February 26, 2025 5:45 pm ET
The UFC is headed again to Kansas Metropolis, Mo. and it isn’t the one TKO property headed there this April.
In an announcement by the UFC and its overarching Endeavor-owned conglomerate TKO Group Holdings Inc., the promotion will make its return to T-Cell Heart on Saturday, April 26. Moreover, a Skilled Bull Riders (PBR) occasion held Thursday, April 24 and WWE RAW on Monday, April 28, might be held in the identical venue, as a part of a three-event stretch the corporate is asking “TKO Takeover.”
The UFC Struggle Night time occasion doesn’t presently have a publicly-known primary occasion. The upcoming card marks the primary time the UFC has been to Kansas Metropolis since April 2023 when Max Holloway defeated Arnold Allen in a five-round unanimous choice headliner.
Whereas the “TKO Takeover” branding could also be new, UFC and WWE have headed to the identical cities back-to-back on a number of events since the companies merged into TKO in 2023.
The present UFC Struggle Night time lineup for April 26 contains:
- Abus Magomedov vs. Michel Pereira
- Giga Chikadze vs. David Onama
- Ikram Aliskerov vs. Andre Muniz
- Anthony Smith vs. Mingyang Zhang
- Ahmad Hassanzada vs. Mitch Ramirez
- Jaqueline Amorim vs. Polyana Viana
- Cameron Saaiman vs. Malcolm Wellmaker
- Chelsea Chandler vs. Joselyne Edwards
- Jimmy Flick vs. Matt Schnell
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