The
Final Preventing Championship’s first card of 2025 is now
official.
The promotion confirmed the 14-bout lineup for
UFC Vegas 101 — also called UFC Combat Night time 249 — in a
launch on Tuesday. The cardboard takes place on Jan. 11 on the UFC Apex
in Las Vegas and is headlined by a strawweight rematch between
Amanda
Ribas and Mackenzie
Dern, whereas Chris
Curtis will sq. off in opposition to Roman
Kopylov within the night’s co-main occasion at middleweight.
Ribas, who defeated Dern by way of unanimous resolution of their first
assembly at UFC Combat Night time 161 on Oct. 12, 2019, has competed at
each strawweight and flyweight within the UFC. The Brazilian is coming
off a five-round defeat to Rose
Namajunas at 125 kilos within the UFC on ESPN 53 headliner this
previous March.
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, Dern snapped a two-bout skid in
her final outing, when she took a three-round verdict over Lupita
Godinez at UFC on ABC 7 on Aug. 3. The 31-year-old RVCA
consultant owns victories over the likes of Angela
Hill, Tecia
Pennington and Virna
Jandiroba throughout her promotional tenure.
Curtis is coming off a 1-1 marketing campaign in 2021. He took a break up
verdict over Marc-Andre
Barriault at UFC 297 in January earlier than dropping a
split-decision to Brendan
Allen within the UFC Combat Night time 240 headliner this previous April.
Kopylov has been victorious in 5 of his final Octagon
appearances. Most just lately, he defeated Cesar
Almeida by way of break up resolution at UFC 302 on June 1.
