The huge card at UFC 267 is coming up this month with Jan Blachowicz aiming to defend his light-heavyweight belt against Glover Teixeira.
The Polish fighter became champion when he beat Dominick Reyes at UFC 253 after Jon Jones vacated the title back in August 2020.
He has only defended the belt on one occasion so far when he ended Israel Adesanya’s unbeaten record at UFC 259.
Blachowicz’s second defence of the light-heavyweight strap is against Teixeira – whose only other title shot was a losing effort to Jones in 2014.
It should be a thrilling night of UFC main event action and here’s everything you need to know about it…
UFC 267: Date and start time
The event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, October 30, and is being held at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.
The prelims will get going from 1am on Sunday morning UK time with the main card starting from the usual time of 3am.
The headline bout of Blachowicz vs Teixeira can be expected between 5am and 6am.
UFC 267: TV and live stream
The action will be shown on BT Sport 1 and their coverage of the prelims will start from 1am.
It will be live streamed on BT Sport’s website and app for subscribers.
EE mobile customers will be able to get a FREE three-month trial of BT Sport by texting SPORT to 150. You can then cancel the trial at any time.
The early prelims will be shown on UFC’s Fight Pass and in the US, it will be the first free-to-air UFC event since UFC 138 in 2011.
UFC 267: Fight card
Subject to change
Main card
- MAIN EVENT: Jan Blachowicz (c) vs. Glover Teixeira – for Light Heavyweight Championship
- Petr Yan vs. Cory Sandhagen – for Interim Bantamweight Championship
- Magomed Ankalaev vs. Volkan Oezdemir, Light Heavyweight
- Islam Makhachev vs. Dan Hooker, Lightweight
- Alexander Volkov vs. Marcin Tybura, Heavyweight
Preliminary card
- Li Jingliang vs. Khamzat Chimaev, Welterweight
- Amanda Ribas vs. Virna Jandiroba, Women’s Strawweight
- Ricardo Ramos vs. Zubaira Tukhugov, Featherweight
- Albert Duraev vs. Roman Kopylov, Middleweight
- Michal Oleksiejczuk vs. Shamil Gamzatov, Light Heayvweight
- Makwan Amirkhani vs. Lerone Murphy, Featherweight
- Yaozong Hu vs. Alen Amedovski, Light Heavyweight
- Damir Ismagulov vs. Magomed Mustafaev, Lightweight
- Tagir Ulanbekhov vs. Allan Nascimento, Flyweight
UFC 267: What has been said?
Blachowicz was recently quizzed by MMA Fighting if he believes that Teixeira will pose a tougher challenge than Adesanya did.
He said: “We’ll see after the fight you know. But yeah, he’s got… lot’s of experience, many fights. He’s got everything.
“He know how to fight in stand-up. Jiu-jitsu is high level. So I have to be ready for everything. But we will see you know.
“I believe that I’m going to knock him out. I do everything I can do to knock him out, but I have to be ready for a really tough, tough fight… That’s gonna be the best Glover ever… So I have to also be the best Jan Blachowicz ever.”