Fans don’t have to wait long for a second UFC card in 2020 that will feature two title fights, as the promotion’s March 7th event in Vegas will have just that (UFC 247 on February 7th also has two: Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes and Valentina Shevchenko vs. KatlynChookagian.
UFC 248’s official poster
As you can see by looking at the poster below, UFC 248 will feature middleweight champ Israel Adesanya taking on Yoel Romeor, and strawweight champ Weili Zhang fighting former champ, Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
The fights will mark the first time both Adesanya and Zhang will be defending their undisputed titles, since they won them last year.
Adesanya unified the interim and world title in October by taking out Robert Whittaker. Zhang, meanwhile, won the 115 championship in August by quickly stopping Jessica Andrade.
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UFC 248 line-up
Here is the complete line-up for UFC 248, which will be hosted by the T-Mobile Arena (quote via MMA Mania):
185 lbs.: UFC Middleweight Champion Yoel Romero vs. Israel Adesanya
115 lbs.: UFC Strawweight Champion Weili Zhang vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk
135 lbs.: Danaa Batgerel vs. Guido Cannetti
115 lbs.: Polyana Viana vs. Emily Whitmire
170 lbs.: Li Jingliang vs. Neil Magny
155 lbs.: Beneil Dariush vs. Drakkar Klose
135 lbs.: Sean O’Malley vs. Jose Quinonez
170 lbs.: Max Griffin vs. Alex Oliveira
185 lbs.: Saparbek Safarov vs. Rodolfo Vieira
155 lbs.: Austin Hubbard vs. Mark Madsen
*Fight card, bout order and the amount of matches subject to change.
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