UFC 310 Gets Potential Fight Of The Night Added To The Card

The top of the UFC 310 card is a work in progress as the promotion is still seemingly looking for an opponent to replace welterweight champion Belal Muhammad, who is out with a bone infection in his toe.

Shavkhat Rahkmonov is open to an interim fight, but nothing has been confirmed. Even with that bit of confusion, the promotion continues to fill out the rest of the event with top-notch fights–at least on paper. Recently, a potentially epic battle between Nate Landwehr and Doo Ho Choi was added to the card at featherweight.

UFC CEO Dana White is going to be smiling about this one and it might be a candidate for his social media series, “if you don’t know, now you know.”

There may not be a matchup with more seemingly guaranteed fireworks in the sport’s history. If you’re familiar with Landwehr and Choi, you understand why this fight looks so good.

Landwehr has won four performance bonuses in his UFC career, and he’s captured the additional $50,000 in three of his last four fights. That run of bonuses includes a Fight of the Night bonus for his part in a hellacious scrap with David Onama in August 2022. Landwehr won that fight via majority decision.

In addition to putting on strong performances, Landwehr is also experiencing the most successful stretch of his UFC career. He’s won four of his last five, with the only defeat coming to Dan Ige in June 2023.

A victory at UFC 310 might push the 36-year-old closer to being ranked, which would be a noteworthy accomplishment for him at this point in his career.

Choi has seemingly been around forever but is still just 33 years old. The South Korean returned in February 2023 to the UFC after fulfilling his two-year commitment to his country’s military.

Choi got a draw with Kyle Nelson in February 2023 before getting back into the win column with a spectacular KO win over Bill Algeo in July.

Before he left for the military, Choi had earned the reputation for being a human highlight reel and a walking Fight-of-the-Night magnet. From 2015 to 2019, Choi earned performance bonuses in five consecutive fights.

He was the dance partner in three straight Fight of the Night bonus winners, including an epic battle with Cub Swanson in December 2016 that was enshrined in the UFC Hall of Fame as one of the greatest fights in the promotion’s history.

Unfortunately for Choi, he lost all three of those Fights of the Night and took a three-fight losing streak into his absence from the UFC.

When he battles Landwehr on Dec. 7, Choi will be looking to establish his first win streak in eight years and to stop his opponent’s momentum.

Here is a look at the rest of the fights expected to be a part of the UFC 310 card.