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UFC star steps in on short notice to save important fight at UFC 296

Published

December 7, 2023

Bryce Mitchell will compete at UFC 296. Photo via Instagram (@thugnasty_ufc)

Featherweight star Bryce Mitchell accepted the challenge and volunteered to take on former interim title challenger Josh Emmett at UFC 296 on December 16.

Giga Chikadze pulled out off the fight due to a groin injury, and the popular UFC fighter steps in to take the fight on less than two weeks notice.

Mitchell comes from a unanimous decision win to Dan Ige in September while Emmett lost a interim title fight to Yair Rodriguez.

UFC 296 with Bryce Mitchell

UFC 296 will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday December 16.

The stacked card is headlined by a welterweight title fight between reigning champion Leon “Rocky” Edwards and former interim champ Colby “Chaos” Covington.

Check out the updated fight card below!

Main card

Welterweight title bout: Leon Edwards (c) vs. Colby Covington
Flyweight title bout: Alexandre Pantoja (c) vs. Brandon Royval
Welterweight bout: Shavkat Rakhmonov vs. Stephen Thompson
Lightweight bout: Tony Ferguson vs. Paddy Pimblett
Welterweight bout: Vicente Luque vs. Ian Machado Garry

Preliminary card

Featherweight bout: Bryce Mitchell vs. Josh Emmett
Women’s Bantamweight bout: Irene Aldana vs. Karol Rosa
Bantamweight bout: Cody Garbrandt vs. Brian Kelleher
Women’s Flyweight bout: Casey O’Neill vs. Ariane Lipski

Early preliminary card

Light Heavyweight bout: Alonzo Menifield vs. Dustin Jacoby
Flyweight bout: Tagir Ulanbekov vs. Cody Durden
Featherweight bout: Andre Fili vs. Lucas Almeida
Heavyweight bout: Martin Buday vs. Shamil Gaziev
Welterweight bout: Randy Brown vs. Muslim Salikhov

* Fight card is a subject of change

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