UFC is heading again to Kentucky for the primary time in additional than a decade.
On Wednesday, the world’s main MMA promoter introduced it is going to return to Louisville, Ky., for a Struggle Evening card on June 8 on the KFC Yum! Middle.
This would be the solely the third UFC occasion ever to happen in Kentucky. The primary was UFC on Versus 3 in 2011, additionally on the KFC Yum! Middle, headlined by a welterweight struggle between Diego Sanchez and Martin Kampmann. The newest occasion within the Bluegrass State occurred again in 2013 at UFC Struggle for the Troops 3 in Fort Campbell, headlined by a middleweight bout between Tim Kennedy and Rafael Natal.
Whereas the cardboard doesn’t at the moment have a principal occasion, quite a lot of matchups have already been reported, together with a bantamweight bout between Raul Rosas Jr. and Ricky Turcios, a welterweight contest between Punahele Soriano and Miguel Baeza, a strawweight struggle between Eduarda Moura and Denise Gomes, a middleweight tilt between Julian Marquez and Zach Reese, and a bantamweight struggle between Cody Stamann and Taylor Lapilus.
