Also, hot off his spinning back elbow KO in Chicago at UFC 319, Brazilian sensation Carlos Prates steps up to face former champion Leon Edwards to add some welterweight intrigue to your MSG card.
Before Zhang makes her bid for history, two Brazilian strawweights will duke it out for her vacated title at UFC 321 as Virna Jandiroba and Mackenzie Dern lock horns in a rematch, this time with gold on the line. Dern got the best of Jandiroba in their first fight at UFC 267. via unanimous decision. At the time, the win was Dern’s third on what would be a 4-fight winning streak. Since then, Dern has gone a little up and down, dropping four of her next six. She found her groove last summer, though, picking up decision wins over Loopy Godinez and Amanda Ribas.
Jandiroba, on the other hand, appears to be in the form of her life. Since that loss to Dern, “Carcara” won six of her next seven, including her last five. Along the way, she beat Angela Hill, marina Rodriguez, Amanda Lemos, Yan Xiaonan and Godinez to cement herself as one of the top strawweights in the world.
UFC 321 is scheduled for October 25 in Abu Dhabi while UFC 322 goes down on November 15 in New York City.
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