Marc
Goddard will be the third man in the cage when Jon Jones and
Ciryl
Gane square off for the vacant heavyweight crown in the
UFC
285 main event.
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The Nevada State Athletic Commission selected the referees and
judges for the two title bouts atop the UFC 285 bill during a
meeting on Wednesday. Mike Bell,
Sal D’Amato and Ron McCarthy will score Jones vs. Gane from
cageside.
Interestingly enough, it will be the first time Goddard has
officiated a bout involving Jones, who was last seen defending his
light heavyweight belt in a unanimous decision triumph against
Dominick
Reyes at UFC 247 in February 2020. Goddard was in the cage,
however, for Gane’s last Octagon appearance, a third-round KO of
Tai
Tuivasa at UFC Fight Night 209 this past September.
Meanwhile, Jason Herzog will officiate the flyweight title clash
between Valentina
Shevchenko and Alexa
Grasso in the co-main event. Ben Cartlidge, Derek Cleary and
Chris Lee
will serve as judges for the bout.
UFC 285 takes place on March 4 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The main card airs on pay-per-view via ESPN+ beginning at 10 p.m.
ET/7 p.m. PT.