We are formally on the roadway to UFC 307.
On Monday, the UFC launched its main poster for the upcoming pay-per-view occasion which occurs on Oct. 5 at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the primary occasion, Alex Pereira protects his light heavyweight title versus Khalil Rountree Jr., while in the co-main occasion, Raquel Pennington puts her bantamweight belt on the line versus previous champ Julianna Peña, and the UFC 307 battle poster puts the concentrate on both battles.
Pereira is the existing front-runner for 2024 Fighter of the Year, with effective title defenses versus previous champs Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka at UFC 300 and UFC 303 respectively. Rountree is on a five-fight winning streak however has actually not completed because last December, in part due to a suspension for stopping working a drug test.
Pennington won the uninhabited ladies’s bantamweight title by beating Mayra Bueno Silva at UFC 297 back in January. This will be her very first title defense. Peña, on the other hand, won the title by beating Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 in among the most significant upsets in UFC history. She then dropped the title back to Nunes in their rematch 7 months later on and has actually not contended given that.
UFC 307 likewise includes a variety of other marquee matches, consisting of a bantamweight bout in between Jose Aldo and Mario Bautista, a featherweight contest in between Movsar Evloev and Aljamain Sterling, a ladies’s bantamweight fight in between Kayla Harrison and Ketlen Vieira, and a welterweight clash in between Stephen Thompson and Joaquin Buckley, to name a few battles.