Tuesday, the UFC made several championship bouts official. From its largest weight class to one of its smallest, the UFC announced the four title bouts – some were expected, some maybe not so much. The list of championship fights included the following: A highly anticipated trilogy bout between UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier , an immediate featherweight title rematch between Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway , Kamaru Usman ’s second title defense against Gilbert Burns , and Jose Aldo vs. Petr Yan for the vacant 135-pound title. All of these title fights will happen this summer with three happening on one card: UFC 251 on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. With so much gold on the line in a short amount of time, I was given the tough task to make some sense of these bookings but also put them in order of which fights I’m looking forward to the most
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Summer UFC title fights ranked: Which was the best championship booking? – MMA Junkie