UFCNext: UFC 334: Gane vs. HokitLast card: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker
Johnny Walker beat Waldo Cortes Acosta in the heavyweight main event at the Meta APEX on 7 November, with the bout ending in round three of five scheduled. A week earlier, at the same venue, Tom Nolan beat Renato Moicano in the lightweight main event, also ending in round three. The next big card is UFC 334 on Saturday 14 November at Madison Square Garden, live on Paramount+, where heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane defends the belt against unbeaten Josh Hokit. Bloody Elbow reported that Norma Dumont is leaving the UFC with two fights left on her contract, after losing her last two. UFC 334 is scheduled for 13 bouts, with the heavyweight title fight at the top of the card and the build-up already centred on whether Hokit's record survives.
UFCNext: UFC 334: Gane vs. HokitLast card: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker
Johnny Walker stopped Waldo Cortes Acosta in round three of Saturday's Fight Night main event on 7 November at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas, a late-notice heavyweight headliner, Bloody Elbow reported. The win took Walker to 24 wins and 10 losses in a fight scheduled for five rounds, and left Cortes Acosta at 17 wins and five losses. Tatiana Suarez beat Virna Jandiroba over three rounds on the same card, and Elijah Smith beat Davey Grant in round one. The next event is UFC 334 on Saturday 14 November at Madison Square Garden, live on Paramount+, with 13 bouts on the card. Heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane, with 14 wins and two losses, meets the unbeaten Josh Hokit, ten wins from ten fights, in the main event, which is scheduled for five rounds. Gane has held the title since 14 September and has not yet defended it.
UFCNext: UFC 334: Gane vs. HokitLast card: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. Walker
Johnny Walker beat Waldo Cortes Acosta in the third round of a scheduled five-round heavyweight main event at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday. Bloody Elbow reported that viewers branded the knockout "goofy". Walker is 24-10-0 and Cortes Acosta 17-5-0. Tatiana Suarez also won, beating Virna Jandiroba on the same card. The next date is UFC 334 on Saturday 14 November at Madison Square Garden, where heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane, 14-2-0, meets the unbeaten Josh Hokit, 10-0-0, in a scheduled five-round main event. Gane has held the belt since 14 September with no defences. Bloody Elbow also reports that Israel Adesanya will face Shara Magomedov at UFC Saudi Arabia next month. Heavyweight has the week's momentum.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. WalkerLast card: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
Tonight's main event is scheduled for five rounds at heavyweight, and that format is the story of the night. Johnny Walker (23-10-0) meets Waldo Cortes Acosta (17-4-0) at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday 7 November. The bout heads a 14-fight UFC Fight Night card on Paramount+. Last week's main event at the same venue was also booked for five rounds and did not need them. Tom Nolan beat Renato Moicano in the third round on 31 October. The wider news is further down the calendar. UFC 334 is now complete after a 13th fight was added to the Gane vs. Hokit card at Madison Square Garden, per Bloody Elbow. The report says a 30-fight veteran has joined the undercard. Tonight is the heavyweights' turn on the main stage, with the Madison Square Garden card still to come.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. WalkerLast card: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
Johnny Walker brings 33 professional fights into Saturday's heavyweight main event. Waldo Cortes Acosta brings 21. That experience gap frames UFC Fight Night at the Meta APEX. It is a five-round booking at the top of a 14-bout card on Paramount+. Walker is 23-10-0. Cortes Acosta is 17-4-0, with fewer losses and less mileage. The title picture sits above them. Ciryl Gane has held the heavyweight belt since 14 September, with no defences yet. Last Saturday at the same venue, Tom Nolan beat Renato Moicano in the third round of a scheduled five. The business news is about money. Per Sherdog, Carlos Prates says his new UFC deal pays him more than $1 million per fight. Sherdog also reports that Mehemmedali Osmanli has booked his UFC debut despite losing the TUF 34 final. The first round will show whether Walker's experience outweighs Cortes Acosta's cleaner record.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. WalkerLast card: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
