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ESPN app. A huge bantamweight scrap is in the works for the 2021
Ultimate Fighting Championship card on Super Bowl weekend. According to
ESPN on Friday, Cory
Sandhagen (13-2) will be taking on Frankie
Edgar (24-8-1) in the co-main event of the
UFC Fight Night card on Feb. 6. That event is expected to take
place at the Flash Forum on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Emirates.
The two were originally paired against one another in January, but
Edgar was pulled from that bout to remain at featherweight.
Sandhagen rebounded from a title eliminator defeat to Aljamain
Sterling in June by knocking out Marlon
Moraes with a rare spinning wheel kick in October. In doing so,
he became the
first fighter from below lightweight to notch this kind of knockout
in company history. His defeat to Sterling before the Moraes
knockout snapped an impressive seven-fight win streak including
five inside the Octagon, where he prevailed over the likes of
Raphael
Assuncao and John
Lineker on the way up.
Former lightweight king Edgar took his first trip to 135 pounds in
August, and he prevailed in a thriller over Pedro
Munhoz by split verdict. That win ended a two-fight skid with a
featherweight championship defeat to Max
Holloway followed by a first-round knockout at the hands of
Chan
Sung Jung. By beating Munhoz, Edgar became one of a
very small number of fighters to earn three wins at three different
weight categories, joining the likes of Kenny
Florian, Jared
Cannonier, and most recently, Jake
Collier.
The UFC Fight Night event on Feb. 6 is likely to take place on Yas
Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The marquee matchup
comes at heavyweight, when Alistair
Overeem and Alexander
Volkov lock horns. Other major bouts on the card include a
lightweight rematch between Diego
Ferreira and Beniel Dariush, while Michael
Johnson contends with Clay Guida
also at lightweight.
