UFC 259 will function the ladies’s featherweight championship battle between champion Amanda Nunes and Megan Anderson.
ESPN has simply introduced the rescheduling of this girls’s duel on the high of the featherweight division, which was initially scheduled to happen at UFC 256, before COVID gets involved…
As a reminder, UFC 259 will happen on March 6, and already encompasses a light-heavyweight battle between Thiago Santos and Aleksandar Rakic.
Current bantamweight and featherweight defending champion Amanda Nunes is at the moment on a streak of 11 straight wins, the final of which was gained at UFC 250 in opposition to Felicia Spencer to defend her 145-pound belt. Indisputable #1 pound-for-pound feminine, Nunes crushed the largest on her approach, particularly Germaine de Randamie (twice), Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, and the one lengthy thought-about #1 earlier than closely bow to her, Cristiane Justino ‘Cyborg’.
Megan Anderson comes out of two consecutive victories within the 1st spherical in opposition to the French Zarah Fairn dos Santos, then Norma Dumont. Former champion of Invicta FC, the Australian had reasonably poorly managed her debut within the UFC with notably defeats in opposition to Holly Holm and Spencer.
The activity guarantees to be sophisticated for her in opposition to the champion.
