UFC Fight Night: Font vs Garbrandt will be headlined by a bantamweight bout between Rob Font and former champion Cody Garbrandt.
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UFC is set to deliver another entertaining card at UFC APEX in Las Vegas on Sunday (May 23). UFC Fight Night: Font vs Garbrandt will be headlined by a bantamweight bout between Rob Font and former champion Cody Garbrandt. The co-main event sees women’s strawweights collide with title aspirations on the line. Yan Xiaonan battles former champion Carla Esparza.
No. 3 ranked bantamweight contender Rob Font takes on former champion and No. 4 Cody Garbrandt.
Font, with an 18-4 record, is the newest member of the UFC bantamweight top five following his first round knockout of former title challenger Marlon Moraes.
A member of the UFC roster since 2014, he rose up the ranks with a series of impressive stoppage wins. This includes victories over Thomas Almeida, Matt Schnell and Douglas Silva de Andrade.
But now, Font will look to secure the biggest win over his career by taking out Garbrandt. Former bantamweight champion Garbrandt plans to continue his journey back to the title by delivering a vintage performance against Font.
Among the most dangerous strikers in the division’s history, he then showed off his power with statement knockouts over Raphael Assuncao, Thomas Almeida and Marcus Brimage.
Garbrandt will now look to put together another long win streak to prove he still has it.
Top five women’s strawweights collide with title aspirations on the line as No. 3 ranked contender Yan Xiaonan battles former champion and No. 4 Carla Esparza.
Chinese contender Yan looks to maintain her undefeated record in the UFC. In the process, she will look to add the first former champion to her resume. A Sanda expert with all of her finishes coming by knockout, Xiaonan announced herself as a top prospect in the division with wins over perennial contenders Angela Hill, Karolina Kowalkiewicz and Claudia Gadelha. She now looks to cement herself as the next in line for the title with a standout performance.
Esparza became the first UFC women’s strawweight champion in history after winning the 20th season of The Ultimate Fighter. Currently on the longest win streak of her UFC career, she fought her way back into the title conversation with wins over Alexa Grasso, Michelle Waterson and Marina Rodriguez. Esparza now plans to earn a chance to regain her belt and repeat her victory over current champion Namajunas.
(UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt on May 23, 2021, LIVE on Sony Ten 2 and Sony Ten 3 channels from 4:30 AM IST.)
