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ESPN app. A failed Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight has
decided to move back to the featherweight division. On Thursday, Felicia
Spencer (8-2) spoke on the Fight
Bananas podcast, where she announced that Danyelle
Wolf has been forced out of her fight for undisclosed reasons.
In Wolf’s stead will be one-time featherweight Norma
Dumont (5-1), who will be returning to the division after a few
ill-fated trips down to 135 pounds. The two will square off at
UFC Fight Night 188 on May 22, which is set to take place at
the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Dumont made her UFC debut in 2020 against Megan
Anderson, and she was punched out by the future featherweight
title challenger in the first round. The Brazilian attempted to
drop down to bantamweight, and she missed weight badly against
Ashlee
Evans-Smith but won a decision. A subsequent attempt to reach
the 135-pound limit was even less successful in April, when she
tried to take on Bea Malecki
and then Erin
Blanchfield, only to again miss weight by such a high margin
that the UFC canceled her fight.
Spencer will be looking to rebound from a one-sided shellacking
against champ Amanda
Nunes in June 2020, where she survived to the final bell.
Two of three Sherdog scorers for that drubbing gave Nunes four
10-8 rounds, but the official judges handed in scorecards of 50-44,
50-44 and 50-45. Spencer’s only two career defeats have come
against consensus all-time great featherweights Nunes and Cristiane
Justino, with “Feenom” sporting a 75 percent finish rate
against other competition.
UFC Fight Night 188 goes down on May 2 at the UFC Apex in Las
Vegas, with bantamweights headlining as Rob Font faces
Cody
Garbrandt. The co-main event comes in the form of a potential
women’s strawweight title eliminator when Xiaonan Yan
takes on ex-champ Carla
Esparza.
