UFC makes its extremely anticipated return to Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis with a fully stacked card that includes a can’t-miss championship doubleheader. In the principle occasion, newly topped undisputed UFC heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane appears to be like to make his first title protection in opposition to No. 4 ranked contender Josh Hokit. The co-main occasion will see arguably the best girls’s title battle of all time as reigning bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison takes on former champion and all-time nice Amanda Nunes.
POLYMARKET UFC 334: GANE vs. HOKIT takes place Saturday, November 14 at Madison Sq. Backyard with the principle card beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on Paramount+. The prelims will start at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. The early prelims will kick off at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT on Paramount+ and UFC Battle Go.
POLYMARKET UFC 334: GANE vs. HOKIT tickets will go on sale Friday, September 25 at 10 a.m. ET and can be found at ticketmaster.com. Ticket gross sales are restricted to eight (8) per particular person. UFC Battle Membership® may have the chance to buy tickets on Wednesday, September 23 at 10 a.m. ET through the web site UFCFightClub.com. A particular Web ticket pre-sale will likely be accessible to UFC publication subscribers Thursday, September 24 at 10 a.m. ET. To entry the pre-sale, customers should register for the UFC publication by UFC.com.
Gane (14-2 1NC, preventing out of Paris, France) plans to make his first efficiency as undisputed UFC heavyweight champion a memorable one. A high expertise within the division since debuting over seven years in the past, Gane has proven off his world-class expertise in victories over Alex Pereira, Serghei Spivac and Tai Tuivasa. He now intends to kick off his reign by silencing Hokit and handing him his first loss.
Upstart Hokit (10-0, preventing out of Albuquerque, N.M.) steps into his first fundamental occasion along with his eyes set on claiming UFC gold. A member of the UFC roster for simply over a 12 months after being signed on Season 9 of Dana White’s Contender Collection, he has rocketed up the rankings following highlight-reel performances over Derrick Lewis, Curtis Blaydes and Denzel Freeman. Hokit now goals to finish one of many quickest runs to a UFC title in historical past by stopping Gane.
UFC bantamweight queen Harrison (19-1, preventing out of Coconut Creek, Fla.) returns to the Octagon seeking to make an announcement. A two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo, Harrison is taken into account one of the crucial achieved feminine combined martial artists of all time, a fame she has bolstered with victories over Julianna Pena, Ketlen Vieira and Holly Holm. She now goals to realize her most vital purpose but by defeating the best of all time in Nunes.
Nunes (23-5, preventing out of Miami, Fla.) steps again into motion aiming to remind everybody why she is taken into account the most effective to ever do it. The one girl to ever win UFC belts in two separate weight courses and maintain and defend them on the identical time, she holds greater than 15 UFC information, together with most knockouts in UFC girls’s historical past (7), most consecutive wins in UFC girls’s historical past (12) and the longest mixed UFC title reign of all time (3,940 days). Nunes now intends to indicate that she remains to be on the high of the division with one other signature efficiency.
Different bouts on the cardboard embody:
• An intriguing middleweight bout sees No. 5 ranked Caio Borralho (18-2 1NC, preventing out of Sao Paulo, Brazil) face rising contender Yousri Belgaroui (11-3, preventing out of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• An all-action welterweight contest options No. 12 ranked Uros Medic (14-3, preventing out of Anchorage, Alaska by means of Novi Unhappy, Serbia) taking up fan favourite Kevin Holland (29-15 1NC, preventing out of Fort Value, Texas)
• Dana White’s Contender Collection standout Bilal Hasan (10-0 1NC, preventing out of Everett, Wash.) appears to be like for an additional highlight-reel end as he faces veteran Luis Gurule (11-4, preventing out of Sheridan, Colo.) at flyweight
• Drew Dober (29-15 1NC, preventing out of Denver, Colo.) and Chris Duncan (15-3, preventing out of Glasgow, Scotland) collide in an all-action light-weight bout
• Stephen Thompson (17-9-1, preventing out of Simpsonville, S.C.) returns to motion in opposition to Charles Radtke (12-5, preventing out of Chicago, In poor health.) at welterweight
• Middleweight motion pits undefeated up-and-comers Donte Johnson (9-0, preventing out of Fond du Lac, Wisc.) and Baisangur Susurkaev (12-0, preventing out of Miami, Fla. by means of Chechnya, Russia) head-to-head
• Jim Miller (39-19, preventing out of Sparta, N.J.) makes his forty eighth UFC look as he faces Terrance McKinney (18-9, preventing out of Spokane, Wash.) at light-weight
• No. 8 ranked UFC girls’s bantamweight contender Macy Chiasson (11-6, preventing out of Dallas, Texas) goals to defend her spot within the rankings in opposition to undefeated No. 11 ranked Bia Mesquita (8-0, preventing out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Adrian Yanez (18-6-1, preventing out of Houston, Texas) meets Juan Diaz (16-1-1, preventing out of Callao, Peru) in a can’t-miss bantamweight tilt
