UFC London: Lerone Murphy to fight Movsar Evloev in featherweight main event, Luke Riley to face Michael Aswell

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The main card for UFC London in March has been confirmed, with several intriguing clashes scheduled at the O2 Arena on March 21, live on TNT Sports and discovery+. Movsar Evloev and Lerone Murphy meet in the main event, with a potential title fight against featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski on the line. Luke Riley fights American Michael Aswell in the lightweight co-main event.

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Great Britain's Lerone Murphy will face Movsar Evloev in the main event at UFC London on March 21, live on TNT Sports and discovery+.

The unbeaten featherweights meet with a potential title fight against champion Alexander Volkanovski on the line.

Russian Evloev returns to the Octagon for the first time since beating Aljamain Sterling at UFC 310 in December 2024, while Murphy beat Aaron Pico by knockout at UFC 319 last August.

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Brit Luke Riley fights American Michael Aswell in a lightweight co-main event at the O2 Arena, and Sam Patterson takes on Michael Page in a welterweight bout.

Elsewhere, Iwo Baraniewski clashes with Austen Lane, and Georgian Roman Dolidze meets the UK's Christian Leroy Duncan.

Rounding off the main card, Englishman Kurtis Campbell faces the USA's Danny Silva in a featherweight bout.

Volkanovski will be watching on with interest as he eyes up his possible next opponent after defending his title against Brazil's Diego Lopes with an emphatic win at UFC 325.

TNT Sports expert Nick Peet believes the 37-year-old should be lined up to face the winner of Evloev v Murphy.

"Commissioner says yes," Peet said on TNT Sports' UFC 325 Review Show.

"Sign that off. Get Volk on the plane, I want to see Volk cage side in London ready for a face off with the winner."

Volkanovski earned high praise from Peet following his victory over Lopes in Sydney.

"When you get to a certain age, bits start dropping off, recovery rates take forever. What Volk is doing now, we just have to stop and just check for a moment.

"What he's doing now is absolutely insane for these lighter-weight divisions where there's so much speed, athleticism, you know, fast-twitch muscle fibre, means so much the smaller you get in this sport.

"And for the fact that he is still the dominant force at the age of 37, it's not natural. He is not a normal human being. And I guess that's why we call him 'The Great'."

Peet added: "Diego did go [and attack], that's when Volk hit him hardest. That's when Volk walked him onto that straight right hand. That's when Volk attacked the body.

"Every time Diego tried to put the pressure on, that's when Volk made him pay for it. So, we did get a little bit of a patient chess match at times, but it always just seemed to be Volk that dominated the dance, the geography, the fight.

"As the great Teddy Atlas likes to say, whoever dominates the geography, whoever dictates where the fight's taking place, dictates the pace of the fight. And it was all fought at Volk's pace.

"That is experience. That is what an old statesman does. That's what a guy that's been there, done it, owns the t-shirt does.

"He dictates where the fight takes place, when the action explodes. And when it does explode, he has the final say on every exchange."

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Full UFC London lineup

Main Card

Movsar Evloev v Lerone Murphy
Luke Riley v Michael Aswell.
Michael Page v Sam Patterson
Iwo Baraniewski v Austen Lane
Roman Dolidze v Christian Leroy Duncan
Danny Silva v Kurtis Campbell

Preliminary Card

Mason Jones v Axel Sola
Nathaniel Wood v Losene Keita
Louie Sutherland v Brando Pericic
Mantas Kondratavicius v Antonio Trocoli
Mick Parkin v Mario Pinto
Luana Carolina v Melissa Mullins
Abdul-Kareem Al-Sewady v Shem Rock
Shanelle Dyer v Ravena Oliveira

All events can be re-watched on the streaming home for TNT Sports in the UK, discovery+

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