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UFC 256 headlining bouts.
UFC 256 main event: Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon MorenoUFC 256 co-main occasion: Tony Ferguson vs. Charles Oliveira.
Just three days after Deveison Figueiredo defended his UFC flyweight champion, he has actually inked a deal to safeguard it against Brandon Moreno.
Figueiredo headlined UFC 255, putting the flyweight belt on the line against Alex Perez. He made quick work of Perez, sending him in less than two minutes.
Moreno, the No. 1 ranked flyweight, also fought on the UFC 255 battle card, stopping Brandon Royval with one tick left on the clock in the preliminary of their featured preliminary bout.
A day later on, on Sunday, news that the most recent UFC 256 headlining bout was nixed. Petr Yan was set to put his bantamweight belt on the line against Aljamain Sterling, however needed to withdraw. Yan later on stated that he was forced off of the battle card since of visa concerns.
UFC president Dana White should have currently learnt about Yan likely being off the card on Saturday night, as he discussed at the UFC 255 post-fight press conference that he was working on keeping Figueiredo and Moreno in Vegas to combat in December.
On Tuesday, the UFC revealed that the bout had actually been signed. Figueiredo will make the 2nd defense of his belt in back-to-back pay-per-views, when he deals with Moreno in the UFC 256 main event on Dec. 12 in Las Vegas.
Joining them on the card in the UFC 256 co-main event is a critical lightweight bout in between Tony Ferguson and Charles Oliveira, which was also further validated on Tuesday.
UFC 256 was at first planned to be a championship tripleheader; what happened?
The UFC’s preliminary strategy was for UFC 256 to include welterweight champion Kamaru Usman defending against Gilbert Burns, females’s double-champ Amanda Nunes putting her featherweight belt on the line opposite Megan Anderson, and Yan vs. Sterling.
In the midst of signing Yan vs. Sterling, the Usman vs. Burns bout fell off the card when Usman indicated that he would not be physically all set to contend on the Dec. 12 battle card.
Nunes vs. Anderson was then elevated to main event status. That lasted only a few days prior to Nunes withdrew because of undisclosed medical problems.
That left Yan vs. Sterling as the most likely UFC 256 centerpiece, today even that fight is a bust, leading us to Figueiredo vs. Moreno as the current, and hopefully last, headliner.
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