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The repackaged UFC 249 card is down a large identify.
Former UFC ladies’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas is out of her scheduled co-main match bout with Jessica Andrade on April 18 for undisclosed causes, ESPN showed Wednesday with assets. The cardboard, which was once absolutely shaped previous this week after coronavirus-related scheduled shuffling, will happen at an undisclosed location, most probably on a Local American reservation in California.
ESPN has Namajunas ranked No. five amongst pound-for-pound ladies’s MMA warring parties, and Andrade is ranked No. 7. No alternative has but been introduced to combat Andrade.
Combate first reported Namajunas’ trade of plans.
Namajunas (Eight-Four) has no longer fought since Andrade knocked her out by means of slam to win the ladies’s strawweight name at UFC 237 final Might. The Wisconsin local had gained 3 in a row prior to that, together with two title-fight wins over Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Namajunas, 27, has misplaced best two times in six years.
Andrade (20-7) dropped the ladies’s strawweight belt to Zhang Weili by means of first-round TKO final August. The Brazil local had gained 4 in a row previous to that. Andrade, 28, has essentially the most fights in UFC historical past amongst ladies (16) and has best two losses — Jedrzejczyk was once the opposite — since 2015 when she competed two weight divisions heavier at bantamweight.
UFC 249 shall be headlined by means of an period in-between light-weight name combat involving Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. Additionally at the card, Francis Ngannou meets Jairzinho Rozenstruik in a most probably heavyweight name eliminator.
