UFC London - all you need to know

Manchester's Lerone Murphy headlines UFC London in a key featherweight fight against Movsar Evloev at O2 Arena.

The winner is likely to be the next contender for Alexander Volkanovski's UFC title.

Luke Riley, Mason Jones and Michael 'Venom' Page are among a host of British contenders also in action.

You can follow live text commentary of all the action from 21:00 GMT on Saturday, 21 March on the BBC Sport website and app.

UFC London is not the only big MMA event this week as Briton Fabian Edwards challenges for the PFL middleweight world title on Friday in Madrid against Costello van Steenis.

Everything you need to know about UFC London is below.

The main card is expected to start at 20:00 GMT, with the headline fight between Murphy and Evloev pencilled in for a 22:30 start on Saturday.

Main card from 20:00 GMT:

Preliminary card from 17:00:

Both featherweights are on a brilliant run in the UFC and are defending unbeaten records.

Evloev, 32, is 19-0 with seven finishes, while 34-year-old Murphy has 17 wins and one draw on his record.

Murphy is a knockout specialist - with eight among his 17 wins - and produced one of the knockouts of the year in 2025 when he stopped Aaron Pico via spinning back elbow last August.

Both men's recent wins have been impressive, with Murphy beating Pico, Dan Ige and Edson Barboza.

Evloev may have the edge in competition faced, with wins over former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling, Arnold Allen and recent title challenger Diego Lopes.

Both fighters favour the head in striking, with 65% of Murphy's strikes landing there and 80% of Evloev's.

Neither man has a prolific finishing rate, with 63% of Evloev's fights going the distance and 53% of Murphy's.

All in all, the featherweights are evenly matched on paper.

UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski: "I think Movsar will end up grappling him. I think he's gonna be stronger. I think Movsar takes that."

UFC fighter Aljamain Sterling: "I feel this should be Lerone's fight to win. I wouldn't be surprised if Movsar wins, though. He's a phenomenal talent, great grappler. I just don't know if he'll be able to get to Lerone Murphy to take him down early enough so he's not taking too much damage. If Lerone could put the damage on him early, then if he does get taken down, keep it to a position where he's not getting punched a lot, I could see him winning the rounds by damage. It's a really tough one to call, but I feel like Lerone may be the frontrunner for this."