s flyweight
Las Vegas
ESPN+
UFC Fight Night
Feb. 25
Nikita Krylov vs. Ryan Spann
Light heavyweight
Las Vegas
ESPN+
UFC 285March 4Jon Jones vs. Ciryl GaneHeavyweight titleLas VegasESPN+ PPVUFC Fight Night
March 11
Petr Yan vs. Merab Dvalishvili
Bantamweight
Las Vegas
ESPN+UFC 286March 18Leon Edwards (c) vs. Kamaru Usman 3
Welterweight titleLondonESPN+ PPVUFC Fight Night
March 25
Marlon Vera vs. Cory Sandhagen
Bantamweight
San Antonio
ESPN+
UFC 287
April 8
Alex Pereira (c) vs. Israel Adesanya 2
Middleweight title
Miami
ESPN+ PPV
UFC Fight Night
April 15
Max Holloway vs. Arnold Allen
Featherweight
Kansas City
ESPN+
