UFC fighter
Ciryl Gane
Artwork slot · forthcoming
UFC fighter
Artwork slot · forthcoming
UFC.com’s Dec. 12 event page at T-Mobile Arena now lists three bouts: BMF champion Charles Oliveira vs. Diego Lopes, Alex Pereira vs. Sergei Pavlovich at heavyweight, and Joe Pyfer vs. Bo Nickal at middleweight.
Kayla Harrison’s first women’s bantamweight title defense against Amanda Nunes is set for Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden, co-main under Gane–Hokit.
Arman Tsarukyan stopped Mauricio Ruffy with elbows at 4:56 of Round 1 at UFC 331. UFC.com called him the cemented No. 1 contender; Justin Gaethje remains inactive with no interim.
Ciryl Gane is the undisputed heavyweight champion. His first defense is Josh Hokit at UFC 334 on Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden. Athlete badges and rankings have caught up — Gane is Title Holder, and the rankings list him as champion.
Oct. 24 at Etihad Arena stacks two championship fights: Volkanovski defends against undefeated Evloev, and Yan meets Merab Dvalishvili in a trilogy first defense.
Aspinall vacated the heavyweight title on Sept. 14 rather than hold the division while eye complications blocked medical clearance. This is that vacate record. UFC.com news on Sep. 20 elevated Ciryl Gane to undisputed and booked Josh Hokit for UFC 334.
Superseded. As of Sept. 13, Aspinall was still the listed heavyweight champion, Gane held the interim, and Dana White had opened a conversation — not a strip. Aspinall vacated Sept. 14; UFC.com elevated Gane on Sept. 20. See the vacate story and the Gane–Hokit story.
Three Noche results reshaped the talk at featherweight, women’s flyweight, and men’s flyweight — without rewriting the Octagon calendar at UFC 331, 332, and 333.