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#NocheUFC!!! 🇲🇽💥💥💥 Señor Kevin Holland vs Señor Jack Della Madalena 💥💥💥
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— UFC Español (@UFCEspanol)
August 18, 2023
On about a month’s notice, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has found a
replacement co-headlining match for its Noche UFC event.
Per the organization
on social media on Friday, Kevin
Holland (25-9, 1 NC) will take on Jack
Della Maddalena (15-2) in a potentially thrilling welterweight
clash on Sept. 16. The two ranked 170-pounders will duke it out
inside of the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as part of
UFC Fight Night 227, which has also been titled “Noche UFC” to
celebrate Mexican Independence Day. This fight replaces a
welterweight tilt between Kelvin
Gastelum and Shavkat
Rakhmonov that fell through due to a
compound fracture to Gastelum’s nose suffered during
training.
Fan-favorite Holland put himself on a win streak when he tapped out
Michael
Chiesa with a brabo choke in late July. That victory followed
the one-punch knockout he celebrated against Santiago
Ponzinibbio back in April. Before then, “Trailblazer” had
sustained a pair of stoppage losses to Stephen
Thompson and Khamzat
Chimaev, with the latter coming after Chimaev missed weight by
nine pounds and wound up facing Holland after the UFC reshuffled
the card. As a pro, the Texan posts a stoppage rate of 84%, with
each of his last six victories coming inside the distance.
Like Holland, Maddalena also fought as recently as July, where he
battled late replacement Bassil
Hafez to a hard-fought split decision. That victory put the
Aussie on a 15-fight win streak, which includes five appearances in
the Octagon to date. Before fighting Hafez, Maddalena had only
heard the final bell one time, in his UFC contract-earning triumph
over Ange
Loosa in the 2021 season of Dana White’s Contender Series. Not to be
outdone by Holland, Maddalena has earned 87% of his pro wins by
finish.
Noche UFC, also known as UFC Fight Night 227, will take place
inside of the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sept. 16. The
non-pay-per-view event that will air on ESPN+ will feature a
women’s flyweight championship collision in the main attraction
when Alexa
Grasso puts her belt on the line in a rematch with Valentina
Shevchenko. Other main card matchups likely will include a
middleweight contest pitting Anthony
Hernandez against Roman
Kopylov, a flyweight scrap when Tracy
Cortez faces Jasmine
Jasudavicius and the potential appearance of Santiago
Ponzinibbio
if he receives a new foe.