A middleweight bout between Uriah Hall and Rafael Natal has been added to the UFC 187 lineup, the organization announced Thursday.
The card, scheduled for May 23 at the MGM Grand Garden, is headlined by two title fights.
Jon Jones will defend the light heavyweight belt against Anthony Johnson, and middleweight champion Chris Weidman will put his belt on the line against Vitor Belfort.
Tickets will go on sale today.
Former UFC fighter Tim Kennedy said he competed 13 years ago in a reality TV show with Matthew Livelsberger, the man behind the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas.
Jon Koppenhaver will be one of the featured stories on the new series “Dark Side of the Cage.”
The off-market sale was brokered by Colliers and features two buildings which are 70 percent occupied by the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
UFC president Dana White, a longtime vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, said last weekend that he most likely won’t get involved in politics again.
The UFC reached another settlement with one of the two class-action litigants, agreeing Thursday to pay the former fighters $375 million after a previous agreement was thrown out by a Nevada district judge.
After successfully hosting Power Slap 8 in June, the casino agreed to take on five live, televised matches.
UFC president Dana White couldn’t be happier with how UFC 306, the first live sporting event at Sphere, played out Saturday on Mexican Independence Day weekend.
UFC 306 at Sphere had no chance to live up to the kind of hype that had surrounded the event for weeks, yet somehow it may have been even better.
Merab Dvalashvili neutralized superstar striker Sean O’Malley to take the UFC bantamweight title in the first live sporting event at Sphere on Saturday.
Betting opportunities abound Saturday for Mexico’s Independence Day weekend with a UFC card at Sphere and a Canelo Alvarez boxing match at T-Mobile Arena.
