After a brief delay, the bantamweight championship clash between
Amanda
Nunes and Julianna
Pena has been rebooked for UFC
269.
Promotion officials confirmed the bout on Monday. UFC 269 takes
place on Dec. 11 at an as yet to be announced location and is also
expected to include a flyweight showdown pitting Cody
Garbrandt against Kai Kara
France. Nunes and Pena were initially slated to meet at UFC 265
on Aug. 7 before Nunes tested positive for COVID-19 and the fight
was postponed.
The UFC’s reigning champion at both bantamweight and featherweight,
Nunes enters the matchup with Pena on a 12-fight winning streak
within the Las Vegas-based promotion. The No. 1 pound-for-pound
female in the sport last appeared at UFC 259 in March, when she
defended her 145-pound belt with a first-round submission of
Megan
Anderson.
After more than a two-year hiatus following the birth of her first
child,, Pena has been victorious in two of her last three UFC bouts
upon her return. “The Venezuelan Vixen” rebounded from a submission
loss to Germaine
de Randamie in October to tap Olympic silver medalist wrestler
Sara
McMann in her last outing at UFC 257 on Jan. 23.