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Following one of the most successful and engrossing years in the history of the UFC, the mixed martial arts promotion will look to keep building in 2022.
2021 saw Conor McGregor fight twice, marking his most active year since 2016. The Irishman lost to Dustin Poirier in each outing, suffering a horrific broken leg in the most recent, but he is targeting a summer return to the Octagon.
Elsewhere, newer stars like Israel Adesanya, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean O’Malley will look to further enhance their legacies and profiles, while featherweight queen Amanda Nunes will surely seek to regain her bantamweight belt after losing it to Julianna Pena in a major upset in December.
Islam Makhachev will keep pursuing his goal of becoming lightweight champion to follow in the footsteps of his close friend and cornerman Khabib Nurmagomedov, while the heavyweight and men’s bantamweight divisions are set to see unification bouts between their respective interim champions and official title holders.
Here are all the UFC events and fights announced for 2022:
Saturday 15 January – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
UFC featherweight contender Calvin Kattar
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Calvin Kattar vs Giga Chikadze (featherweight)
Muslim Salikhov vs Michel Pereira (welterweight)
Katlyn Chookagian vs Jennifer Maia (women’s flyweight)
Brandon Royval vs Rogerio Bontorin (flyweight)
Jake Collier vs Chase Sherman (heavyweight)
Gabriel Benitez vs TJ Brown (featherweight)
Bill Algeo vs Joanderson Brito (featherweight)
Court McGee vs Ramiz Brahimaj (welterweight)
Dakota Bush vs Viacheslav Borschev (lightweight)
Brian Kelleher vs Saidyokub Kakhramonov (bantamweight)
Silvana Juarez vs Vanessa Demopolous (women’s strawweight)
Saturday 22 January – UFC 270 – Honda Center, Anaheim
Francis Ngannou defends his heavyweight title against ex-teammate and interim champion Ciryl Gane
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Main card
Francis Ngannou (C) vs Ciryl Gane (IC) (heavyweight title)
Brandon Moreno (C) vs Deiveson Figueiredo (flyweight title)
Movsar Evloev vs Ilia Topuria (featherweight)
Greg Hardy vs Aleksei Oleinik (heavyweight)
Cody Stamann vs Said Nurmagomedov (bantamweight)
Viviane Araujo vs Alexa Grasso (women’s flyweight)
Rodolfo Vieira vs Wellington Turman (middleweight)
Raoni Barcelos vs Victor Henry (bantamweight)
Tony Gravely vs Saimon Oliveira (bantamweight)
Warlley Alves vs Jack Della (welterweight)
Poliana Botelho vs Ji Yeon Kim (women’s flyweight)
Matt Frevola vs Genaro Valdez (lightweight)
Trevin Giles vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
Kay Hansen vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)
Saturday 5 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Jack Hermansson vs Sean Strickland (middleweight)
Saturday 12 February – UFC 271 – Toyota Center, Houston
Robert Whittaker (left) dropped the middleweight strap to Israel Adesanya in 2019
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Main 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 (lightweight)
Roxanne Modafferi vs Casey O’Neill (women’s flyweight)
Carlos Ulberg vs Fabio Cherant (light heavyweight)
Ed Herman vs Maxim Grishin (light heavyweight)
Mana Martinez vs Ronnie Lawrence (bantamweight)
Alexander Hernandez vs Renato Moicano (lightweight)
AJ Dobson vs Jacob Malkoun (middleweight)
Douglas Silva de Andrade vs Sergey Morozov (bantamweight)
Orion Cosce vs Blood Diamond (welterweight)
Saturday 5 March – UFC 272 – TBD
Aljamain Sterling (C) vs Petr Yan (IC) (bantamweight title)
Saturday 26 March – UFC Fight Night – Nationwide Arena, Columbus
Jan Blachowicz vs Aleksandar Rakic (light heavyweight)