UFC 2022 schedule: Every major fight happening this year

After one of the most successful and exciting years in UFC history, the mixed martial arts promotion will look to continue to grow in 2022.

2021 has seen Conor McGregor fight twice, marking his most active year since 2016. The Irishman has lost to Dustin Poirier in each outing, suffering a horrific broken leg in the most recent, but is aiming for a summer comeback in the Octagon.

Elsewhere, new stars like Israel Adesanya, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean O’Malley are looking to further enhance their legacies and profiles, while featherweight queen Amanda Nunes will surely be looking to regain her bantamweight belt after losing it to to Julianna Pena during a major upset in December. .

Islam Makhachev continues to pursue his goal of becoming lightweight champion to follow in the footsteps of his close friend and cornerman Khabib Nurmagomedov, while the men’s bantamweight division is set to see a unification bout between its interim champion Petr Yan and the official title holder Aljamain Sterling – the heavyweight title having been unified in January when Francis Ngannou edged out Ciryl Gane.

Here are all the UFC events and fights announced for the coming weeks and months:

Saturday, April 23 – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas

Main board

Amanda Lemos vs. Jessica Andrade (Female Strawweight)

Tanner Boser vs. Alexander Romanov (Heavyweight)

Clay Guida vs. Claudio Puelles (lightweight)

Lando Vannata vs. Charles Jourdain (featherweight)

Maycee Barber vs. Montana de la Rosa (women’s flyweight)

Steve Garcia vs. Damar Hadzovic (lightweight)

Preliminaries

Sumudaerji vs. Manel Kape (flyweight)

Louis Cosce vs. Preston Parsons (welterweight)

Jordan Wright vs. Roman Kopylov (middleweight)

Dwight Grant vs. Sergey Khandozhko (welterweight)

Tyson Pedro vs. Isaac Villanueva (light heavyweight)

Aoriqileng vs. Cameron Else (bantamweight)

Marcin Prachnio vs. Philipe Lins (light heavyweight)

Dean Barry vs. Mike Jackson (welterweight)

Saturday, April 30 – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas

Rob Font vs. Marlon Vera (bantamweight)

Tatsuro Taira vs. Carlos Candelario (Flyweight)

Gabriel Green vs. Yohan Lainesse (welterweight)

Darren Elkins vs. Tristan Connelly (featherweight)

Saturday May 7 – UFC 274 – Footprint Center, Phoenix

Charles Oliveira (C) vs. Justin Gaethje (lightweight title)

Rose Namajunas (C) vs. Carla Esparza 2 (Women’s Strawweight Title)

Michael Chandler vs. Tony Ferguson (lightweight)

Donald Cerrone vs. Joe Lauzon (lightweight)

Mauricio Rua vs. Ovince Saint Preux (light heavyweight)

Tracy Cortez vs. Melissa Gatto (women’s flyweight)

Blagoy Ivanov vs. Marcos Rogerio de Lima (heavyweight)

Macy Chiasson vs. Norma Dumont (women’s featherweight)

Randy Brown vs. Khaos Williams (welterweight)

Francisco Trinaldo vs. Danny Roberts (welterweight)

Brandon Royval vs. Matt Schnell (Flyweight)

Kleidison Rodrigues vs. CJ Vergara (Flyweight)

Ariane Carnelossi vs. Loopy Godinez (women’s strawweight)

Journey Newson vs. Fernie Garcie (bantamweight)

Saturday June 11 – UFC 275 – Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore

UFC light heavyweight champion

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Glover Teixeira (C) vs. Jiri Prochazka (light heavyweight title)

Valentina Shevchenko (C) vs. Taila Santos (women’s flyweight title)

Robert Whittaker vs. Marvin Vettori (middleweight)

Brendan Allen vs. Jacob Malkoun (middleweight)

Kyung Ho Kang vs. Saimon Oliveira (bantamweight)

Liang Na vs. Silvana Juarez (women’s strawweight)