The Final Combating Championship makes its 2023 go to to Nashville, TN on Saturday, August 5 with UFC Battle Evening card happening at Bridgestone Enviornment. The primary occasion stay on ESPN+ is a five-round battle between Cory Sandhagen and Rob Font. The pair squares off at 140-pound catchweight. A number of tickets for the occasion are nonetheless at the moment out there for buy.
Former interim UFC bantamweight title challenger Cory Sandhagen (16-4) received his earlier bout in March by break up choice towards Marlon Vera and secured his second win in a row. In September 2022, Aurora, Colorado’s 31-year-old TKO’d Track Yadong in Spherical 4.
No. 7-ranked bantamweight contender Rob Font (20-6) final fought in April when he stopped Adrian Yanez within the first spherical and rebounded from a pair of defeats. Earlier than that, the 36-year-old native of Leominster, Massachusetts dropped a unanimous choice towards Vera and Jose Aldo.
The co-main occasion is a ladies’s strawweight bout between former champion Jessica Andrade and TUF winner Tatiana Suarez. Andrade (24-11) of Brazil is trying to get again to successful methods after she was stopped Yan Xiaonan within the first spherical in Might and submitted by Erin Blanchfield within the second spherical in February. Unbeaten Suarez (10-0) of Covina, California was in motion in February when she submitted Montana De La Rosa within the second spherical and made her profitable Octagon return after over three and a half years of layoff.
Additionally on the primary card, Dustin Jacoby (18-7-1) of the US faces Kennedy Nzechukwu (12-3) of Nigeria at mild heavyweight and Diego Lopes (21-6) of Brazil takes on Gavin Tucker (13-2) of Canada at featherweight. Plus, Tanner Boser (20-10-1) of Canada meets Aleksa Camur (6-2) of Bosnia at mild heavyweight and Ignacio Bahamondes (14-4) of Chile fights Ludovit Klein (19-4-1) of Slovakia at light-weight.
On the highest of prelims, Kyler Phillips (10-2) of the US and Raoni Barcelos (17-4) of Brazil go head to head at bantamweight. Amongst different bouts, Jeremiah Wells (12-2-1) of the US goes up towards Carlston Harris (18-5) of Guyana at welterweight and Billy Quarantillo (17-5) and Damon Jackson (22-5-1) meet in an all-American conflict at featherweight.
As effectively, Cody Durden (15-4-1) of the US battles Jake Hadley (10-1) of England at flyweight and Sean Woodson (9-1-1) meets his fellow-American Jesse Butler (12-5) at featherweight. As well as, Ode Osbourne (12-5) of Jamaica welcomes the promotional newcomer Assu Almabaev (17-2) of Kazakhstan at flyweight.
UFC Nashville 2023 tickets
UFC Nashville: Sandhagen vs Font tickets to witness all of the motion at Bridgestone Enviornment in Nashville, TN on Saturday, August 5 are on sale.
UFC Nashville 2023 tickets may be bought by way of TicketNetwork and TicketSmarter.
UFC Nashville 2023 struggle card
Principal card
Cory Sandhagen vs. Rob Font
Jessica Andrade vs. Tatiana Suarez
Dustin Jacoby vs. Kennedy Nzechukwu
Diego Lopes vs. Gavin Tucker
Tanner Boser vs. Aleksa Camur
Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Ludovit Klein
Preliminary card
Billy Quarantillo vs. Damon Jackson
Kyler Phillips vs. Raoni Barcelos
Jeremiah Wells vs. Carlston Harris
Sean Woodson vs. Jesse Butler
Cody Durden vs. Jake Hadley
Ode Osbourne vs. Asu Almabaev
Within the UK and Australia, UFC Nashville: Sandhagen vs Font airs stay on Sunday, August 6.
