UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski will defend his division title against undefeated 145-pound contender Movsar Evloev in the upcoming UFC 333 main event, locked and loaded for Sat., Oct. 24, 2026 inside Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In the UFC 333 co-main event, Bantamweight Champion Petr Yan will complete his trilogy against former 135-pound titleholder Merab Dvalishvili.
All four combatants will be on hand for the UFC 333 pre-fight press conference, hosted by UFC CEO
Dana White, streaming LIVE at 9 a.m. ET in the embedded video above.
“I think it’s a difficult task for both guys, for completely different reasons,” UFC analyst Laura Sanko told MMA Junkie. “I’m siding with Volk on this one. To me, he’s the greatest featherweight. I know there’s a lot of – there’s recency bias and there’s a fondness bias. Where you’re harkening back to MMA in a certain way and the height of your fandom. I think Jose Aldo will continue to be a lot of people’s choices, and for the obvious reasons. But to me, Volk is the No. 1 featherweight of all time. And I don’t think enough of Father Time has affected him yet to get him in this fight.”
“Father Time comes for all of us,” Sanko said. “But I think this is a matchup where Volkanovski has enough of a striking edge and enough of a defensive grappling ability and get-up ability where, unless Movsar can get him down and really just destroy the clock and keep Volk from being able to land enough damage when they do separate – I think just skill-wise Volk is the superior fighter in this matchup.”
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