The middleweight title will be unified in front of a potential record crowd in October when Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya clash in the UFC 243 headliner.
Champion Whittaker (20-4 MMA, 11-2 UFC) and interim champ Adesanya (17-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) will decide the top dog at 185 pounds on Oct. 5 (Oct. 6 locally) at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. The promotion is expecting a new company attendance high of nearly 60,000 fans.
It’s arguably the biggest fight the UFC has put on in the Oceanic market to date, and Monday the promotion released the official poster for UFC 243.
Check it out below (via Twitter):
The latest UFC 243 lineup includes:
- Robert Whittaker vs. Israel Adesanya
- Dan Hooker vs. Al Iaquinta
- Holly Holm vs. Raquel Pennington
- Megan Anderson vs. Zarah Fairn Dos Santos
- Nadia Kassem vs. Ji Yeon Kim
- Luke Jumeau vs. Dhiego Lima
- Yorgan De Castro vs. Justin Tafa
- Sergey Spivak vs. Tai Tuivasa
- Rostem Akman vs. Jake Matthews
- Bruno Silva vs. Khalid Taha
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