Two championships are on the line as UFC 307 swings into the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday morning (3am, TNT Sports 1 & Discovery+), as UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira faces Khalil Rountree Jr. and Julianna Pena gets a chance to reclaim the UFC’s women’s bantamweight title against Raquel Pennington. The Utah card is jam-packed with well-known stars and features notable names from the early prelims all the way to the main event.
Many will be surprised to see former headliner Stephen Thompson relegated to the prelims for his intriguing bout with Joaquin Buckley, with Tim Means, Ovince Saint Preux and Carla Esparza also among the bigger names to miss out on a main card slot. Jose Aldo is back to build on his win over Jonathan Martinez in May and will warm-up the crowd for the two title fights with a challenging bout against submission specialist Mario Bautista. The consistently active Kevin Holland also features against Roman Dolidze in what should be an entertaining contest between two fighters who both possess an identical knockout win rate of 54 per cent.
Alex Pereira is rightfully a huge favourite with to walk through Khalil Rountree Jr., whose presence in the UFC 307 main event will come as a surprise to many. The eighth-ranked light heavyweight is on a winning streak of five fights, granted, but he hasn’t beaten anyone in the current top 10.
Pereira is a huge step up in competition; the current champion all-but stomping through a selection of t.
