Upcoming match At Saturday, Nov. 3, with UFC 230 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Gets A Surprise Main Event In Daniel Cormier Vs. Derrick Lewis

At long last, only 26 days before battle night, UFC 230 booked its headliner. Furthermore, it's a major one. As in, heavyweights battling for the title.

Daniel Cormier will shield his belt against Derrick Lewis at the Nov. 3 occasion at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lewis earned his shot with a last-dump knockout of Alexander Volkov on Oct. 6. For a very long time, UFC 230 didn't authoritatively have the headliner for what has now ended up being one of the greater shows of the year in the best media in the nation. At that point on Oct. 9, the UFC reported that Daniel Cormier would shield the heavyweight title against No. 2-positioned Derrick Lewis.

Cormier (21-1, one no challenge), likewise the light heavyweight champion, impacted the world forever when he scored a first-round knockout of Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 to catch the heavyweight title and turned into the second contender to hold two titles in the meantime. The 39-year-old had been relied upon to meet Brock Lesnar toward the start of 2019, yet the UFC was in a spot and Cormier accepted the open door.

In his last session at UFC 229, Lewis (21-5, one no challenge) trailed on every one of the three judges' scorecards when he thumped out Alexander Volkov with 11 seconds staying to vault himself into a title shot.

"The Black Beast" comes into UFC 230 with everything to pick up and nothing to lose. Nobody anticipated that Lewis would ever get this chance and he can wreck the Cormier-Lesnar designs in a single singular motion. UFC 230 happens on Saturday, Nov. 3. Pay-per-see inclusion starts at 10 p.m. Cormier and Lewis ought to enter the Octagon around 12:15 a.m.