Duel of muses will take place on October 7th (Photo: Reproduction/Facebook/Montagem SL)
The women's flyweight category (up to 57kg) of Ultimate is, little by little, coming to life. After organization reveal the list of 16 athletes who will participate in TUF 26, which will crown the first champion of the division, a new fight at 57kg was announced: paige vanzant (52kg), originally a strawweight, will move up a division to face Jessica Eye, who acted as a bantamweight (up to 61kg), at UFC 216, an event scheduled for October 7th, in Las Vegas (USA). The information was given first-hand by the website 'FloCombat'.
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Number 12 in the strawweight rankings, VanZant hasn't fought since December 2016, when she was submitted by Michelle Waterson in the main fight of UFC Sacramento. In total, the 23-year-old blonde has already had six fights in the organization, accumulating four wins and two losses.
Eye, on the other hand, has a poor record in the UFC. In seven fights, he has only one triumph, one unsuccessful fight and five setbacks, four of which are consecutive. Its most recent performance was in September last year, when it was surpassed by the Brazilian Bethe Correia.
Two Brazilians are confirmed on the card: the middleweight Thales leites, which faces Brad Tavares, and the debuting strawweight Poliana Botelho, who will face Pearl Gonzalez.
UFC 216 CARD (so far):
Lightweight: Beneil Dariush x Evan dunham
Fly weight: paige vanzant x Jessica Eye
Lightweight: Nik lentz x Will Brooks
Flyweight: Magomed Bibulatov x John Moraga
Average weight: Thales leites x Brad Tavares
Heavyweight: Mark Godbeer x Walt Harris
Lightweight: Abel Trujillo x Lando Vannatta
Fly weight: Matt schnell x Marco Beltrán
Strawweight: Pearl Gonzalez x Poliana Botelho
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