Germaine de Randamie Injured, Out of UFC 268 Clash With Irene Aldana

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Even iron can break. On Wednesday,
ESPN
reported that “The Iron Lady” Germaine
de Randamie
(10-4) has been forced out of her
UFC 268
bantamweight matchup against Irene
Aldana
(13-6) due to injury. The two were set to square off on
Nov. 6 inside of Madison Square Garden in New York. As of now,
there is no current replacement opponent, and Aldana has requested
a top-ranked adversary that will be able to compete in the de facto
title eliminator bout.

De Randamie rebounded from a one-sided decision loss to champ
Amanda
Nunes
at the end of 2019 with a 2020 submission of Julianna
Pena
to put her right back in contention. The Dutchwoman put
Pena to sleep with a guillotine choke to record her first career
submission victory, and her first stoppage beyond 7:02 of a fight.
Before meeting Nunes, the former featherweight champ racked up a
five-fight win streak that included knockouts of Aspen Ladd,
Larissa
Pacheco
and Anna
Elmose
.

Hoping to remain on the blockbuster card is Aldana, who too bounced
back from a five-round decision defeat by stopping her foe in her
next outing. The Mexican-born Aldana fell short to Holly Holm in
October 2020, and in July, she put Yana
Kunitskaya
away with strikes in the first round. The only four
women to defeat Aldana inside the Octagon all challenged for belts
in either the UFC or Bellator MMA, as she has come up against Leslie
Smith
, Katlyn
Chookagian
, Raquel
Pennington
and Holm over the years.

UFC 268 goes down at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 6,
with a pair of championship rematches on tap. Drawing the main
event slot is a welterweight grudge match when Kamaru
Usman
faces Colby
Covington
again for the belt. The co-headliner sees Rose
Namajunas
try to defend her throne against the woman she
wrested it from in Weili Zhang
at strawweight. Justin
Gaethje
and Michael
Chandler
will further treat fans in a lightweight slugfest as
the featured bout on the main card.

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