The brand new UFC 314 fundamental card has now been revealed after some shuffling was required following an damage suffered by Geoff Neal that scrapped his battle towards Carlos Prates.
Whereas Prates shortly moved on to e book a fundamental occasion towards Ian Machado Garry at UFC Kansas Metropolis in a number of weeks, the UFC 314 card on Saturday didn’t need to look too far to discover a worthy matchup to open the pay-per-view.
Two-time gentle heavyweight title challenger Dominick Reyes, who has immediately rattled off back-to-back knockouts in his previous two appearances, takes on Nikita Krylov in an intriguing bout at 205 kilos. Each fighters are well-known finishers so it’s powerful to think about Reyes and Krylov don’t begin the exhibit with a bang once they conflict at UFC 314.
From there, former Bellator champion Patricio Pitbull lastly makes his lengthy awaited octagon debut when he faces Yair Rodriguez in a pivotal matchup at featherweight. Pitbull has lengthy needed to compete among the many finest on the earth within the UFC and now he will get his probability whereas dealing with an extremely powerful check with Rodriguez awaiting him on Saturday.
Additionally on the primary card, Jean Silva will get his want when he faces Bryce Mitchell in a battle that ought to produce fireworks each inside and out of doors the cage. Some dangerous blood has shaped between these two and so they’ll look to settle the rating at UFC 314.
Within the co-main occasion, Michael Chandler returns to motion and gives the hardest check of Paddy Pimblett’s UFC profession as the favored fighter from Liverpool makes an attempt to take out an all the time thrilling Struggle of the Evening machine to catapult himself up the light-weight ranks.
The featherweight title battle between Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes caps off the evening as they battle for a vacant belt after Ilia Topuria vacated the title to make a brand new residence within the light-weight division.
The UFC 314 fundamental card kicks off at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday evening on ESPN+ pay-per-view.
