Official poster released for next month’s UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria event

The official poster has been released for next month’s UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria event.

UFC 298 will take place on Saturday, February 17th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

The broadcast will take place on ESPN+ PPV, ESPN2, ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET for the Prelims and at 10 p.m. ET for the Main Card.

The UFC released the official poster for ‘Volkanovski vs. Topuria’ earlier today, which can be seen below:

https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1747332893633114240

The line-up for UFC 298 looks like this:

• Current champion Alexander Volkanovski (26-3 MMA) will take on the undefeated Ilia Topuria (14-0 MMA) in the main event featherweight title fight.

‘The Great’ last fought and lost to Islam Makhachev (25-1 MMA) via KO in October of last year at UFC 294.

‘El Matador’ is coming into the cage with a recent unanimous decision win over Josh Emmett (18-4 MMA) last June.

• The co-main event of UFC 298 will feature Paulo Costa (14-2 MMA) taking on former UFC champion Robert Whittaker (25-7 MMA) at middleweight.

‘Borrachinha’ has not fought since August of 2022 when he defeated Luke Rockhold (16-6 MMA) at UFC 278.

‘The Reaper’ last fought and was defeated by Dricus Du Plessis (20-2 MMA) this past July at UFC 290.

•  Geoff Neal (15-5 MMA) will go up against the undefeated Ian Garry (13-0 MMA) at welterweight.

‘Handz of Steel’ is coming off a loss to Shavkat Rakhmonov (17-0 MMA) in March of 2023 at UFC 285.

‘The Future’ has won all six of his fights since joining the UFC, the latest victory coming against Neil Magny (28-11 MMA) last August at UFC 292.

• A bantamweight bout will take place between Merab Dvalishvili (16-4 MMA) and Henry Cejudo (16-3 MMA).

‘The Machine’ is brandishing 9 consecutive wins in the Octagon, his latest coming against Petr Yan (16-5 MMA) in March of 2023.

‘Triple C’ last fought and was defeated by Aljamain Sterling (23-4 MMA) last May at UFC 288.

• Also at middleweight will be a bout between Anthony Hernandez (11-2 MMA) and Ikram Aliskerov (15-1 MMA).

‘Fluffy’ is on a 4-fight winning streak, his last TKO victory coming against Edmen Shahbazyan (12-4 MMA) in May of last year.

Aliskerov last fought and defeated Warlley Alves (14-7 MMA) this past October at UFC 294.

It is quite the exciting lineup for UFC 298.

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