Ewing vs Phillips and Susurkaev vs Pinas set for UFC 335 main card

Two more fights are official for the main card of UFC 335 on December 12, with Ethyn Ewing meeting Kyler Phillips at bantamweight and Baysangur Susurkaev facing Damian Pinas at middleweight.

Ewing is 10-2 overall and 2-0 in the UFC. The 30-year-old American won his most recent recorded fight on April 4, 2026, stopping Rafael Estevam by KO/TKO in the third round. Before that he beat Malcolm Wellmaker by unanimous decision at UFC 322. He lands 7.44 significant strikes per minute at 55 percent accuracy and averages 1.68 takedowns per 15 minutes.

Phillips, nicknamed "The Matrix," is 12-5 overall and 6-4 in the UFC. The 31-year-old from MMA Lab is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Charles Jourdain on April 18, 2026, his third straight defeat on the cards in our records, following losses to Vinicius Oliveira and Rob Font. He lands 5.04 significant strikes per minute at 42 percent accuracy and averages 2.31 takedowns per 15 minutes.

Pinas, a 24-year-old from Suriname, is 11-1 overall and 3-0 in the UFC. All three of his most recent recorded fights ended by first-round KO/TKO: Wes Schultz in February 2026, Cesar Almeida in July and Andrey Pulyaev on October 3 at UFC 332. At six-foot-one with a 79-inch reach, he lands 6.05 significant strikes per minute at 63 percent accuracy.

Susurkaev is also 3-0 in the UFC, so one of the two unbeaten UFC runs in the middleweight bout will end on December 12.

Why it matters

• Ewing, with two UFC wins, steps up against a fighter who has ten UFC bouts behind him.
• Phillips is looking to snap a three-fight losing run, all of them decisions.
• The middleweight bout guarantees one fighter leaves with a perfect 4-0 UFC record.
• Ewing's 7.44 strikes per minute against Phillips's 5.04 sets up a volume contrast, while Phillips's 2.31 takedowns per 15 minutes is higher than Ewing's 1.68.