Or is it Megan Anderson’s time to shine?
But then, despite what we just said about Spencer, maybe it’s [autotag]Megan Anderson[/autotag]’s time to get a shot at Nunes’ 145-pound title.
Nunes, who also holds the bantamweight belt, has not defended the featherweight title since her famed knockout of Cyborg on Dec. 29, 2018. She’s coming due to defend featherweight gold.
The fact there are two women’s featherweight bouts on this card, in a shallow division that rarely sees any fights, seems to suggest the UFC is conducting an unofficial mini-tournament to see who should get the next title shot.
If that’s the case, we have to consider that Spencer submitted Anderson in May 2019 at UFC Rochester. Anderson took all the right cues from that loss and has changed her approach, which paid off in a spectacular win over Fairn at UFC 243.
In order to vault ahead of Spencer in the pecking order, she’ll have to put on a real show against the debuting Norma Dumont (4-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC). Given how Anderson looked last time out, she seems well in control of, well, the things she can control.
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