Four key bouts will define the closing month of 2026 and the opening month of 2027 with UFC 335 set to take place Dec. 12 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. UFC 336 goes Jan. 30 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. Both events stream on Paramount+.
Eight athletes had faceoffs following a combined press conference for both events, including UFC 335's Charles Oliveira (37-11 MMA, 25-11 UFC) and Diego Lopes (28-8 MMA, 7-3 UFC), who meet for the BMF belt in the main event, as well as former two-division UFC champ Alex Pereira (13-4 MMA, 10-3 UFC), who seeks his first first heavyweight win against Sergei Pavlovich (20-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) in the co-main event.
The UFC 336 flyweight title grudge match of Joshua Van (18-2 MMA, 11-1 UFC) vs. Manel Kape (23-7 MMA, 8-3
UFC) also squared off, but only after Carlos Prates (24-7 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and Michael Morales (19-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC), who meet for the interim welterweight championship in Canada, got face-to-face for the first time.
Check out the video of all the staredowns from the UFC 335 and UFC 336 press conference.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 335/UFC 336 first faceoffs: BMF title, Pereira, Van-Kape, Prates-Morales
