After failing a drug test by taking what was later confirmed to be a tainted supplement to miss out of fighting at UFC 200, the consensus best mixed martial artist of all-time looks for redemption by headlining the promotion’s next milestone event. Jon Jones will fight Kyle Snyder in the main event of UFC 300 on July 1, 2023, at the Adelson Dome.

Jones left the light heavyweight division behind upon coming out of a reduced one-year suspension in 2017, but forged an even more impressive career as a long-tenured champion at heavyweight. Now he must take on the anointed future in Snyder, an undefeated super-prospect who won the NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship as a sophomore at Ohio State before Jones’ UFC 200 snafu.

Of the record 75,000 fans in attendance at UFC 300, Las Vegas’ most popular sports figures have the best seats. A cadre of Black Knights hockey players are octagon-side next to the Raiders’ perennial All-Pro receiver Amari Cooper and UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez, who’s on the verge of leading the Rebels to their first Pac-16 championship.

Cooper talks with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who was part of an ownership group that purchased the UFC from the Fertitta brothers right around UFC 200. Kraft and his partners rely less on pay-per-view after signing a monumental television deal with ABC and ESPN in 2018, but with title fights being staged in five of 14 current weight divisions, UFC 300 will air through the medium.