A middleweight clash pitting Jared
Cannonier against Sean
Strickland is in the works to headline a UFC Fight Night event
on Oct. 15.
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The bout, which has not yet been finalized, was first
reported by Ariel Helwani. The card doesn’t have an official
location, but it will likely take place at the UFC Apex in Las
Vegas.
Cannonier is coming off a failed bid for middleweight gold at UFC
276, where he dropped a five-round verdict to Israel
Adesanya on July 2. Prior to that, “The Killa Gorilla” had been
victorious in five of six promotional appearances, earning wins
over the likes of Derek
Brunson, Kelvin
Gastelum, Jack
Hermansson and Anderson
Silva.
Strickland had his own bid for title contention shot down at UFC
276, as he suffered a first-round KO defeat to former Glory
Kickboxing champ Alex
Pereira. That defeat snapped a six-bout winning streak for the
31-year-old Team Quest representative.