A pivotal strawweight showdown between Carla
Esparza and Xiaonan Yan
is on tap for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s May 22 card.
MMA
DNA was first to report the 115-pound booking. The UFC Fight
Night event currently doesn’t have a location or headliner. The
card is also expected to included a women’s featherweight scrap
between Felicia
Spencer and Danyelle
Wolf.
The UFC’s inaugural strawweight title holder, Esparza is currently
on a four-bout winning streak dating back to April 2019. Most
recently, “Cookie Monster” garnered a split verdict against
Marina
Rodriguez at UFC on ESPN 14 this past July.
Yan, meanwhile, has been victorious in 13 of 14 professional
outings — including her first six Octagon appearances. The China
Top Team standout has gone the distance in all of her promotional
triumphs and has scored notable wins over Claudia
Gadelha, Karolina
Kowalkiewicz and Angela
Hill.