If you saw Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira sitting together in the front row at UFC 312 and thought to yourself, "I'd love to know what those legendary rivals are saying to each other," you're in luck.

Between those results, the Ukrainian vacated the IBF title, meaning interim champion Dubois was elevated to official title holder. Dubois retained the belt by knocking out Anthony Joshua in September, and he defends the gold against Parker on 22 February.

Oleksandr Usyk is interested in fighting one of the UFC's biggest stars. Usyk retained his WBC, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles when he defeated Tyson Fury by unanimous decision this past December in Saudi Arabia.

UFC light-heavyweight champion Alex Pereira has confirmed he is open to boxing Oleksandr Usyk in a 'show fight' as the Ukrainian eyes two more bouts before retiring

Etched in the history books as major rivals, Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya may be turning over a new leaf. At Saturday’s UFC 312 in Sydney, the two fighters were seated next to one another. Not only did they appear to tolerate each other’s presence, they seemed to enjoy it.

Alex Pereira suggesting a potential fight with boxing heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk was scoffed at by fight fans last night.