Procházka meets Stirling in Doha

Jiří Procházka meets Navajo Stirling on Saturday, November 21, at ABHA Arena in Doha. The fight is the light heavyweight main event of UFC Fight Night. It is five rounds, light heavyweight is 205 pounds (93 kg), and no belt is on the line. Carlos Ulberg holds the title.

UFC lists Procházka at No. 2 and Stirling at No. 5. Procházka is 34 and 32-6-1, and he is a former light heavyweight champion. The Ulberg bout was at UFC 327 on April 11, for the vacant title. Ulberg won it with a left hook and punches at 3:45 of the first round, and moved to 15-1. This is Procházka’s first fight since that night. He won the belt with a fifth-round submission of Glover Teixeira at UFC 275 in 2022, then vacated it because of injury, and twenty-eight of his 32 wins are knockouts.

Stirling is 28 and 11-0, and 6-0 in the UFC. Dana White’s Contender Series awarded Stirling the contract in 2024, and he has stopped all three opponents he has faced in 2026. Stirling stopped Ion Cutelaba at 3:23 of the second round on June 20 and Bruno Lopes at 4:05 of the second round on March 28, and Stirling stopped Jan Błachowicz with elbows and punches at 2:56 of the first round on August 1.

The co-main

Aljamain Sterling meets Kevin Vallejos at featherweight. Sterling is a former bantamweight champion, and UFC lists Sterling at No. 4 and Vallejos at No. 9. Sterling is 26-5. He defended the bantamweight title three times, then moved to featherweight, where he is 3-1, and Sterling beat Youssef Zalal by unanimous decision in a five-round main event in April. Vallejos is 18-1, with seven wins in a row, and he is 4-0 in the UFC. Vallejos knocked out Giga Chikadze and Josh Emmett in the UFC.

The rest of the card

The UFC posted the remaining bouts in this order. Dan Hooker, ranked No. 13, meets Brian Ortega. Hooker headlined the first Doha card last November, and Arman Tsarukyan submitted him. Ortega is 16-5, a two-time featherweight title challenger, and he moves up to lightweight. Jared Cannonier, ranked No. 12 and a former middleweight title challenger, meets Ikram Aliskerov, ranked No. 13. Cannonier is 18-10. Aliskerov is 18-2. Shamil Gaziev meets Tallison Teixeira at heavyweight. Gaziev is 15-3, and he knocked out Kennedy Nzechukwu in the first round in August. Teixeira is 9-2. Jake Matthews meets Tahir Abdullayev at welterweight. Matthews is 23-8. Abdullayev is 20-3, and he stopped Jefferson Nascimento on his UFC debut in June. Aleksandre Topuria meets Santiago Luna at bantamweight. Topuria is 7-1, and 2-0 in the UFC, with a decision over Bekzat Almakhan in Doha last year. Luna is 8-1. Asu Almabayev, ranked No. 7, meets Kyoji Horiguchi, ranked No. 5, at flyweight. Almabayev is 24-3. Horiguchi is 36-6. Both won by submission on last year’s Doha card. Amir Albazi, ranked No. 9, meets Alessandro Costa in a rematch. Albazi is 17-3. Costa is 17-5. Albazi knocked him out in the third round nearly four years ago.

Last year’s show at ABHA Arena sold out. The promotion is back with Visit Qatar.

Start time

Visit Qatar lists doors for 5 p.m. The United States broadcast is Paramount+.

Arabia Standard Time is three hours ahead of UTC, and Sydney is on daylight time, eleven hours ahead of UTC.

6 p.m. in Doha:

• Doha: 6 p.m.
• London: 3 p.m.
• Sydney: 2 a.m. Sunday

In New York that is 10 a.m. Eastern, and in Las Vegas it is 7 a.m. Pacific. That is the first fight, not the first bell of Procházka vs. Stirling, and UFC lists the event for 1 p.m. Eastern.