The UFC
Fight Night card featuring Max
Holloway vs. Arnold
Allen in the evening’s headliner has a location and venue.
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The promotion announced on Wednesday that the event will take place
at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo., on April 15. The venue
is located in downtown Kansas City in 2007 and has a capacity of
nearly 19,000. Other bouts scheduled for UFC Fight Night include
Edson
Barboza vs. Billy
Quarantillo at featherweight and Chris
Gutierrez vs. Pedro
Munhoz at bantamweight.
The Las Vegas-based organization’s first — and only trip to Kansas
City occured at UFC on Fox 24 on April 15, 2017. That event saw
Demetrious
Johnson retain his flyweight crown with a third-round
submission of Wilson Reis
in the headliner at the Sprint Center.
Holloway is coming off an unsuccessful bid to regain featherweight
gold, as he dropped a five-round verdict to Alexander
Volkanovski at UFC 276 this past July. The Hawaiian known as
“Blessed” is now 0-3 against the reigning champion, which means his
road back to the title will be difficult for as long as Volkanovski
holds the belt. Prior to that defeat, Holloway secured back-to-back
decision triumphs against Calvin
Kattar and Yair
Rodriguez in 2021.
Allen is undefeated in 10 UFC appearances and has lost just one of
20 professional outings overall. The 29-year-old Englishman passed
his first headlining test at UFC Fight Night 213, when he defeated
Calvin
Kattar via technical knockout after his opponent suffered a
knee injury eight seconds into Round 2. “Almighty” owns other
notable wins against the likes of Dan Hooker,
Sodiq
Yusuff, Nik Lentz and
Gilbert
Melendez.