The UFC is back in Chicago for the first time since 2019 for a pay-per-view card (10 p.m. on ESPN+ PPV; prelims at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN+) headlined by a middleweight championship bout between champion Dricus Du Plessis (23-2) and ESPN's No.

Since Khamzat Chimaev won two fights in 10 days to kick off his UFC career in 2020, a title shot has felt inevitable. Chimaev finally gets that opportunity on Saturday night when he challenges for Dricus du Plessis' middleweight championship in the main event of UFC 319.

Khamzat Chimaev doesn’t like his chances of being part of a UFC event at the White House if it materializes. "Bro, look at my face," Chimaev, the Russian fighter with a thick, long beard,