A possible UFC girls’s flyweight title eliminator is ready for 5 rounds this summer season.
At a UFC Battle Night time occasion July 13 in Denver, high contenders Maycee Barber and Rose Namajunas will collide at Ball Area, promotion CEO Dana White introduced Tuesday. Ariel Helwani was first to reported the information on X.
Barber (14-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) is on essentially the most profitable stretch of her UFC profession as she enters the bout on a six-fight profitable streak. Her two most up-to-date wins have come over perennial contenders Amanda Ribas (by TKO) and Katlyn Cerminara (by unanimous choice).
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Namajunas (12-6 MMA, 10-5 UFC) is 1-1 since she shifted to flyweight from strawweight in 2023. After a unanimous choice loss to Manon Fiorot in her divisional debut, Namajunas defeated Amanda Ribas by unanimous choice in March.
Whereas unofficially a title eliminator, the winner of the bout might get a crack on the winner of champion Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko, a bout anticipated to happen within the fall following the conclusion of the airing of “The Final Fighter 32.”
With the addition, the July 13 lineup consists of:
- Maycee Barber vs. Rose Namajunas
- Mike Malott vs. Gilbert Urbina
- Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Muslim Salikhov
- Gabriel Bonfim vs. Ange Loosa
- Mariya Agapova vs. Luana Santos
- Viviane Araujo vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius
- Cody Brundage vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan
- Julian Erosa vs. Christian Rodriguez
- Josh Fremd vs. Andre Petroski
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