UFC 205 extended preview: 4 champions, 3 challengers and a night of title fights in NYC

UFC 205 is absolutely stacked – from the curtain-jerker to the champion-vs.-champion main event – and in a new extended preview of next month’s event, we get a deeper look at the championship triple-headliner.

UFC 205 takes place Nov. 12 event at Madison Square Garden, and it marks the organization’s long-awaited New York City debut. The main card, which features six fights instead of the usual five, airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

In the headliner, two No. 1-ranked fighters and champions clash. Featherweight titleholder Conor McGregor (20-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) looks to become the first fighter in UFC history to simultaneously hold two belts when he challenges for Eddie Alvarez’s (28-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) recently won lightweight belt.

In the co-main event, welterweight champ Tyron Woodley (16-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) looks for his first title defense when he takes on No. 2-ranked Stephen Thompson (13-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC).

Kicking off the slate of title fights is strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) vs. No. 4-ranked Karolina Kowalkiewicz (10-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) in a Poland-vs.-Poland matchup.

Check out the full preview above.

The full UFC 205 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

• Lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez vs. featherweight champ Conor McGregor – for lightweight title
• Champ Tyron Woodley vs. Stephen Thompson – for welterweight title
• Champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz – for strawweight title
• Yoel Romero vs. Chris Weidman
• Donald Cerrone vs. Kelvin Gastelum
• Raquel Pennington vs. Miesha Tate

PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)

• Frankie Edgar vs. Jeremy Stephens
• Michael Johnson vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov
• Rashad Evans vs. Tim Kennedy
• Vicente Luque vs. Belal Muhammad

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m. ET)

• Thiago Alves vs. Jim Miller
• Tim Boetsch vs. Rafael Natal
• Liz Carmouche vs. Katlyn Chookagian

For more on UFC 205, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.