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All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were first reported or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.
MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.
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Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.
Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie from July 11-17.
Check out all the facts and figures from UFC Fight Night 195, which saw Norma Dumont decision Aspen Ladd in Las Vegas.
UFC Fight Night 195 took place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
The main event of the 10-fight card saw [autotag]Norma Dumont[/autotag] (7-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) outwork [autotag]Aspen Ladd[/autotag] (9-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) to a unanimous decision in the women’s featherweight matchup.
For more on the numbers behind the headliner, as well as the rest of the card – where two of the UFC’s all-time winners added to their totals – check below for 45 post-event facts to come out of UFC Fight Night 195.
All the UFC and Bellator fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie in the past week.
MMA fight announcements are hard to follow. With so many outlets and channels available, it’s nearly impossible to organize.
But here at MMA Junkie, we’ve got your back.
Each week, we’ll compile all the newly surfaced fights in one spot. Every Monday, expect a feature listing everything you might have missed from the UFC or Bellator.
Here are the fight announcements that were broken or confirmed by MMA Junkie from May 17-23.
A strawweight matchup between Jinh Yu Frey and Istela Nunes is in the works for UFC Fight Night on July 31.
A strawweight matchup is in the works for UFC Fight Night on July 31.
[autotag]Jinh Yu Frey[/autotag] (10-6 MMA, 1-2 UFC) will take on [autotag]Istela Nunes[/autotag] in an event which doesn’t currently have an announced location or venue.
Two people with knowledge of the situation informed MMA Junkie of the booking Tuesday but asked to remain anonymous because the promotion has yet to make an official announcement.
After going 0-2 to start out her UFC tenure, Frey picked up her first octagon win when she defeated Dana White’s Contender Series alum Gloria de Paula at UFC Fight Night 187 in March.
Nunes, a former ONE Championship title challenger, will make her long-awaited UFC debut. The 28-year-old Brazilian was set to make her promotional debut against Angela Hill in September 2019, but was pulled after testing positive for multiple stanozolol metabolites, 16β-hydroxystanozolol and 3′-hydroxystanozolol, following an out-of-competition urine test on July 22, 2019. As a result she was suspended for two years and will be eligible to compete in July 22, 2021.
With the addition, the UFC Fight Night lineup for July 31 includes:
