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The remaining months of 2025 will see enormous UFC matches for British boxers. Both Leone Murphy, and especially Tom Aspinall, have a lot to lose if they do not win further visits to the Octagon.

On August 16 (early August 17 in Great Britain), he sees the English featherweight of Lrone Murphy, and the novice UFC Aaron Pico at UFC 319, which will take place at the United Center in Chicago, USA.

Murphy is currently sixth in the UFC featherweight division, and another win in August will augment his chances of winning the title against Alexander Volkanovski. However, failure will bring grave hopes for the title.

At this time of year, Murphy could prepare for the fresh football season. He had a trial with Liverpool (although he was born in Trafford), but the knee injury ended his career. It looked as if he became a boxer, but eventually found himself in the MMA world.

His professional debut took place in 2016, initially as featherlight. Two years later he moved to a pencil scale and there Murphy gained his name. In 2019, he became a full contact champion of weight scale, and later he made his debut in UFC this year.

His debut UFC was against Zubair Tukhugov and although he maintained his invincible record, the fight ended in a draw. Murphy did not look at this disappointing result and since then he won eight fights.

He now has a 16-0-1 record and is associated with Movs Evloev for the fourth longest victorious run in the UFC featherweight division. On August 16, he wants to extend his undefeated record against Aaron Pico.

This is a complex UFC debut for Pico, who won his name as a freestyle wrestler and almost reached the 2016 Olympic Games. His MMA career began the following year in Bellator. The American lost his debut, but won another four matches. The year 2019 did not go well with two subsequent defeats (one recently Avenged).

From the next loss in 2022 he won three fights in a row, but it looks like a complex fight against Murphy, which should be able to maintain an invincible record.

The main event at UFC 319 sees the title of UFC of medium weight on the line. Dricus du Plessis defends his belt against the unbeaten Khamzat Chimaev. British Butmakers from offers Follow that changing the title is on the way. They have a enormous plessis at 17/10 to win the fight against the 1/2 claimant to take away the title.

Du Plessis won titles in two other MMA companies before he went to UFC in 2020. Three years later he defeated Robert Whittaker in the last eliminator of the UFC medium weight title. Six months later, he took the title of Sean Strickland and since then he created two successful defense against Israel Adesanya and Strickland, both taking place in Australia. These victories took his professional record to 23-2.

Can it do it 24-2? He faces a complex fight with Chimaev, who won all his 14 professional fights. The Russian debuted in 2018, and four of his first five fights were won in the first round. His debut UFC took place in July 2020. He had to be a man in a hurry, because his second UFC competition had only ten days after his first. There has never been such a tiny return between fights in the company.

He had four night performances in UFC. His victory over Gilbert Burns was announced in 2022. His last victory took place in October last year, when Robert Whittaker surrendered in the first round. Five of his last seven UFC competitions meant that his opponent did not reach the second round.

It was a huge year for Tom Aspinall when he became a heavyweight champion of UFC. He does First defense His title against the Frenchman Ciril Gane on October 25 in Abu Dhabi. Aspinall is a mighty favorite to win the fight against bookmakers offering 1/4 chances of Gane available at 3/1 to cause nervousness.

Aspinall became a fleeting champion in November 2023, when he defeated Sergei Pavlovich in just over a minute. He defended this title in Manchester in July 2024 and in just a minute he got rid of Curtis Blaydes. His shot in the main title never materialized, and when Jon Jones announced his pension in June, Aspinall was promoted to the master.

Gane himself is a former fleeting heavyweight champion, but this is his third attempt to win the full title. He lost to Francis Ngannou in 2022, and Jon Jones the following year. Since then, he won two fights, but with Aspinall his last six fights in the first round, another unsuccessful challenge of the title looks likely.