The Fighters Have Stepped On The Scales Before Saturday s Mega-Event By UFC Staff Report • Apr. 22, 2021
UFC welcomes back fans at full capacity when it returns to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. on April 24 with a stacked card headlined by three championship bouts. The main event will see a thrilling welterweight championship rematch when Kamaru Usman defends against No. 4 ranked contender Jorge Masvidal. Women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko goes for her fifth consecutive title defense against No. 1 ranked contender Jessica Andrade. In a highly anticipated women’s strawweight championship bout, Zhang Weili faces former champion and No. 1 ranked contender Rose Namajunas.
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Mackenzie Dern believes Rose Namajunas will be able to give Zhang Weili everything she can handle this Saturday, but it may not be enough to recapture the strawweight title.
The highly anticipated championship matchup between Weili and Namajunas will serve as the co-main event of UFC 261, which takes place in the sold out VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.
Having recently jumped into the top-five, Dern has even more incentive to watch the 115-pound bout. And while she feels Namajunas has a skillset that could give Weili some problems, she is picking the champ to retain.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to the pay-per-view (PPV) market and to live crowds with the UFC 261: “Usman vs. Masvidal 2” fight card this Sat. night (April 24, 2021) inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., with “Prelims” on both ESPN and ESPN+.
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The championship tripleheader will be topped by the welterweight rematch between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal. “The Nigerian Nightmare” already beat back “Gamebred” by way of unanimous decision at UFC 251, but Masvidal somehow managed to convince the promotion that a full training camp will make