Now y’all really tryna make me act nasty!
Let’s get this bag.
#MainEventAnge https://t.co/CcatIzNcOu— Angela Hill (@AngieOverkill)
September 4, 2020
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your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. An upcoming
Ultimate Fighting Championship card has an unexpected new main
event. On Wednesday night, Glover
Teixeira was
forced to withdraw from his headliner against Thiago
Santos. The two light heavyweights topped
UFC Fight Night 177 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Sept. 12,
and the promotion briefly searched for a new main event. In its
stead will be former co-main matchup Michelle
Waterson (17-8) vs. Angela Hill
(12-8) at strawweight, per ESPN.
Unlike other recent short-notice replacement main events like
Anthony
Smith–Aleksandar
Rakic and Edmen
Shahbazyan–Derek
Brunson, this bout will be a five-round affair. Both women
former
Invicta Fighting Championships titleholders, each have competed
in multiple five-round fights before. This will be Hill’s first
career headliner, while Waterson has served in the top billing on
two UFC cards and three more in Invicta.
Waterson is looking to bounce back from consecutive decision
defeats to former strawweight queens Carla
Esparza and Joanna
Jedrzejczyk. The main event loss to Jedrzejczyk snapped a
three-fight win streak where she captured decision verdicts over
Cortney
Casey, Felice
Herrig and former title challenger Karolina
Kowalkiewicz. Despite reaching the scorecards in each of her
last six outings, “The Karate Hottie” maintains a solid finish rate
of 71 percent throughout her career that began in 2007.
Hill will likewise be looking to get back to the win column after a
controversial setback in May to Claudia
Gadelha. Although Hill dropped a split decision to “Claudinha,”
only
four of the 17 scoring media members awarded the fight to
Gadelha. Like the aforementioned loss for Waterson, that defeat for
Hill blunted the momentum of a three-fight win streak, where she
scored two finishes in the span of about four months.
