After weeks of confusion and debate on whether or not Alex Pereira would move up to 205, Dana went live last night to announce the main event for UFC 287. The main event of UFC 287 is the long-awaited rematch between Alex Pereira and former champ Israel Adesanya.
In their first meeting in MMA, Adesanya looked to be cruising to a decision victory. He had been picking Pereira apart from the first minute of the fight and mixing in some wrestling led to many people putting him ahead on their scorecards.
However, it wasn’t to be as the fight ended in a 5th-round TKO for Pereira as he became the first man to beat Adesanya at Middleweight.
Dana also announced the co-main event in the same live stream as he revealed Gilbert Burns would not be fighting at UFC 286 as he was hinting on Twitter. Rather, he would be fighting Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal on the same night as Pereira would make his first title defence.
The rest of the UFC 287 main card will be made up of Kevin Holland vs Santiago Ponzinibbio, Rob Font vs Adrian Yanez and Raul Rojas Jr vs Christian Rodriguez.
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