January 2, 2024 9: 00 am ET
A disclaimer: We’re sorry, UFC Austin. We’re sorry, Bellator 300 and Bellator301 We’re sorry UFC285 You all were excellent. Great, actually.
But you fell simply short of the top.
UFC 295 at the capital of battle sports, Madison Square Garden in New York, is MMA Junkie’s 2023 Event of the Year.
The UFC’s 30th anniversary occasion was expected to function one of its greatest all-time stars, Jon Jones, in a heavyweight title defense versus previous champ Stipe Miocic, relatedto by lotsof as the finest heavyweight in MMA history since he had 3 successive UFC title defenses – a low number for a record, however the record .
But Jones hurt his shoulder training, and rather than keep Miocic on the card, they conserved the 2 of them for (hopefully) this year, and put an interim title on the line inbetween Tom Aspinall and Sergei Pavlovich.
The previous co-feature uninhabited light heavyweight title battle inbetween previous middleweight champ Alex Pereira and Jiri Prochazka was raised to the headliner on the pay-per-view primary card, which kept the program with a set of title battles at the leading of the expense.
When it comes to star power at the end of the night, UFC 295 might not haveactually been the promo’s sexiest offering ever at the Gar