It’s veteran-on-veteran violence as two longtime favorites with
over 30 fights apiece come to blows in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship cage this November.
According to
MMA Fighting on Wednesday night, Jim Miller
(37-18, 1 NC) will throw down with Damon
Jackson (23-7-1, 1 NC) at UFC 309. The two lightweights—with
Jackson coming up from 145 pounds—will compete on Nov. 16 inside of
Madison Square Garden in New York. Both
Miller and Jackson have since
confirmed this pairing on their respective Instagram pages shortly
after news broke late Wednesday.
Miller, 41, saw his two-fight finish streak come to a halt in April
when he fell short to Bobby Green
on the scorecards. Before the loss, the New Jersey native crushed
Jesse
Butler with one punch in 2023 and landed a face crank
submission on Gabriel
Benitez in January. Now known as “A-10,” Miller holds the UFC
records for the most wins (26) and most appearances (44), while
also celebrating the second-most finishes (18) and fourth-most
post-fight bonuses (15) in company history, among his many
accolades.
It will be Jackson’s first appearance at 155 pounds since he put
Chris
Pecero to sleep with an arm-triangle choke in February 2018.
Once called “The Leech” and now sporting the nickname of “Action,”
Jackson relocated to featherweight to pick up a Legacy Fighting Alliance strap and eventually
returned to the UFC in 2020. Although he has struggled as of late,
winning just once of his last four outings, Jackson has earned
victories over names including Alexander
Hernandez—a man who recently defeated Miller—as well as
Pat
Sabatini and Mirsad
Bektic in the promotion.
UFC 309 goes down on Nov. 16 in New York’s Madison Square Garden,
and it will be headlined by a long-awaited heavyweight championship
showdown between Jon Jones and
Stipe
Miocic. The co-main attraction will see Charles
Oliveira rematch Michael
Chandler in a lightweight thriller. The lineup of main card has
not yet been set, although expected pairings for it include a
middleweight clash between Bo Nickal and
Paul
Craig, and a recently confirmed banger at 170 pounds when
Carlos
Prates takes on Randy
Brown.