An all-action
Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight
scrap will treat fans atop the August event in Singapore.
On Thursday, the
UFC
announced the main attraction of its next show at the Singapore
Indoor Stadium in Singapore on Aug. 26. While only one other fight
is currently on the books for the
UFC Fight Night event on that date – a bantamweight matchup
between
Rinya
Nakamura and
Fernando
Garcia – the marquee fight will come at featherweight between
former champ
Max
Holloway (24-7) and perennial contender
Chan Sung
Jung (17-7). Additionally, the company stated that the Road to
UFC semifinals events would be going down on Aug. 27 in the same
building, to set the stage for the finals of that contract-earning
tourney.
Other than to champion
Alexander
Volkanovski, Holloway has not lost at featherweight in nearly
10 years, when
Conor
McGregor took a decision over him in August 2013. This includes
a championship run that features a pair of knockouts over
Jose Aldo, a
doctor stoppage of
Brian
Ortega and a one-sided shellacking of
Frankie
Edgar. The Hawaiian did lose all three matches in a trilogy
with Volkanovski, but he has kept himself atop the division by
claiming three decisions over
Calvin
Kattar,
Yair
Rodriguez and
Arnold
Allen in the last few years.
This will be the first appearance of “The Korean Zombie” since
suffering a knockout at the hands of Volkanovski in April 2022 for
the 145-pound strap. The popular South Korean earned his crack at
gold from a single win against
Dan Ige in
2021, which was his first win since 2019. All three previous times
in Jung’s storied career where he had been knocked out – against
George
Roop in 2010, Aldo in 2013, and Rodriguez in 2018 – Jung
rebounded the next time out with a dramatic finish victory.