Holly Holm is again in the principle occasion highlight.
Final Preventing Championship (UFC) will comply with up its 2023 Worldwide Struggle Week with a July 15, 2023, Struggle Night time occasion at a location but to be introduced. In the principle occasion of that card, nonetheless, will probably be a ladies’s Bantamweight contender showdown, pitting the previous champion, Holly Holm (15-6), in opposition to the No. 10-ranked Mayra Bueno Silva (10-2-1), based on Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. Miesha Tate was initially anticipated to face Bueno Silva at UFC Vegas 74 on June 3, 2023, however is now not part of the equation due to a hand harm.
Bueno Silva has been red-hot at 135 kilos since shifting up from Flyweight in early 2022. “Sheetara” has received three in a row, ending her final two opponents, Stephanie Egger and Lina Landsberg, by way of armbar and kneebar submissions, respectively. The bout will probably be her first time as a fundamental occasion in her eight-fight UFC profession.
Holm, 41, has continued to show again the clock, trying arguably simply pretty much as good as ever in her final day trip, choosing up an total spectacular unanimous determination win vs. former coaching associate, Yana Santos, in March 2023. The Bueno Silva match up will see Holm enter her eighth UFC fundamental occasion. Ketlen Vieira defeated Holm by way of a tightly contested break up determination in “The Preacher’s Daughter’s” final headliner instantly previous to the Santos rebound victory.
The present six-fight line up for the July 15, 2023, Struggle Night time occasion could be seen beneath.
- 135lbs.: Holly Holm vs. Mayra Bueno Silva
- 170lbs.: Rafael dos Anjos vs. Vicente Luque
- 265lbs.: Walt Harris vs. Josh Parisian
- 125lbs.: Azat Maksum vs. Tyson Nam
- 135lbs.: Ashlee Evans-Smith vs. Ailín Pérez
- 145lbs.: Norma Dumont vs. Chelsea Chandler
