The UFC's next pay-per-view occasion has added another welterweight matchup. Numerous individuals with information on the advancement's arrangements affirmed with MMA Fighting on Friday at the battle between Kevin Holland and Daniel Rodriguez will occur at UFC 279, which happens Sept. 10 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The advancement in this manner affirmed the booking.
Recently, Holland reported the matchup via web-based entertainment, in any case, numerous individuals near the circumstance let MMA Fighting know that the battle was being chipped away at, yet wasn't finished. The matching were first connected up in May 2020 preceding Holland had to pull out because of a shoulder injury.
Subsequent to going winless in three directly at middleweight, Holland made his re-visitation of the welterweight division interestingly since June 2017. From that point forward, Holland has gotten consecutive wraps up of Alex Oliveira at UFC 272, and Tim Means at UFC Austin.
Rodriguez will make the stroll without precedent for north of a year. Following his choice win over Kevin Lee at UFC Vegas 35 in August 2021, "D-Rod" let MMA Fighting know that he had numerous hand medical procedures and was given freedom to plan for a battle in July. The 35-year-old is on a three-battle win streak, and is 6-1 out of seven octagon appearances since making his presentation in February 2020.
UFC 279 will be featured by a five-round welterweight battle between Khamzat Chimaev and Nate Diaz, and will likewise include Tony Ferguson's re-visitation of the 170-pound division to confront Li Jingliang. Diaz (20-13 MMA, 18-12 UFC) faces undefeated phenom Chimaev (11-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) on Sept. 10 at UFC 279 and is a gigantic dark horse heading into their main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Having prepared with Chimaev previously, Strickland (25-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) anticipates that he should go through Diaz.
"I don't have the foggiest idea, man. Do you need to prepare for Nate Diaz?," Strickland said in a meeting with The Schmo. "The UFC recently said, 'Hello, Khamzat, we love you. Come f*cking beat up this elderly person.' When's the last time he won a battle? I don't think Khamzat truly needs to prepare for him. He's most likely about to come in, not even train, falling off the love seat, and simply proceed to obliterate him."
Strickland even needed to tame Chimaev during a new instructional course at his rec center Xtreme Couture, where "Borz" was purportedly going excessively severe with his competing accomplices. Chimaev is like a f*cking canine with a bone," Strickland said. "He competes, he trains, and there's a f*cking objective on their back. He was competing one of my pals, a '55er who climbed to 170, a lower-level expert, and I was simply telling Chimaev, 'I comprehend that you like to f*cking crush, however if you need to fight him, you have to regard him, since he's here to help you. He's not at your level. Furthermore, Chimaev was about it. He got it, and he had great competing.
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