UFC called “Big Mouth.”
During the UFC St. Louis broadcast last night (Sat., May 11, 2024), UFC 302’s pay-per-view (PPV) main card was finalized and came with a newly announced fight. No. 15 ranked Welterweight Kevin Holland is moving back up to Middleweight to take on Polish knockout artist Michal Oleksiejczuk.
Check out the newly announced UFC 302 main card below:
Kevin Holland gets added to #UFC302! pic.twitter.com/ZGEFRvbxR4
— MMA Mania (@mmamania) May 12, 2024
Holland is not a stranger to filling in on short notice or stepping in to save big cards like he did with Noche UFC last year.
Now, “Trailblazer” needs to get back into the win column. Holland (25-11-1) is on a two-fight losing streak, getting beat by Michael Page in his last outing.
Like Holland, Oleksiejczuk (19-7-1) will be looking to get back into the winner’s circle in June. Michel Pereira submitted him at UFC 299.
UFC 302, which takes place in Newark, New Jersey, is headlined by Lightweight champion Islam Makhachev vs. Dustin Poirier, and former Middleweight champion Sean Strickland vs. Paulo Costa takes the co-main event slot.
Welterweights Randy Brown and Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos open up the PPV, followed by Heavyweight grapplers Jailton Almeida vs. Alexandr Romanov.
For the current UFC 302 fight card and PPV lineup on June 1 in Newark, click here.