The UFC promised huge information from Dana White on Tuesday, and the UFC CEO introduced two bantamweight championship bouts for the UFC’s return to New Jersey.
White revealed on social media that the primary occasion for UFC 316 — which takes place June 7 on the Prudential Middle in Newark — shall be a rematch for the bantamweight championship between Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O’Malley. The pair first met at UFC 306 this previous September the place Dvalishvili captured the title from O’Malley through unanimous resolution in the primary occasion.
Within the co-main occasion, now two-time girls’s bantamweight title holder Julianna Peña defends her newly received championship for the primary time in opposition to Kayla Harrison.
Following White’s information, MMA Combating’s Mike Heck and Jed Meshew react to the information, if the bulletins lived as much as the hype, the brand new UFC Kansas Metropolis fundamental occasion between Ian Machado Garry and Carlos Prates, and extra.
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