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After much than 2 years away, the UFC is coming backmost to Southern California.
The UFC announced Saturday that Honda Center successful Anaheim volition beryllium the tract of UFC 270 connected Jan. 22, 2022, featuring title fights successful their heaviest and lightest men’s divisions.
UFC 270 volition beryllium the archetypal clip the MMA promotion has held a paper successful Southern California since UFC 241 connected Aug. 17, 2019, which was besides astatine Honda Center.
The arena made the announcement connected Twitter:
ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 @ufc 270 is coming to Honda Center connected Saturday, January 22! Don’t miss Francis Ngannou vs. Cyril Gane, Brandon Moreno vs. Deiveson Figueiredo and more.
🎟 Tickets spell connected merchantability Friday, November 19 connected https://t.co/sgjOBMIwRb pic.twitter.com/vGoZ5JHgtg
— Honda Center (@HondaCenter) October 23, 2021
Tickets for UFC 270 volition spell connected merchantability connected Nov. 19 astatine ticketmaster.com.
The main lawsuit is scheduled to pit heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou against apical contender Ciryl Gane. It volition beryllium the archetypal rubric defence for the monolithic Cameroonian, who won the loop astatine UFC 260 connected March 27 with a vicious knockout of two-time champion Stipe Miocic.
By coincidence, the 2nd reign for Miocic commenced astatine UFC 241 astatine Honda Center with a knockout of Daniel Cormier.
Ngannou is nary alien to Anaheim, having thrown retired the archetypal transportation earlier an Angels crippled connected Aug. 28 astatine Angel Stadium.
The Angels’ Mike Trout, left, and UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou intermission for photos earlier the Angels’ crippled against the San Diego Padres connected Aug. 28, 2021, astatine Angel Stadium successful Anaheim. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou throws the ceremonial archetypal transportation earlier the Angels’ crippled against the San Diego Padres connected Aug. 28, 2021, astatine Angel Stadium successful Anaheim. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The co-main lawsuit is expected to beryllium a trilogy showdown betwixt flyweight champion Brandon Moreno and erstwhile champion Deiveson Figueiredo. After they fought to a scintillating gully successful November, Moreno dethroned Figueiredo via rear-naked choke astatine UFC 263 successful June.
This volition beryllium the archetypal 125-pound rubric defence for Moreno, a Tijuana autochthonal who successful a July sojourn to Los Angeles spoke astir the whirlwind unreserved of becoming the UFC’s archetypal Mexican-born champion.
UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno, who became the archetypal Mexican-born champion successful UFC past with his third-round submission of Deiveson Figueiredo astatine UFC 263 successful June. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Here are immoderate of the fights, successful nary peculiar order, anticipated for UFC 270, with immoderate bouts inactive to beryllium added:
• Heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou vs Ciryl Gane
• Flyweight champion Brandon Moreno vs Deiveson Figueiredo
• Jared Cannonier vs Derek Brunson, middleweights
• Michael Morales vs Trevin Giles, welterweights
• Greg Hardy vs Aleksei Oleinik, heavyweights
• Cody Stamann vs Said Nurmagomedov, bantamweights
• Tony Gravely vs Saimon Oliveira, bantamweights
• Poliana Botelho vs Ji Yeon Kim, women’s flyweights
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