Aljamain Sterling remains to be in pursuit of his defining win as UFC bantamweight championship. Henry Cejudo, the Olympic gold medalist and former simultaneous two-division UFC champion, intends to erase Sterling’s legacy whereas including to his personal. Sterling and Cejudo meet in the principle occasion of UFC 288 on Saturday evening in Newark, New Jersey.
Sterling is the deserving champion, however his bantamweight title run has just lately been overshadowed by the end result of the fights. He received the title resulting from disqualification and eked out a break up determination in his rematch with Petr Yan. Sterling’s most up-to-date win over TJ Dillashaw performed second fiddle to the wrecked shoulder Dillashaw secretly entered the battle with.
Cejudo returns from a three-year retirement, leap-frogging the division with a method that might give Sterling critical issues. Sterling has relied closely on wrestling and again management to cement himself because the bantamweight king. Sterling will face wholesome opposition in that division towards the Olympic gold medalist.
One month later, the promotion returns to Vancouver, Canada for the primary time since September 2019 with UFC 289 headlined by Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Pena 3. Pena shocked the world in December 2021, submitting Nunes to seize the ladies’s bantamweight championship. Nunes battered Pena over 5 rounds of their summer time 2022 rematch to recapture the title.
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Upcoming UFC Schedule
| UFC 288 | Could 6 | Aljamain Sterling (c) vs. Henry Cejudo | Bantamweight title | Newark | ESPN+ PPV |
| UFC Struggle Evening | Could 13 | Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Jailton Almeida | Heavyweight | Charlotte | ESPN+ |
| UFC Struggle Evening | Could 20 | Raquel Pennington vs. Irene Aldana 2 | Girls’s bantamweight | Las Vegas | ESPN+ |
| UFC Struggle Evening | June 3 | Jack Hermansson vs. Brendan Allen | Middleweight | Las Vegas | ESPN+ |
| UFC 289 | June 10 | Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Juliana Pena 3 | Girls’s bantamweight | Vancouver | ESPN+ PPV |
| UFC Struggle Evening | June 17 | Marvin Vettori vs. Jared Cannonier | Middleweight | Las Vegas | ESPN+ |
| UFC Struggle Evening | June 24 | Josh Emmett vs. Ilia Topuria | Featherweight | Jacksonville | ESPN+ |
| UFC Struggle Evening | July 1 | Sean Strickland vs. Abus Magomedov | Middleweight | Las Vegas | ESPN+ |
| UFC 290 | July 8 | Alexander Volkanovski (c) vs. Yair Rodriguez (ic) | Featherweight title | Las Vegas | ESPN+ PPV |
| UFC Struggle Evening | July 22 | TBD | TBD | London | ESPN+ |
| UFC 294 | Oct. 22 | TBD | TBD | Abu Dhabi | ESPN+ PPV |