Jared Cannonier vs Caio Borralho to headline UFC Vegas 96

After scrambling to safe a predominant occasion for UFC Vegas 96 later this month, the Final Preventing Championship brass lastly booked one, a middleweight encounter between no. 5 ranked former title challenger Jared Cannonier (17-7) and no. 12 ranked Caio Borralho (16-1).

UFC Vegas 96 is to go down on August 24, 2024, stay from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cannonier is coming into this headliner contemporary off his current headline look when he confronted no. 4 ranked Nassourdine Imavov, a contest he was in the end TKO’d in spherical 4 of, although the stoppage didn’t sit properly with most of us. Cannonier was definitely shocked, however he by no means hit the canvas and appeared to have recovered properly by time referee Jason Herzog stepped in to cease the struggle.

Going into that struggle Cannonier was 7-2 throughout 9 fights since dropping right down to the middleweight division, solely dropping to former UFC middleweight champions Robert Whittaker (UD) and Israel Adesanya (UD) in that point, the latter of which was a title shot.

His seven victories at 185 lbs come over former WSOF two-division champion David Department (TKO), former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (TKO), former Cage Warriors middleweight champion Jack Hermansson (TKO), TUF 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum (UD), longtime middleweight contender Derek Brunson (KO), future, now former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland (SD), and former VFC welterweight champion Marvin Vettori (UD).

Cannonier can also be tied with former champions Vitor Belfort and Conor McGregor, or simply McGregor if you happen to contemplate solely the fashionable period, as the one fighters in UFC historical past to safe knockout victories in three totally different divisions.

Borralho then again, following back-to-back wins on Dana White’s Contender Sequence in 2021, has been excellent up to now into his promotional tenure, profitable all six fights he’s had contained in the octagon with victories over the likes of Gadzhi Omargadzhiev (UD), Armen Petrosyan (UD), Makhmud Muradov (UD), Michal Oleksiejczuk (rear bare choke), Abus Magomedov (UD), and Paul Craig (KO).

It is a traditional striker versus grappler match up; Cannonier being one of the crucial highly effective specimens in middleweight historical past, and Borralho boasting a BJJ black belt with some actually stellar wrestling to associate with it.

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