{"id":547721,"date":"2026-03-19T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:57:08","slug":"ufc-londons-amazing-main-card-to-kick-off-spring-march-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547721\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC London’s Amazing Main Card To Kick Off Spring March 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC London<\/a> fight week continues. On the first full day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, MMA\u2019s No. 1 promotion in the world is headed off to the United Kingdom for a date at the O2 Arena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Live coverage of Saturday\u2019s card begins at an earlier time with the prelims<\/a> at 1 pm ET\/ 10 am PT. Inside the United States of America, the entirety of UFC London is seen on Paramount Plus.<\/a><\/p>\n

Main card action follows at 4 pm ET\/ 1 pm PT on Paramount Plus. Before the card takes place this weekend, we\u2019ve got tips on how to bet on UFC London.<\/a><\/p>\n

UFC London Main Event: No. 1 Contender Movsar Evloev vs. No. 3 Contender Lerone Murphy<\/p>\n

If there are no alterations to Saturday evening\u2019s bout order, the final version of this weekend\u2019s event will feature a schedule<\/a> of 14 MMA bouts from Dana White\u2019s promotion, including a battle for the No. 1 contender at 145 lbs.<\/p>\n

No. 1 contender Movsar Evloev<\/a> (19-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) collides with No. 3 contender Lerone Murphy<\/a> (17-0-1 MMA, 9-0-1 UFC.) This battle of the undefeated fighters is an advertised maximum of five rounds at five minutes per round to close out the evening\u2019s activities in London.<\/p>\n

Evloev, who\u2019s hopeful to secure a chance at the UFC Featherweight Championship<\/a> with a win on Saturday, has yet to lose thus far in his career, but it\u2019s been more than a year since he last set foot inside the fabled Octagon. Back in December of 2024, he scored a unanimous decision over Aljamain Sterling (25-5 MMA, 17-5 UFC) during UFC 310 in Enterprise, NV.<\/p>\n

A planned return to action last July versus Aaron Pico was canceled ahead of the card in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates after he withdrew from the contest amid an injury. This fight was almost derailed, also. Visa complications <\/a>nearly caused Murphy to drop out for the second time in a row, until he made a trip to the United Kingdom embassy to sort everything out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lerone Murphy enters UFC London on the strength of a 5-0 record in his last five fights as part of a 10-bout unbeaten streak since joining the UFC\u2019s active roster in September of 2019. The only UFC fight Murphy didn\u2019t win was his promotional debut (split draw) versus Zubaira Tukhugov.<\/p>\n

Back on Aug. 16, he finished off Aaron Pico (13-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC) with a first-round knockout by way of spinning back elbow<\/a> in the latter\u2019s UFC promotional debut. When fighters are on a hot streak, as Lerone Murphy and Movsar Evloev both are right now, they\u2019re at their most dangerous. What will happen on Saturday night?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

UFC London Co-Main Event: Luke Riley vs. Michael Aswell<\/p>\n

More featherweight action serves as the focus of UFC London\u2019s co-headlining attraction when Cage Warriors graduate Luke Riley<\/a> (12-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) makes his sophomore appearance in the promotion against Fury Fighting Championship alumnus Michael Aswell<\/a>\u00a0 (11-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC.) This fight is an advertised maximum of three rounds at five minutes per round.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s co-main event will be a \u201chome game\u201d for Luke Riley, who will be seeking to build off of a second-round knockout victory last November in his UFC debut against Bogdan Grad (15-4 MMA, 1-2 UFC) in Qatar. The undefeated Riley fought regularly in England when he was under the Cage Warriors banner, but this is his highest-profile fight to date. Can he get his 13th win in his 13th pro fight?<\/p>\n

Across the way, Michael Aswell has gone 3-2 in his last five fights. In October, he returned to victory lane with a first-round knockout (punches) of Lucas Almeida (15-5 MMA, 2-4 UFC) in one minute and 42 seconds.<\/p>\n

Aswell heads into enemy territory on Saturday night. The crowd will be loudly booing him as he makes the walk to the cage, so can he make the fans\u2019 faces even longer once they leave the arena?<\/p>\n

UFC London: No. 13 Contender Michael Page vs. Sam Patterson<\/p>\n

Also on UFC London on Saturday night, the welterweights do battle when No. 13 contender Michael Page<\/a> (24-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC) fights Sam Patterson<\/a> (14-2-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC.) MVP enters this weekend with a mark of 4-1 in his last five tilts dating back to 2023.<\/p>\n

Last time out, he bested Jared Cannonier (18-9 MMA, 11-9 UFC) by way of unanimous decision in Chicago. MVP is a seasoned veteran of the game, with Saturday\u2019s contest being his 29th in his professional career. His opponent is no slouch once the cage door closes, however.<\/p>\n

In the other corner, Sam Patterson has a 4-1 record of his own over the past five bouts. At the moment, he\u2019s won four fights in a row.<\/p>\n

More impressively, all four of his wins in this current streak have been recorded inside the first round of action, including a standing TKO victory due to a right hook over Trey Waters (9-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) in Paris last September.<\/p>\n

When Sam Patterson enters the Octagon on Saturday night, one piece of advice: Don\u2019t blink or take your eyes off of the screen. You just might end up missing the rest of the fight.<\/p>\n

Rest of the Card<\/p>\n

UFC London\u2019s main card is rounded out by these three fights:<\/p>\n

A light heavyweight contest between Iwo Baraniewski (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) and Austen Lane (13-7, 1 NC MMA, 1-4, 1 NC UFC,)
\na middleweight bout pairing Roman Dolidze (15-4 MMA, 9-4 UFC) against Christian Leroy Duncan (13-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC,)
\nand a featherweight fight matching Kurtis Campbell (8-0 MMA, UFC promotional debut) with Danny Silva (10-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC.)<\/p>\n

Which main card fights are you most looking forward to? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC London fight week continues. On the first full day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, MMA\u2019s No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-547721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}