Manchester’s Lerone Murphy is set to headline UFC London in a key featherweight fight against Movsar Evloev at the O2 Arena.
The main card is expected to start at 20:00 GMT, with the headline fight between Murphy and Evloev pencilled in for a 22:30 start on Saturday, 21 March. You can follow live text commentary of all the action from 21:00 GMT on the BBC Sport website and app.
UFC London isn’t the only big MMA event this week, as Briton Fabian Edwards challenges for the PFL middleweight world title on Friday in Madrid against Costello van Steenis.
Murphy vs Evloev: The Main Event
The winner of Murphy versus Evloev is likely to be the next contender for Alexander Volkanovski’s UFC title.
Both featherweights are on a brilliant run in the UFC and are defending unbeaten records. Evloev is 19-0 with seven finishes, while Murphy has 17 wins and one draw on his record.
Murphy is a knockout specialist, with eight among his 17 wins, and produced one of the knockouts of the year in 2025 when he stopped Aaron Pico via spinning back elbow last August.
Both men’s recent wins have been impressive, with Murphy beating Pico, Dan Ige and Edson Barboza. Evloev may have the edge in competition faced, with wins over former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling, Arnold Allen and recent title challenger Diego Lopes.
British Fighters Featured on the Card
Luke Riley, Mason Jones and Michael ‘Venom’ Page are among a host of British contenders also in action.
Here is the fight card for UFC London:
- Lerone Murphy v Movsar Evloev – featherweight
- Luke Riley v Michael Aswell Jr – featherweight
- Michael ‘Venom’ Page v Sam Patterson – welterweight
- Mason Jones v Axel Sola – lightweight
- Nathaniel Wood v Losene Keita – featherweight
Breaking Down the Featherweight Headliners
Both fighters favour the head in striking, with 65% of Murphy’s strikes landing there and 80% of Evloev’s.
Neither man has a prolific finishing rate, with 63% of Evloev’s fights going the distance and 53% of Murphy’s.
All in all, the featherweights are evenly matched on paper.
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