A promotion that schedules its champions should be judged by how often they fight, and that standard is now under scrutiny. The UFC president suggested money could be behind Islam Makhachev's reduced activity, Bloody Elbow reported, a pointed remark about the welterweight champion, who has one defence. On the cards, Tom Nolan stopped Renato Moicano in the third round of a scheduled five-round lightweight main event at the Meta APEX on October 31. A week earlier, Alexander Volkanovski beat Movsar Evloev in the second round at UFC 333. Saturday's UFC Fight Night at the Meta APEX features 14 bouts, headlined by a heavyweight fight between Johnny Walker, 23-10, and Waldo Cortes Acosta, 17-4. Carlos Calderon is reportedly set to make his UFC debut on four days' notice, Sherdog reported. The test is whether the heavyweight winner earns a path toward Ciryl Gane's title.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. WalkerLast card: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
Tom Nolan is 12-1-0 after ending Renato Moicano's night in round three of their five-round lightweight main event at the Meta APEX. This paper said on 30 October that the single loss on that record was the only real stress-test in that line. Saturday confirmed the thesis. Moicano came in at 21-8-1; Nolan's bout reached the third and no further. The promotion's lightweight picture now has a 12-win entry who hasn't needed the full five rounds to close things out. The McGregor news adds peripheral noise: Hypebeast reported on 2 November that the former two-division fighter has announced a return, though no opponent or date is attached to that announcement. Per Sherdog, Akbar Abdullaev — Dana White's publicly labelled Contender Series standout — will make his UFC debut against Mairon Santos. Saturday's main event at the Meta APEX puts Walker's 23-10-0 record against Cortes Acosta's 17-4-0 in a five-round heavyweight bout; the opening round will tell us which man sets the pace.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. WalkerLast card: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
# Johnny Walker faces Waldo Cortes Acosta in UFC heavyweight main event
Johnny Walker and Waldo Cortes Acosta headline the UFC's next card, a 14-bout Fight Night at Meta APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday, November 7. The heavyweight main event is scheduled for five rounds. Walker comes in at 23-10, Cortes Acosta at 17-4, and the card streams on Paramount+.
The previous card at the same venue was decided before the distance. On October 31, Tom Nolan beat Renato Moicano in the lightweight main event in the third round of a scheduled five, improving to 12-1 against an opponent who entered at 21-8-1 with 30 professional fights behind him. Earlier on that card, Dakota Hope beat Francis Marshall, Luana Santos beat Yana Santos, Cody Durden beat Ode' Osbourne, and Jacobe Smith, unbeaten at 14-0 coming in, beat Randy Brown. Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani also won at welterweight against Farman Hasanov.
The week before, UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi produced two title-relevant results. Alexander Volkanovski, the featherweight champion, beat Movsar Evloev in the second round of the main event, handing Evloev his second loss. Petr Yan, the bantamweight champion, beat Merab Dvalishvili. Alexander Volkov won at heavyweight against Rizvan Kuniev, and Dominick Reyes beat Azamat Murzakanov at light heavyweight.
On October 17 in Edmonton, Mike Malott beat Joaquin Buckley in a welterweight main event that ended in the second round. Jasmine Jasudavicius beat Erin Blanchfield at women's flyweight on the same card, and Marc-Andre Barriault beat Kyle Daukaus at middleweight.
Moicano's future is now a talking point. Sherdog reports that Moicano has said he expects to retire after three more UFC fights, the remainder of his current contract. In a separate Sherdog report, veteran referee John McCarthy explained his long absence from UFC officiating, and Michel Pereira has returned to action in a new promotion after leaving the UFC.
