The primary UFC occasion in over a decade will probably be headlined by two title fights.
Welterweight champion Belal Muhammad will defend his title towards Jack Della Maddalena within the UFC 315 important occasion Could 10 at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the promotion introduced Wednesday.
As well as, UFC ladies’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will face France’s Manon Fiorot in a five-round co-main occasion.
Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) returns from a extreme toe an infection that knocked him out of a scheduled title battle vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov in December. Rakhmonov as a substitute confronted and defeated Ian Machado Garry. Because of damage, Rakhmonov was unable to take a crack at Muhammad.
That’s the place Della Maddalena (17-2 MMA, 7-0 UFC) stepped in. Scheduled to face Leon Edwards in a UFC Battle Evening headliner on March 22 in London, Della Maddalena has been changed by Sean Brady.
Della Maddalena now will get a title shot just a little over three years after his promotional debut. Notable wins within the UFC embody Gilbert Burns and Kevin Holland.
Shevchenko (24-4-1 MMA, 13-3-1 UFC) will face somebody not named Alexa Grasso for the primary time in 4 appearances. Shevchenko and Grasso engaged in a trilogy throughout which they break up the appearances at 1-1-1. Shevchenko at present has the final chuckle, nonetheless, as she received the title again from Grasso in September.
Fiorot (12-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) might turn into the primary French champion ought to she win. No opponent has been in a position to be her so far within the UFC, as Fiorot has racked up wins over Erin Blanchfield and Rose Namajunas amongst others.
Additionally, a welterweight bout between Gilbert Burns (22-8 MMA, 15-8 UFC) and Michael Morales (17-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) that was initially anticipated for UFC 314 in Miami shifts to UFC 315 Montreal. That strikes the entire quantity of publicly recognized fights to seven.
With the additions, the UFC 315 lineup consists of:
- Champion Belal Muhammad vs. Jack Della Maddalenna – for welterweight title
- Champion Valentina Shevchenko vs. Manon Fiorot – for girls’s flyweight title
- Gilbert Burns vs. Michael Morales
- Alexa Grasso vs. Natalia Silva
- Bekzat Almakhan vs. Brad Katona
- Nora Cornolle vs. Hailey Cowan
- Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Bruno Silva
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