Tuesday, the UFC made several championship bouts official.
From its largest weight class to one of its smallest, the UFC announced the four title bouts – some were expected, some maybe not so much.
The list of championship fights included the following: A highly anticipated trilogy bout between UFC heavyweight champion [autotag]Stipe Miocic[/autotag] and [autotag]Daniel Cormier[/autotag], an immediate featherweight title rematch between [autotag]Alexander Volkanovski[/autotag] and [autotag]Max Holloway[/autotag], [autotag]Kamaru Usman[/autotag]’s second title defense against [autotag]Gilbert Burns[/autotag], and [autotag]Jose Aldo[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Petr Yan[/autotag] for the vacant 135-pound title.
All of these title fights will happen this summer with three happening on one card: UFC 251 on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.
With so much gold on the line in a short amount of time, I was given the tough task to make some sense of these bookings but also put them in order of which fights I’m looking forward to the most.
(Disclaimer: All these fights are great, but some better than others)
So let’s get started…