Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis will face off in the main event of UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis for the interim UFC featherweight championship. It’s interim because the title was stripped from Conor McGregor after he moved up in weight.
UFC 206 fight card: Full list of matches at Holloway vs. Pettis
Some big fights were scrapped due to injury, but UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis still promises to be a great event on Saturday.
The pay-per-view card will get underway at 10 p.m. ET Saturday from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The preliminary card will be split between UFC Fight Pass (6:30 p.m.) and FOX Sports 1 (8 p.m.). There will be live streams available online via the UFC’s streaming solutions via their apps on game consoles and other devices, as well as UFC.tv and their YouTube channel.
Strictly speaking, the UFC awarded the featherweight title to Jose Aldo after stripping McGregor. But when Anthony Johnson and Daniel Cormier had to be scrapped from the card due to injury, the UFC quickly promoted the Pettis vs. Holloway fight to being a title fight. It’s kind of a silly situation and easy to see through.
But it doesn’t make the fight less compelling. Pettis has had a rough run of it since joining the UFC, but his high did include winning the UFC lightweight championship by beating Benson Henderson at UFC 164. He defended that belt once, and then lost it to Rafael dos Anjos, before losing two more fights.
He then dropped to featherweight in August of this year, and there he finished Charles Oliveira via submission to win his debut at the weight class. Now he’s facing Holloway, a fighter who has won his last nine fights, last losing to McGregor back in 2013. Holloway most recently took unanimous decision wins over Ricardo Lamas in June and Jeremy Stephens in December 2015.
The card will also feature fan favorite Donald Cerrone, who has also been faring well at a new weight class since he went up to welterweight. He was on a tear before he lost to Rafael dos Anjosin a lightweight title fight, but since switching has beaten Alex Oliveira, Patrick Cote and, most recently, Rick Story.
All three of his recent wins were finishes for Cerrone, and he’ll be facing Matt Brown in the penultimate fight of the card. Brown has struggled a whole lot in recent fights. He was on a tear in 2012 through 2014, but since then has lost four of his last fights, with the lone win being over Tim Means in 2015.
This year, he’s lost to both Jake Ellenberger and Demian Maia, and to be fair, his other losses were also to top talent in Johny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler. It should be a great fight regardless. Other fighters on the card include Cub Swanson, Tim Kennedy, and Kelvin Gastelum, so it should be a good one.
Below is the full fight card for the event and the information you need to catch the whole card on Saturday.
All Times Eastern
Main Card (PPV, 10 p.m.)
Max Holloway vs. Anthony Pettis
Donald Cerrone vs. Matt Brown
Doo Ho Choi vs. Cub Swanson
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Tim Kennedy
Jordan Mein vs. Emil Weber Meek
Preliminary Card (FS1, 8 p.m.)
Misha Cirkunov vs. Nikita Krylov
Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Drew Dober
Valerie Letourneau vs. Viviane Pereira
Mitch Gagnon vs. Matthew Lopez
Preliminary Card (Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m.)
John Makdessi vs. Lando Vannata
Jason Saggo vs. Rustam Khabilov
Zach Makovsky vs. Dustin Ortiz
UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis schedule and coverage for Saturday
Time: Prelims 1 - 6:30 p.m., Prelims 2 - 8 p.m., Main Card - 10 p.m.
Location: Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV: Fox Sports 1 (Prelims 2), PPV (Main Card)
Online Stream: UFC Fight Pass, UFC.TV, UFC YouTube
