The UFC
Mexico City card continues to take shape with the addition of
three new fights.
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The Las Vegas-based promotion on Friday announced the following
bouts: Drew Dober
vs. Manuel
Torres at lightweight; Lupita
Godinez vs. Julia
Polastri at strawweight and Ronaldo
Rodriguez vs. Kevin
Borjas at flyweight.
UFC Mexico City — also known as UFC on ESPN 64 — takes place at
Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico, on March 29 and is headlined by
a flyweight showdown pitting Brandon
Moreno against Steve
Erceg.
Dober has lost three of his last four Octagon appearances,
including a third-round TKO defeat to Jean Silva
at UFC on ESPN 59 this past June. Mexico’s Torres had a three-bout
winning streak snapped in his last outing, when he suffered a
first-round TKO loss to Ignacio
Bahamondes at UFC 306.
After winning all four of her fights under the UFC banner in 2023,
Godinez dropped back-to-back decisions to Virna
Jandiroba and Mackenzie
Dern last year. Polastri, meanwhile, split a pair of fights in
2024, falling to Josefine
Lindgren Knutsson via unanimous decision before taking a split
verdict against Cory
McKenna.
Rodriguez has won seven consecutive professional bouts, a run that
includes victories over Denys
Bondar and Ode
Osbourne under the UFC banner. Peru’s Borjas is still seeking
his first promotional triumph after losses against Joshua Van
and Alessandro
Costa in his first two UFC appearances.