UFC CEO Dana White has introduced the brand new look UFC 303 combat card for Worldwide Combat Week on June 29, which sees Alex Pereira taking up Jiri Prochazka for the sunshine heavyweight title.
UFC 303 was scheduled to be headlined by Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler. Nevertheless, that combat is off and now the brand new important occasion of the pay-per-view card might be Alex Pereira defending his mild heavyweight title in opposition to Jiri Prochazka, White introduced on social media.
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Together with Pereira vs. Prochazka, White introduced the co-main occasion might be a featherweight scrap between Brian Ortega and Diego Lopes. The opposite new combat that White introduced is Carlos Ulberg will now tackle Anthony Smith after Jamahal Hill was pressured out of the bout on account of a knee damage.
Alex Pereira and Jiri Prochazka fought again in November with the Brazilian profitable by second-round knockout win the vacant mild heavyweight title. Since then, Pereira knocked out Hill in April at UFC 300, whereas on the identical card, Prochazka knocked out Aleksandar Rakic.
Within the co-main occasion, Brian Ortega will tackle Diego Lopez. Ortega is coming off a win over Yair Rodriguez in his return to the Octagon. Lopes, in the meantime, is driving a three-fight profitable streak and coming off a KO win over Sodiq Yusuff at UFC 300.
The third and last combat that White introduced for UFC 303 is a lightweight heavyweight scrap between Carlos Ulberg and Anthony Smith. Ulberg is coming off a 12-second KO win over Alonzo Menifield again in Might whereas Smith returned to the win column with a submission win over Vitor Petrino at UFC 301.
Following the brand new additions, UFC 303 is as follows:
Alex Pereira vs. Jiri Prochazka
Brian Ortega vs. Diego Lopes
Carlos Ulberg vs. Anthony Smith
Joe Pyfer vs. Marc-Andre Barriault
Ian Machado Garry vs. Michael Web page
Cub Swanson vs. Andre Fili
Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs. Gillian Robertson
Carlos Hernandez vs. Rei Tsuruya
Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Macy Chiasson
Ricky Simon vs. Vinicius Oliveira
Payton Talbott vs. Yais Ghemmouri
Andrei Arlovski vs. Martin Buday
Charles Jourdain vs. Jean Silva