Outside of MMA, what will happen next month?

Women's Water Polo: The world qualifier tournament from the 17th through the 24th will determine the final two spots for the Tokyo field

Taekwondo: The Europe qualifiers will run on the 30th and 31st 

What will happen with the UFC lightweight division?

We know that Tony Ferguson will face Charles Oliveira next weekend

We know that Conor McGregor will rematch Dustin Poirier next month

But... not much after that 

Is the UFC being run on a YouTube model?

Picture these moves:

1. Cody Garbrandt (name recognition) originally getting the flyweight title shot over Alex Perez and Brandon Moreno (deserving contenders)

2. Israel Adesanya (name recognition) being considered for the light heavyweight title shot over the Santos-Teixeira winner (deserving contender). The UFC also had an end goal in mind here- an Adesanya-Jones superfight. 

Both of these instances prioritized potential pay-per-views being sold rather than having the champions defending the belts against actual contenders 

If Figueiredo is defending his belt next weekend, why is the ostensible #1 contender bout between Benavidez and Askarov scheduled for March?

Sigh. They're probably going to give Cody Garbrandt his "name recognition and nothing else" title shot, is what that means. It's ridiculous. Say what you will about Jose Aldo getting a bantamweight title shot- at least he had a fight under his belt at 135 before that  

If Francis Ngannou is the UFC top contender at heavyweight, who's the second in line?

Lewis-Blaydes winner (reschedule it)

Overeem-Volkov winner should be the third in line 

My Ideal UFC 259 (March PPV) Main Card

Main Event: Stipe Miocic v. Francis Ngannou 2 for the heavyweight title

Co-Main: Light Heavyweight OR Middleweight title fight

Valentina Shevchenko v. Jessica Andrade for the women's flyweight title

Men's Flyweight: Joseph Benavidez v. Askar Askarov 

Men's Featherweight: Arnold Allen v. Edson Barboza 

Is the Hermansson-Vettori winner next in line for Israel Adesanya?
On the surface, I'd say yes.

However, let's look deeper. 

Robert Whittaker is the ostensible next challenge after fending off Darren Till in July and Jared Cannonier in September, but Adesanya is more interested in the light heavyweight title currently held by Jan Blachowicz.

I'd say that it would lean more towards Vettori if he wins, since he'd then have a four-fight win streak including the fourth on seven day's notice, but I think a very impressive finish from either one should be enough