The 2024 UFC pay-per-view calendar kicks off on Saturday night with UFC 297 from Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. The card is headlined by Sean Strickland making the first defense of the middleweight title he won with a shock upset of Israel Adesanya in September. Standing across from Strickland will be Dricus du Plessis, who pulled off his own big 2023 upset when he knocked out Robert Whittaker to cement himself as the top contender at 185 pounds.
That isn’t the only title fight on the card, as Raquel Pennington will clash with Mayra Bueno Silva for the vacant women’s bantamweight championship. The belt was vacated by UFC legend Amanda Nunes after Nunes retired from the sport. Now, longtime MMA veteran Pennington gets her second shot at UFC gold when she faces a recently-dominant Silva.
The rest of the card features some familiar names, though may not be as stacked as fans have come to expect from big UFC pay-per-view cards.
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