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Main event and co-main event announced for Noche UFC!
Sean O’Malley will headline Noche UFC in September. Photo via Twitter (UFC)
Bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley and Merab Dvalishvili will finally settle their beef at Noche UFC. The card goes down on September 14 at Sphere in Las Vegas.
In February, Dvalishvili defeated former two-division champion Henry Cejudo at UFC 298 before O’Malley beat Marlon Vera at UFC 299 in March. Since then there has been talk about a matchup.
Dvalishvili rides an eight-fight winning streak that includes victories over the likes of Cejudo, Petr Yan, and Jose Aldo.
Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko will clash again. Pohto via YouTube
Alexa Grasso in the co-main event
The trilogy fight between women’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso and former title holder Valentina Shevchenko will go down at UFC Noche. The title fight will serve as the card’s co-main event.
The first meeting was at UFC 285 where Grasso defeated Shevchenko with a fourth-round rear-naked choke. The second fight took place six months later at the inaugural Noche UFC. The close fight went the distance and ended in a debated split draw.
Grasso and Shevchenko then coached against one another during “The Ultimate Fighter 32″.
The Noche UFC lineup
- Champ Sean O’Malley vs. Merab Dvalishvili – for bantamweight title
- Champ Alexa Grasso vs. Valentina Shevchenko – for women’s flyweight title
- Diego Lopes vs. Brian Ortega
- Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zellhuber
- Ode Osbourne vs. Ronaldo Rodriguez
- Irene Aldana vs. Norma Dumont
- Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Manuel Torres
- Yazmin Jauregui vs. Ketlen Souza
- Kevin Borjas vs. Edgar Chairez
- Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Aori Qileng
* Fight card is a subject of change.
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