With the UFC Vegas 91 early weigh ins bagged and tagged (get full outcomes and video right here), the fighters competing on this Sat. evening’s (April 27, 2024) ESPN and ESPN+ battle card from inside APEX in Las Vegas got here collectively for the official face offs. That features flyweight headliners Matheus Nicolau and Alex Perez.
Try their staredown embedded above.
“Good factor [the Manel Kape cancelation] was like 4 weeks earlier than the battle, so now we have sufficient time to make all of the changes on the coaching, the technique half, the technical half,” Nicolau stated on the UFC Vegas 91 media day (watch it right here). “So, it was sufficient time to make all of the changes that we would have liked and to be able to get this victory.”
“Truthfully, after the battle, I can be wanting up,” Nicolau continued. “That’s the route that I’m going, to the highest of the mountain. I don’t need to take into consideration Manel anymore.”
Right here’s the sunshine heavyweight co-main occasion between Ryan Spann and Bogdan Guskov:
Nothing left to do now besides battle.
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