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One of the most anticipated UFC events of 2025 is less than two weeks away, and the promotion has once again updated the bout order for UFC 322<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nov. 15 fight card at Madison Square Garden in New York (ESPN+<\/a> pay-per-view, ESPNews, Disney+, FX, ESPN+) features two championship fights at the top of the card, with welterweight titleholder Jack Della Maddalena (18-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC) set to defend vs. Islam Makhachev (27-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) in the main event, while women’s flyweight queen Valentina Shevchenko (25-4-1 MMA, 14-3-1 UFC) puts gold on the line vs. Zhang Weili (26-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in the co-headliner.<\/p>\n

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Initially, the organization announced the five-fight main card would feature the return of middleweight prospect Bo Nickal (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC), who looks to rebound from his first career loss in a showdown with Rodolfo Vieira (11-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC). His inclusion on the most prominent part of the card sparked some outrage from MMA fans, who felt the lightweight bout with Beneil Dariush (23-6-1 MMA, 17-6-1 UFC) vs. Benoit Saint Denis (15-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) was more worthy.<\/p>\n

Apparently someone in a position of power at UFC agreed, because during Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 263 broadcast, a revised bout order for UFC 322 was revealed, with Nickal vs. Vieira being demoted into the featured preliminary-card slot and Dariush vs. Saint Denis being elevated.<\/p>\n

Check out the latest UFC 322 lineup below:<\/p>\n

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MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n

Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev \u2013 for welterweight title<\/p>\n

Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili \u2013 for women’s flyweight title<\/p>\n

Sean Brady vs. Michael Morales<\/p>\n

Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates<\/p>\n

Beneil Dariush vs. Benoit Saint Denis<\/p>\n

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPNews\/ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX, 8 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n

Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira<\/p>\n

Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues<\/p>\n

Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez<\/p>\n

Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cody Haddon<\/p>\n

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX, 6 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n

Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert<\/p>\n

Fatima Kline vs. Angela Hill<\/p>\n

Chepe Mariscal vs. Pat Sabatini<\/p>\n

Eric McConico vs. Baisangur Susurkaev<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 322 bout order updated, with Bo Nickal demoted from main card<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most anticipated UFC events of 2025 is less than two weeks away, and the promotion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,152484,28777,17832,794,786,27140,27141,785,19854,85,787,11158,63226],"class_list":["post-258928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beneil-dariush","tag-benoit-saint-denis","tag-bo-nickal","tag-espn","tag-fighting","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-jack-della-maddalena","tag-mma","tag-rodolfo-vieira","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-valentina-shevchenko","tag-zhang-weili"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258928","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=258928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}