Kevin Holland is losing no time getting again into motion, returning to welterweight to face Gunnar Nelson on the UFC Struggle Night time on March 22 at The O2 in London, England.
Holland confirmed the battle on Instagram by reposting a graphic of the matchup. In his caption, he wrote, “Removed the ex, again at Welterweight/lock in twin. Imma see you round.”
Nelson, in the meantime, continues his pattern of preventing yearly in London, as he did in each 2022 and 2023. In his final outing, “Gunni” submitted Bryan Barberena within the first spherical. Earlier than that, he defeated Takashi Sato after a three-year layoff. He’ll now return from two years away to face “Large Mouth.”
Holland is coming off a fast loss to Reinier de Ridder at UFC 311, the place he was submitted in underneath 4 minutes. The defeat marked his second consecutive defeat, prompting a transfer again all the way down to 170 kilos — a division through which he beforehand discovered success with wins over Michael Chiesa and Santiago Ponzinibbio.
With this addition, the present fights anticipated to happen at UFC London on March 22 are as follows:
Leon Edwards vs. Jack Della Maddalena
Jan Blachowicz vs. Carlos Ulberg
Kevin Holland vs. Gunnar Nelson
Molly McCann vs. Istela Nunes
Mick Parkin vs. Marcin Tybura
Felipe Dos Santos vs. Lone’er Kavanagh
Alonzo Menifield vs. Oumar Sy
Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Andrey Pulyaev
Morgan Charriere vs. Nathaniel Wooden
Nathan Fletcher vs. Caolan Loughran
Jai Herbert vs. Chris Padilla
Shauna Bannon vs. Puja Tomar
