After an extended layoff, #13-ranked featherweight Bryce Mitchell will make his return to action at UFC 310 next month.
Mitchell (16-2) will meet Kron Gracie (5-2) at the Pay-Per-View event in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 7, 2024. The booking was officially announced during Saturday’s UFC 309 broadcast, after Mitchell had previously teased he had fight news coming.
The booking comes as a bit of a surprise, given Gracie has been nowhere to be seen since a loss to Charles Jourdain in May of 2023, a fight that saw his performance heavily criticized. On the other hand, it pits two high-level grapplers against one another; Mitchell holds one of the only Twister submissions in UFC history, landed at UFC DC in 2019. Gracie is of course a member of the legendary Gracie family, and is a grandson of Brazilian jiu-jitsu co-founder Helio Gracie.
After a stint in RIZIN, Gracie signed with the UFC in 2019, going 1-1 that year, but not competing again until the Jourdain fight.
Mitchell was last in action at UFC 296, where he was brutally knocked out at the hands of Josh Emmett, one of the most frightening knockouts in recent memory. He holds notable wins over Edson Barboza, Dan Ige, and Andre Fili, among others.
UFC 310 is headlined by a flyweight title fight, as champion Alexandre Pantoja welcomes RIZIN’s Kai Asakura to the promotion. Shavkat Rakhmonov faces Ian Machado Garry in a number one contender’s bout that serves as the night’s co-main event.
The following match-ups have been reported for the UFC’s final PPV of 2024:
- Alexandre Pantoja (c) vs. Kai Asakura – for the UFC flyweight championship
- Shavkat Rakhmonov vs. Ian Machado Garry – welterweight number one contender’s match
- Ciryl Gane vs. Alexander Volkov
- Vicente Luque vs. Themba Gorimbo
- Bryce Mitchell vs. Kron Gracie
- Movsar Evloev vs. Aljamain Sterling
- Randy Brown vs. Bryan Battle
- Tallison Teixeira vs. Łukasz Brzeski
- Cody Durden vs. Joshua Van
- Clay Guida vs. Chase Hooper
- Michael Chiesa vs. Max Griffin
- Anthony Smith vs. Dominick Reyes
- Rizvan Kuniev vs. Martin Buday
- Nate Landwehr vs. Choi Doo-ho