The heavyweight division's champion is Ciryl Gane, who has held the belt since September 14. Walker and Cortes Acosta are not fighting for it on Saturday, but a clear win in a five-round main event would give either man a stronger claim in a division where Gane has yet to make a defence.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Cortes Acosta vs. WalkerLast card: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
Tom Nolan beat Renato Moicano in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday, with the five-round lightweight bout reaching round 3. LowKick MMA reported it ended in a TKO, and Bloody Elbow reported fans were angry at the referee for standing the fighters up moments before the finish. Nolan moves to 12-1.
Jacobe Smith stayed unbeaten at 14-0 with a win over Randy Brown, and Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani beat Farman Hasanov, who Bloody Elbow reported lost his unbeaten record when a doctor stopped the fight over a cut. Dakota Hope, Luana Santos and Cody Durden also won on the main card, although LowKick MMA described Santos versus Santos as a "snoozefest".
Next Saturday, 7 November, the Meta APEX hosts a 14-bout card headlined by a five-round heavyweight fight between Johnny Walker and Waldo Cortes Acosta. Ciryl Gane holds the heavyweight title.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. NolanLast card: UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev
The UFC's $1 million brain-health research commitment in 2026 is an institutional decision, and institutional decisions carry a standard — one the sport should be held to. Per The Times of India, WWE and boxing athletes have now joined the study alongside UFC fighters, expanding the research pool in ways that could sharpen what the data actually returns. That breadth matters. A single-promotion study produces promotional data. A cross-combat study produces something closer to truth. The Playbook predicts Renato Moicano wins Saturday's five-round lightweight main event against Tom Nolan at the Meta APEX. On the research front: the accountability question is whether the findings reach the public or stay inside a promoter's talking points. One million dollars funds a study; it does not guarantee publication. The next concrete test is Saturday's card — 12 bouts at the Meta APEX, with Moicano's 21-7-1 record against Nolan's 11-1-0 in the main event. Nolan has never been in a five-round bout at this level. That is the relevant gap.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. NolanLast card: UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev
Alexander Volkanovski ended Movsar Evloev's night in round two of their five-round featherweight main event at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, and the result means Volkanovski — who has held the featherweight title since April 2025 — carries that reign intact into whatever the matchmakers put in front of him next. Elsewhere on the UFC 333 card, Petr Yan went the full five rounds to beat Merab Dvalishvili at bantamweight, a result this paper covered last week; Dominick Reyes and Aaron Pico both closed their respective bouts inside round one; and Lone'er Kavanagh, at 11-2-0, stopped Ramazan Temirov in round one of their flyweight bout. The promotion now turns to Saturday's card at the Meta APEX, where Renato Moicano, carrying a 21-7-1 record, meets undefeated Tom Nolan — 11-1-0 — in a five-round lightweight main event that will tell us quickly how Nolan handles the step up in opposition quality.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. NolanLast card: UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev
Petr Yan went the full five rounds against Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 333 — their third meeting, and the one that mattered most. Yan, now 21-5-0, entered as the bantamweight titleholder and left the same way. Dvalishvili, at 21-6-0, had built his record on volume and durability; going the distance with him and taking the bout was not a given. Per Sherdog, Yan believed he understood how to break Dvalishvili in this trilogy — the five-round distance suggests he put that read to use. Elsewhere on the card, Dominick Reyes moved to 17-5-0 with a first-round finish of Azamat Murzakanov, then drew public criticism from Daniel Cormier over a ringside comment — a dispute that landed on social media the following day, per Sherdog. Five days out, UFC Fight Night at the Meta APEX puts a lightweight main event in front of a smaller card: Renato Moicano, 21-7-1, against Tom Nolan, 11-1-0. Nolan's record is the question the opening round will answer.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. NolanLast card: UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev
Alexander Volkanovski went into the UFC 333 main event ill on fight day and finished Movsar Evloev — who entered the Etihad Arena at 20-0-0 — in round 2. Per Bloody Elbow, Volkanovski refused medication before the bout. The result hands Evloev his first career loss and keeps Volkanovski's featherweight title intact. Four of the six reported bouts ended before the scheduled distance reached round 3; Petr Yan and Merab Dvalishvili were the exception, running the full five rounds in their bantamweight bout — Yan, who holds the bantamweight title, prevailed. Dominick Reyes beat Azamat Murzakanov in round 1 at light heavyweight, his fifth win in his last six, per Bloody Elbow. Six days from now, Renato Moicano and Tom Nolan headline a 13-bout card at the Meta APEX in a five-round lightweight main event — the opening round will answer whether Nolan's 11-1-0 record holds against a tested five-round opponent.
