UFC Mexico, set for this Sat. night (Feb. 28, 2026) on Paramount+ from inside Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico, will be headlined by the flyweight contest pitting former champion Brandon Moreno against once-beaten prospect Lone’er Kavanagh, a short-notice main event that was cobbled together after this untimely injury.
Check out their first face off in the Instagram video below (use <> keys to cycle through media).
Just be sure to ignore all that black smoke in the background.
“I was walking yesterday in the streets and I stopped to watch my cellphone at all the bad news around the country,” Moreno told CBS Sports. “Right now, in Mexico City, things here are super calm. All of the disaster is more to the north like Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. Actually, my [home] city has reports of some destruction on the streets in Tijuana, that’s the northwest. Thank life and thank God, my family is fine and the people all around me are fine.”
“It has been really hard hours for my Mexican people,” Moreno continued. “It’s weird, man. It’s crazy because, right now, I’m super focused on my fight but, at the same time, I know that a lot of Mexican people are focused on this bad moment. Maybe [the UFC ‘Fight Night’ event] can be a nice moment for the people to try to forget the bad moment and get some joy.”
