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2 Belts 2 Rivalries 2 Champions

Night Of Champions and Rivals.

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This weekend one of the biggest events of the year will be going down, UFC 223: Khabib Vs Ferguson in Brooklyn, New York. #2 ranked Khabib Nurmagomedov takes on #1 ranked Tony Ferguson for the UFC Lightweight Championship in the Main Event. In the Co-Main Event Strawweight Woman's Champion Rose Namajunas will take on Joanna Jedrzejczyk in their highly anticipated rematch for the belt.

In the Featherweight Division, #13 ranked Calvin Kattar takes on #11 ranked Renato Moicano in an exciting bout. Back in the Lightweight Division #12 ranked Anthony "Showtime" Pettis faces #9 Michael Chiesa. To open up the Main Card it will be in the Lightweight division also as #11 Al Laquinta faces off against Paul Felder.

We last saw "El Cuyuy" Tony Ferguson at UFC 216 where he defeated Kevin Lee to become the Interim-Champion. Tony fought a very hard fight as he closed it out with a triangle choke in the 3rd round as Kevin Lee tapped out. El Cuyuy is walking into this fight with a 10 win streak and has his eye on being the first person to defeat Khabib, also become the Undisputed UFC Lightweight Champion.

Khabib Nurmagomedov was last at UFC 219 where he dismantled and controlled Edson Barboza for 5 rounds. He would win the fight by Unanimous Decision, he made it look beyond easy. Khabib is also walking into this fight with a win streak with hopes to shut down Tony, he has his eye on finishing him and becoming the Undisputed Lightweight Champion.

The last time we saw these 2 ladies in the octagon. they faced off against each other. Rose Namajunas defeated Joanna for the championship in the first round that sent shockwaves throughout the MMA World. Joanna hopes to prove that was just a fluke that night and she is still the real champion.Joanna hopes to shut down any doubt that anyone has towards her. Rose says the fight will have the same outcome but maybe it will just happen a little differently, maybe by submission?

Renato Moicano is coming off of a submission loss to "T-City" Brian Ortega at UFC 214. Renato is hoping to shake that loss off of him and rebuild upon the lessons he learned that fight. He is also looking to get back on track and try to start back up a win-streak to tear through the division.

Calvin Kattar is looking to get another victory under his belt in the UFC. We last saw Calvin at UFC 220 where he defeated Shane Burgos by TKO in the 3rd round. Another Victory for Calvin will get him closer to breaking into the Top 10 of Featherweight division.

Michael Chiesa was last seen at UFC Fight Night 112 where he had a controversial loss to Kevin Lee by Rear-Naked Choke, to give you a better idea of what is going on, Mario Yamasaki was the referee. Anthony Pettis is also coming off of a Loss to Dustin Poirier which was by Body-Triangle in the 3rdround. Both of these amazing fighters are looking for wins to get back on track and have an impressive performance that will put that both back on the right road to the Top 5 in the lightweights.

Paul Felder is coming off of a nasty TKO victory over Charles Oliveria at UFC 218 with hopes of doing the same to Laquinta. A win for Paul will potentially break him into the top 15 rankings and leapfrogging Laquinta will an impressive victory. Al Laquita is returning to the octagon with his last bout being at UFC Fight Night 108 where he defeated UFc Veteran Deigo Sanchez by knockout in the 1st round. Al hopes to show that Octagon rust is not a factor in him returning. A Win for Al will be like he never left and he could very well break into the top 10 contenders in the Lightweight Division.

The Prelim card is tremendous with #9 ranked Karolina Kowalkiewicz taking on #8 Felice Herrig as they battle to get closer to the top 5 in the Woman's Strawweight Division. In the Flyweight Division, #3 ranked Ray Borg will face #7 Brandon Moreno as they both look to get closer to a potential title shot (would be Ray bBorgs 2nd). In the Lightweight Division, Joe Lauzon meets Chris Gruetzemacher. Then to open up the prelims it will be #14 ranked Lightweight Evan Dunham taking on Olivier Aubin-Mercie.

The early prelims has 4 more fights for us that will begin at 6:15pm, it is not an event you wanna miss


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