An all-action Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight
scrap will treat fans atop the August event in Singapore.

On Thursday, the UFC
announced the main attraction of its next show at the Singapore
Indoor Stadium in Singapore on Aug. 26. While only one other fight
is currently on the books for the
UFC Fight Night event on that date – a bantamweight matchup
between Rinya
Nakamura and Fernando
Garcia – the marquee fight will come at featherweight between
former champ Max
Holloway (24-7) and perennial contender Chan Sung
Jung (17-7). Additionally, the company stated that the Road to
UFC semifinals events would be going down on Aug. 27 in the same
building, to set the stage for the finals of that contract-earning
tourney.

Other than to champion Alexander
Volkanovski, Holloway has not lost at featherweight in nearly
10 years, when Conor
McGregor took a decision over him in August 2013. This includes
a championship run that features a pair of knockouts over Jose Aldo, a
doctor stoppage of Brian
Ortega and a one-sided shellacking of Frankie
Edgar. The Hawaiian did lose all three matches in a trilogy
with Volkanovski, but he has kept himself atop the division by
claiming three decisions over Calvin
Kattar, Yair
Rodriguez and Arnold
Allen in the last few years.

This will be the first appearance of “The Korean Zombie” since
suffering a knockout at the hands of Volkanovski in April 2022 for
the 145-pound strap. The popular South Korean earned his crack at
gold from a single win against Dan Ige in
2021, which was his first win since 2019. All three previous times
in Jung’s storied career where he had been knocked out – against
George
Roop in 2010, Aldo in 2013, and Rodriguez in 2018 – Jung
rebounded the next time out with a dramatic finish victory.





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Max Holloway vs. Chan Sung Jung Set as Main Event of UFC Singapore on Aug. 26