UFC 332 will characteristic a brand new girls’s champion.
After struggles to safe a primary occasion for the Oct. 3 card at Delta Center in Salt Lake City (Paramount+/CBS), the promotion is transferring ahead with a girls’s flyweight championship bout between Natalia Silva and Wang Cong.
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Silva (20-5-1 MMA, 8-0 UFC) was initially anticipated to problem Valentina Shevchenko on the cardboard, however Shevchenko (26-4-1 MMA, 15-3-1 UFC) has suffered an harm and Cong (10-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) was inserted into the title spot.
UFC officers introduced the battle Saturday through the UFC Paris broadcast. Play-by-play voice John Gooden mentioned Shevchenko is anticipated to be sidelined for at the very least a 12 months, so has vacated the title.
Silva, No. 3 within the newest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie women’s flyweight rankings, is undefeated in octagon tenure so far and is driving a 14-fight profitable streak general. Her most up-to-date three wins have come towards former champions Jessica Andrade, Alexa Grasso, and Rose Namajunas.
No. 10-ranked Cong, in the meantime, will get an enormous alternative with simply six promotional appearances underneath her belt. She’s coming off 4 straight wins, all by resolution, together with her most up-to-date being a unanimous resolution over Tracy Cortez at UFC 329 in July.
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With a win, Cong will get her dream objective of an MMA rematch with Shevchenko, who she defeated in a kickboxing match in October 2015. The Chinese fighter has been pushing to run it again with Shevchenko since signing with the UFC, however “The Bullet” has been dismissive and urged her rival to earn it. Now she will be able to.
The newest UFC 332 lineup now consists of:
Natalia Silva vs. Wang Cong – for girls’s flyweight title
Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Payton Talbott
King Green vs. Esteban Ribovics
Roberto Soldic vs. Khaos Williams
Ateba Gautier vs. Roman Kopylov
Alden Coria vs. Imanol Rodriguez
Damian Pinas vs. Andrey Pulyaev
Marcus McGhee vs. Bernardo Sopaj
Mick Parkin vs. Johnny Walker
Rafael dos Anjos vs. Alexander Hernandez
Ismail Naurdiev vs. Marvin Vettori
Court McGee vs. Eric Nolan
This article initially appeared on MMA Junkie: Natalia Silva vs. Wang Cong flyweight title headlines UFC 332