UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 | ||||
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Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
Date | July 27, 2024 | |||
Venue | Co-op Live | |||
City | Manchester, England | |||
Event chronology | ||||
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UFC 304: Edwards vs Muhammad 2 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on July 27, 2024, at the Co-op Live in Manchester, England. [1]
The event will mark the promotion's fifth visit to Manchester and first since UFC 204 in October 2016. [1]
A UFC Welterweight Championship bout between current champion Leon Edwards and Belal Muhammad is expected to headline the event. [3] The pair previously fought at UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad in March 2021, where the fight was declared a no contest following an accidental eye poke which left Muhammad unable to continue. [4]
An interim UFC Heavyweight Championship bout between the title holder Tom Aspinall and Curtis Blaydes is set to co-headline the event. [5] They previously met at UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall in July 2022 in which Blaydes won after Aspinall injured his knee fifteen seconds into the bout keeping him out of competition for a year. [6]
Fight card | |||||||
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Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
Welterweight | Leon Edwards (c) | vs. | Belal Muhammad | [lower-alpha 1] | |||
Heavyweight | Tom Aspinall (ic) | vs. | Curtis Blaydes | [lower-alpha 2] | |||
Lightweight | Bobby Green | vs. | Paddy Pimblett | ||||
Featherweight | Arnold Allen | vs. | Giga Chikadze | ||||
Light Heavyweight | Modestas Bukauskas | vs. | Marcin Prachnio | ||||
Featherweight | Nathaniel Wood | vs. | Daniel Pineda | ||||
Welterweight | Oban Elliott | vs. | Preston Parsons | ||||
Flyweight | Muhammad Mokaev | vs. | Manel Kape | ||||
Welterweight | Sam Patterson | vs. | Kiefer Crosbie | ||||
Middleweight | Christian Leroy Duncan | vs. | Robert Bryczek | ||||
Women's Strawweight | Molly McCann | vs. | Bruna Brasil | ||||
Heavyweight | Mick Parkin | vs. | Łukasz Brzeski | ||||
Bantamweight | Caolán Loughran | vs. | Ramon Taveras | ||||
Women's Bantamweight | Shauna Bannon | vs. | Ravena Oliveira |
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