September 14, 2024 11: 30 am ET
Michael Chandler decided to stop waiting for Conor McGregor to return and accepted a rematch with previous light-weight champ Charles Oliveira, who beat him by second-round knockout in their veryfirst conference in a uninhabited title bout at UFC 262 in May 2021.
Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler sneakpeek
In the wake of Khabib Nurmagomedov’s retirement and job of the 155-pound belt in late 2020, the promo put together a uninhabited title bout inbetween Oliveira and Chandler to identify a brand-new champ. It was a back-and-forth veryfirst round, however then the Brazilian came out early in Round 2 and landed huge shots en path to the surface by strikes.
Oliveira would go to run the department for anumberof battles before Islam Makhachev took the rules, and is looking to get back in the title mix by whipping Chandler onceagain to rebound from his UFC 300 loss to Arman Tsarukyan.
Chandler, ontheotherhand, will return to the location he most justrecently contended in – a submission loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 281 – more than 2 years after he