UFCNext: UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. EvloevLast card: UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott
Five of the six bouts listed from Edmonton's card ended before the scheduled distance. Only Jasmine Jasudavicius and Erin Blanchfield went the full three rounds; the other four finished in rounds one or two. That is the number that frames the card. Mandel Nallo, who beat Nate Landwehr in round two, drew attention beyond his result — per Sherdog, a weigh-in gesture directed at his kids made the pre-fight coverage as much as the bout itself.
Two days out, the featherweight main event at Etihad Arena is the only question worth answering. Alexander Volkanovski holds the featherweight title and brings a 28-4-0 record into a five-round bout against Movsar Evloev, who is unbeaten at 20-0-0. Volkanovski wins on Saturday. An unbeaten record built outside main events against a two-time featherweight champion in a five-round contest is the specific pressure Evloev has not yet faced; the opening round will show whether his timing holds at that level.
Per Bloody Elbow, Merab Dvalishvili's long-running friction with Umar Nurmagomedov has eased, with Dvalishvili claiming access to Khabib Nurmagomedov's gym before the card — where he faces Petr Yan in what the same outlet describes as a bantamweight title rematch co-headlining UFC 333.
UFCNext: UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. EvloevLast card: UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. Malott
Mike Malott is 15-2-1 and stopped Joaquin Buckley in round 2 of a five-round welterweight main event at Rogers Place on Saturday. That record now sits intact across 13 bouts in Edmonton. Buckley drops to 21-9-0 — his third straight loss, per Sherdog, which also reported that he intends to document his return publicly. What next for him is a matchmaking question, not a performance one; the evidence on how Saturday's bout unfolded round by round is absent. Elsewhere on the card, Jasmine Jasudavicius beat Erin Blanchfield at 16-4-0 in a women's flyweight bout that ran the full three rounds — the only bout on the listed six to do so. Yahoo Sports noted that Saturday's card tied a UFC Edmonton record for stoppages. Five days out, Alexander Volkanovski — the featherweight division's title holder — meets Movsar Evloev at 20-0-0 at Etihad Arena. Whether a perfect record survives contact with a five-round main event is the question round one will start to answer.
UFCNext: UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs. MalottLast card: Dana White's Contender Series: Season 10, Week 10
Ivan Gnizditskiy is 7-0 and has finished every opponent on his record — that is the number Sherdog's report rests on. The UFC has signed him despite his absence from the Contender Series, the pathway that produced every fighter on Tuesday's Week 10 card at the Meta APEX. That bypass matters. DWCS exists to stress-test prospects against live UFC-calibre opposition before a contract is extended; Gnizditskiy skipped that filter entirely. The Playbook expects Gnizditskiy to make his UFC debut within the next two events on the lightweight or featherweight schedule, but the question his first bout will answer is whether a perfect finish rate travels once the matchmaking stops protecting it. Separately, Aline Pereira went the distance in her Women's Bantamweight bout on Week 10 and was not offered a contract, per BBC — a reminder that going three rounds without a finish can cost a prospect the booking regardless of the result column. Tomorrow at Rogers Place, Mike Malott and Joaquin Buckley meet in a five-round welterweight main event; on records alone — Malott at 14-2-1, Buckley at 21-8-0 — Buckley's volume of bouts and his finish history make him the likelier man standing when the opening round closes.