{"id":222832,"date":"2025-10-18T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222832\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:43:11","slug":"kevin-holland-will-f-k-sh-t-up-at-ufc-vancouver-fight-again-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222832\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Holland Will \u2018F\u2014k Sh-t Up\u2019 At UFC Vancouver, Fight Again In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The uber-active Kevin Holland will be back in action later tonight (Sat., Oct. 18, 2025) at UFC Vancouver<\/a> LIVE on ESPN+<\/a> from inside Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but it may not be the last time fight fans see him compete this year.<\/p>\n

Holland, who will meet Canada\u2019s Mike Malott in tonight\u2019s co-main event, will be stepping inside of the Octagon for the fifth time this year, living up to his billing as one of the promotion\u2019s most active fighters. \u201cTrailblazer\u201d is just 2-2 in 2025, but he\u2019s hoping to break this .500 mark with a win over Malott this weekend. That\u2019s easier said than done, though, considering Malott is one of the most dangerous fighters in UFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If Holland is able to leave UFC Vancouver victorious and without serious injury, he\u2019s looking to make another return by year\u2019s end against welterweight veteran, Neil Magny. Holland also revealed that he\u2019s looking to take it easy in 2026 before trying to fight seven total times in 2027. The 27-fight UFC veteran has some grand plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut the work in on this dude, then hopefully run something back and get our sixth fight of the year,\u201d Holland told MMA Junkie<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cNext year will be a chill year. But in 2027, I\u2019ll fight seven times. I\u2019ve fought enough this year where next year I can just relax a little bit. Let the brain rest up, let the body heal up and I\u2019ll be ready to get back out there the year after. I\u2019d like to say whatever happens on Saturday, I\u2019ll get one more in. Saturday night, I\u2019m f\u2014king sh-t up. So I\u2019m for sure getting one more in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holland, 32, is certainly capable of fighting once more this year and even pulling through on his lofty aspirations for 2027. However, he has never fought more than five times for UFC in a calendar year so he\u2019d have to stay perfectly healthy in order to reach an even higher level of activity. It all starts this weekend against Malott, who Holland believes isn\u2019t on his level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was Matthews, but it\u2019s no big deal,\u201d said Holland. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the guy fight. The guy is a wonderful fighter, but he\u2019s just a step behind the level of competition that I am, and he\u2019s two steps behind the level of competition I usually lose to \u2013 so it\u2019s just not going to be a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n

MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC Vancouver fight card on fight night, starting with the ESPN+<\/a> preliminary card matchups scheduled for 4 p.m. ET, followed by the remaining main card balance on ESPN+<\/a> at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

To check out the latest and greatest UFC Vancouver news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive here<\/a>. For the updated and finalized \u201cDe Ridder vs. Allen\u201d fight card and ESPN<\/a>+<\/a> lineup click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The uber-active Kevin Holland will be back in action later tonight (Sat., Oct. 18, 2025) at UFC Vancouver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879],"class_list":["post-222832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}