The
Final Combating Championship’s first card of 2025 is now
official.
The promotion confirmed the 14-bout lineup for
UFC Vegas 101 — also called UFC Battle Evening 249 — in a
launch on Tuesday. The cardboard takes place on Jan. 11 on the UFC Apex
in Las Vegas and is headlined by a strawweight rematch between
Amanda
Ribas and Mackenzie
Dern, whereas Chris
Curtis will sq. off towards Roman
Kopylov within the night’s co-main occasion at middleweight.
Ribas, who defeated Dern by way of unanimous choice of their first
assembly at UFC Battle Evening 161 on Oct. 12, 2019, has competed at
each strawweight and flyweight within the UFC. The Brazilian is coming
off a five-round defeat to Rose
Namajunas at 125 kilos within the UFC on ESPN 53 headliner this
previous March.
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, Dern snapped a two-bout skid in
her final outing, when she took a three-round verdict over Lupita
Godinez at UFC on ABC 7 on Aug. 3. The 31-year-old RVCA
consultant owns victories over the likes of Angela
Hill, Tecia
Pennington and Virna
Jandiroba throughout her promotional tenure.
Curtis is coming off a 1-1 marketing campaign in 2021. He took a cut up
verdict over Marc-Andre
Barriault at UFC 297 in January earlier than dropping a
split-decision to Brendan
Allen within the UFC Battle Evening 240 headliner this previous April.
Kopylov has been victorious in 5 of his final Octagon
appearances. Most not too long ago, he defeated Cesar
Almeida by way of cut up choice at UFC 302 on June 1.
