After it used to be confirmed last last night that Reduce Diaz and Robbie Lawler will rematch 17 years after they first met within the Octagon, the UFC 266 card will also feature two world title fights atop the battle card.
The tournament, which is scheduled for September 25 at the T-Mobile Enviornment in Las Vegas, will dwelling Reduce Diaz’s first MMA bout since 2015 and confirms his comeback to the game after whispers first emerged gradual last twelve months that the Stockton native used to be severely pondering making his return to blended martial arts, and that he had performed test weight cuts to gauge his ability to luxuriate in out so.
Nonetheless if Diaz vs. Lawler II is a tantalising appetiser, the two most main courses stare intelligent also.
It has been confirmed that Alexander Volkanovski will defend his featherweight title against Brian Ortega on the card after the pair competed against each other as coaches on basically the most trendy season of the UFC’s actuality series ‘The Closing Fighter’.
As well to that, the co-most main tournament will look Valentina Shevchenko’s most trendy defence of her females’s flyweight title, this time reverse Lauren Murphy.
Quite loads of relatively about a fights maintain also been confirmed for the tournament, the supreme of which (relatively actually) is a heavyweight tussle between Curtis Blaydes and Jairzinho Rozenstruik.
