Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 223 takes place at the Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a bantamweight bout between Song Yadong and Ricky Simon.
No. 8 ranked Yadong comes from a TKO loss to Cory Sandhagen due to a doctor’s stoppage and is looking to get back in the win column again, while Simon enters the cage with five straight wins, including back-to-back stoppages of Raphael Assuncao and Jack Shore.
The co-main event features a middleweight bout between prospect Caio Borralho and Michal Oleksiejczuk.
Brazil’s Borralho has been training at the Allstars Training Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, and is undefeated in the UFC with three straight wins.