The heat is on between Aljamain Sterling and Pedro Munhoz during UFC 238 faceoff

CHICAGO – For the first time this week, the fighters on the UFC 238 card got face to face Thursday.

All the athletes fighting in the UFC’s return to “The Windy City” squared off at a media day for the card at United Center. The same venue hosts Saturday’s event, which has a main card on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass.

In an anticipated bantamweight bout between top contenders on the prelims, Aljamain Sterling (17-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) takes on Pedro Munhoz (18-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC), and there was no shortage of love lost during their faceoff as the two men needed to be separated by UFC president Dana White.

The build-up to their fight has been full of trash talk, with Sterling targeting a past drug-test failure by Munhoz, who’s fired back multiple times.

Check out the faceoff for Munhoz vs. Sterling in the video above.

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

• Henry Cejudo vs. Marlon Moraes – for vacant bantamweight title
• Champ Valentina Shevchenko vs. Jessica Eye – for women’s flyweight title
• Donald Cerrone vs. Tony Ferguson
• Jimmie Rivera vs. Petr Yan
• Blagoy Ivanov vs. Tai Tuivasa

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

• Nina Ansaroff vs. Tatiana Suarez
• Pedro Munhoz vs. Aljamain Sterling
• Alexa Grasso vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
• Calvin Kattar vs. Ricardo Lamas

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:15 p.m. ET)

• Angela Hill vs. Yan Xiaonan
• Bevon Lewis vs. Darren Stewart
• Grigory Popov vs. Eddie Wineland
• Katlyn Chookagian vs. Joanne Calderwood

For more on UFC 238, visit the UFC Rumors section of the site.